House votes today on overriding Bush's SCHIP veto

I'm listening now to the final two-minute speeches from the floor before the House votes on overriding Bush's heartless veto of the SCHIP expansion bill. The arguments, for the most part, are predictable -- and, as usual, are meant for the record and future campaign videos. It would be naive to think that any minds are going to be changed.

In spite of the fact that polls show an overwhelming majority of the public to be in favor of the policy, the punditocracy tells us that in the people's house there won't be enough votes to override.

We'll know soon enough. Sigh.

Aside: Listen (or read) between the lines. So many of the Republicans emphasize American children. In fact, there has even been bald mention of the exlusion of "illegal immigrant" children. This thread of nativism runs through the entire oppositional argument. It is essential, in fact, to the immoral whole.