Picking a fight over kids' health

Apparently, the White House is a little concerned about the political fallout of Bush's opposition to a bipartisan expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). The president called a press conference this week, apparently for no other reason than to denounce Congress' work on making healthcare more accessible to millions of uninsured kids.

Today, Bush emphasized what he describes as a "philosophical" opposition to the bipartisan legislation -- the White House concedes this is about ideology, not results -- in his radio address, which ironically accused lawmakers of putting S-CHIP in jeopardy.

The claim-to-lie ratio was pretty close to 1:1. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities did some helpful fact-checking.