Lemmings

In May 2007, a group of 147 GOP House Members signed a pledge to sustain any veto issued by President Bush on any spending bill he thinks expands government spending.

Now, on the eve of a Presidential veto of SCHIP, a bill designed to provide health care to America's neediest children, these 147 iconoclasts seem determined to hold to their pledge.

ADA national director Amy Isaacs has dubbed the 147 the Lemming Caucus. "They are willing to follow President Bush blindly over the cliff of public opinion," said Isaacs who continue, "What's worse is they want to take America's children with them."

"If they want to jeopardize their own political careers, that's fine with us," said Isaacs. "They, however, have no right to jeopardize sound public policy in their blind loyalty to a failed President."