To the editor:

The president is playing politics instead of helping sick kids. The new Democratic majority in Congress is working to fix our broken health care system – starting with our children – but President Bush and Republicans in Congress don’t want Democrats to get credit for this popular effort.

Republicans in this Congress are on track to block three times as much legislation as any Congress in history. And the White House has made a stunning 48 veto threats this year.

President Bush is threatening to veto health care for millions of uninsured kids.

This has to stop. Do we not see the forest for the trees. The present administration is only there to pad its pocketbook. They have no concern for the citizens of this country or any other country for that matter.

Randy Johnson,

Eudora