Michael in Chicago did an excellent run-down of the many lies freshman Republican Cong. Peter Roskam (IL-6) is telling as he tries to explain away his vote against children’s healthcare… Other constituents had also noted that Rep. Roskam was not telling the truth about the SCHIP compromise bill.

Like many of his Republican colleagues who also choose to peddle such falsehoods, Rep. Roskam is either misinformed or choosing to deliberately mislead people about the compromise bill.

Michael’s run-down actually responds to each of Rep. Roskam’s (and the other conservatives’) fibs by quoting none other than conservative Republican Senator from Kansas Pat Roberts, one of the compromise bill’s authors.

As with Sen. Dick Durbin’s schooling of Rep. Judy Biggert’s own misinformation earlier in the week, after reading Sen. Roberts’ factual statements about the bill it’s abundantly clear that none of Rep. Roskam’s reasons for voting against SCHIP hold water.

Unfortunately, some of the minority Republicans are choosing to continue peddling lies. Yesterday their leader, Rep. John Boehner told the media a whopper. Per the Tribune:

…the GOP’s leadership in the House said it was not given a chance to negotiate a compromise. “I would hope that the political games will come to an end,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Mr. Boehner appears to have “no recollection” of the House Republicans opportunity to negotiate a compromise from a few months ago when the bill was first being negotiated. Sadly, the HGOP decided they didn’t agree with the majority of Americans who wanted to see an expansion of SCHIP. Instead, the House Repubs took the President’s side and favored a scroogelike token expansion (that barely covers health cost inflation) which they knew from the outset would not be acceptable to either the majority of Congress or, more importantly, the majority of Americans. So, the House Repubs chose not to compromise from the start.

Contrast that with the Senate Republicans who decided to listen to the American people and chose to work with the Dems to develop a compromise … and so they did.

In comparison, the House Republicans chose to sit in a corner and suck their thumbs … and so they did.

I too would hope the political games would come to an end and that the House Republicans who voted against America’s youth will stop fibbing.

Don’t the people of the 6th district deserve someone better than a fibber? Doesn’t America deserve better than a Congress full of ‘em?