The story is the veto of healthcare for 4 million children currently without it. Bush’s 4th veto in seven years, after large majorities in both houses of Congress approved it.

The 12 year old boy and his family are incidental to ‘the story’. The rightists would like you to forget the real story and make it about a family’s efforts to get by on limited income and why mommy and daddy deserve contempt for trying to help uninsured children coverage.

They might be perfectly wonderful parents, neighbors and citizens. But they want you to see them as something grotesque, twisted, dishonest, just so you’ll forgrt what the president did because he’s Mother Theresa, to them.

People commonly do that when faced with big bills, such as for medical care for their children after an accident.

It would seem that there is a great deal more to the story than the media is reporting.

It’s obvious the Frosts have been hanging on by their fingernails for some time, like a great many other “middle class” families in the U.S. today.

Update: I forgot to note that the Frosts own two properties, their home and a commercial building. Is the mortgage payment is for both?

They bought their “lavish house” sixteen years ago for $55,000 at a time when the neighborhood was less than safe.

Something doesn’t add up here. If their mortgage is approximately $1200 a month, then their home insurance and property taxes must be outrageous. Either that or they have borrowed heavily on the house.

For a 30-year $55000 mortgage at 8%, the principal and interest would be about $400 a month (Note: There are several mortgage calculators available on-line where you can calculate this yourself.) I question why their mortgage is still so high after 16 years.

It would seem that there is a great deal more to the story than the media is reporting.

What is wrong with those people? Is there something in their water that makes them crazy? Not enough fluoride, perhaps? Toxic exposure to Ayn Rand while their bones were still growing?

There is something deeply disturbed inside those people. It amazes me that they can get so hepped up about anyone, much less someone who appeared in the Democratic response to the President’s weekly radio address.

Who in the real world cares about the friggin’ Saturday radio address, much less the Democratic response? Is there some unknown-to-me modern custom of Americans gathering around their radios to hear these modern Fireside Chats? I’m the most politically plugged-in person in my circle, and I’m lucky if I hear a line or two mention of the address on some news update later.

Where I live, outside of Malkin-land, the whole creepy stalking of the Frost family serves to introduce the story of Graeme Frost to a bunch of people who’d never really heard it, and to reinforce the impression that the people who wanted to cut his health care are just, well, really creepy.

So, while we watch these vermin scurrying to chew on the wounds of little kids, remember who broke the system, and remember who adjusted themselves to the stink in order to share power and rhetoric with Bush.