Not suprisingly, it fell to Adam Putnam, as the chief partisan spokesman for the GOP House Conference, to defend their actions in trying to stop the S-CHIP bill. (more info on S-CHIP & Adam Putnam here, and here.)

This week he spoke, at a GOP press conference, defending the 1/3 of the House that voted against S-CHIP (the other 2/3rds, an overwhelming bipartisan majority, voted for the bill… as did 2/3rds of the Senate), and of course sticking up for his good buddy George W. Bush.

And, during a two week period where Congress debated war funding, passed literally hundreds of billions of dollars in spending, and the health insurance of literally millions of children… what issue does Adam Putnam think is the “most important” thing for our Congress to be worrying about?

Answer: A newspaper advertisement placed by the grass-roots organization MoveOn.org, which has over 3 million members, and ran the add only 1 day, in 1 newspaper, over 2 weeks ago.

If you can stomach the video, you can watch it here.

It’s times like this that I really sympathize with those people who think Congress is hopelessly messed-up.

Update:  Adam makes no mention of S-CHIP on his website, the last press release is from over 2 weeks ago, and it’s a commemoration of 9/11.   Speeking of priorities, it’s good to see Adam has his in order.  Health Insurance for Kids? Not worth a press release.  Iraq War?  Not worth a press release.  Moveon.org  add & exploiting the memory of 9/11 for partisan gain?  Priceless.

Saturday, September 29th, 2007 @ 4:35 pm He Said That?!, Partisan Politics, Press, video
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