Adam Putnam often says things like “The American People don’t want Congress to defund the troops.”  Of course the implication here is something along the lines of Democrats leaving troops high and dry in the middle of the desert with no fuel for their helicopters, bullets for their guns, or food for the winter… something that is patently false on its face, and completely misleading.

Thankfully, after many months of this type of rhetoric from Putnam and other GOP leaders, the American People have figured out what’s really going on (perhaps they knew all along).

Check out this story from the Washington Post:    Most in Poll Want War Funding Cut

Most Americans oppose fully funding President Bush’s $190 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a sizable majority support an expansion of a children’s health insurance bill he has promised to veto, putting Bush and many congressional Republicans on the wrong side of public opinion on upcoming foreign and domestic policy battles.

The whole story is worth a read.  Among other things, the new poll shows that in every Congressional District in our country, including ours right here in Central Florida, the majority of voters not only want to see the war ended soon, but they want Congress to stop appropriating so much money for the war.

I just don’t see how Adam Putnam can keep blatently and openly voting against the wishes of his district.  It’s not like these are trivial issues… these are the biggest issues of our day.  The majority of our district (polling shows)

• are in favor of tougher environmental standards (Putnam is for looser standards)
• are in favor of bigger/better Government-run health care & against Medicare Part D (Putnam is against and for those two respectively)
• want the War in Iraq to end, and funding to be cut off (Putnam is one of the most vocal Congressmen against those two measures in DC)
• have lost confidence in George W. Bush (Putnam still considers him a close ally worth shilling for)
•  want to see S-CHIP to pass quickly (Putnam is almost single handidly keeping this life-saving, childrens’ health insurance bill from going through)

Only on a handful of wedge issues, does Putnam seem to be in-line with the people of our district (abortion, gun-control, flag-burning) and most of those are not issues the House has any big roll in these days.

Message To Adam:  Start Representing US!