| Well, well, well ... Lord Boustany is getting nervous about his re-election prospects out in LA-07. How do I know? Because he's trying to get down with the common folks of Louisiana by telling us all that he is "proud to support S-CHIP and Louisiana's LaCHIP" as he stated in an official House email to constituents last week.
The truth, however, lends a, well, different perspective on Lord Boustany's "support" for SCHIP and LaCHIP. Consider the following:
Does the above voting record show "support" for SCHIP and LaCHIP? Voting 4 separate times against renewing the funding for SCHIP in less than 5 months? Yeah, that's support, alright!
And the bill Lord Boustany touts as showing his "support" for SCHIP? It's a bill to gather information about the "effectiveness" of SCHIP and LaCHIP. And when did he introduce it? A mere two weeks after State Senator Don Cravins, Jr. qualified to run against him this fall. Yep ... the Lord of Lafayette is gettin' scared.
Such a bill is the first step in a future attempt to show that "big government" doesn't work, so we shouldn't fund this program. The conservative agenda to drown the government in the bathtub and outsource government services to big business is being served oh, so very well by Lord Boustany, who constantly harps on ensuring that taxpayer dollars are spent wisely.
I agree that taxpayer dollars ought to be spent wisely ... which is what has me wondering why I never hear such talk from Lord Boustany about ensuring that our taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely in Iraq, but he can't stop bloviating on and on about ensuring that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely on social programs like ensuring that poor children have quality health care.
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