Shame on Rep. Hoyer for his stance on S-CHIP legislation
I don’t know how many people noticed our congressman, Steny Hoyer, standing beside a 9-year old girl while denouncing the president for threatening to veto the expansion of the S-CHIP program.
Why is it that a congressman feels the need to use children as a human shield? Could it be that this proposal is such bad public policy that intimidation and terrorist tactics are the only way to get it approved?
I’m all for providing assistance to the needy and helpless in our community, but any government proposal to do so should be debated on its relative merits. The bill expanding the S-CHIP program has serious, but correctable, flaws.
Instead of working to correct them, however, Congressman Hoyer has chosen to support a bill that will hurt our community, our country and ultimately our children. He takes this “brave” stance while using children as political weapons to force the president to sign into law a seriously flawed and ultimately self-defeating proposal.
Forget Iraq; the real terrorists already appear to be in the U.S. Congress. Shame on you, congressman, and on those who stood with you!
Jason W. Papanikolas
Laurel
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