Conspicuous In His Absence
UPDATE: Though not advertised as a guest, Blunt is participating in the event right now.
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Tonight, the conservative Pajamas TV media network is hosting an online health care forum featuring leading GOP voices on health care. Here's how they're pitching the online rally:
Participants will include House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), Congressman Tom Price (R-GA), Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI). Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds will host these lawmakers and other participants from our D.C. studio. Other experts will join from New York and The Heritage Foundation, as well as PJTV commentators, Sonja Schmidt and Steven Crowder, from our LA studio.
Who's missing from the list? Only the man in ostensibly in charge of the entire House GOP health care effort -- Roy Blunt.
The Washington Independent wrote about the emergence of Price as a leader on the House HELP committee as an indication that House Republicans recently started taking "health care fight more seriously."
The office of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) sends over the news that he’ll be the ranking member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee. The subtext is that the party is taking the health care fight more seriously; the previous point man on the issue was Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who doesn’t regularly speak out on the issue and is focused on a 2010 U.S. Senate race.
I guess Blunt isn't interested in telling the red-meat crowd about the health care reform plan he still hasn't released.
