Forget Michigan. Worry About Rep. Steny Hoyer

[annabanana]

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012020928/forget-michigan-worry-about-rep-steny-hoyer-md-corporate-party-and-social-secu

While most political eyes are fixed on Romney's primary results, the middle class faces a threat to its financial security right in the heart of the Capitol.The Democratic Party does, too.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, who is the living embodiment of Washington's corporatized politics, is once again pushing a "Grand Bargain" that would cut Social Security and Medicare - and result in more electoral losses like the ones he helped bring upon his party in 2010.

Hoyer is the Lobbyists' Legislator, the Revolving-Door Representative, the Minority Whip who really drives floor votes for the Corporate Party rather than the electorate. Hoyer's pseudo-centrist deficit pitch will please the rich individuals and corporations that have given him one of the biggest campaign war chests in Congress.

It will also help Republicans run a repeat of their 2010 play, when they took the House by running to the Democrats' left on Medicare and Social Security.

This guy is the embodiment of the difficulty of getting anything substantial done for the citizens of this country.

[Owlet]

1. I'm a little fuzzy on the process.

Are whips elected by their respective caucuses or appointed by the Leader? Either way, it's more than a bit worrisome.

[Doctor_J]

2. Worry about that in December

first, take back the house and hold the Senate and WH. Anyone with an (R) should be ripped to shreds for the next 8 months, with the foulest of language and intentions.

[OnyxCollie]

3. Steny Hoyer, aka Mr. Retroactive Immunity.

Corporate whore.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. Yeah, you really have to keep these types of Democrats in your forefront... they're bad.

We don't need anymore corporate whores, so I say they get thrown out with the Republican whores...

Too bad the race to run against him involves having to raise so much Godamned money, eh?

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Gawd, this is the second time I've been ashamed this morning.

First, I read about the POS Federal Judge from my home state of MT who forwards a racist email and then I read about Hoyer from my US residence state of MD. Bummer!

I KNOW that there are lots of real Democrats in MD. I just wish that one would run against Steny, corporate toady that he is, and win. Until one does, we are stuck with him because a Rethug would indeed be worse. Steny at least represents a body in the D column in a totally wacky House. Unfortunately - or fortunately - I'm not in his district.

[RBInMaine]

6. Much hyperbole here. Steny fought BIGTIME against Bush's plan to privatize Social Security, he

was the one who went to the floor to bring forward the first payroll tax cut vote just as the RePukes were shutting down and leaving as he said now famously, "He's walking away, he's walking away" as the RePuke speaker pro tem would not allow him to finish and shut down the House. He is at the forefront of advancing the US House Dems' Make It In America manufacturing job creation plan. He is in front of the cameras pounding on the RePukes all the time on issue after issue. Now, I agree that any grand bargain should be about making the rich pay their fair share, closing corporate tax loopholes, cutting defense spending, raising the SS taxable income cap on those making over a hundred grand a year, same for medicare, but also finding other fair and reasonable ways to cut out government fat while also investing in new energy, infrastructure, education, and science to grow the economy of the future. And I am sure Steny agrees with most of this. Let's beware of purist hyperbole.