Moveon Hypocrisy on Hoyer [View All]

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Moveon defended its attack on Steny Hoyer in an interview with Raw Story, saying, “It’s not acceptable for a Democratic leader to take a position opposed to protecting the middle class.” Really? Then what does Moveon propose to do with the $833,000 recently raised for Sen Byrd? He voted for the bankruptcy bill as well.

Not only that, he voted to confirm Gale Norton and John Ashcroft. He voted against ending timber company subsides to build forest roads and has a 68% LCV rating. He’s voted against numerous abortion bills and only has a 43% rating from NARAL.. He voted for DOMA and only recently came around to voting yes to adding sexual orientation to hate crimes legislation.

Steny Hoyer, on the other hand, has a 100% NEA rating, 100% APHA rating, 100% NARAL rating and an 85% LCV rating, Steny Hoyer is responsible for the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act and has been fighting the weakening of the law since Bush took office. He gets it right a lot of the time. Thanks to JohnKleeb’s research, we can see just how right he’s been.

I don’t understand why Byrd or Hoyer voted for this bankruptcy bill. I think it would be a great thing for Moveon to draw more attention to the bill. But if it is, as they say, “such an obvious Republican bill”, then why in the world don’t they hang it around the necks of the Republicans?

So what is Moveon’s problem? Maybe it has more to do with egos and the recent snubbing from some quarters. That couldn’t have gone down well after Moveon’s outlandish statement, “ Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.”

Funny how a few months changes everything, because today they said:

“We’re not the party,” he said, when asked about charges that the ads were poorly timed, “We are going to take positions on issues, and we’re going to be true to our members and to America’s middle class families before we acknowledge any sort of notion of Democratic fealty.”

Is this all a tit for tat, with millions of American families left to suffer from the fallout? Does Moveon or the NDOL think that anybody is going to let Democrats run anything after watching this madcap spit ball fight? While Moveon wastes money on this Steny Hoyer fight, they could have launched an ad campaign in Nebraska to let those voters know what kind of scoundrel John Bolton is; so that Chuck Hagel would have been pressured to vote against him.

Wes Clark has it right; the American people will not trust us to defend this country if we won’t defend each other. And that goes for both sides of this ridiculous fight.