Scottbrown2012
04-23-2010, 12:07 AM
DAMN...another spineless pussified Demopublican!!! What about the 8 years under Bush that anti war...anti Bush anti anything government protesters were constantly called un-American,treason commiting, commie loving traitors!?? how soon people forget that shit:
WASHINGTON (April 22) -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that he regretted calling vocal opponents of health care reform "un-American" but compared the angry rhetoric of some Republican leaders who goad them on to the fiery rantings of a controversial Depression-era priest sympathetic to the Nazis.
"That was not a good phrase, not a good use of language. It was not correct," the Maryland Democrat said of an op-ed column he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in USA Today last summer. The article was a response to protesters who disrupted town hall meetings on their party's health care reform proposals, hanging members of Congress in effigy and railing against "death panels."
Hoyer told reporters that while "there are some activities that are not consistent with civil engagement," he said he regretted having read the column too quickly before approving it.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
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The outspoken majority leader was unapologetic about the "progress, not success" that President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress has made to slow and start reversing the Great Recession that began in the final months of the Bush administration. But he acknowledged the public mood amid stubbornly high unemployment and foreclosures.
"People are angry about it who believe it was beyond their control and they have been put in a position by people who have power, whether they're bankers, politicians," he said, noting that with George W. Bush off the scene, many are focused on blaming Obama.
"It is not unusual. Father Coughlin came about during the Depression," he said, referring to the anti-Semitic radio commentator who used his weekly broadcasts to attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal policies. "But Father Coughlin didn't have the e-mail. He didn't have blogs. He didn't have Twitter. He didn't have Fox News to promote the most confrontational, least-helpful dialogue and demagoguery that we are confronting the American people with, and I think that's not useful. I think we are losing the civility of our debate."
Hoyer also reiterated his criticism of rhetoric like that used by Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin at a rally in Minneapolis in which they called Democrats a "lying, thieving ... bunch of commies."
Those words, he said, were "not very helpful and certainly incites people to great anger and confrontation, and I would suggest to you not very useful in terms of thoughtful analysis of how we get to where we want to get."
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WASHINGTON (April 22) -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that he regretted calling vocal opponents of health care reform "un-American" but compared the angry rhetoric of some Republican leaders who goad them on to the fiery rantings of a controversial Depression-era priest sympathetic to the Nazis.
"That was not a good phrase, not a good use of language. It was not correct," the Maryland Democrat said of an op-ed column he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in USA Today last summer. The article was a response to protesters who disrupted town hall meetings on their party's health care reform proposals, hanging members of Congress in effigy and railing against "death panels."
Hoyer told reporters that while "there are some activities that are not consistent with civil engagement," he said he regretted having read the column too quickly before approving it.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images
The outspoken majority leader was unapologetic about the "progress, not success" that President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress has made to slow and start reversing the Great Recession that began in the final months of the Bush administration. But he acknowledged the public mood amid stubbornly high unemployment and foreclosures.
"People are angry about it who believe it was beyond their control and they have been put in a position by people who have power, whether they're bankers, politicians," he said, noting that with George W. Bush off the scene, many are focused on blaming Obama.
"It is not unusual. Father Coughlin came about during the Depression," he said, referring to the anti-Semitic radio commentator who used his weekly broadcasts to attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal policies. "But Father Coughlin didn't have the e-mail. He didn't have blogs. He didn't have Twitter. He didn't have Fox News to promote the most confrontational, least-helpful dialogue and demagoguery that we are confronting the American people with, and I think that's not useful. I think we are losing the civility of our debate."
Hoyer also reiterated his criticism of rhetoric like that used by Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin at a rally in Minneapolis in which they called Democrats a "lying, thieving ... bunch of commies."
Those words, he said, were "not very helpful and certainly incites people to great anger and confrontation, and I would suggest to you not very useful in terms of thoughtful analysis of how we get to where we want to get."
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