Exposing NWO Crony Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Who Kowtows to Big Labor, Big Business, Big Government (One Entity)

Pelosi Uses the Usual Strategy to Resolve Hoyer-Clyburn Fight

November 13, 2010

HotAir.com - When a private sector organization loses resources and has to downsize, it has to make painful decisions on reshuffling their management to account for fewer positions, usually requiring a few demotions or outright exits. Not so in the House Democratic caucus. When faced with the conundrum of fitting four existing leadership members into three positions, Nancy Pelosi struggled hard for a solution — until she remembered her Democratic agenda of public-sector management and decided to just expand leadership to accommodate the odd man out:

House Democrats averted a messy leadership strugglee, clearing the way for Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer to become second in command of their new minority without a challenge from South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn.

Under an arrangement worked out in private, officials said late Friday that Clyburn would instead receive a new position, title unknown and duties undescribed, explicitly labeled the third-ranking post in leadership.

The maneuvering was described by Democratic officials after Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., issued a vaguely worded statement saying she intends to nominate Clyburn to a new No. 3 post. The statement made no mention of Hoyer, and officials who filled in the details did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not permitted to speak publicly about the matter.

Instead of making a tough decision on shrinking resources, Pelosi just expanded her caucus’ government with no real plan for the additional expansion. Gosh, doesn’t that sound familiar?

What exactly will Clyburn do, anyway? He won’t be pushing votes as a whip does or chairing a policy committee for the caucus, so what benefit does this bring to the House Democratic caucus? None so much as it benefits Nancy Pelosi. By resolving the Hoyer-Clyburn conflict, she will face fewer questions about how her insistence on keeping her grip on power has disrupted the party’s leadership — and also avoids a nasty confrontation with the Congressional Black Caucus, which may still not be terribly impressed with a make-work featherbed position for Clyburn.

There is one other difference between private-sector and public-sector management, too. In the former, losing almost 25% of the companies resources would have stockholders looking for a new CEO.

AMBUSHED: Steny Hoyer Lacks Courage on Extending Bush Tax Cuts

October 12, 2010

Human Events - Human Events corners the House Majority Leader on why he refuses to call Congress back into session to vote on extending Bush tax cuts.

House Democrats (Led By Steny Hoyer) Applaud Passage of $1.9 Trillion Debt Limit Increase

February 4, 2010

House Democrats, led by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, stood and applauded the increase of the nation's debt limit by $1.9 trillion. Now that he and other corrupt politicians have given trillions from the public treasury to their buddies in big banks and big businesses, plus doubling the salaries of federal workers who now earn twice that of the private sector, they're talking about reducing the national debt by cutting Social Security and Medicare for average Americans who were forced to pay into the system their entire working lives.

Maryland Congressman Hoyer Suggests Raising the Retirement Age to 70

Wealthy elites are talking to each other about making Americans work until they are 70 before retiring with their full Social Security, and as usual, their Veal Pen buddies and their tame economists are in rapturous agreement. The Cat Food Commission, a group of stalwart disciplinarians (as long as it doesn’t affect them), and their leader Peter Peterson, billionaire, are just one group. Democrats like Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi, and Republicans like John Boehner are ready to screw workers as thoroughly as possible. As far as I know, none of them have talked to any workers to explain why they have to sacrifice their lives and work until they drop, despite my request. I assume that they realize that this won’t sit well with anyone who actually works for a living, so instead they hide behind soft-handed academic economists. - The Tender Mercies of Veal Pen Economists, Fire Dog Lake, July 11, 2010

July 14, 2010

Washington Times - Both parties in the U.S. House of Representatives found a reason to be united this week over an issue that is sure to raise the blood-pressure of Americans across the country. The House Majority Leader, Democrat Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland and the House Minority Leader, Republican John A. Boehner of Ohio, were both adamant that the retirement age of American workers must be raised.

The issue revolves around Social Security, a program that is trillions of dollars in the hole. Further complicating the matter are the trillion-plus dollar deficits being registered by the federal government. With the average lifespan of Americans increasing and baby-boomers beginning to retire, the strain on Social Security and the federal budget in general is reaching epic proportions.

Boehner cut right to the chase, suggesting that the retirement age be raised to 70. Speaking to the Pittsburgh Tribune, he stated,

“We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we're broke.”

Maryland Congressman Hoyer agreed whole-heartedly arguing,

“We could and should consider a higher retirement age, or one pegged to life span.”

He continued on to emphasize that now was the time to be completely honest with the American people. Sacrifices and reforms would need to be made – including higher taxes.

President Obama’s debt and deficit commission, which this past Sunday presented a frightening picture of the country’s financial state, is slated to announce its complete findings and recommendations in November. Among those recommendations will almost certainly be a raise in the age of retirement. What is now a European trend will shortly be coming to America.

If anyone is under any illusion that the retirement age may not go up, they should save themselves the anxiety. It will definitely go up sooner rather than later. Americans can also expect increased taxes, more frequent hesitations to extend unemployment benefits, higher insurance rates, and higher prices in general. This is simply the nature of a society in extreme debt.

Posted below is an interview by Reason. TV of David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General from 1998 to 2008. Walker is now president and CEO of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, an organization that focuses on fiscal sustainability and awareness. In the interview, Walker discusses the country’s current fiscal crisis (including the problems with Social Security) and offers some solutions. It is well worth your attention.

Steny Hoyer Loses Temper When Confronted on Economy

August 4, 2009

jonospam - His fellow Democrats give Steny Hoyer a hard time at Utica, N.Y., press conference. In typical liberal fashion, Hoyer gives talking points answers and changes the subject when he can't address his constituents' concerns.

Rep. Steny Hoyer Talks to OneClimate at COP15 in Copenhagen

December 17, 2009

Steny Hoyer tows the Democratic party line on curbing greenhouse gases with a tax on carbon.

Just What Country Does Steny Hoyer Represent?

May 7, 2009

briggsmedia - "Find any piece of US legislation affecting Israel's future, and you'll likely find MD Rep. Steny Hoyer's name on it". And here he is, pledging allegiance to the flag of Israel and reciting that country's agenda before the May 2009 AIPAC conference. What a nice boy.

Steny's FISA Party

August 28, 2008

headzup - Steny Hoyer and other Blue Dog Democrats attended an exclusive DNC party paid for by AT&T. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was the driving force behind the FISA bill -- written by GOP Sen. Kit Bond -- to vest the President with vast new warrantless eavesdropping powers and to vest lawbreaking telecoms with amnesty.

The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (also called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, H.R. 6304, enacted 2008-07-10) is an Act of Congress that amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill overhauls disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping. It also shields phone companies from lawsuits for their role in the administration's warrantless eavesdropping program.

The Education of Congressman Hoyer (Excerpt)

October 24, 2009

BigGovernment.com - Congress is moving closer to enacting a law requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says that this is “like paying taxes.” He’s right about that. But Hoyer made this statement as part of an effort to justify the health-care mandate on constitutional grounds. Here he indicates that he doesn’t understand the Constitution that he took an oath to support. When asked what power the Constitution gives to Congress to enact this legislation, Hoyer claimed that it came from the Constitution’s “general welfare” clause ...

Congressman Hoyer is either ignorant of or averts his eyes from history. One must give credit to President Obama for this much—he recognizes that the Constitution stands in the way of modern liberalism. In a 2001 interview on Chicago public radio, Obama lamented that we have still not broken “free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution… that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberty.” But it is doubtful that former Professor Obama will help in the education of Congressman Hoyer.

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  After Hoyer's Town Hall Meeting came apart at the seams, he could only blame his own stupidity and that of his staff. The more that the Hoyer dog-and-pony-show of healthcare monopolizing the time went on, the more ticked off the crowd got, leading several members of the press to believe that was exactly what Hoyer wanted in order to show that folks who attended did so only to bellow and holler. Finally, Hoyer's staged presentation of experts got off the stage and let the show go on, perhaps achieving the elevated state of anger that he desired. April Burke of Mechanicsville said; "When you were on our local radio station, you said you had not read the bill at the time, just a week ago. Have you now had time to read the bill. My son and daughter-in-law are now covered by insurance even though they are out of work; why would I want the government in my business?" Hoyer, "I have now read the bill, and you are on a government plan now; it's state and not federal, unfortunately with the present plan, you have Cobra and you have to pay a hundred percent of that, but if you have lost your job, you may not be able to afford that." April Burke: “We want the government out of our business now.”
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  Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says that Democrats don't have 216 votes, the total needed to pass their trillion dollar government takeover of health care.
• A Ticked Off Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Denies Ramming Through Trillion Dollar Health Care Bill (video)
  
• Hoyer Advocates Using Reconciliation Process to Ram Through Health Care Bill
• SEIU Recruits Obamacare Supporters to 'Drown Out Voices'; Pelosi & Hoyer Call Healthcare Protesters “Un-American”
  Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer decided to double down on some pretty distasteful messaging today, calling some of the opposition to health care reform, "un-American" in a USA Today op-ed.
• A Ticked Off Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Confirms Senate Parliamentaria, (video)
  A ticked off Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirms the Senate Parliamentarian's position that the Senate bill must be signed into law before it can be fixed through reconciliation.
• The Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer Divide Over Reconciliation on Health Care Reform (video)
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Steny Hoyer: Yeah, We're Going to Have to Raise Taxes (But Let's Still Give the Federal Workers Another Raise) and We Really Hope the Republicans Will Help Us

March 2, 2010

DrewM (Minx) - Democrats are at risk of losing their House majority over their profligate spending, their health care overreach, and a general disdain for the way they do business; and Steny Hoyer thinks the solution is raising taxes in an election year? Has Rove the Magnificent cultivated a mole in the House Democratic leadership?

“No one likes raising revenue, and understandably so,” Hoyer said in an address at the Brookings Institution. “But if you’re going to buy, you need to pay.

“If need be, I am hopeful that both parties will agree to look at revenues as part of the solution — not as a gateway to higher spending, but as part of a compromise that cuts spending and balances the budget,” he added.

Hoyer, a voice for centrists in the House leadership, said reining in record debt requires a combination of spending cuts and tax increases.

“It seems to me that the only solution that can win the support of both parties is a balanced approach: one that cuts some spending and raises some revenue while avoiding extremes in either direction,” he said.

Tax and budget experts suggest enacting only tax increases or relying only on spending cuts just won’t work.

The White House projects this year’s deficit to hit $1.6 trillion, and it expects annual deficits to average $850 billion over the next decade. Deficits will rise after that.

Now we all know that Obama's $250k/year protective threshold is crap. He's more or less admitted it and, hell, he's already violated it. And as Ace has pointed out here, there's simply not enough money to grab from those high earners to cover the costs of the Democrats spending. So they will go after the "middle class" because, as the saying goes, "that's where the money is."

I love how the idea that spending cuts alone won't work, as if it's ever been tried. Of course, no one is actually suggesting that's what we do. Most people know the only way to get deficits and debt down is to increase growth (which leads to higher revenues) and decrease spending.

The problem with the 'tax your way to a prosperity' plan is it doesn't work. There's also the minor problem that increases in tax rates don't equate to higher revenue.

What will happen is Democrats will increase taxes and spending. They will base this increased spending on assumptions about increased revenues that will never materialize and actually lead to larger deficits, with the side benefit of lower economic activity at no extra charge!

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  It really is a bad year to be a Democrat incumbent. How bad is it you ask? Well, longtime federal-employee advocate Steny Hoyer, whose Congressional seat is usually so safe (his district is home to thousands of federal employees) that he uses his campaign cash to help other Democrats, is now spending his money to run ads on the airways.
• Federal employees earn 2% pay raise for 2010
  Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said in a statement Tuesday night. “This provision is critical to bringing federal pay in line with the private sector and enabling the federal government to compete for high quality talent.” Hoyer's Congressional district is home to thousands of federal employees.
• House Committee Moves Forward With Federal Employee Pay Parity for 2006
  The full House Appropriations Committee included a Federal Employee Pay Parity amendment in the FY 2006 Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development bill today. The amendment was offered by Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and was cosponsored by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA), Jim Moran (D-VA), and Tom Davis (R-VA) [all districts which are home to thousands of federal employees]. The amendment provides for a 3.1% pay adjustment for federal civilian employees, including blue collar employees, giving them pay parity with military employees. Under the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA), signed into law in 1990, all federal GS employees in 2006 should receive a 13.80% increase next year to federal employees in order to achieve comparability with private sector salaries: (1) an across the board 2.1% increase, as measured by the Employment Cost Index, and (2) an average 11.7% locality pay adjustment. Budget deficits may preclude a pay adjustment at the rate dictated by FEPCA but a 3.1% pay increase is necessary to keep pace with the private sector. “I have fought for pay parity for federal civilian employees over the strong objections of the Bush White House for four years, and I will fight again this year until federal employees receive the pay adjustment that they deserve,” said Hoyer.
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  Hoyer was elected House majority leader in January 2007 after a bitter fight with the late Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.). A veteran politician who arrived in the Maryland Senate directly out of law school at age 27, Hoyer has been representing Maryland’s 5th district since 1981. Hoyer has a reputation for being a moderate Democrat, in large part because of his original support for the Iraq war, balanced budgets and free-trade agreements. He has drawn criticism from the left throughout his career, but in the 110th Congress, Hoyer voted with his Democratic colleagues 98 percent of the time.
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