So How’s Steny Hoyer Doing With That ‘New Tone’ He Promoted?
**Written by Doug Powers
In January, Congressman and first runner-up in the 1986 Fred Gwynne lookalike contest Steny Hoyer called on Americans to tone down the “intense political rhetoric”:
“Far too many broadcasts now and so many outlets have the intent of inciting people to opposition, to anger, to thinking the other side is less than moral. I think that is a context in which somebody who is mentally unbalanced can somehow feel justified in taking this kind of action. I think we need to all take cognizance of that and be aware that what we say can, in fact, have consequences,” Hoyer said.
By way of Jim Geraghty at NRO, here’s Steny Hoyer this morning:
“I think we’re playing Russian roulette with the nation’s credit-worthiness. Unfortunately, all the chambers seem to be loaded on the House side. They want to shoot every bullet they have at the president.”
I’ve had colds that lasted longer than Hoyer’s “new tone”:
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Chuck Schumer was outraged and offended. No, not by anything Hoyer said… but that Republican leaders opened a meeting with a clip from “The Town.”
**Written by Doug Powers
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Well at least he didn’t call us racists or blame Bush in his rant!
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“Hey, not us, we’ve got a mission too important to tone down our rhetoric. Toning down, and as a matter of fact, shutting up is strictly for our opponents to do.”
I think Hoyer looks more like a Windsor than Fred Gwynne. Fred at least was intelligent looking.
Steny Hoyer 1986: “Damn you, John Kerry!”
Windsors – thats what you get with royal inbreeding with cousins.
Fred was, indeed, probably more than just intelligent looking, unlike Hoyer, Gwynne was talented and entertaining.
And, Harry Reid keeps bombing the GOP House plan.
And, Obama keeps throwing grenades at the GOP House plan, fortunately they are only smoke grenades. (Ya know, as in smoke screens?)
And, Pelosi keeps shooting her mouth off.
And, Chuck You Schumer continues to blast away at any Republican who tries to engage on entitlements.
Funny that all these liberals say they are against harsh rhetoric, and get so apoplectic and angry about gun control, but continue to rail away with hateful, inflamatory language.
And, Harry Reid keeps bombing the GOP House plan.
And, Obama keeps throwing grenades at the GOP House plan, fortunately they are only smoke grenades. (Ya know, as in smoke screens?)
And, Pelosi keeps shooting her mouth off.
And, Chuck You Schumer continues to blast away at any Republican who tries to engage on entitlements.
Funny that all these liberals say they are against harsh rhetoric, and get so apoplectic and angry about gun control, but continue to rail away with hateful, inflamatory language.
Speaking of Dems and civility, here is Franken’s latest “act of civility”
Sort of like my senile uncle, who can’t hear his own f@rts, so he figures no one else can either.
It’s curious that Democrats seem not so shy when they choose to support violence … And people think this is the face of intelligence? They obviously can’t see.
Stand tall, and say it loud. You are not alone.
Gee Steny, and you guys handled the economy sooooo well when you had 2 years of veto proof anything goes majorities in both houses. You socialized medical care, spent 4 trillion dollars on your peeps, nationalized the car industry and accomplished exactly nothing. Now you want to criticise the republicans who RAN ON AN ISSUE OF CUTTING SPENDING and won in a landslide for wanting to actually cut spending. Dems didn’t run on a program of socializing medicine, nationalizing the auto industry, or wasting 4 trillion dollars in socialist pipedreams, but that’s what they did. You had your chance to govern from 2007 to 2011, and you didn’t produce a budget, and you didn’t raise the debt limit, and you spent 3 times as much per day as GW Bush did while in office, so STFU.
To the Boner Staff and the Rino group of congress, IF YOU DON’T DO WHAT YOU PROMISED AND WE ELECTED YOU TO DO, YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN THE DEMS AND DESERVE THEIR FATE.
Does he think they don’t stink either?
Who knows. He has Alzheimers so bad we let him wrap his own presents.
Who knows? He has Alzheimers so bad we let him wrap his own presents.
We leave him at the front door. He thinks he’s a greeter at a really slow Wal-Mart.
We leave him at the front door. He thinks he’s a greeter at a really slow Wal-Mart.
We leave him at the front door. He thinks he’s a greeter at a really slow Wal-Mart.
We leave him at the front door. He thinks he’s a greeter at a really slow Wal-Mart.
You should have seen shadow president Valerie Jarett a few minutes ago on CNBC. She took fear-mongering right into hyper-hysteria. It was like listening to a gangbanger’s mother arguing that her son is a good boy after he got arrested for killing baby in a stroller while robbing a mom.
Oh please tell me it’s the same present every time…..
*snicker*
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{Shhhhhh}
He was bragging about the great deal he got on his hearing aids. He only paid $35.
I said, “Really? Only $35? What kind is it?”
“Eleven-thirty.”
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Mr. Gambini?
Vinny Gambini: Yes, sir?
Judge Chamberlain Haller: That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out objection.
Vinny Gambini: Thank you, sir.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Overruled.
Defeat Steny in 2012.
Even with bolts coming out of his neck, the late, great Fred Gwynne looked like a genius compared to this clown.
The crowd rises to their feet…
They clamor for more..!
A deafening ROAR here at the stadium. They’re blowing the ROOF off! ( Man, I got a chill on that one ) +10,000
#26 Marsh: Was that stadium count yours or the Dick Obama loving media count?
Steny Hoyer – who the hell names or nicknames their kid Steny? Could they not pronounce Stumpy? Stinky? Snarky? Swampy?
As for me, I will just call him by his proper name Turdly A$$wipe.
Slightly ot, but certainly in line with the subject of Demonuts:
What a convenient memory the Dimwits have. What happened with Health Care? Hmmmm? Shoved it down the Americans’ collective throats. But they won’t bring up anything like that.
Just remember, Der Leader is failing, and the rest of you dimwits are becoming rather boring and it’s tiresome to listen to your words. STFU.
We would be interested in what Stunny Hoore says because…??
OCTOBER 9, 2004 SPEAKER: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE STENY HOYER
“In the last four years, the Republican Party has turned record budget surpluses into the largest budget deficits in American history, deficits as far as the eye can see. Democrats believe that it’s not only irresponsible but it is immoral as well to force our children and grandchildren to pay our bills by incurring this debt. Democrats will fight for fiscally responsible economic policies that promote growth and create jobs. And we will fight to make our tax system fairer and simpler.”
These pics are all we need to know. Put a sock in it, politi-putz.
Next.
Hey Debbie Downer, are these “code” phrases to get your minions ready to act if The Pretender in Chief and our Demomarxists in CONgress don’t get their way. Hmmm? Then your admin and party will be be sure not to waste self created national crisis while pointing fingers at the GOP that its responsible for the upheaval.
Its Danish in origin: “Steny” is a variant of his father’s name, Steen Theilgaard Høyer, who was Danish and a native of Copenhagen.
It still translates to the name “Sh*thead”, right?
“Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure.” – The Talmud.
Or in the case of Steny, neither stand a chance
The “new tone” is exactly like the democrat call for “civility”. It harkens back to the old liberal heydays of the 1950′s and 1960′s when Conservatives weren’t even allowed to speak – thus “civility”. It’s easy to have “civility” when one side is silent.
No to the “new tone”! No to “civility”! We will not be silenced!!
Look at the new tone, same as the old tone….
My eyes! There should be a warning on pics like that.
My Grandma never talked like that…
But I have to agree with others here, he’s about as useful as wet one-ply toilet paper.
Was Blinky tearing up and her voice chocking up as she spewed this crap? You could bounce a quarter off her forehead…. the skin is pulled so tight. I wonder if all that skin is tied up with a rubber band behind her head and hidden by that wig.
Have they told the whopper about the mile and a half wide asteroid bearing down on us will be veering into the path of the earth if the debt ceiling isn’t raised?
I’m sure that one will come out if the decision gets down to the wire. They’ve already used (ad infinitum) no medicare, no SS checks mailed out, not veteran’s checks mailed out and schools closing down. (they aren’t open during the summer except at breakfast, lunch and dinner time to feed the chiillllddrennnnnnnnn) Hey moochelle, you don’t think eating all that food is going to prevent obesity when they stuff it then settle down in front of a video game?
Go join the Head Clown in his three ring circus. PINO!
Along with a plague of locusts and frogs I guess we are doomed.
Steny and Blue Lips w/ears got their financial education from the Debt Consolidation ads on TV with a Masters Degree from the Charles Ponzi The Piker School of Business and Truth Truncating.
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In debt up to your ears?
Can’t pay your bills?
Taken a pay cut lately-perhaps laid off?
Use that credit card to take a fabulous vacation and you’ll feel better
It’s worse than that. Barky and Moochelle will be limited to 3 trips per week on Air Force One. Barky will only be able to pay for two rounds of golf per week. They will have to fire the chef at the White House and replace him with the fry cook at the local McDonald’s.
Of course.
You wish. Ain’t no one, no where, no how, limiting Moochelle on anything! Somebody else’s gonna have to live within meager limits before her highness ever does!
Of course.
You wish. Ain’t no one, no where, no how, limiting Moochelle on anything! Somebody else’s gonna have to live within meager limits before her highness ever does!
Of course.
You wish. Ain’t no one, no where, no how, limiting Moochelle on anything! A Whole lot of
peascitizens are gonna have to live within meager limits before her highness ever does!Now, what she REALLY meant:
You see, these socialists not only project and say the opposite of what they mean, the also have the basest desires for violence which enables them to control the narrative, craft an image of “evil Republicans”, but also gives them the one reason they can call for “legal” violence against the people, which ultimately leads to submission, Marshall Law, and tyranny.
And, the dumbies keep voting for them, signing over their freedom, endorsing national papers of ownership (a.k.a. slavery.)
Schumer is a joke. He might just be the biggest hypocrite to ever walk this earth.
Steny Hoyer is just laughable. Right behind Schumer.
They will say anything they want to demean the right. Use any violent metaphor…. that’s all ok because they are pushing “THEIR SUPERIOR AGENDA”.
But should the right use any language whatsoever that might remotely be warped into some sort of violent subtext, Schumer and the rest of them will run it up a flag pole and claim that Republicans are nothing more than violence-mongering anarchists.
The irony is they are the ones condemning Americans to a life of food stamps and welfare and enabling the murder of innocent unborn children.
Tell me again who’s evil in this situation?
And they want us to STFU.
(tone down in PolSpeak = STFU)
And they want us to STFU.
(tone down in PolSpeak = STFU)
And they want us to STFU.
(tone down in PolSpeak = STFU)
And they want us to STFU.
(tone down in PolSpeak = STFU)
Wow. Sorry. 3 posts. I thought I had waited long enough.
You’re not alone.
Pretty much how I interpreted it too. The left is terrific at projection, and veiled threats.
He is just another Max Baucus….