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Posted at 11:02am on Apr. 4, 2008 Steny Hoyer: Blackmail Still In Play For The Supplemental

Give me my pork, or Soldiers will be left twisting in the cool breeze of a Democrat majority

By haystack

Our dear friend Steny Hoyer is no stranger to mucking things up in Congress. He has a passion for delaying and withholding and obstructing and otherwise putting off anything meaningful that might come out of Congress until he gets something for himself out of it.

The esteemed Mr. Hoyer is ALSO no stranger to the Democrat strategy of talking out of both sides of one's mouth. Hoyer says via the AP piece:

"I think policy needs to be changed," but as long as troops are deployed "those troops need to be supported."

Hmm.

Why, then, did Hoyer tell Roy Blunt on the House floor yesterday that "other things" were being discussed before the much-needed supplemental for our Soldiers would get any closer to being done?

"There are obviously needs in addition to Iraq that are being discussed, and I would tell my friend that those discussions are ongoing," said House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) said. "A decision on what may or may not be added in addition to the supplemental that may be necessary for Iraq – there may be other things – that decision has not been made at this point in time."

Mr. Hoyer, at this point in time Soldiers are still in Iraq and are still in need of supplies and ammunition and all the other things "those troops need to be supported."

As Blunt's release indicates:

Republicans are committed to giving our troops in the field the resources, equipment and supplies they need to complete their mission and return home successful. Now is the time for Democrats to permanently shelve their failed ‘slow-bleed’ strategy, pass a clean troop supplemental and stop using the needs of our troops as blackmail for special interest projects

Can we please let go of Katrina, or at least detach it from the war in Iraq? Can we PLEASE focus single-mindedly on the ONE Iraq supplemental and put all the blackmail earmarks in something ELSE?

How about you guys on the Left hold up FISA to get your lard, keep us at risk here at home, and leave the deployed men and women OUT of your little schoolyard shenanigans?

m'kay?

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Posted at 4:35pm on Dec. 10, 2007 Steny Hoyer's pork is "good pork"

(Pork Barrel Spending in Nancy's drained swamp.)

By Mark Kilmer

House Dem Leader Steny Hoyer is an earmark kind of guy. According to the Washington Post, the Maryland Congressman is "one of the top 10 earmarkers in the House for 2008," who has singlehandedly "tucked $96 million worth of pet projects into next year's federal budget, including $450,000 for a campaign donor's foundation."

It makes me want to croon a variation on an old song by The Ramones:

Steny is a pork pimper.
Ste-ny is a pork pimper.
Steny is a pork pimper, now-ow-ow-ow-ow.

(Maybe you'd have had to have been there.)

Josh Shultz at The Real Blog zeroes in on one of the most interesting bits of Steny pork, involving a company which isn't sure what it does besides donate to Steny.

But Steny tells us that Steny pork is "good pork."

(Read More for… well, more.)

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Posted at 8:54am on Mar. 22, 2007 In Which Steny Hoyer Embraces The Dark Side

By Erick

Witness Steny Hoyer's transformation into that which he hates.

House rules dictate that votes will last 15 minutes. The GOP famously held open controversial votes for longer than that to reverse what looked like defeat. Famously, the vote on the Medicare Prescription Drug bill was held open for three hours while Tom DeLay twisted arms and made demands to get the bill passed.

Hoyer and the Democrats used that issue to highlight the culture of corruption. In fact, so adamant were the Democrats that they'd never do such a thing, when they took over the House they passed a rule prohibiting the extension of time for votes.

Now in the majority and facing their first close vote with the $124 billion wartime spending bill, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) is leaving open the possibility that Democrats might extend the vote beyond the usual 15 minutes.

Asked Wednesday night whether Democrats would keep to the time limit, Hoyer paused, then pointed out that many votes can run a few minutes longer for various reasons. Pressed further by a reporter who pointed out that Democrats themselves had often criticized Republicans on this very point, Hoyer said, "It won't be open three hours. How about that?"

"How about 30 minutes?" the reporter asked.

"I won't guarantee it," Hoyer replied.

And so he becomes that which he hated.

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