Posted on 04/22/2010 9:02:04 AM PDT by bestintxas
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Thursday he and Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a mistake when they called "tea party" participants "un-American" last year.
"That was not a good phrase, not a good use of language, it was not correct," Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said, adding that he did not see anything wrong with vigorous debating of philosophies.
In August, in the middle of a summer in which members of Congress were sometimes shouted down at town halls by constituents furious over the health care bill, Mr. Hoyer and Mrs. Pelosi wrote an op-ed article in USA Today decrying the tenor of the debate and complaining about baseless charges.
The leaders called the protests "an ugly campaign" and said it was clear some were trying to disrupt "a civil dialogue."
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Murderers "regret" killing somebody but the victim is still dead.
I say as one offended by his remarks that apology is NOT accepted.
Too late Hoyer. You be goin’ DOWN!
“Ack! ack ack ack ack... ACK!”
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
I wanna see him regretin’ in his retirement....his employers will hopefully fire him this fall...and then his colleague in crime..Van Hollen...
When they wrote it they did not believe it, nor do they believe the Tea parties are racist or violent.
This is just the campaign they ran to pass the healthcare bill. Matthews began it with wondering out loud why the crowds for Palin books signings and the town hall/tea parties were so white. Matthews ALWAYS starts their campaigns, (remember he began the dehumanization of Cheney/Libby meme). Listen to what he says for the very first clue of the commie strategy.
Pelosi/Reid/Obama/Dem party did not believe the crap they were pushing about GWB for eight years either.
This is all propaganda for the masses, for their base and the uninformed in politics, and it works.
They NEVER fight on ideological grounds, only on smears and intimidation.
And the GOP (and us) still do not know how to battle this properly.
Oh, Steny—that’s okay for we know you to be slime, leftist, party above all, lying slime.
Funny he presumes to be speaking for Pelosi, also.
Added to my FB and asked MD FB Friends to publicize this as a Hate Crime.
Doubt if any attorney would take the case, but you never know.
This could seriously undermine the Democrats and hopefully help elect Republicans in Maryland.
Democrats . . . they bare their soul and then say it was a “mistake.” Yeah, Right.
Truth will always come out.
Veritas vos Liberabit.
LOL! Yep now that they figured out that most are democrats and independants that they need for votes it makes it much worse to insult them. Too late Steny too late Nancy they already heard you as did their relatives and friends.
Actually, he said the mistake was to read the Op-Ed too quickly before approving it for publication. I guess you shouldn’t read too quickly.
........ and that mistake will come back to bite them in the @$$ .
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Steny will always be compfy and cozy in his congressional seat in the communist state of Maryland which is zoned in a way that allows the minorities to rule ,,, and now we have a few hundred thousand ilegals to give him a boost .
There is no safe place for any of them. All demographic history has been turned off.
Hoyer and ALL like him are about to find that they are living in a whole new world.
And it is so sweet that they will not know it until the last few moments.
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