Hoyer compares GOP debt limit tactics to hostage taker threatening to shoot child

CNN Political Ticker ^ | 12-27-12 | Deidre Walsh

[smokingfrog]

Less than two weeks after one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, the No.2 Democrat in the U.S. House, Steny Hoyer, compared Republican tactics for dealing with the nation's debt limit to someone threatening to shoot a child hostage.

"It's somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, 'I'm going to shoot my child if you don't do what I want done.' You don't want to shoot your child. There's no Republican leader that wants to default on our debt, that I've talked to," Hoyer said at a Capitol Hill press conference.

[funfan]

What an ahole this man is who talks like that?
I hate politicians especially democrat ones they are disgusting. He knows what he said would be on tv and trying to make it sound like republicans would shoot children I am surprised he didnt say it the day of the Sandy Hook shootings he must be getting old and rusty. He is shameful
and I really feel sad for my Country

[PGalt]

Socialists like Hoyer and his ilk should be tossed off the roof above the debt ceiling. $plattering $ociali$t$.

[NTHockey]

Once again, the RATs find the most despicable thing to say and the Whigs are silent. Why are these people in Congress? A week after the massacre in Newtown, CT, here is Hoyer talking about killing kids.

What an unbelievable mass of protoplasm he is.