Steny Hoyer: I’m thinking most Tea Partiers probably come from unhappy families

Hotair ^ | posted at 4:35 pm on January 5, 2011 | Allahpundit

[SeekAndFind]

I’m amazed. Not that a Democrat would say it — this is straight out of the Harry Reid songbook — but that it would come from someone like Hoyer who’s not normally given to bomb-throwing. In fact, you can tell that this sort of thing isn’t his forte: As thumbnail psychoanalyses of political opponents go, it’s one of the lamest examples I’ve ever heard.

In fairness, the man’s hurting right now after being unceremoniously dumped back into the House minority. And look on the bright side: A year ago, their catch-all explanation for tea party motivations was racism. (For Howard Dean, it still is.) Now, per Hoyer, it’s upgraded to family dysfunction, a condition that’s downright sympathetic. You’re not evil anymore! You’re just … sad. Aw:

There are a whole lot of people in the Tea Party that I see in these polls who don’t want any compromise. My presumption is they have unhappy families. All of you have been in families: single-parent, two-parents, whatever. Multiple parent and a stepfather. The fact is life is about trying to reach accommodation with one another so we can move forward. That is certainly what democracy is about. So if we are going to move forward compromise is necessary.

And that’s why wanting to reform entitlements necessarily means tension around the dinner table. Exit question via Newsbusters: Could the real problem with tea partiers be, in the eloquent words of Joy Behar, that “this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand”? Watch the clip and I think you’ll agree that it sounds scary. And not just because “smart liberal” Bill Press seems to believe there’s a right of privacy somewhere in the constitutional text.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

To Mr. Hoyer, "compromise" is when the peasants shut up and do as they are told.

[Waryone]

I’m thinking most democrat congressmen come from greedy, lying, thieving families.

[reagan_fanatic]

I’ll invite you to come see my family anytime, Mr. Hoyer. I’d lay good money down that we’re a lot happier and more stable than your average liberal family.

Idiot.

[edpc]

That’s funny coming from him. His father was an abusive drunk.

[Mr. K]

I think one of our biggest mistakes comes from saying about the left that they all hate our country and they want to destroy us.

While I don’t doubt that SOME OF THEM want to, as a strategy for collapsing the system and instilling socialism, there are MANY lefties who love the country too- they are just stupid and naive and really really believe that they can solve problems with the government.

This is the “child-like sentiment applied to adult situations” type of liberal. And we lose the ability to teach them something and turn them off buy telling them we think they hate the country.

[edpc]

Correction.....his father abandoned him. His stepfather was the alcoholic. From the Washington Post, 2007.

His father abandoned him. His stepfather was an alcoholic. By his sophomore year at the University of Maryland, Steny Hoyer was short of cash, getting D's and drifting.

Then one spring day in 1959, a Pontiac convertible cruised past him on campus, carrying a familiar figure. Hoyer followed it to the student center. Spellbound, he listened as Sen. John F. Kennedy appealed to young people to get involved in government.

[KarlInOhio]

So if we are going to move forward compromise is necessary.

We're headed towards a financial cliff and Hoyer wants us to compromise so we can keep going forward. Hitting the brakes with everything we have is just the first step before putting the government into reverse. Compromise is when we want to cut out ten programs and the dems get to pick two of those to save at the price of agreeing to eliminate the other eight.

[Razmataz]

Let me see if I can be nice.... ok... I have it...
WHAT AN IDIOT.

[Texas Eagle]

Steny Hoyer: I’m thinking most Tea Partiers probably come from unhappy families

The important thing, Steny, is that you tried thinking.

Don't give up on it. It takes a while to get used to, but you'll be better off for it in the long run.

[MsLady]

What a dumb, arrogant statement.

[MsLady]

LOL....and you would be correct.

[Scythian]

This guy is definitely right on:

1) I’m unhappy our country is in so much debt.
2) I’m unhappy with our president.
3) I’m unhappy with the Stark treaty.
4) I’m unhappy congress will not secure our border.
5) I’m unhappy with the health care bill ...

and so on and so forth, so ya, this guy is right.

[MsLady]

Sounds like his statement applies to himself.

[Texas Eagle]

Hmmmmm....I wonder if Steny could be right.

I wonder if anybody has ever conducted a study on the rates of fatherless households as it relates to our prison population.

Well, no need to now. Obviously our prisons are full of people reared in Tea Party households.

[Madame Dufarge]

"Leader Hoyer says that "Republicans could have worked to put their stamp" on health care reform legislation. That's a bald-faced lie. The bill that passed the House was crafted in Speaker Pelosi's office, an office that was shut to Republicans' suggestions. Is Leader Hoyer suggesting that the House GOP was able to give its input via telepathy? It certainly can't mean that Republicans like Paul Ryan were allowed substantive input into the bill."

Steny's singing from a worn-out hymnal"

[ExTexasRedhead]

Liberals are spawned in the sewer, IMO.

[jrl1]

LOL, actually Tea Parties are causing Democrats to have unhappy families, ask those congressmen who got booted out.
I never heard Hoyer talk about compromise in the last two years...

[Wonder Warthog]

"The important thing, Steny, is that you tried thinking. Don't give up on it. It takes a while to get used to, but you'll be better off for it in the long run."

ROFL. Best line in thread!!