Obama-Hoyer bond forms as Pelosi rejects budget deal

[cal04]

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/157175-obama-hoyer-bond-forms-as-pelosi-rejects-budget-deal

This year’s budget battles have forged a loose bond between President Obama and Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) while revealing some distance between the White House and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

The informal alliance has propelled the minority whip into the spotlight of the spending debate, bolstered his reputation as a centrist dealmaker and even led some Democrats to suggest he should lead the caucus in the looming talks over raising the nation’s debt limit.

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On the morning of the final vote on the fiscal 2011 continuing resolution (CR), House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called the Maryland Democrat requesting help to get the bill over the finish line. Shortly afterward, Hoyer tweeted that he planned to support the measure.

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Pelosi, meanwhile, voted no, pointing out she felt “no ownership” of the deal Obama struck with Senate Democrats and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

[xchrom]

1. ...

:mad:

[iwishiwas]

2. Is that for the Hoyer-Obama marriage or the Pelosi distance? Just curious.

[xchrom]

3. both.

nancy is in the leadership position -- it's really bad form for the admin not to have worked with her from the get go on this.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. There are some Maryland Democrats who would do very well as Republicans elsewhere.

Maryland is a state dominated by the Democratic Party. Every now and again, it flirts with the right wing. There are some long term repubican office holders from the more rural areas of the state.

Steny Hoyer tends to be very centrist. I am terming it that way so as to not offend.

[Demit]

5. That article has all you need to know about Steny Hoyer.

“If you’re going to have anything done in the House bipartisan, Steny Hoyer is going to have to be involved,” said a House Democratic aide who works for a Blue Dog.

...Hoyer took pains to cast himself as the pragmatist who would make concessions for the sake of a deal....

...Hoyer enjoys good relationships with Boehner and McCarthy, as well as with many rank-and-file Republicans.

...In a 2009 survey conducted by The Hill, Republican lawmakers cited Hoyer as one of the most bipartisan members in Congress. ...

...Unlike many of his Democratic colleagues, Hoyer has said he is open to raising the retirement age for Social Security. ...



And now he's Obama's bff. We had best beware Obama's nice populist talk lately, that's just his Campaign Barbie persona, to gull his base again. What matters to him above all else is bipartisanship. Not the ends but the means. So he cozies up not to Pelosi, who still remembers what the Democratic Party is supposed to stand for, but to the guy 'who would make concessions for the sake of a deal'. I am utterly disgusted.

[luvspeas]

6. "Impeachment is off the table"...

Pelosi lost me with that statement. She is also the reason we lost the public option too.

[PassingFair]

8. She was outnumbered in the House by BlueDogs and NewDems.

Now that the Progressive Caucus has more
members than those two caucuses combined,
they are just walking all over her and any
chance of Progressive Legislation.

[Demit]

10. Yeah? So where do you go now? To Steny Hoyer?

[PassingFair]

7. F-ing Hoyer is a SNAKE.

I remember when he was FOISTED upon Pelosi.



The kind of Democrat that makes me want
to say I'm an Independent.

[msongs]

9. birds of a feather stick together....these parrots are sqwaking cuts cuts cuts nt