Comments on: Budget Thoughts from Steny Hoyer http://dmarron.com/2010/03/01/budget-thoughts-from-steny-hoyer/ Musings on Economics, Finance, and Life Thu, 24 May 2012 19:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Duke http://dmarron.com/2010/03/01/budget-thoughts-from-steny-hoyer/#comment-2038 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:08:35 +0000 http://dmarron.com/?p=2731#comment-2038 I thought this was satire. I recall Hoyer being “beyond condescending” at his Health Care town halls. He might be a “thoughtful” leader, but the policies he supports and advocates are hardly “thoughtful when it comes to budget matters.” His “progressive” changes to Social Security is just another redistribution of wealth. One cannot espouse a policy and then exhibit actions that are not true to the policy.

]]> By: Brooks http://dmarron.com/2010/03/01/budget-thoughts-from-steny-hoyer/#comment-2036 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:30:07 +0000 http://dmarron.com/?p=2731#comment-2036 I’ve long said that I wish Hoyer were Speaker instead of that PartisanBot Pelosi (not that her counterparts on the right — Boehner and McCaonnell — are any better). Does Pelosi ever say anything that isn’t a vacuous partisan talking point?

Hoyer seems like a more serious man than most on the issue of the long-term fiscal imbalance. I hope it’s not just posturing, and I hope he can bring folks on his “side” along and encourage the same from the other side. Redistricting reform for Congressional districts would help (using commissions to avoid the worst gerrymandering and in turn radicalization of the seat in the House).

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