Dems Elect Hoyer Over Murtha

The Whistler  •  November 17, 2006

The Dems wisely chose Steny
Hoyer over Jack Murtha by a vote of 149-86 to be the next House majority
leader. James Clyburn of South Carolina is now the majority whip, the number
3 position in the House.

That’s a big ouch right there for Nancy Pelosi, who campaigned hard for the
ethically-challenged Jack Murtha. Pelosi seems to have learned nothing from
the Republican defeat this month – that when you espouse certain principles,
such as ‘cleaning up Congress’, but practice them in a flexible way, people
will call you on it.

Kudos to the Dems for blocking this trash from gaining a leadership post. Let’s
hope they don’t forget their principles when Pelosi tries to appoint Alcee
Hastings as chair of the Intelligence committee.

Crossposted from WILLisms.com

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  • http://Array Pilgrim

    Ouch! Pelosi clearly hasn’t gotten the message that being a Democrat doesn’t necessarily mean you’re as left wing as the Murtha crowd. She chose poorly when she backed Murtha and she got her ass handed to her in her first scrap. By her own party.

  • Fauquier Dan

    Hoyer is exactly the right guy for this job. There was no other choice. And silly comments about his being way out on the liberal wing of the Democratic party reflect the ludicrous notion (widely held in some Republican circles) that anyone to the left of Genghis Khan is a liberal.

    Anyone with the slightest familiarity with the 5th District of Maryland could tell you it is hardly a left leaning district. It is precisely the sort of district Democrats need to win in order to maintain a majority. Hoyer has been able to win there consistently by wide margins.

    On the Senate side, I was happy to see Trent Lott win the Whip job for the Republicans. After a disastrous Majority Leader like Frist they needed leaders who were up to the job.

    I think the whole country benefits from effective Congressional leadership. And after watching the Republicans steer the ship into the rocky coastline for these past few years it will be a pleasure to see things done well for a change.

  • Bat One

    The Dems are certainly to be congratulated for rejecting the ethically-challenged Jack Murtha (What a pleasant way to say that the man is a f**king sleazeball!)

    On the other hand, the Democrats have now managed to paint themselves into a rhetorical corner… the left corner, to be precise. Hoyer is far more liberal an individual than Murtha, and it is certainly fair to point out that the upper echelons of the Democrat Party, Dean, Pelosi, and now Hoyer, are firmly in the hands of the far left Progressive wing of the party.

    The Democrats ARE the party of the far left, and have no believable claim on the political center. Sure didn’t take long, did it?

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    And I for one am impressed with the Democrats for doing so.

    Give credit where credit is due.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    “how to blog like Hannity.”

    Hannity has a blog. Please provide proof.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Heh,

    Maybe the Pelosi interregnum won’t be as bad as I thought.

    Out Here
    Rodney Graves
    rodney.g.graves@gmail.com

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    WOuld it be possible for the wingnuts too realize that America is the Democratic Party.

    Funny. You guys win one election and now “America is the Democratic Party”.

    Rove et all figured out a nice strategy to game the system…

    By “game the system”, you mean that Republicans were winning. But since you’re a sore loser, you can’t admit such things.

    …now and again, thankfully, we have an accurate representative government. Get on board.

    You think? Somehow, I doubt it. But anyways, I will never get on board with socialism, higher taxes, abortion, running scared with my tail between my legs, and damning America on the world stage. I’ll leave those ugly things to you and those like you.

    Hoyer, Pelosi, Murtha are centrists, populists. Most Americans agree with them.

    Hahahaha! Thanks for the laugh dude.

    See last Tuesday for proof.

    But every election that you lost was because Rove was “gaming the system”. Hahaha!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Yay for the Dems! Too bad Nancy Pelosi is such a …

  • Bat One

    Maybe the Pelosi interregnum won’t be as bad as I thought.

    Rodney,

    May not be all that lengthy, either.

  • 2Hotel9

    EGC3, exactly what percentage of America’s population voted for Democrats. And by the way, democratic descibes the process, Democrat is the party.

  • aNONOMISLY

    I believe Majority Leader-elect Hoyer is very warm with AIPAC, ..or at least closely affiliated with the group. In fact, Murtha’s biggest weapon against him was that he seems too hawkish on Iraq.

    He’s the type o liberal main stream American wouldn’t mind. Unlike Murtha, Steny Hoyer has solid support among the Blue Dogs rank ..

  • EGC3

    WOuld it be possible for the wingnuts too realize that America is the Democratic Party. Rove et all figured out a nice strategy to game the system for a couple of years but it has all washed out now and again, thankfully, we have an accurate representative government. Get on board. It is what it is. Hoyer, Pelosi, Murtha are centrists, populists. Most Americans agree with them.

    See last Tuesday for proof.

  • EGC3

    The I way I figure it is that most of the last century has been run by Democrats and so Reagan/Bush/Bush were anomalies. You started a war got everyone sacred which was good for a few votes but in reality very few republicans have been to war. You guys are the pussies. I think they call it “Chickenhawk.”

    Nice “talking point” post by the way. Where did you get it of the RNC website in a link called “how to blog like Hannity.”

    To the person with the silly picture of the cat

    You are a Democrat and you are in the Democratic Party. You are an idiot. See below. Just like a republican to run their mouth without actually knowing anything.

    Dictionary
    democrat |ˈdeməˌkrat| noun 1 an advocate or supporter of democracy. 2 ( Democrat) a member of the Democratic Party. ORIGIN late 18th cent.(originally denoting an opponent of the aristocrats in the French Revolution of 1790): from French démocrate, on the pattern of aristocrate ‘aristocrat.’

  • robert108

    Any crackpot can obviously comment on that blog. The media is so relentlessly left-wing and aligned with the terrorists that they have declared a jihad on the President for the last six years. In the year leading up to the last election, the percentage of negative reporting on the President, his administration and the Republican Party was around 77%. Not exactly favoritism, was it? Lefties lie; that’s all they have.

  • egc3

    I pulled this off the Hannity blog for you. Its quite the gem

    One reason we are still struggling under the catastrophic Bush Administration is because the MEDIA thinks their job is to entertain the American people with a lot of fluff and fantasy and not tell us the truth. Possibly had the MEDIA not gushed over the “Churchillian” qualities of G. W. Bush in his early years his very obvious shortcomings would have sunk in a lot sooner with the American public.

    YES!! HERE HERE

  • 2Hotel9

    And I notice, no link to Hannity’s “blog”.

  • 2Hotel9

    As for starting wars, that is the sole province of the Democrat Party. You really should work on the reading comprehension.

  • 2Hotel9

    The party is Democrat, the description of the process is democratic.

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