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Hoyer Again Contradicts Pelosi, Says House Might Have To Drop Public Option
Rachel Slajda | September 8, 2009, 12:50PM
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) indicated today that the House might have to push forward on health care reform without a public option.
The Hill reports that Hoyer said, "In the final analysis, we have to see what will pass. ... I think the public option is a very good choice for consumers to have. On the other hand, I've said I hope we can move a bill forward."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has said repeatedly that a bill without a public option cannot pass the house.
This isn't the first time that Hoyer, who is No. 2 in the House leadership, has come out as more lax on the public option than Pelosi. In late August he said, "I'm for a public option but I'm also for passing a bill."
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Indie Pro
September 8, 2009 12:53 PM
ivory tower dems uanble to understand the budgets of ordinary people!
tone deaf with a purpose, give Obama a win!
they could scale back the public option, but take mandates with it!!
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CT Voter
September 8, 2009 12:54 PM
Fabulous message discipline ya got going there, Dems. Not surprising, is it, that Americans are confused over what's taking place. Four bills, and 23 different messages, while Republicans have no bills and "THEY'RE PULLIN' THE PLUG ON GRANNY!"
Sigh.
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freaktown
September 8, 2009 12:58 PM
is it possible that hoyer and pelosi are playing good cop/bad cop on the public option?
i'm not sure to what end though.
it probably just comes down to the fact that getting democrats to govern in a unified manner is like tying to herd cats or do some equally impossible task...
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CT Voter
September 8, 2009 1:00 PM in reply to freaktown
You carry enough catnip on your body and you could herd cats. . .
'Course, they'd be so stoned in a bit, what would be the point?
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PorkBelly
September 8, 2009 1:34 PM
Worst. Poker. Player. . . Ever.
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Obama1st
September 8, 2009 1:54 PM
Once again, we are blessed w/ the democratic two-step...This is so depressing that we can not even stand together for a fight for reform w/out being sold out and down the river! What I would give for some fight and a stand on prinicple so we can lose w/ dignity rather than to lose to the GOP by being whimped out and caving in to special interests from our own party.
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Indie Pro
September 8, 2009 2:40 PM in reply to Obama1st
We should be fighting for Single Payer.
That's what really sucks about this bill looking more and more like a big wet kiss to the insurance industry.
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midnight rambler
September 8, 2009 2:34 PM
It's just like Harry Reid, except in two separate people.
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traitorjoe
September 8, 2009 2:35 PM
Will Hoyer the Destroyer shut the fuck up!?
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johnmccsf
September 8, 2009 2:42 PM
On its face, the no-reform-without-public-option position has never been credible.
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xargaw
September 8, 2009 2:45 PM
I am at the point where I won't even mind not voting next time. I could never bring myself to vote for a Repulican, but the way the Democrats are acting, I don't think I will be able to vote for them either. It's about time to start looking at a world map and decide just what country I would like to live out my day in. Our government (both parties) seem bent on destroying this country.
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CommunityOrganizer
September 8, 2009 3:16 PM in reply to xargaw
How can you compare the current administration to a potential GOP administration?
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johnmccsf
September 8, 2009 2:48 PM
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sbv
September 8, 2009 6:06 PM in reply to johnmccsf
everyone needs to call their representative and senators and tell them you are in favor of true health care reform that brings down costs and reins in the health insurance industry AND you vote!
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sbv
September 8, 2009 6:08 PM in reply to johnmccsf
thanks for posting; this is excellent. it is katrina all over again and americans all over this country! call your representative and your senators and tell them you will vote in their primary against whomever is running against them!
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theone718
September 8, 2009 5:00 PM
I will not forget thisl. No matter what we do we must make sure this asshole doesn't become Majority leader or speaker.
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Problem Is
September 8, 2009 6:11 PM
Somebody in Maryland needs to vote this worthless corporate Democrat out...
Progressives really need to dump the entire slew of McAuliffe pocket lining corrupt Democrats from Reid and Pelosi to the Indiana blue dog idiots to the slime dog Bacchus.
Just walk away and form the third party America needs... The Progressive Party. Progressives should use Kucinich as a role model.
Libertarians should do the same thing. Dump the psychotic dogmatic Christain fundamentalis jihadists and the corupt Bush- Wall Street republicans. Take Ron Paul and form a grass roots Libertarian party.
Time to put the two corporate parties, which are really one incumbent party bought and sold by Wall Street and corporate campaign bribes, out of their collective misery.
Time to get rolling on an alternative to the two party hacks for 2010 and 2012.
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Kevin Cassidy
September 8, 2009 7:16 PM
Could the good people of Maryland choose the option of publicly dropping Hoyer?
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lamonth
September 9, 2009 7:10 AM
is this good cop, bad cop
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