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Hoyer: Medicare, SS cuts need to stay on the table
Everything, including cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits, should remain on the table as party leaders seek to hash out an end-of-the-year budget deal, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday. …
“They clearly are on the table,” Hoyer said during his weekly press briefing in the Capitol. “They were on the table in the Boehner-Obama talks. They’ve been on the table for some period of time. That does not mean that I’d be prepared to adopt them now, but they’re clearly, I think, on the table.
“We have many Republicans say ‘absolutely not’ … on rates or revenues,” he added. “There are Democrats on our side who say ‘absolutely not’ if they do A and they do B and they do C. … You’ve got to put everything on the table.”
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I had no idea Hoyer is a sexist, racist, homophobe, Nazi, well dressed shill for corporate overlords and whatever else liberals call us.
darwin on December 4, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Where are all the stories by the MSM announcing the Democrats are cracking???
brewcrew67 on December 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM
As the Fishy Admiral once said, “It’s a trap!”
LincolntheHun on December 4, 2012 at 6:06 PM
As a former Treasury Secretary, taking advice from the guy who eventually replaced him, once said, “It’s a TARP!”
Steve Eggleston on December 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Hoyer was beat out as caucus leader by Pelosi (Pelosi had the help of her henchman Murtha), and he would still like to be caucus leader (and dreams of Speaker some day). There is supposedly no love lost between Hoyer and Pelosi (they both ocme out of Baltimore Dem politics).
This is probably a head fake, though, to make the GOP think there is splintering in the Dem ranks.
Wethal on December 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM
Best thing that could be on that table would be what’s left of your genitals (and Reids) Steny…and a very sharp knife…(not that Boehner would know what to do with it though…
Tim Zank on December 4, 2012 at 6:18 PM
Who is this Hoyer person?
Cindy Munford on December 4, 2012 at 6:20 PM
On the table… like the bowl of plastic fruit that’s meant to look pretty, but not be touched.
Hill60 on December 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM
How about we reform Social Security and stop keeping us prisoners in a system we want out of.
I have some good ideas for reform here.
Charlemagne on December 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM