{"id":188186,"date":"2010-11-18T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/18\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-steny-hoyer-showing-guts-edition\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T00:05:00","slug":"signs-of-the-apocalypse-steny-hoyer-showing-guts-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/18\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-steny-hoyer-showing-guts-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Apocalypse, Steny Hoyer Showing Guts Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img200.imageshack.us\/img200\/5914\/democratsspotabackbone5.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/>You got that right, Steny fracking Hoyer is <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/11\/dems_will_vote_on_just_middle.html\">finding a damn backbone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House Dem leadership, told Democrats at a caucus meeting this morning that they would get to vote this year on just extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, a senior Dem aide tells me, signaling support for a confrontational move towards the GOP that liberals have been pushing.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Democrats would definitely get a chance to hold this vote, the senior aide responded: &#8220;Definitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer&#8217;s declaration comes as Democrats have been debating the way forward on the Bush tax cuts, and another aide tells me that &#8220;more than half&#8221; of the Dem caucus supports this course of action. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I approve, but I wonder just who the hell had Steny&#8217;s testicles, and why they decided to give it back to him.<\/p>\n<p>Raising taxes on people making more than a \u00bc of a million dollars a year is excellent policy, and excellent politics, so it surprises me that Democrats are even thinking about doing this.<\/p>\n<p>Doubtless, they will find a way to screw this up, and I&#8217;m sure that Heath Shuler will be leading the way, but I&#8217;m still getting a heavy duty umbrella, just in case it starts to rain frogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You got that right, Steny fracking Hoyer is finding a damn backbone: Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House Dem leadership, told Democrats at a caucus meeting this morning that they would get to vote this year on just extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, a senior Dem aide tells me, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,983,1164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-taxes","category-teotwawki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}