Steny Hoyer, of all people:
While the divisions among the Republicans run deeper and are more acrimonious, several key Democrats have significant concerns about the White House’s approach to this fall’s budget strategy.
Aides say Obama is open to a short-term budget agreement that would keep sequestration in place. The position has outraged some Democratic lawmakers who say that the spending cuts are undermining key programs and that Democrats must take a hard line against them.
“I don’t agree with the White House. I think the White House is making a mistake, and I’ve told them so,” said the No. 2 House Democrat, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (Md.). “They’re going to lock in that number.”
Hoyer said he is pushing House Democrats to demand a spending bill that scales back the automatic across-the-board cuts.
“I’m advising my members that it is time for us to take a stand,” he said. “Every time we’ve voted in a compromise with Republicans, we have made the economic picture of our country worse and we’ve undermined the growth of jobs and the economy.”
No one’s saying it out loud, but most people think the Dems are going to take back the House and Steny wants to be the Speaker.
Just in time to bail-out Wall Street again and then get voted out.
Steny Hoyer should go fuck himself. Better yet, he should go down to K Street and grab his ankles as usual.
How ironic. He has to fight the Dems’ current austerity efforts and instincts to preserve any chance he has of becoming majority leader…. so he can *lead* the austerity efforts. I guess being from Md he is more beholden to government and military contractors (including NSA and other Big Brother efforts) than he is to the banksters backing Obama. I guess that puts the rest us between the devil and the deep blue sea.