Letters to the Editor
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respect?
Maybe if Bush ever showed some respect for other people he would deserve some. I suppose you could argue that "the office" deserves some respect, but I'm not sure I necessarily agree with that either.
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A two-way street
When a POTUS spends more than 5 years dissing (to put it mildly) the 50% of the population that did not vote for him, he has no right to expect any respect from them.
What is Steny Hoyer afraid of? That one of these days, Colbert will find the hapless Dems a worthwhile target?
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Bounce Hoyer Now
He's a quisling, just like Lieberman, and should be removed from his position as whip. What is wrong with these DINOs? What are they afraid of?
FBI files hanging over their heads?
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Didn't his momma tell him?
No one "deserves" respect or trust. They are earned. In fact, politicians are at the bottom of the list in the unearned respect deserving olympics. But hey, I wouldn't expect a career politician to understand that.
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*sigh*
Why is it whenever something -- anything -- happens that liberals/progressives/democrats can get energized over, some semi-democrat (Semi-crat?) has to go and piss all over it?
Stephen Colbert has integrity this Hoyer douche could only dream about. Where does this guy get off saying anything about anyone?
Oh, and he's the House Minority Whip? I assume that's some sort of position of importance in the party -- so why haven't I heard of him until now?
For future reference, Mr. Hoyer, next time something like this happens (a guy can dream, can't he?) here's how your thought process should go:
"Gosh, I thought that Colbert guy went over the line. But by golly, a lot of our people got really excited about it. People feel hopeful, invigorated by this guy's performance. Perhaps I should just keep my big yap shut about this."
And we wonder how the neocons took over.
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Respect is earned
To what depths would would this president have to sink before the likes of Steny Hoyer finally realize that he does not deserve our respect? Colbert was brilliant. Bush and his enablers in the White House press corps had it coming. The only thing I regret is that Hoyer and his pusillanimous Democratic cohort didn't get their fair share from Colbert.
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Why the Democrats Suck
Either Bush broke the law to spy on Americans or he didn't. Either Bush lied to go to war or he didn't. Either Bush is destroying our fiscal solvency by giving money to his kitty-raiding campaign donors or he's not. Either Bush ignores science and intelligence to blunder ahead on faith or he doesn't.
The list of Bush transgressions that Democrats (including Hoyer) put in their own campaign speeches goes on and on. So you have to ask: What kind of elected official denounces someone else for logically connecting that which the elected official supposedly believes?
If Democrats actually believed what they themselves say, they'd have made Stephen Colbert obsolete.
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STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
OH YES IT IS
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DESERVES respect?
OK, why does G.W. Bush "deserve" respect? Because his daddy bought him a slot in the Texas National Guard to keep him out of harm's way? Becasue he was born rich? Because he ran three oil companies into the ground with other people's money after being unable to find oil in Texas? Because he told a voter at a public event "Who cares what you think"? Because when somebody asked him about his relationship with "Kenny Boy" Lay he screamed at his aides to "keep those motherfuckers away from me!"?
Oh Jeez, I could be here all day.
If Rep. Hoyer meant that the Office of the Presidency deserves respect, well, he's too late. The Republicans trashed the status of the presidency in the 1990s during their long-running sitcom-drama "Get Clinton!" The end result was to impeach a sitting president for having the same shenanigans with an intern that George H.W. Bush had with his lady friend, and that half the Congress was doing.
Respect? My God, we need a second political party in this country!
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There is no greater respect
...than telling someone the truth. That's what Colbert did. Did it go beyond "respectful disagreement" (which Bush has completely ignored)? Maybe -- but Colbert is a comedian. He's playing the role of the fool, the person who can tell the truth to the most powerful person when no one else will.
The obsequious people who never disagree with Bush aren't showing him respect. Giving in to a bully or a spoiled child isn't respectful. Standing up in the spotlight and calling a spade a spade shows the highest respect.
It's too bad it takes an entertainer to do this. The Democratic leadership should be so strong.
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Put him on Colbert Report
It is ironic that the whip's job involves keeping other's toeing the party line, or is it just that Mr. Hoyer is confused about which party he works for? There's only one way to get to the bottom of this -- and that is to get him on the Colbert Report.
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Dems need spines
It's too bad it takes an entertainer to do this. The Democratic leadership should be so strong.
In his column this week for OC Weekly, writer Jim Washburn discusses the deep-seated need for the Democrats to start getting spines. Writes Washburn:
Democrats do seem strangely missing from the national discourse. There are two reasons for this. One is that the media scarcely covers them, probably not so much due to right-wing bias as to an institutional terror of reporting anything complex. The other reason is that Democrats are hard to photograph under their desks like that.
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Oye!
Here we go again, with the Dem's having to spoil all our fun. Colbert showed the "office of the president" respect when he referred to him as "Mr. President", as for respecting the man who would be king? Do I even have to bother?
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Steny Hoyer
remember that name. Next year he will not be Majority Leader in the House.
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He already gets more respect than he deserves...
...from the sychophantic press that Colbert skewered alongside him, and from that approximately 33% of Americans who still have their heads up their asses.
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Is Steny looking to PO us MD Dems Off?
Seriously, how dumb could he be? Well, another Lieberman to replace I guess.
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my bad feeling
I have kind of a sick feeling that Rep. Hoyer won't be the last. The image of Democrats flocking to the cable news shows to denounce Colbert's "disrespect" seems entirely realistic to me.
Which is why we will keep the status quo come November...and in 08.