Respect is earned and no one deserves it.Bush and his majority in the house and Senate have had control for everything.Whatever any Democrat has said or done has been disregarded.Therefore, all the evil doing and problems we face,have been legislated from the corrupted Republicans.

As you can see from the recent polls, your party is in deep S... and no way of recovering.

Bush has kept our country under the scare of terrorism.Terrorism that he has created of his own doing. Respect! What respect?

So,you did not think that what Colbert said was appropiate? I can see why you think that way.

No Rep. or Senator would dare to tell the Bush about his illegal agenda and that is why the polls for the Senate and the House are at its lowest. Americans no longer support all of you since you have done a terrible job for the last 8 years. Learn from Stephen Colbert and speak up for the truth and for the issues that Americans care for.End the corruption of the lobbying reform which many of you voted along with the Republicans and made no major changes like you should have.I am starting to be ashemed to be an American.

"Bush "is the president of the United States," Hoyer said Tuesday, "and he deserves some respect.""

This is why I am an independant. The DNC and most of it's denziens have no balls, no judgement, and no common sense.

Your base is riled, dumbasses. They found this to be hilarious, and they are questioning the judgement of a press that bashes Dems, sometimes gratutitiously. They are smacking back at a President to racked the Dems by using 9/11 and the wish for unity for political gain. The Dems can't even think hard enough to use this to their own advantage.

I'll support my politicians on a case by case basis. I'm sorry, that video was damn funny, and those who can't see it are too humorless to ever get my vote.

Bush "is the president of the United States," Hoyer said Tuesday, "and he deserves some respect."

It used to be that respect was something you earned. Or didn't. You know, back in the days when America actually meant something better than vast corruption, utterly bankrupt morals, blatant imperialist swagger, and mentally retarded leadership.

No, Steny. Here is what is in bad taste:

Lying is in very bad taste.

Torture is in very bad taste.

Joking about weapons of mass destruction "they must be around here somewhere" ...

Refusing to fire the people who have outed a CIA agent after you said you would...

Going on vacation as natural disaster destroys the lives of many hundreds of thousands of your constituents...

Catering only to the "haves and have-mores", your "base" -- when your oath includes serving all Americans...

These are a few more things in very bad taste.

To challenge the one who perpetrates these things, as Colbert did; to chastise those whose very job it is to expose these things, but who don't really bother very often, and to stand up and challenge/chastise right to their faces?

Priceless.

As Teddy Roosevelt stated some time ago in an oft-quoted and so very common-sense statement, a President is only due the respect he deserves, like any other human being. Most particularly in this country, because we have abolished nobility, each is due the respect merrited, and not simply because of title. There are many who gain underserved title.

Teddy: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

- "Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149 (7 May 1918)

wikipedia: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

also: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/quotes.htm

A Democrat knocks Colbert! Who would have thought such a think could occur?

This is no aberration. Far from it. No, this is, in fact, characteristic of the so-called 'opposition' stance of the Democratic party, and in particular, its leadership.

Has anyone heard a SINGLE Democratic party congressman or leader, past or present, lend support to Colbert's performance criticisms?

2 weeks ago, Stephen profiled Maryland's 4th district on "Better Know a District". Hoyer represents Maryland's 5th.

Obviously, he's jealous that he was one district away from being able to show the voters of his district how good he is at taking a joke.

I'd love to hear about Hoyer's opinion on members of his party introducing resolutions suggesting that the President shouldn't begin a war with Iran without asking Congress for permission first. He must not be whipping them enough.

I don't have much sympathy for Bush having to sit through an hour of Colbert's performance which spoke truth to power. I have much more sympathy for the citizens who were lied to, spied on, and the families who had loved ones killed or maimed in the "war of choice" that Bush got us into. Bush doesn't respect the Congress, the Constitution, the truth, or the American public. I say to those who would criticize Bush "bring it on".

This is America, remember? No one deserves respect unless he or she earns it.

As our parents told us, respect is earned, not given. In this case it has certainly not been earned.

- and I was embarrassed that my boss at the time in the House was supporting Old-Boy-Network crony Hoyer. Women staffers around the dem offices had to keep very serious faces as we rejoiced that Pelosi won that House Dem Leadership vote. There is a lot to be desired that we do not get from Pelosi but Steny Hoyer would have been AWFUL for the House Dems.

Hopefully S.H. will now sink back into his well-deserved obscurity.

The people who deserve some respect are fighting in Iraq, fighting for a lie. Sheesh, no wonder the Democrats can't win anything...