Steny Hoyer Gives the Democrats a Headache


Steny Hoyer is causing a conversation he does not want to really have. In trying to turn up the political rhetoric on terrorism, Hoyer, the House Majority Leader, said, ““We’re tough on terrorists, that’s our policy, that’s our performance and in fact we’ve been more successful.”

Really?

Let’s look at the headlines.

First this:

Faisal Shahzad was allegedly able to train with terrorists in Pakistan, return to the United States to assemble a car bomb in Connecticut and park it in Times Square without anyone in the nation’s vast counterterrorism apparatus knowing anything about it.

Then this:

The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane. Faisal Shahzad had boarded a jetliner bound for the United Arab Emirates Monday night before federal authorities pulled him back.

Then consider this.

Janet Napolitano twice suggested that the attempted attack in Times Square was a “one-off” event

As many as eight other individuals have been arrested, including several in Pakistan.

Within hours of the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, with the base still on lockdown, an FBI official told Fox News a link to terrorism “was not being discussed.” When reports surfaced that the shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, had been in contact with al Qaeda recruiter Anwar al Awlaki, the FBI claimed that email traffic between the two was “benign.” When media outlets printed excerpts of those emails that were anything but benign, the FBI claimed that they were consistent with Hasan’s research.

Six weeks later, Obama administration and law enforcement officials followed the same playbook with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Napolitano and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs first tried to claim that “the system worked” in stopping Abdulmutallab. Three days after the attack, President Obama called Abdulmutallab “an isolated extremist,” despite the fact that the bomber had acknowledged in interviews with FBI agents that he had trained with al Qaeda in Yemen.

Why does the Obama administration — and its allies on the left — go to such lengths to portray these kinds of attacks as the work of isolated extremists?

Does Steny Hoyer really want to go there?


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Stop Steny Hoyer

bruce61 Wednesday, May 5th at 7:47AM EDT (link)

We have a terrific candidate running against Hoyer right here in Southern Maryland by the name of Charles Lollar. For those that don’t know him you need to look him up. A Marine and father who can stop the nonsense coming out of Washington. He has raised more than $200,000 and his campaign is really gaining steam.

We have suffered under Hoyer for almost 30 years and he is so far out of touch with reality that we need a break, Hoyer must go.

I looked him up

partyof1 Wednesday, May 5th at 9:29AM EDT (link)

I’m not in Maryland but he seems like a stand-up guy.

http://www.lollarforcongress.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5jb3Ov7SUM

 
 

Democrats, and this 'regime' in general

Gmac Wednesday, May 5th at 8:07AM EDT (link)

seem to place more security scrutiny and emphasis on their opponents, which in this case is anyone that doesn’t support their goals, than terrorists that have actually committed attacks.on and in the US.

They have been anything but what Steny has claimed they are, in fact, they are diametrically opposite what he claims.

 

Did Hoyer's mouth move?

utahrepublican Wednesday, May 5th at 4:45PM EDT (link)

Thought so.

 

The MSM will back Hoyer

incumbentrant Wednesday, May 5th at 6:06PM EDT (link)

Unfortunately, and since so many get all their news from the drive-bys, they’ll believe Hoyer is right. But then, I get all my news from the net and talk radio…what do I know? hmmmm

 

Really?

lilolady Thursday, May 6th at 1:10AM EDT (link)

We seem to have been infiltrated into every branch of the Service,
Congress, Judicial, Homeland Security, FBI, DIA, DOD, White House, Science in general and in particular, Universities, Marketing, Music, Videos and Movies, and State Run Print, T.V., Broadcasting and some entities that claim to be Conservative that are HUGE money makers, only to con folks into contributing and giving the money to people you would never support. We are less than Nothing, have NO POWER and NO REAL VOICE. The stage is set for our complete downfall. We may riot, be squashed, POTUS declares Martial Law, and the situation too unstable to hold elections … at this time… Voila! The naked king receives his clothes!
Been in the works for the last 70 years; they are patient, much smarter than we are, and set things in motion to all come together
at this particular point when the time was ripe. Hoyer is but a speck of sand on the beach, nothing more.

You're not going to be comfortable here.

Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:24AM EDT (link)

We don’t really ‘do’ despair.

 

They're NOT smarter

Erick Brockway (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:51AM EDT (link)

We were asleep.
But no more.
Now we fight.
Getting mad? Then pitch in.

 
 

REALLY?

lilolady Thursday, May 6th at 4:46PM EDT (link)

Moe Lane….. You may not “DO” despair here, but please don’t
“DO ” head- in- the- sand. Yesterday the FBI left the home and
neighborhood of the “Almost Car Bomber” of New York. A T.V.
crew started interviewing neighbors and going through trash at
the scene. Mind you, there was no crime scene tape the doors
were not secured, therefore the place and evidence was now contaminated. The T.V. crew CALLED THE FBI to report they
had found the guys passport,tax data, etc., etc. This is our very
own crack FBI doing a crack investigation of a terrorist’s digs!
I don’t know what it will take to make OUR people take their jobs
seriously! This was all going out over the air as it unfolded into
your home and mine. Amazing when National Inguirerer has
better investigative instincts than the pros! Where would the
FBI be today without the help of a gossip rag?

Reply To This is your friend, lilolady. [nt]

Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 5:01PM EDT (link)