Steny is my rep in the People's House. He is a conservative guy by nature but he will carry out Pelosi's orders effectively. In a partial defense, he stood tall on the FISA relief measure until the last possible minute, finally supporting Pelosi's cave in.
Obey is a true warrior, by the way. It seems a shame that all the high minded debate that went on in the Senate was wasted. Kidding, really.
Huh, everybody I was reading had it the opposite way on telecom immunity, drip -- Hoyer was the one selling us out to the big telcos, whether or not Nancy wanted it.
I'm no fan of my man Steny, but he got a bad rap on FISA. Hoyer was pretty strongly against the telecom immunity provisions until Pelosi pushed the amendment . I took Pelosi to be completely compromised by her participation in the law breaking as having been a member of the Gang of 8 from the early '90's till now, first as ranking member on intelligence, then as minority leader and speaker. My point was not so much about Hoyer's politics, but his authority as the majority leader. Like I said, I think he'll carry out Pelosi's direction, whatever his own views are.
Nicholas Beaudrot is an accidental political observer living in Seattle, Washington. By day he writes software for Amazon.com, snowboards, and plays ultimate frisbee. By night [and morn] he posts to this blog, runs the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally, and tries to cook decent Italian cuisine. A graduate of Brown University with a joint degree in Mathematics-Computer Science, in late 2003 Nicholas felt the urge to put his knack with numbers towards a greater social purpose than winning his fantasy baseball league or taking up poker, perhaps in an act of penance for not voting in 2000. He has been spotted standing in line for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, on the Atlanta area quiz bowl program "Hi-Q", and as a young boy in national broadcasts of the Christmas Eve service at the Cathedral of Saint Philip. If you play Halo 3, Team Fortress II, Rock Band 2, Catan, or a number of other games, he's on Xbox live as niq24601.
Neil Sinhababu is a philosophy professor at the National University of Singapore. It's a tropical island with good public transit and they're very nice about not caning him. He's fond of red-state college towns like Austin, where he got his PhD. Much of his research is in ethics — hence his alias "Neil the Ethical Werewolf," which contains the name of his philosophy blog. He has also published on Nietzsche and on how to have a girlfriend in another universe. His utilitarianism shapes his goals and tactical views, and makes it impossible for him to stay away from politics. At Harvard, he won a student government election by eating fire in each dorm room in his district. He'd be happy to use this skill to help Democrats in tough races. He likes drinking with smart people and dancing in altogether ridiculous ways. At his last project, War or Car, he showed that you could buy each US household a Prius or each panda a stealth bomber for the price of the Iraq War.
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Come on, Nancy, roll like it's 2005!
I never thought I would read an article and find myself rooting for Steny Hoyer.
Steny is my rep in the People's House. He is a conservative guy by nature but he will carry out Pelosi's orders effectively. In a partial defense, he stood tall on the FISA relief measure until the last possible minute, finally supporting Pelosi's cave in.
Obey is a true warrior, by the way. It seems a shame that all the high minded debate that went on in the Senate was wasted. Kidding, really.
Huh, everybody I was reading had it the opposite way on telecom immunity, drip -- Hoyer was the one selling us out to the big telcos, whether or not Nancy wanted it.
I'm no fan of my man Steny, but he got a bad rap on FISA. Hoyer was pretty strongly against the telecom immunity provisions until Pelosi pushed the amendment . I took Pelosi to be completely compromised by her participation in the law breaking as having been a member of the Gang of 8 from the early '90's till now, first as ranking member on intelligence, then as minority leader and speaker. My point was not so much about Hoyer's politics, but his authority as the majority leader. Like I said, I think he'll carry out Pelosi's direction, whatever his own views are.
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