National Commentators Call on Hoyer
After meeting with President Obama and Congressional leadership in the wake of the midterm elections, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement Friday Nov. 7:
“Today’s meeting with the President was both positive and productive. We discussed a range of important issues where Congress must come together and work in a bipartisan way to address the major challenges we face as a nation. The American people clearly want their leaders to work together to create jobs, fix our broken immigration system, address the threat posed by ISIL, and grow opportunities that support a strong middle class. I look forward to working with my colleagues in both parties to achieve these goals.”
He was shortly to appear on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” and MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” to discuss the need for bipartisanship. As his appearance opened on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” (video link above), Congressman Hoyer is asked about the then just-breaking announcement by President Obama’s decision to double the presences of US troops in Iraq.
The following are some of Congressman Hoyer’s remarks regarding the midterm elections speaking on The Lead with Jake Trapper.”
On President Obama’s Meeting with Congressional Leaders
“I think both sides made it very clear that they don’t want to simply be throwing bricks at one another for two years as has been the case. And the American people have sent, I think, a very strong message that they want to see us work together and that’s why you hear so many people talking about that. Now the proof of whether that talk is going to be walked is whether or not, in fact, we do it. There were areas of significant agreement, I think. An agreement that we wanted to do an omnibus and that we wanted to do that hopefully by December 11… The Ebola crisis funding that is going to be necessary so that we can do what the President and all the health experts agree and that is make sure that in the sites in Africa where this epidemic has been generated, that we need to deal with it there on site. I think there was general agreement to that. I think there was also general agreement on ISIL itself, as I’ve expressed, that we need to make sure we are successful in this effort to defeat ISIL and stabilize the Middle East.”
On Bipartisan Action in Congress
“Let me say that I am hopeful, and I will be urging the Speaker and others on the Republican side of the aisle, we’re going to have disagreements and some are going to be serious disagreements, but if we allow the things on which we disagree to undermine the things on which we agree, we’re going to further anger the American public. They’re going to be frustrated, and they’re going to think their government doesn’t work. So we ought to take those things on which we disagree, understanding that we’re going to have honest disagreements, set those aside, not abandon them, but set them aside and focus on that on which we can agree. If we do so, I think the next Congress can be a positive not a negative.”
The point is, that they have all just been waiting for the Republicans to be back in power to give them permission to do what they’ve always intended to do, which is to ramp up the efforts in the Middle East, provide more employment to the defense industry and more back up to the energy sector of the world’s economy. It’s throwing good money after bad. Oil and gas are over, essentially, with energy companies grasping at the last of its resources and hoping to control the next energy technology. Yet, the XL Pipeline and the liquifying plant amazingly, will get its way, with those sources sold throughout the world, causing the rise in the costs of energy for Americans. What’s not to like for these guys? Multinational corporate hegemony is the point, with treaties waiting to be signed off by the new congress and senate and which Obama will dutifully sign away the last of our independence from multinational corporations as a sovereignty. It doesn’t matter which party is in power. They both do the same. Power is the point, not the benefit to the citizenry. The few progressives that have held out against the onslaught of the elite’s interests, have done all they could to save the remnants of the independence of our Republic. God bless them for their sacrifice. Meanwhile, more of our sons and daughters weill be sent off to have their lives destroyed with blasted off limbs and damaged brains in the name of democracy and freedom, which is an utter lie. The way of life they defend is not what they imagine, but the profit margins of a few.
Look at this one to see how pointless fighting in the Middle East is.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/solar-energy-power-boom-charts