If there’s ever a time when using the shooting of children as a metaphor is a good idea, December 2012 certainly isn’t that time. That’s what House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer did today though, telling reporters on Capitol Hill that the GOP’s fiscal cliff negotiations were “somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, ‘I’m going to shoot my child if you don’t do what I want done.'”
Earlier today, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid likened Rep. John Boehner to a dictator, which in retrospect doesn’t seem nearly as crass.
Did Steny Hoyer use a , "shoot your child" analogy about the debt limit? Really?
— PolitiSite – #2020Electon (@Politisite) December 27, 2012
Yes, he did. It’s not so surprising when you consider that last year he accused the House GOP of having their chambers loaded and wanting to “shoot every bullet they can at the president.”
Today in Dem Leadership rhetoric: Reid calls Speaker a dictator; Hoyer compares House Rs to gun toting hostage takers. Stay classy!
— Doug Heye (@DougHeye) December 27, 2012
Kinda rough words after CT shooting. Hoyer compares GOP debt limit tactics to hostage taker threatening to shoot child http://t.co/CMKLZ0qH
— Bruce Nasby (@bnasby) December 27, 2012
I really hand it to Democrats for being so concerned about the "tone" of political discourse in this country… http://t.co/CyCobBba
— Politigraphs.com (@Politigraphs) December 27, 2012
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