MORE OF ‘THE GASBAG CHRONICLES’, STARRING STENY HOYER…

While it has been some time now since our last episode of ‘The Gasbag Chronicles, starring Steny Hoyer,’ I knew it be only a matter of time before this raging leftwing kook would again let fly with idiotic drivel worthy of another episode.  And by golly he didn’t let us down.  You see it was just this past Friday that he took to a couple of ‘fake news’ outlets to spew what has become nothing more than leftwing talking points that we have continued to hear with increasing frequency as our Democrat sponsored shutdown is made to continue.  What we are seeing on the part of the Democrats is nothing less than a petty, childish and narcissistic power grab.

It was during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” that Steny said shutting down the government was an “immoral, stupid policy.”  He said, “Our position is we have to stop using the shutdown of the people’s government as a strategy to obtain our objectives.”  Steny went on to say, “The problem with using government as a lever, as a tool and taking hostages—not only the 800,000 federal employees but taking all the millions and millions of people who are served by government every day hostage is—that is very, very debilitating to our country — essentially taking our country hostage.”  A strange thing to hearing from one of the Democrat hostage takers!

Steny also said, “So what we’re saying is, Mr. President, we need to negotiate. It could be hard; you can veto some of our bills, but don’t shut down government in the process. So this is a bigger issue than just the wall or education or the Affordable Care Act, it’s an issue of whether or not we’re going to use as a continuing policy shutting down the government of the United States and undermining the confidence of our employees, the confidence of people who deal with the government, and the confidence of the international community looking to see whether the United States of America can act in a rational, responsible way.”  A Democrat talking about being responsible?

When asked why Democrats are not negotiating with the president, Hoyer said, “What happens next time when the president says, ‘do as I say, and if you don’t I’ll shut down the government.’ or the next time after that, or the next time after that? This is a policy that is an immoral, stupid policy, shutting down the government of the United States to achieve an objective.”  And yet I don’t seem to recall ever hearing Steny sounding the alarm when Barry ‘O’ was saying ‘do as I say because I won’, and his saying ‘elections have consequences.’  Oh shame on me, why would Steny have said anything then, Barry was a Democrat so it was no harm, no foul.

And it was while there at ‘fake news’ headquarters, CNN, appearing on “New Day,” that Steny said Republicans have used government shutdowns to get their way and “That’s not democracy. That’s dictatorship.”  He said, “[T]he real problem here is, the president is using what Republicans have done before. They did it for the Affordable Care Act. They did it under Bill Clinton when he refused to cut education as much as they wanted to. They’ve used shutting down government, taking government employees hostage, and taking people who rely on government on a daily basis hostage to get their way. That’s not democracy. That’s dictatorship.”

Democrats love to talk about a manufactured crisis.  But how is it that an invasion of illegals into this country is NOT to be considered a crisis?  Ask the many families who have lost loved ones because of criminal illegals. Ask the families that have been terrorized by members of MS-13. Ask the families who have lost loved ones to drugs coming in from Mexico.  Under the Constitution the president’s most important job is the national defense of this country.  And like it or not he has the power to declare a national emergency and use the powers the Constitution provides to him.  Steny is just another member of the Democrat crime syndicate that hates America.

Isn't it funny how Congressional Democrats have such short memories, or is it perhaps simply selective memory loss? I seem to recall that ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid used to hold up the government whenever he wanted something and the Democrats went all out to support him.  But now when the shoe happens to be on the other foot, Democrats are crying like a bunch of school girls about how Republicans don't play fair.  Not having a secure border is stupid policy.  Steny, and his party, is why we have border crisis in the first place.  The mission of the Democrat Party is to for anyone who wishes to come into the country be allowed to do so.  Hence the government shutdown!

Americans tuning into the dueling addresses the other night heard two diametrically opposed messages on border security.  President Trump stands for the safety of our nation, while the Democrats, do not.  And the so-called rebuttal ‘address’ delivered by Pelosi and Schumer accomplished nothing more than to show us just how radical the Democrat Party has now become.  The Democrat Party that once cared about border security and cracking down on illegal immigration has now morphed into a party that wants to abolish ICE, believes a wall on our southern border to be “immoral,” and seeks only to placate their radical open-borders base for political reasons.

During his address, President Trump noted the humanitarian aspect of securing the border for people on both sides, referring to the conflict at the southern border as a “crisis of the heart and the crisis of the soul.”  Schumer countered that “we can secure our border without an expensive, ineffective wall,” while Pelosi added that “President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage” and “must stop manufacturing a crisis.”  Such rhetoric is a far cry from what Democrats were saying when they were confident that the Democrat in the White House would never to anything other than veto ANY legislation the purpose of which was to build a wall.

You see, it is a video from 2009 that shows Schumer actually advocating for a fence along the southern border because it will be a “far more secure” means to creating a “significant barrier to illegal immigration.”  And it was at the time he also added, “The American people will never accept immigration reform unless they truly believe that their government is committed to ending future illegal immigration.”  And Kirsten Gillibrand, on her campaign page in 2008, stated she too is “a firm opponent of any proposal that would give amnesty to illegal aliens” and believed the “federal government must provide the necessary resources to secure our borders.”

And it was two time presidential loser Hitler who bragged back in November of 2015 that, “I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in … and I do think that you have to control your borders.”  And it was in 2013 that Liz ‘Pocahontas’ Warren  spoke at Boston City Hall regarding immigration reform, claiming the that she actually supported legislation that “upholds our existing laws” and “maintains border security.”  Even ex-president Obummer praised legislation known as the Secure Fence Act of 2006.  So what has now changed?  Why is border security now a bad idea?

Maybe someone needs to remind Steny what a dictatorship truly looks like.  He’s comparing our president to the scum now in charge of Cuba, Venezuela, China and Iran, as well as those who once ran the Soviet Union and Hitler's Nazi Germany.  He’s merely lying to deceive the less intelligent and uninformed Democrat masses who continue to vote Democrat.  It is the Democrats in Congress who are holding people hostage and preventing them from getting paid. To date, it’s Steny and his phony, lying, fellow Democrats who have NOT sent any bill for the president to sign, that would get government workers paid.  Instead he, and they LIE to their supporters.

The majority of Americans favor a border wall. President Trump was elected largely on the platform of building a border wall. By refusing to fund the construction of the wall, it’s Steny, his fellow Democrats, and a handful of RINOs who are the ones behaving like dictators. Democrats have lost the debate, and are now behaving like petulant, spoiled children.  This isn't about President Trump getting funding to build another Trump tower, this is about securing the nation's border. The only people crying over the shutdown are the same people that don't care about protecting the country's borders and its citizens, and that is Steny and his Democrat Party.