Steny Hoyer, always a class act.
(CNSNews.com) – Democratic Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday used the act of hostage taking as a metaphor for the debt limit during a discussion on the upcoming fiscal battles in the House.
“Ronald Reagan agreed on that so that almost all the leaders and certainly every former Republican president believes that taking that hostage is a hostage you do not want to create,” Hoyer said explaining that it would be “dangerous” for Republicans not to extend the debt limit.
“Taking that hostage that if you kill that hostage would kill the economy and undermine the stability of the country and give to the world an extraordinarily negative view of the United States’ ability to manage its own affairs,” Hoyer added.’
Hoyer’s comments were made one day after a gunman killed 12 people and injured several others in a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.