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Title: Hoyer Admits: Tea Party Spurs Members To Consider Retiring
Post by: BlueStateSaint on April 14, 2010, 11:43:08 AM

Got this off of RedState.

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Hoyer Admits: Tea Party Spurs Members To Consider Retiring

By Sean Higgins     
Tue., April 13, '10    5:15 PM ET 

(http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/images/stories/steny.jpg)

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters today that the Tea Party movement is making some members of Congress mull retirement.

“Do I think the negative atmosphere that has been created by the Tea Party and by others certainly goes into the thinking of members?  I think it does.  I think you have to honestly point out that it does,” he told reporters Tuesday.

That's all the quoting I'm going to do, as the story is only six paragraphs long.  The rest is at:

http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politicsinvesting/1667-hoyer-admits-tea-party-spurs-members-to-consider-retiring

Title: Re: Hoyer Admits: Tea Party Spurs Members To Consider Retiring
Post by: rich_t on April 14, 2010, 11:45:35 AM

Negative atmosphere?

You congressional idiots haven't seen nuttin yet!

Title: Re: Hoyer Admits: Tea Party Spurs Members To Consider Retiring
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on April 15, 2010, 08:51:35 AM

If it does, that's a good thing.  And I include most of the Republican Old Guard in that too.

Title: Re: Hoyer Admits: Tea Party Spurs Members To Consider Retiring
Post by: littlelamb on April 16, 2010, 10:50:25 PM

Out with the old in with the new would be great