Hoyer, YOU are un-American. We aren't Europe so don't try to give us their health care.

You should LISTEN to the AMERICAN people, not your cronies in Congress or the poor & lazy in PG County (your constituents).

Hey Steny Hoyer,
We're all waiting for you to drop your Congressional health plan and accept this stuff that you think is for our own good.

Comparisons to "European style" healthcare are inaccurate. This plan is not the product of socialism, it is the product of corporatism. On the traditional big government-little government, or liberal-conservative spectrum, this plan isn't even on it.

The World Socialist Web Site wrote a scathing article against this plan based on the requirement to buy services from a private corporation or get hit with a 4-figure fine enforced through the IRS. Socialists HATE this plan almost more than conservatives/libertarians do. The only people who claim to support this plan are those who support the man, not the plan. Anyone from both sides of the political spectrum who digs into and understands the mechanics of this is opposed to it.

Steny you were a man until you have become filled with HATE, now you are a just another untrustworthy Polician. You flow high when you were young, now just another mean old man. I hear drums in Maryland in September and November.

"Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American."

Let's all think back to last summer. Suddenly this sentence doesn't seem so out of place. The style of "debate" one side was pushing at the time -- Hitler moustaches and shouting matches -- seemed pretty un-American to this observer. Yet to use those deplorable tactics is patriotic and to question them is anti-American, the GOP would have you believe. Hoyer owes no apology for this.

However, Hoyer et al do owe an apology for how watered down this bill got before it got to the House and Senate floor. We were supposed to have universal health care by now. I thought that was why Obama won, not to spend hours navigating arcane procedural roadblocks.

what's un-american is the arm twisting and the selling of votes that is necessary in order to pass health care reform.

Hoyer is a joke. We will show him how true Americans feel when we vote him and his liberal cronies out.

So poor people are lazy? That fits nicely with Glen Back's warnings against social justice and economic justice. The Republican party left me years ago, perhaps because I'm poor.

Yeah...those TeaParty folk are as American as apple pie...

Rep Hoyer's characterization was not of the TeaParty people; it was of their decidedly un-American disdain for civil discourse. I am disappointed that Mr Hoyer felt he had to apologize at all.

"You should LISTEN to the AMERICAN people, not your cronies in Congress or the poor & lazy in PG County (your constituents)."

That's just spectacularly clueless.

*sigh* those signs of Obama with a Hitler mustache was from the DEMOCRATS for Lyndon LaRouche! DEMONCRATS!

I was there and saw their table full of literature. Lyndon LaRouche is a Demoncrat.

Given our history, the one thing that seems totally American, is claiming that people with different ideas than our own are un-American... it goes back to some of our earliest political discourses in this Country.

I'm just glad to see this kind of attack on other Americans is starting to become politically nonviable (at least for politicians). It will be nice when our TV and radio pundits start feeling blow back from these kind of divisive attacks on their fellow citizens too... and limit themselves to just completely skewing every issue to get public favor for their own agendas. As I'm not eager to see some new form of McCarthism start, where just because of your political views, you're discriminated against.

For all those Republicans talking about going against the will of the American people. This is one of the headaches of a democratic republic... the will of the other half of the American people might beat out your will. Take solace that they had to endure the same kind of frustration during the previous administration... and make sure to vote, and get your friends and family to vote.

Dear Mr. Hoyer,

I watched the so-called proceeding on Sunday.

I have never seen such a display of stupidity and disrespect by both parties. It was a total disgrace giving aid and comfort to our enemies. That was not democracy in action – that was one party’s determination to pass a piece of legislation that the country clearly did not want in its present form. Is BALCKMAIL and BRIBERY the new law of the land?

Members of Congress are not above the law- BALCKMAIL and BRIBERY is still against the law.

UN-AMERICAN – UN-AMERICAN – You sir are UN-AMERICAN

I and many other advocate the PEACEFUL, that’s right I said the PEACEFUL and CONSTITUTIONAL that’s right I said CONSTITUTIONAL overthrow of this government.

There are a few parts to the Healthcare bill that make sense. But to tax the country’s citizens’ even more especially during a recession and add billions of dollars to the deficit is criminal.

To the Citizens of Maryland – regardless of what party you below to remember this:

A politician will promise you anything to get elected or reelected.

A politician answers not to the public but to the special interests that got him/her elected.

Remember November Mr. Hoyer remember November…

listen to these silly yokels posting here , get a life dudes

Larouche is not a democrat, he's a criminal and a libertarian. And his supporters are crazier than Michelle Bachmann which is saying something...