I don't understand how Steny Hoyer can say the Democrat party is the party of fiscal responsibility when we have had 1+ trillion dollar deficits for the first time ever for the past 3 years with Obama. Obama has added more to the debt in 3 years than Bush did in all 8 years of his presidency, after having had to deal with 9/11 (a huge hit to the economy), hurricane Katrina, two wars going on, etc..

Three years on, O'Malley and Hoyer are still bringing up George Bush who is not on the ballot, as the root of all of our problems as opposed to the profligate spending by both parties (but especially Obama who is economically illiterate and has no concept of the value of money).

Yes, God help us if Obama is re-elected after what we have gone through these past 3 years under his administration. Hopefully, Romney and other grown ups with real world experience outside of politics will be given the opportunity to fix the financial disaster we are in as opposed to the press focusing on non issues like gay marriage, Trayvon, and dogs on top of car roofs - which is just not relevant to the overwhelming number of people in our society.

Billy the Moderate:

There is no question that George Bush’s policies got us into the direst financial crisis in decades. There may be some question as to whether Obama’s policies are getting us out as quickly as possible (Romney argues “no”). But what exactly is Romney proposing as a solution?

Based on what I have heard from him so far, he advocates identical policies to George Bush’s, and between the choice of those policies and what we have pursued in the last three years, I would decidedly stick with Obama.

Jeff, I hear ya. Piotr is one of those water toting, kool-aide drinking democrats who only sees what he believes. He cannot give any thought to the probability that every time Obama and his cronies (i.e. all the guys in the pictures and at that meeting and those like them) open their mouths, lies and deceipt come out. I am sorry, I just cannot stand people who cannot thing for themselves, they just all line up and "goose step". You should expect answers such as that from a has been, who never will be again.

@Piotr, you have never made ANY statement or comment on ANY issue posted here, that you would even think about deviating or breaking from the dumbocrap party line vote. Get over the George Bush issues, it's history. If you are going to keep on it, then look at how Nobama has maintained many policies from the Bush administration. Nobama is in it over his head, he has NOT lived up to any of his campaign promises, i.e. he said he was going to reduce the deficit in half, HAHAHA, his policies doubled the deficit (and that was with the dem majority in the house and senate). He also said the summer of the stimulus was going to work, HAHAHA, got you again. Unemployment still over 8%, among black over 14% and in some cities over 25%, among hispanics almost 15%...oh yeah, what about the MILIIONS of taxpayers dollars that have gone to his buddies and their failed organizations solyndra for ex...the Bush admin had already refused them but NObama admin gave them their $535Million and 2 weeks later filed for bankruptcy. OBM had known they were going under and predicted to the date when they would, well they missed by a couple of weeks... just too many lies and deciept with these people. I dare you to break lines and do the right thing and vote NObama out in November

@Greg, I thik what needs to be done first is to get rid of the OWEmally planned "redistricting" map. (Well, to actually RECALL OWEmalley would be better). Then maybe we can have a fair and just election. With the way the dems run this republic, it is like having the fox rule the henhouse. OWEmalley is another scam artist, with all of his lies, deception and crimes against the people of MD.

Okay George..... Did Mr. Delaney *earn* his money through having marketable skills, or developing a product, or seeing opportunity in financial markets before others, or did he steal the money??? So he has a net worth of over $150m - so what?

Since Obama was elected, I hear more class envy, jealousy and outright hostility for those that are more productive and financially successful than others... Perhaps it would please some if those rich people with all of their money had it confiscated and redistributed to those who did not earn it? This type of thought to me is fundamentally un-American in that most everyone has the opportunity to succeed in this country if they have the skills, desire, and ability to provide a good or service others need.
Should only poor people have the opportunity to run for elected office? What should the income cutoff be before your are considered too rich? You make it sound like Delaney is some kind of bad person because he has multiple mansions and "evidence" of off-shore accounts... Do you have knowledge of any of his holdings or assets being illegal? It is NOT illegal to have an off-shore account or mansion in Switzerland..

Did you complain about John Kerry and his wealth (unearned btw - he married into the Heinz family...) in 2004 when he was running for prez? Should he have been allowed to run? The fact Delaney is financially successful should not preclude his running for office. This is the USA not the USSR.

Well, the dems way is, it does not count if we (dems) have a lot of money, only republicans who have built businesses (ON THEIR OWN, NOT WITH THE GVMT HELP, THERE YOU ROOKIE NOBAMA). Cripe, NObama is getting wealthy and he has NEVER had a real job, oh wait community organizer, or has ever had to meet a payroll in his life. We don't need another rich dem in there. Roscoe is old but he is smarter, sharper and for my and everyone elses interests, more so than Delaney would ever be...Delaney will vote party line if he was in there and ALL dems policies are ones that pick our pockets more and more. Just look at what OWEmalley has done, he has made MD a laughingstock.

@George, but don't you know all of that is OK if you are a democrat. Again, the ol double standard. That s why I would NEVER vote for a dem again. I spent 30yrs in the dem party listening to their class envy, and their dividing statements about race, gender and sexual orientation, and glad I got out when I did. NObama is trying to come up with so many lies about Romney because he, deep in his heart, knows that there is a "sucker born every minute" and ther eare MANY "suckers" within the democrat party...well, one less now!