Exclusive: Rep. Steny Hoyer explains taxing Americans for lack of health insurance

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Well, actually, he doesn’t, although he should. My good friend Jason Mattera graciously allowed us first crack at publishing his brief interview with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, taped by his colleague Alyssa Cordova of the Claire Boothe Luce Institute. The author of the new book 'Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation' starts off the chat pleasantly enough, disarming Hoyer by thanking him for all his work on health-care reform, before asking him exactly who thought it was a good idea to sic the IRS on Americans for not buying the right kind of health insurance: