Posts tagged “Eric Cantor”
Federal Dollars for the Tea Party Front-Runner
(1) This past August, in the wake of Hurricane Irene, many Republicans in Congress began questioning the role of the federal government when it came to disaster response. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia notably demanded that federal disaster relief must be offset with cuts to the current federal budget. This idea was seconded [...]
The Do-Nothing Congress
(1) This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that zero new jobs were added to the U.S. labor market in August. And once again, the national crisis that is the lack of leadership in our government comes back into focus. Should we be surprised that the situation becomes grimmer right after John Boehner decides [...]
Tax Policy: Eric Cantor versus Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor on the need to extend the Bush Tax Cuts (9/20/2010): Republicans unequivocally oppose any impending tax increase. House Republicans have called on Speaker Pelosi to allow the House to vote on legislation that would freeze all tax rates for the next two years. It’s a vote the taxpayers of this country deserve before [...]
Republicans, Responsibility, and Natural Disasters
As we approach the six year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, funding for disaster preparedness and response has become somewhat of a non-starter for congressional Republicans. Leading the pack is Eric Cantor of Virginia who has previously demanded that congress offset spending for disaster relief in the wake of the deadly tornados in the Midwest [...]
Since Corporations Aren’t People
I’m certainly perplexed to House Minority Whip Eric Cantor‘s grammar, but I’m even more perplexed to his deep-throated full-throated defense of offending mortgage lenders. This was the slightly misnamed Cantor (by one extra syllable, and one wrong vowel), on Fox Sunday, responding to Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s call for a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures: CANTOR: I’m [...]
Leader? Come On!
Yesterday, Steve Benen had this sarcastic sentence in a post he wrote about House Minority Whip Eric Cantor following the extremists and lunatics who seem to dictate the Republican Party’s public position on every single issue these days in condemning Cordoba House, the Islamic community center that a moderate Islamic cleric wants to build in [...]
Same Wine, Same Bottle
Suppose consumers have tried your wine, and have decided that they don’t much like it. What do you do to recapture market share? If you’re the Republican party, you don’t change the wine, and you don’t even change the bottle. You just try to sell them the same old wine in the same old bottle, [...]
The Cowardice Of His Convictions
Speaking of the Republican Party’s “new generation of young and energetic leaders”, here’s Eric Cantor boldly displaying the cowardice of his convictions when asked about Arizona’s draconian new immigration law: Top Line hosts Rick Klein and David Chalian asked Cantor where he stood on the law four times, but the Virginia Republican refused to go [...]
The Republican Party: On Leadership And Commitment
American politics seems to have just entered a new phase. A phase that will probably lead to the shutting down of several liberal blogs. And widespread unemployment among those who make fun of politicians and politics for a living, be they stand-up comics, editorial cartoonists or Comedy Central hosts. The Republican Party, you see, has [...]
Andrea Mitchell Grants Absolution
Patrick O’Connor in Politico: Forget Rush Limbaugh. For all the focus on the king of conservative talk, Democrats may have found a more important villain in House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, a telegenic young Republican trying to bring life to his party on Capitol Hill. Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC news anchor, to Eric Cantor yesterday (after [...]