Two things from Rep. Eric Cantor. First is an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor that I thought I’d post, in case you missed it last week. Laura Ingraham filled in for O’Reilly and pressed Rep. Cantor on his commitment to, among other things, repealing ObamaCare. This is an issue we’ve been highlighting on this blog, so I thought you’d want to see the congressman’s response. You can decide if his general attitude of, “Laura, you know me better than that.” is compelling.
Second is an op-ed he wrote for the USA Today in which he accurately addresses the massive tax hike bearing down on us, ready to strike on January 1, 2011:
•Taxes will jump next year on everything from ordinary income, capital gains, dividends and estates. And with our national debt soaring, the prospect of even more tax increases in the future seems more likely.
•Health-care costs are growing as a result of Obamacare’s mandates and inflationary impact on premiums.
•Energy costs remain in limbo as leading Democrats, led by Sen. John Kerry, float the idea of passing cap-and-trade during the lame-duck session of Congress.
•Credit is becoming more expensive and is increasingly out of reach for most small businesses, partly because the 2,300-plus page financial regulatory bill encourages banks to horde their capital rather than lend it.
•Labor costs also threaten to climb higher as labor unions dig in their heels and gear up for another push to pass card check.
I thank Rep. Cantor for raising this important issue. It’s interesting because Democrats know (a) this tax hike will crush the economy even more, but (b) extending the Bush tax cuts will go a long way to soften the blow. Some are even open to doing just that.
Maybe it’s time we tell Senators Webb and Warner we expect them to join this growing bi-partisan coalition to do something that will actually help our battered economy.
Standard performance by a member of the political establishment. Rick Perry’s performance in Texas has been similar. Appear to embrace the actual change real people want, even when it seems to require you to change your stance. Of course, your stance never really changes, and you are merely paying lip service to voters who just want to be fooled…again.
In this way, hold on to your position of power or public prominence so that you can continue to be of service to your real masters, the moneyed interests who gave you the millions you need to get and stay elected, when it really counts. Wait out the resistance, they are known to lack the commitment needed to go the distance.
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. Cantor is not merely part of the problem, he is the embodiment of it. Maybe Ms. Ingram should have asked Cantor about repealing the Patriot Act and auditing the Federal Reserve.
When laura pressed him on these items for a yes or no not you know me that is the same tactic the conserved Dem’s used to get in office and when pressed by their leadership caved in and rubber stamped bills. Which i take that as them saying to their people sit down and shut up we know better than you. Our leader are servants of the people who elected them we are not there slaves to work by the sweat of our brow to pay taxes or their increases in fees to keep them happy. We do it for our family and to help our fellow man as we have opportunities,
1) Votes for bailouts (the bank his wife runs receives TARP money, never repaid)
2) Keeps voting for more war, when war is bankrupting us
3) Votes to send billions of US taxpayer dollars to Israel, while America is going broke and Americans are losing their jobs and their homes.
Cantor is typical of the fiscally irresponsible GOP establishment that MUST BE REPLACED. Don’t “thank” Cantor for ANYTHING.
“A bank that employs the wife of Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-Va., benefited from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout that Cantor helped steer through Congress last fall.
Diana F. Cantor runs a Virginia-based subsidiary of New York Private Bank and Trust. The New York bank received $267.2 million from the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program Jan. 9.”
What has Cantor done to get the illegal immigrants deported? He has voted to maintain or expand hi tech work visas for foreigners every time, taking hundreds of thousands of good jobs away from willing Americans. He has done nothing about outsourcing. He is the worst kind of Republican Wall Street corporate globalist. Young gun my ***.
Cantor is a career politician. He isn’t about conservatism at all, but only what his special interests want and what will get him re-elected.
He has also grown government by voting for the bailouts twice, one of the reasons we are so ticked at Washington and the Tea Parties started was the bailouts.
He has voted for other Republican big government programs like failed No Child Left Behind and added the Medicare Prescription Drug Program on already broke Medicare as well as a myriad of other Republican big government programs.
He said he doesn’t earmark but he made sure the bank his wife works for got earmarks and stimulus money.
We need to retire the lying career politicians. One way to do this is to vote for the only Conservative in the race Floyd Bayne http://floydbayne.com
None of us are perfect. I do believe Eric Cantor is a fiscal conservative and he will work hard to unravel the Obama mess. Let’s not vote against a conservative for one or two issues we may not like.
I am not wasting any more time with Webb and Warner,they do not
care about us. What I want to know is how are we going to fight them
when they come up for re-election, let’s wake all Virginians up to these
two.
Standard performance by a member of the political establishment. Rick Perry’s performance in Texas has been similar. Appear to embrace the actual change real people want, even when it seems to require you to change your stance. Of course, your stance never really changes, and you are merely paying lip service to voters who just want to be fooled…again.
In this way, hold on to your position of power or public prominence so that you can continue to be of service to your real masters, the moneyed interests who gave you the millions you need to get and stay elected, when it really counts. Wait out the resistance, they are known to lack the commitment needed to go the distance.
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. Cantor is not merely part of the problem, he is the embodiment of it. Maybe Ms. Ingram should have asked Cantor about repealing the Patriot Act and auditing the Federal Reserve.
When laura pressed him on these items for a yes or no not you know me that is the same tactic the conserved Dem’s used to get in office and when pressed by their leadership caved in and rubber stamped bills. Which i take that as them saying to their people sit down and shut up we know better than you. Our leader are servants of the people who elected them we are not there slaves to work by the sweat of our brow to pay taxes or their increases in fees to keep them happy. We do it for our family and to help our fellow man as we have opportunities,
I couldn’t agree more with JJAC above.
Cantor IS the problem.
1) Votes for bailouts (the bank his wife runs receives TARP money, never repaid)
2) Keeps voting for more war, when war is bankrupting us
3) Votes to send billions of US taxpayer dollars to Israel, while America is going broke and Americans are losing their jobs and their homes.
Cantor is typical of the fiscally irresponsible GOP establishment that MUST BE REPLACED. Don’t “thank” Cantor for ANYTHING.
On Cantor:
“A bank that employs the wife of Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-Va., benefited from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout that Cantor helped steer through Congress last fall.
Diana F. Cantor runs a Virginia-based subsidiary of New York Private Bank and Trust. The New York bank received $267.2 million from the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program Jan. 9.”
What has Cantor done to get the illegal immigrants deported? He has voted to maintain or expand hi tech work visas for foreigners every time, taking hundreds of thousands of good jobs away from willing Americans. He has done nothing about outsourcing. He is the worst kind of Republican Wall Street corporate globalist. Young gun my ***.
Cantor is a career politician. He isn’t about conservatism at all, but only what his special interests want and what will get him re-elected.
He has also grown government by voting for the bailouts twice, one of the reasons we are so ticked at Washington and the Tea Parties started was the bailouts.
He has voted for other Republican big government programs like failed No Child Left Behind and added the Medicare Prescription Drug Program on already broke Medicare as well as a myriad of other Republican big government programs.
He said he doesn’t earmark but he made sure the bank his wife works for got earmarks and stimulus money.
We need to retire the lying career politicians. One way to do this is to vote for the only Conservative in the race Floyd Bayne http://floydbayne.com
One of the ‘young guns’ of conservatism? More like a ‘pea shooter’ of conservatism. He is part of the problem…
None of us are perfect. I do believe Eric Cantor is a fiscal conservative and he will work hard to unravel the Obama mess. Let’s not vote against a conservative for one or two issues we may not like.