Is Eric Cantor Running the Country?
Washington’s new impasse could ironically lead to a gift of sanity as the House Tea Party is finally revealed for the berserk faction it has been all year, holding the nation hostage to a scorched-government ideology.
Senate Republicans, after passing a short-term payroll tax extension by 89 to 10, are outdoing the President in denouncing them for “harming the view, if it’s possible anymore, of the American people about Congress” (John McCain), “playing politics” (Scott Brown) and thinking of “political leverage, not about what’s good for the American people” (Dean Heller, who replaced John Ensign in Nevada).
Speaker John Boehner is the public face of GOP irrationality, but he is clearly trapped by his own deputy, Eric Cantor, the leader of what the No.2 House Democrat describes as a “walk-away caucus…walking away from 160 million Americans.”
For a long time, from the Health Care Summit last year to the debt-ceiling debacle that scuttled Boehner’s Grand Bargain with the President this summer, Cantor has been at the head of those holding the Speaker himself hostage.
Now, he attacks Senate Republicans by charging that “the people of this country are beginning to wonder about the body on the other side of this Capitol and are wondering what the leader over there has against the middle class of this country.”
Cantor has been picking fights with the President for two years now in his delusion that he will replace Boehner someday, but now he is taking on his own party as well.
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4 Responses to “Is Eric Cantor Running the Country?”
Yes, they need to find a way to get back to work. The problem is that we don’t have 13 months that we can wait. Europe is not likely to last that long and in any event, too many things are scheduled (in the U.S.) to hit the fan starting before the next president and congress are even sworn in.
Well Cantor certainly has a following. He should start his own party. All he really wants is a place in the history books anyway.
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Europe is not going anywhere. Greece maybe though, but who cares? IMO, Greece has been a goofball nation. Needs to change.
Thank you Robert. What a sad state of affairs when someone like Cantor is calling the shots.