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Eric Cantor: Let’s Stay Focused on the Economy

With taking control of the House as a possibility – one none of us felt was possible a year and a half ago – I expect our candidates this year to stay focused on the economy and ignore the various other issues that have made this August the silliest silly season EVAH! It’s nice to see Eric Cantor agree.

One of the concerns with the Republicans taking over the house again so quickly is whether or not we’ve learned out lessons from the last time we pissed away leadership. I have my doubts when some on our side seem more focused on constitutional amendments you know they’re never going do anything aboot, or a Mosque that outside of New York should be an issue, than they are on the economy.

I think all Republicans running for the House or Senate this year needs to focus on five issues and five issues only: jobs, jobs, jobs, debt, and jobs. That’s why I found it promising for the would be House Majority Leader to say…

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Eric Cantor to Obama: I’m All In, Sparky

Last week, President Obama said he was going to “call the bluff” of his opponents when it came to fiscal discipline. Eric Cantor said he wasn’t bluffing, and took to the always fair and balanced New York Post to say so.

I like Eric Cantor and he has my vote to be Speaker of the House (god willing) next year, and like most on the Right I want to believe Republicans have learned their lesson when it comes to “spending” and “restraint,” but I’m not convinced yet. That’s why Cantor does what most do; present his case in two parts.

First, repent for ye past sins…

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Speaker of the House…Eric Cantor?

Well, maybe this is why John Boehner took such an honest approach to social security? According to Politico.com, he might have competition from within his own party. Speaker of the House Eric Cantor?

I haven’t written aboot Cantor in a while, but I’m still a big fan. He’s the cat that dragged the party kicking and screaming to the Internets, one of the three behind the GOP’s “Young Guns” program to get younger candidates, and seems to care more aboot ideas than he is aboot just being a Republican. He even has a book coming out in August.

I’m sure this is all inconsequential, right? Hmmm…

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Eric Cantor Just Wants to Be Friends

I was reading in The Hill recently that, the popular rumor around Capitol Hill, is that Dear Leader is planning on ramming his ObamaCare bill through the Senate with what is called “Reconciliation,” where you only need 51 votes to pass something rather than 60. If this sounds familiar, it’s what the New York Time and NBC News blasted Republicans for considering using it to appoint judges. Yet, they’ve been silent now that the Democrats are considering it. Go figure.

The hustle is that since the President offered the Republicans an “olive branch” in that hyper-partisan speech of his, if the R’s still vote against ObamaCare he can say that working with them is um-possible, and it was a last option. Apparently after months of working closely with Republicans in Congress…actually, he hasn’t spoken to any of them since April.

If he did, maybe Eric Cantor could tell him where the two parties might find some common ground…

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Eric Cantor to Obama: “So, About That Stimulus…”

It seems like a decade ago when were fighting over the stimulus bill aka Porkulus aka the Generational Theft Act aka fiscal suicide aka the Recovery Act aka that giant crap sandwich. And here we are ten years later, with Barack Obama planning to speak to us (again) on what he calls health care reform (again) and spend more of our money.

Now, to recap what’s happened over the past month we’ve been arguing/blogging aboot ObamaCare (which also seems like a decade), the debt was miscalculated by aboot $2,000,000,000,000.00, the VA accidentally misdiagnosing 1,864 veterans with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and the “hugely popular” Cash for Clunker Fiasco where – out of a $800,000,000,000.00 political boondoggle (see all the “aka’s” above) – one of the few things actually stimulating the economy was underfunded and horribly mis-managed.

Oh, and unemployment hit 9.7 %, which is 1.7 % higher than it was ever going to get if we passed Obama’s stimulus bill. Where are the jobs, you ask? Eric Cantor was wondering that himself…

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Eric Cantor: “The Dems are Evil, Evil Liars”

Eric Cantor has been quiet lately. We started off the year with him being elected to Minority Whip, and had his big “coming out” when he whipped his colleagues in the house to unanimously stand against the crap sandwich the Obama Campaign wanted to call “stimulus.” He was also the main cat in getting the House GOP up to snuff on the Internets and various other social networking tools.

However, after The National Council for a New America didn’t take off as well as some of us had hoped, he’s been slightly off the radar. That change this week when he write and editorial for Politico.com called “Wanted: Economic Honesty,” with the obvious implication being that the Obama Campaign has been anything but.

A snippet…

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