Must Read Re:Eric Cantor, the GOP & strategy for 2010
Mr. Cantor, along with the House minority leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, faces the challenge of trying to lead a shrinking and increasingly conservative caucus. The party also faces the burden of trying to advance what Mr. Cantor describes as its bedrock value -- smaller government -- in the face of considerable evidence that the American public wants an increasingly active government to deal with the economic crisis.
And it is Mr. Cantor who is pushing the party in a direction that Democrats, and some Republicans, say is risky: almost lock-step opposition to Mr. Obama's economic plan. Democrats have already made clear that they intend to use those votes against Republicans in 2010, and sooner, with advertisements noting the middle-class tax cuts included in the bill.
And here's a link to the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/politics/15cantor.html?th&emc=th
I got a little confused while I was reading it. Does he have the support of his fellow Repbulicans or not? It was kinda like there was nothing there. Does he have a leadership plan or not? It just sounded like the same Republican confusion we have been hearing about since halfway through the republican primary. Why did you think it was important to read this? (I am glad you posted this, I am just curious why you thought it was important).
February 15, 2009 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's the first time i've seen a media outlet discussing the Dem's using the passage of the stimulus bill in a defensive way against the republicans in 2010.
Most of the talking heads on tv and in the press looked at the gop voting as a bloc against the bill and analyzed it as a positive for the right. The implication from most of the coverage is that all the gop has to do is sit back and wait for the bill to fail (or just not have enough time to succeed) to regain power in 2010. This article is the first i've read that notes that the bill's passage has a positive implication for the dems and that pointing out that the gop voted against middle class tax cuts could work against them in a big way next year.
Too much of the news this week has been about how well this will all turn out for the right. i believe that the average citizen knows that nothing can turn around the economic devastation that the bush admin wrought between now and the 2010 elections. i also believe that the right is being perceived as the anti-bipartisan party here and obama and the dems seen as reaching out and being denied.
This will all work against the right in the mid-terms.
February 15, 2009 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not that Newt is a genius, but Eric Cantor is a real dope. He is truly an empty suit (and a typically mean and selfish republican one at that). Somehow, the powers that be chose him, but he has nuthin' and he can't even wing it when asked the simplest questions. I think they just want to resurrect Virginia as a red state! Good Luck on That ONE! He can't answer the simplest of questions!
I know, I know...you're thinking about "W." But no one would say they want to have a beer with this oily snob. He has the people skills of a vaginal yeast cell, and can be wiped out as easily.
If this guy is who the repubs are hitching their wagons to, we need to keep pointing out his idiotic statements. Oh! And that his wife profited mightily from the Bush Bank Bailout. Yes, the Cantors are in it for the $$$$.
February 15, 2009 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
You crack me up, C'ville Dem. I'll never look at Cantor again without comparing him unfavorably to a vaginal yeast cell. Only a Republican could lose on that one.
February 16, 2009 4:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Calling Cantor (or Gingrich, or Quimby here in MN) an "empty suit" is an insult to clothing everywhere.
February 16, 2009 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
You're right. I stand corrected. He is an emptyytpme; in fact they both are!
February 16, 2009 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's interesting that this is the route chosen by the GOP as their ticket back to the majority.
In Britain, the Tories have accepted that the concept of limited government limited only their party and that the year 1958 is gone forever. They have adopted 'progressive conservatism', which among other things, recognizes the values of competence, education and social mobility, multiculturalism and the importance of the environment. As of today, they are making great inroads against Labour, after being out in the cold since the middle 90s.
The GOPs choice is good news for us, I think.
February 16, 2009 8:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tories
LOL
Yes indeed.
February 16, 2009 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink