Eric Cantor: The Stealth Flip-Flopper
[h/t Heather]
Eric Cantor has wormed his way into the hardened little hearts of Republican leaders by playing the hardcore tea party bad guy. All stimulus is bad, the stimulus bill failed, yada yada yada. That video at the top is from early 2010, where he's all about cutting the budget because austerity and tax cuts are clearly the way to economic freedom, doncha know?
Only, Eric Cantor is as big of a hypocrite now as he was then, and Newsweek has the letters to prove it.
Via PoliticusUSA:
During a March 1, 2009 appearance on ABC’s This Week, Rep. Cantor said that the government can’t create jobs, “And what we see in this budget, frankly, is an attempt, again, to try and stimulate the economy through government expenditure. And, you know, at best what that can do is redistribute wealth. It can’t create jobs; it can’t create wealth. We’ve got to get back to focusing on job creation and creating prosperity.”
Newsweek has uncovered letters that show Rep. Cantor requesting hundreds of millions of stimulus dollars for his district at the same time; he was publicly claiming that government can’t create jobs.
A browse through the actual letters shows that Cantor was not shy about what he asked for, either. $60 million for commercial shipbuilding loan guarantees, and nearly $75 million for high speed rail grants. Yes,
Yes, Cantor was for high speed rail before he was against it, and ultimately decided he wanted to repeal that which he begged for. Is there no end to the dishonesty and hypocrisy of these people?
No, there isn't. And to prove it, check out the report from Think Progress about all the Wall Street money Cantor was raking in while he was calling the Occupy protesters a "mob."
Flip flopper? That's being generous. He's a weasel.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
greasy little sewer rat .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Ooohh! Great description of Cantor.
. . . with the primary difference being when Eddie screwed up, Wally didn't get the date with the girl; Cantor's motivation is more insidious--he wants the whole country to suffer.
Tell me it ain't true.
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
lady who raised a realtor who begat a hero who withstood a spent bullet falling late one night through the window of an office where his political consultant maintained a room in which Eric probably spent some quality time calling contributors during the bloody Health Care Wars.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
it would be great if cantor was just one
more annoying smashed bug on your car
windshield.
"can't or won't" is a silly man. He is a good argument for the Democrats and Independents getting rid of these assholes in 2012. What will they divide the country on next?
No. Only the occaisional electoral defeat.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I really, really, really hate this unctuous little prick. He is so corrupt, he makes Boehner look like Gandhi.
torso topped by his orange head in a loincloth of khadi.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Yeah, I guess that is kind of a disgusting metaphor now that I think about it. Gandhi probably didn't weep as much as Boehner. Probably didn't like Scotch, either.
So very corrupt and so happy about it.
Neo-fascist
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Unctuous little prick. I like that description. He is so crooked he has to screw his pants on every morning.
usurped the very power of the Nation...The foolish decision to defund UNESCO to support the Israeli zionists is stupid.
If we defund, we lose votes on committees!...It may seem small but what about intellectual property laws...what about World Historic sites...A move motivated by politic's not human rights! The corporate owners of the congress might see this as a problem! They will no longer be protected on the World markets..
Short sighted !!!!
I think he's more of a loafer than a flip flop (er)
He just sort of hangs around waiting for his chance to shine in his weasel party
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
250 yards out of the House to another meeting..you are looking for a photo-op and not concerned about the Jobs issue...He is a weasel and those letters need to be published across the media not just here and on Daily Beast..
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleri...
Disgusting piece of yak dung with a sugar momma holding him up for the free aipac meetings he leads here and to Israel..
Get him out in 2012! ' Lyin Ryan' too!
just so I can vote against the POS.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Boot to the Head
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The little weasel was in Ann Arbor, MI yesterday to give a speech and about 70 Occupy Ann Arbor people showed and gave him no end of grief. I was so proud cause he really didn't see it coming. Go Blue.
The good life is a day at the beach.
is all he is!
Recovered believer of myth that no government is better than no government.
Let's ask Madame Guillotine.
First they ignore us..then they ridicule us..now they are feeding us chicken crap- sign my petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fda-stop-feed...
www.ickenittlepost.com
N/t
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
What Cantor did in 2009 is so, well 2009. Maybe C&L can get the lowdown today of Cantor's dinner with Biden last night at the Vice President's residence.
Was it "social", or was the VP trying to convince little Eric that Americans would be a lot happier bunch of citizens if we woke up everyday having a job to go to. Huh. huh, what do you think, huh?
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