House GOP 2014 agenda starts with blank slate Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/hous

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So much for the GOP on a winning strike, as the media want to tell us.

This sums up the problem very well

A Republican aide put it more bluntly.
“What we have done so far this year clearly hasn’t worked,” said the GOP aide involved in the planning sessions. “Cantor wants to take us in a new direction, which is good. The problem is we don’t know where we are headed, and we don’t know what we can sell to our members.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/house-gop-2014-agenda-starts-with-blank-slate-99961.html#ixzz2kx2cxPVS

Cantor, aware of the major problems he has with his caucus, tries once again to get a consensus on a government program to show conservatives have ideas.

Good luck with this. Probably the 6th time he does that since he has become majority leader. Without much chance, because he has to understand that for leading, you have to take risks. Not his style.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/house-gop-2014-agenda-starts-with-blank-slate-99961.html

Last Thursday, a group of House Republicans filed into Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Capitol office suite and received a blank piece of paper labeled “Agenda 2014.”
The blank slate just about sums up where Republicans find themselves after a year marked by the first government shutdown in 17 years, futile efforts to repeal Obamacare and the inability to pass spending bills at the levels set by Republican leaders.


Cantor, a Virginia Republican who is in charge of the House floor and the legislation that reaches it, is beginning to lead a reimagining, of sorts, of GOP economic policy. The agenda could help show that the GOP can solve problems instead of only serve only as perpetual combatants with President Barack Obama.
Without much fanfare, House Republicans are crafting an election-year agenda that’s meant to target what they believe are the real economic issues facing middle-class Americans — and thereby attract the kind of voters that the GOP and Mitt Romney alienated in 2012. They hope the initiatives will help them hang onto the majority in 2014 and paint a more positive image of the party.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/house-gop-2014-agenda-starts-with-blank-slate-99961.html#ixzz2kx1mgFxU

So, Cantor tries once again to look like if he cared, which could be a good policy if he had people around him who also thought they should look as if they cared. But they do not.

[winter is coming]

1. Uh huh. Let's see how quickly this "blank slate" gets filled up with the same bad ideas. n/t

[Mass]

2. That would be progress. For now, there are no ideas,

not even on issues Cantor deemed priority last year, like immigration. He seems to have a problem getting his guys to understand that governing is having some ideas and it has been a persistent problem for him since he has been majority leader.

But, as the media tell us, the GOP is going to win 2014.

[dogman]

3. I wonder how many drew a picture of a vagina.

Seems to be their biggest concern.

[JI7]

4. maybe they are waiting to see where Obama stands

so they can run on opposing anything he supports and supporting anything he opposes.

[Hestia]

5. ...and then they open their mouths when they see a mic and in an instant show they are

incapable of any agenda that includes the 21st Century. How many articles have we seen in the last couple months about their rebranding? Please...they don't have a clue because they do not include real people in any discussion.

Oh, btw, GOP - the real economic problem for the middle-class is lack of jobs. Talk to Yellen, she'll set you straight.