Pelosi Will Not Apologize To Cantor For Calling Republicans Mean

[DonViejo]

SAHIL KAPUR – MARCH 14, 2014, 1:00 PM EDT

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) would like Nancy Pelosi to apologize for her remarks suggesting that Republicans don't care about "struggling families and really hungry children." But that's not going to happen.

Over the weekend, the Democratic House minority leader said at the California Democrats State Convention in Los Angeles that an anonymous Republican friend told her that struggling Americans "are invisible, and the Republican caucus is indifferent to them."

That was too much for Cantor, who demanded that she eat her words.

"How outrageous is that?" the No. 2 House Republican told Fox News on Thursday night. "The minority leader in the House should really, I think, apologize for that statement. That's outrageous. We all want to help inner city kids. We all want to help people. And the debate should be around what's the best way to help people."

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[shenmue]

1. She shouldn't apologize

She was right.

[madaboutharry]

2. Cantor is a total fraud.

He couldn't give a crap about inner city kids.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Truth hurts, doesn't it? I wish the Dems would have called

these a$$holes out years ago for their lack of empathy.

[Paladin]

3. Fuck you, Cantor. It's the truth---deal with it. (nt)

[sakabatou]

4. Bullies with thin skins

[liberal N proud]

5. Why should you apologize for speaking the truth?

[unblock]

6. "we all want to help those people lazy welfare queens by taking away their food"

ayn rand says that's the best way to help someone.

we republicans really hate the rich, that's why we shower them with money, to make them weak and pitiful!"

[City Lights]

8. You're a rotten liar, Eric.

And Rep. Pelosi owes you nadda.

[WhiteTara]

9. "We all want to help inner city kids." Code

So, FU Eric Cantor, you are mean and you are indifferent and you are callous and at times I think maybe soulless too.

[Journeyman]

10. She should tell that Son of a Bachelor to -- well, she's too polite to tell him the truth . . .

Mores the pity for all our political discourse. I think we'd be better off to forego the pleasantries and engage the emotions on a more regular basis.

[Scuba]

11. Good. Tell 'em to pound sand, Nancy!

[jsr]

12. Cantor can go jump off a bridge

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

13. What Cantor said

"How outrageous is that?" the No. 2 House Republican told Fox News on Thursday night. "The minority leader in the House should really, I think, apologize for that statement. That's outrageous. We all want to help inner city kids. We all want to help people. And the debate should be around what's the best way to help people."

And what I read/take from it:

"How outrageous is that?" the No. 2 House Republican told Fox News on Thursday night. "The minority leader in the House should really, I think, apologize for that statement. That's outrageous. We all want to help inner city kids go hungry, uneducated, jobless, have their votes suppressed, and no hopes for any real productive future. We all want to help people suffer great miseries. And the debate should be around what's the best way to help people pretty much eat crap and like it."

Edit: Interrupted, lost train of thought, clicked send while on the phone thinking pause.

The point I was so tediously trying to get to, is that Ms. Pelosi surely knows as well or better than anyone just how full of BS Cantor is. No apology is in order.

[deafskeptic]

14. Why should she? She spoke the truth. n/t

[polichick]

15. It's high time Dems speak the truth unapologetically - good on Nancy!

[phantom power]

16. +1,000,000

[CJCRANE]

17. Cantor: "We all want to help inner city kids. We all want to help people..."

but we CAN'T because we work for the 1%.

[Rider3]

18. She doesn't have to apologize for telling the truth

[pacalo]

19. He needs some teddy grahams & a juice box.

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[durablend]

25. Then take it away from him!

Wassamatter Eric? Mean lady took your sippy box and cookies away?

[pacalo]

43. ...

[alp227]

20. Congressman Can't Do: Name ONE thing you CONS wanna do to help the poor.

Where's the jobs bill? Where's the infrastructure bill?

I wonder if these right wing fools would have passed such bills if Romney were president.

[LittleBlue]

21. We pay these people to do this?

Ur mean!

No I'm not, you take it back!

NO U!



These are really the people who determine our fate as a nation? So depressing.

[LuvNewcastle]

47. That's exactly what I was thinking.

It's playground banter.

Am not!

Are too!

I'm telling!

This is the level of discourse from the people who are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (plus lots of perks) to make our country's laws. These are leaders of the two parties who control half of the most important branch of our government. They truly nauseate me.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. Cantor threatens to have his gang beat up Pelosi

for calling them mean.

[Fuddnik]

23. But, ahe's gonna make Boner cry!

[wryter2000]

24. Lord, I hope she stands her ground n/t

On edit: No, I didn't mean the George Zimmerman way.

[fascisthunter]

26. She Should Have Called them What most of them Are: Sociopaths

[durablend]

30. No actually she should've called him by the correct term

ASSHOLE

But I guess that's not the level of decorum we want to display.

[fascisthunter]

31. well, not to put too fine a point on it...

but sociopaths are assholes.

[VA_Jill]

27. Why anybody should apologize to Cantor for anything

is beyond me! I was his (unwilling) constituent for two horrible years and I won't apologize for a single horrible (but true) statement I ever made about him, or a single horrible thought I ever had about him! Nancy shouldn't either, and to tell you the truth, I'd think a lot less of her if she did.

[spanone]

28. not nearly as outrageous as cutting off Elijah Cummings microphone in a committee hearing

save your outrage for someone who cares, eric

[yuiyoshida]

29. A message for Eric Cantor (R-VA)

Sit on it and rotate!

[lpbk2713]

32. She's a civilized lady, she could do a lot worse.

Let me sit down with that asshole for just thirty minutes and I'll turn his ears red.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

33. Net worth of $4.5M demands net worth of $26M apologize for saying the other millionaires are mean.

And this is all being done to influence groups of people whose median income is $51K per year (and of course, much lower for struggling and hungry families). I'm under the distinct impression that neither of them actually gives a shit about this issue, but it's great bread-and-circus material. Pelosi is of course correct that the Republicans don't care, but two very wealthy people using the poor as a proxy to have their cable TV news fight isn't very helpful to anyone.

[bigwillq]

34. Pelosi should be apologizing for taking impeachment off the table (nt)

[Wait Wut]

35. Nancy Pelosi is a big, mean bully!

Picking on that poor little boy.

Grow up, Eric. You and your gang have said much worse about Rep. Pelosi, our President, me, my friends, and anyone else you don't agree with. I don't recall any apologies coming from the dark side.

Rep. Pelosi, I love you.

[Flatpicker]

36. Mean?!?

That's far too nice.

Let's try:

He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!

That's closer, if a little understated...

[hopemountain]

37. absolutely do not apologize

stand on the truth.

[taotzu]

38. No Need for an Apology !

She should tell him to his face to kiss her A$$. The republicans know exactly what they are doing and so do the rest of us. They care not about anything other than the all mighty $. They get paid to do nothing but what they want to and that doesn't include the poor. They walk around lying with each time they open their mouths and they want an apology ? It is time to call a liar, a liar and place them on the front page so the world can see them. It is time for the journalists to stop letting them not answer questions and make them show their true colors. Republicans are so not worried about our souls for if they were they would not be lying about some of the most important things concerning the reality of every day life of every American in this country.

They act all holier than thou but we see them with the devil in the darkness making pacts and selling their souls for a piece of silver. The anti-Christ is here and he is being groomed by the republicans to take over the Earth. The false prophets are all around us but those who profess their allegiance to God are the very ones who will bring down the destruction of the human race.
Just as Jesus knew that one of his disciples would turn against him and lead his enemies to him so too do I see the ones responsible for the degradation and torture of humanity.

[Moosepoop]

39. It's telling that Cantor equates "struggling" and "hungry" with "inner city."

Pelosi never mentioned "inner city" in her remarks. There are many struggling, hungry adults and children all over the country, in cities, suburbs and in rural areas. But to Cantor, struggling and hungry means only "inner city" people. Wonder if he meant only "certain" inner city people, at that...?

[The Wizard]

40. Hey Eric Cantor how's this?

I hope you die.

[geretogo]

41. 6 feet under

I wouldn't trust a Republican any further than I could throw one . I have been living under their tyranny
for 34 years now , since Reagen . As far as I'm concerned the only good Republican is one that is 6 feet
under the ground with no head stone .

[oldandhappy]

42. No need to apologize

for telling the truth.

[Cha]

44. Yeah, you shouldn't Ever apologize for calling out the recons on their bullshit. The story

here is.. the fucking chutzpah of them to ask for one.

mahalo Don~

[LiberalFighter]

45. Actions speak louder than words.

That is one of many failures of Eric Cantor.

[Gothmog]

46. Eric Cantor is a silly twit

Nancy Pelosi should not apologize to this idiot

[Bernardo de La Paz]

48. Cantor has sadz? Where's a list of all the nasty things Cantor said / Republicans said?

It's a very nasty list. Let them drown in their hypocritical crocodile tears.

[joanbarnes]

49. Repukes could grovel for eternity and it wouldn't make a dent

[TRoN33]

50. Eric Cantor is mean...

Now is he going to demand an apology from me? Did I hurt his feeling? Oh boohoo!

[ladjf]

51. Calling the Republicans "mean" is just a minimal comment about

those monsters. nt

[Zambero]

52. The GOP record defines itself

"Mean" is almost too polite a term. Cantor's strategy is to sidestep his abysmal party's track record, try to sound "reasonable", and make Pelosi the issue (again). I'm sure there will be no apologies forthcoming.

[libodem]

53. Cantor

Needs to apologize for selling his soul. Look in those eyes if you dare. No light is reflected back. Black holes.

Patently evil. Soulless. Slug slime.

[Beartracks]

54. Ha, I thought this said she "will not apologize to Cantor for calling him a Republican."

Which is still the same thing.

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[IrishAyes]

55. Nobody should apologize! I call the Repugs far worse than just 'mean', and they deserve it.

[closeupready]

56. Fuck apologizing for being honest.

K&R

[Bok_Tukalo]

57. I believe that there's an old Arkansas proverb that applies

... The smeller's the feller.

[NastyRiffraff]

58. STFU Eric

Typical of Republicans. They say whatever bigoted crap they want, then whine like two year olds in need of a nap when someone calls them on it.

[rustbeltvoice]

59. apologize?

How often is one ordered to "apologize" in saying, "water is wet"?

Cantor has always been disgusting.

[Chemisse]

60. It's about time Dems stopped apologizing.

I'm sure she could back this statement up with plenty of statistics, showing votes against programs for the poor.

[DesertDiamond]

61. Repubs are always wanting apologies when someone tells the truth! Waaaaaah!

[armed_and_liberal]

62. Pelosi is wrong!

Republicans are really just a bunch of assholes.

[47of74]

63. About time someone told Cantor to suck it.

[Marthe48]

64. I am surrounded by poor white people in a rural area

Does anybody in Washington understand that poor isn't part of race? It is the result of a lack of economic opportunity. And people exactly like Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Bill Johnson, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul who are blocking economic progress, including repairing the infrastructure, expanding the Internet, supporting green energy, and raising the minimum wage, are forcing more and more Americans to live in want. Most of the churches in our community is offering a free meal every month, either a community meal at their church, or delivering it to shut ins. The local food banks are overwhelmed., JC our part of the country was featured on a special about hunger in America. We have people of all ages, sexes and races begging on the streets in all weather. Last fall, a woman approached me inside Kroger's and asked me for money. She was white and she was very old. Doesn't sound remotely close to inner-city, none of this does. Every time I see this slimey little jerk lie about his compassion, I want to puke all over him. He and all of his cronies are POS.

[OldRedneck]

65. Can't'er is lucky Pelosi is a lady

I would have told him he and his party are a crowd of #$@&(&^%)(*^%&^%#$^& *&^%$^%^&*& $^%$#@s.

[dballance]

66. Umm, Perhaps Cantor should talk to Paul Ryan.

Perhaps Cantor should talk to Paul Ryan. Since Ryan is one who's had to backpedal calling inner-city men "lazy" just this week. That would be face of the GOP, former vice presidential candidate, Paul Ryan.

Right, the GOP really does care – not.

[Grins]

67. Reverse "Both Siderism"

"We all want to help inner city kids. We all want to help people."

Bunk. Prove that statement Ms. Pelosi.

Only one party I know of cares about struggling families, the unemployed, the really hungry, children, jobs and living wages, and that's not the Rethuglican Party.

[Bozvotros]

68. No she did apologize.....

She said she should have called him an insufferable little prick.