Two dead-on LTTE's from the Richmond paper on Eric Cantor

[underpants]

Replace Cantor With A Cardboard Cutout

Editor, Times-Dispatch:
For eight years Rep. Eric Cantor voted nearly 100 percent in agreement with President George W. Bush. So far he has voted 100 percent in opposition to President Barack Obama. In neither of these situations has he offered a single creative or useful idea of his own.

Here's a suggestion that will help the economy: Cantor comes home, leaving a cardboard cutout of himself on the House floor, with the word "No" printed on its forehead.

This will accomplish about the same results at a savings of his salary.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/letters/article/GRIFFITHH_20090213-180502/206176/

Did Cantor Vote Politically or Personally?

Editor, Times-Dispatch:
I read with surprise the high praise that Rep. Eric Cantor is getting for "succeeding in uniting" his party in voting against the stimulus. Say what? Where has he been? No mention in the article that he voted for the big bailout just a scant three months ago, just before his party's latest fiasco at the polls.

Why is he changing now? For political reasons, versus principle? Or was it political reasons then, principle now? If he had been standing up all along, like 16 members of the 435-seat House, in voting against all bailouts in the past year, maybe his party would have fared better and/or maybe bailout mania would not have become a way of life that appears to be here to stay, regardless of who's getting rich from it, and whether in actuality the bailouts are doing any good.

A new report from congressional auditors states that we may never know if the earlier $700 billion bailout worked. Yet, both the executive and legislative branches of our federal government continue to push for them. For their stand, I commend Reps. Ron Paul, Randy Forbes, and the other 14 members of the House who have voted against each of the government bailouts to date. For them, it has been a matter of principle, not politics.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/letters/article/PREISJ_20090213-180502/206177/

[mwb970]

1. The comments responding to the first letter are all from wingnuts, though.

I gather that this is a right-wing newspaper?