In Gingrich Mold, a New Voice for Solid Resistance in G.O.P.

[Are_grits_groceries]

WASHINGTON — The last time Congressional Republicans were this out of power, they turned to a college professor from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, to lead the opposition, first against President Bill Clinton in a budget battle in 1993, and then back into the majority the following year.

As Republicans confronted President Obama in another budget battle last week, their leadership included another new face: Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, who as the party’s chief vote wrangler is as responsible as anyone for the tough line the party has taken in this first legislative standoff with Mr. Obama. This battle has vaulted Mr. Cantor to the front lines of his party as it tries to recover from the losses of November.

As Republican whip, Mr. Cantor succeeded again on Friday in denying the White House the support of a single House Republican on the stimulus bill. That was a calculated challenge to the president, who, in his weekly address on Saturday, hailed the bill as “an ambitious plan at a time we badly need it.”

Mr. Cantor said he had studied Mr. Gingrich’s years in power and had been in regular touch with him as he sought to help his party find the right tone and message. Indeed, one of Mr. Gingrich’s leading victories in unifying his caucus against Mr. Clinton’s package of tax increases to balance the budget in 1993 has been echoed in the events of the last few weeks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/politics/15cantor.html?hp

Twerp! The first tumbrel should come for him. I don't think they know or care that people are really hurting!

[Solly Mack]

1. Yep. The smell of Newt is coming from the GOP

[zbdent]

5. here ... let me wave something dead and rotted ...

to clear the air ...

[Solly Mack]

8. LMAO too true

[mwb970]

2. Cantor looks like a con man.

I don't trust him one tiny bit.

[babylonsister]

3. Wouldn't that be an old voice? Ever notice how rethugs recycle people?

I think they're just about out of anyone to recycle, so Newt's it.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Cantor looks like Dr. Chilton from "Silence of the Lambs": a smug prick.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Twins.....LOL

[anonymous171]

6. Too bad people want more government, not less, this time around.

[Demoiselle]

7. Your last line explains it all......

"I don't think they know or care that people are really hurting."
Of course they neither know nor care....That's why they play the game as they do. Because it's JUST a game for them. The goal isn't a better America...the goal is power, pure and simple. Now we're facing a situation where even the Americans who aren't really hurting themselves are very much aware of the pain everywhere else...So almost nobody is buying the Republican bs.

[madrchsod]

9. there`s no comparison between clinton and obama

and the situation clinton faced and what obama is facing. clinton was a minority president and obama has the majority of the people,governors ,and the house and senate. clinton`s biggest failure in the beginning was the healthcare disaster. let`s hope that obama does`t meet the same fate.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. I recommend this post. You are right, there is no comparing the situations the 2 faced.

Obama knew very well the huge challenges he faced, that's why he worked so hard to get his transition team together and made it clear he was enacting his agenda from day one. Clinton didn't face twin economic and foreign policy disasters of such magnitude inherited from Bush Sr.

Also, even before health care, Clinton underestimated the resistance on the gays in the military issue, and the pushback and DADT compromise helped set a tone for the rest of his administration.

[southern_dem]

10. As big of an ass Newt was

he was a very well-studied and fairly smart person. Cantor is just an idiot who reads talking points and has shown no intelligence whatsoever.