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

[underpants]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/politics/15cantor.html?hp

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.

“I talk to Newt on a regular basis because he was in the position that we are in: in the extreme minority,” he said.

The Republicans can certainly count some victories, although symbolic ones. Even White House aides said Mr. Cantor and his team had been successful in seizing on spending items in the stimulus bill to sow doubts about it with the public.

“I’d like to tell you Cantor did a brilliant job, but the truth is that Pelosi and Obey pushed the members into his arms,” Mr. Gingrich said. But, he added, “They have been good at developing alternatives so they don’t leave their guys out there chanting no.”

Mr. Cantor, who grew up in Richmond, is soft-spoken with a whisper of a Southern accent. A lawyer, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates before being elected to Congress in 2000, filling the seat once held by James Madison, as he likes to remind people.

In discussing the Republican defeat, he said: “I don’t think it was an outright rejection of what I call common sense conservative principles. And as a Virginian, holding James Madison’s seat, I don’t think it was a rejection of the principles upon which this country was built.”

Mr. Cantor is certainly different from Mr. Gingrich in some significant ways. “He’s not Newt — giving off sparks every 15 seconds,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax reform, an influential conservative group. “While I never bought the criticism of Newt that being an ideas factory meant he suffered from A.D.D. — I think it was an unfair rap on him — to his advantage, Cantor is seen as both an ideas person and steady and stable.”

Mr. Cantor acknowledged that Mr. Obama had won points from the public for appearing less partisan than Republicans in this battle, but he warned that the president should not draw the wrong lesson.

“I think it would be short-sighted for him to take away from a zero vote that he shouldn’t even mess with us anymore,” he said.

[MrPerson]

1. He's a fucking dweeb.

[underpants]

2. The southern accent is rather new

as a well connected Dem that I know said "He must have gotten a southern Rosetta Stone CD and listened to it in his limo going up and down I95"

Why Eric Cantor hates you
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x425006

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Well, they're going to be very isolated. K Street no longer exists....

Corporations can't use the Repukes for anything. How long can they hold on to their bs dreams?

[rwheeler31]

4. Irrelevant is a word Cantor should hear often.

[Old Codger]

5. BUT

They had better enjoy while they can because next election cycle they will be such a small minority as to be inconsequential...

[camera obscura]

6. Interesting note is that VA-07 is slowly but surely turning blue. We could take him out.

[elleng]

9. If we COULD take him out,

we SHOULD take him out. Looks like he's positioning himself for bigger and better things. I hope 'we' will work on this.

[underpants]

13. '08 was probalby our best chance

as a doctor friend of mine who was going to run against him told me "We have to have a Jew run against him" This doctor is Jewish.
Cantor pulls in TONS of money from out of state (Chicago/NJ/NY) as he could be (not likely now) the first Jewish speaker.

The doctor guy I know decided not to run and when he saw who they nominated (nice lady, forgot her name) he knew Cantor was a lock.

:shrug:

[wuushew]

7. How can 7th District Cantor claim anything in common with Madison?

Madison was elected to represent the 5th and the later extinct 15th Congressional district.

Cantor's lies are the worst perversion of both English and of basic logic.

[underpants]

12. I think he meant his General Assembly seat (Va. legislature)

I have NEVER heard that brought up about Cantor

What everyone knows is that when Bliley retired he basically picked Cantor from his staff and told the powers that be in Richmond and Fredericksburg "This is your guy"

Cantor is a carbon cutout

[MrModerate]

8. "Not mess with" them anymore?

How about ignoring them completely? Who needs 'em?

[tularetom]

10. He looks like a mama's boy

Bet he ain't ever been in a bar fight.

[JeffR]

11. He looks like someone only his mother could love.

I suspect she's been jivin' him too.

[SpiralHawk]

14. Is Cantor yet another Chickenhawk Republicon?

There have been so many...I figure he's just another one...

[underpants]

15. 100% with Bush

He does as he is told

[SpiralHawk]

16. ah - Cantor apparently is another Chickenhawk Republicon

never served for even 5 minutes, but rabidly eager to send other people's sons and daughters off to far-away lands for Republicon Nation Building and oil profiteering.

That's definitely in the mold of Gingrich -- and all the other Republicon Chickenhawks: Five Deferments Cheney, Ass Pimple Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, Lott, etc. etc. etc. None of them ever served America. All of them lust for lie-based wars and borrow-and-spend war debt...

Ptoooey on the hypocrisy of the Republicon chickenhawks

Latter Day Pharisees.