Party Of No: Cantor Hints At Opposing Obama’s Housing Plan Before It Is Even Released»

[Donnachaidh]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/17/cantor-housing-package/

“With pressure growing for government action to stem foreclosures,” President Obama will travel to Phoenix, AZ tomorrow to formally unveil his housing relief plan. Already, it seems, conservatives are preparing to stage a partisan fight against Obama’s housing legislation, just as they did with the economic recovery package.

Interviewed by CBS yesterday, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), who was instrumental in securing the no-votes against the stimulus, previewed some of the conservative talking points against Obama’s housing package and all but hinted that he would oppose the plan:

CANTOR: When you’re looking at the policy here, you’ve got to start with the fact that 93 percent of America’s families are current on their mortgages and, frankly, are out there wondering, you know, who is going to pay for this continued succession of bailouts? … We just cannot continue to pay for the kind of things that this administration thinks that we can. So, I’m very concerned about the direction I see us going, but I know that this president has continued to say he wants to work with us, and I hope we can get it right.

Harking back to the stimulus, which conservatives view as a winning electoral strategy, Cantor added, “You know, we’re on the heels, right now, of the almost $800 billion stimulus bill, not having any real knowledge of what’s in that 1,100- page bill and, frankly, working to make sure that the public’s right to know is realized.” Watch it:



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[AB_Positive]

1. Keep digging your political graves, boys.

Wow... it's refreshing being on the 'other' side of things. How more fucked up could Repubs get? What happens when everything turns back round in a couple of years?

*shakes head* Good luck GOPpers.

[Better Believe It]

6. It's not clear yet whose grave is being dug

"What happens when everything turns back round in a couple of years?"

You're making an assumption.

What happens if the economy doesn't recover in a few years? Obama publicly said he'll be a one term President if the economy doesn't improve.

The Republicans hope the weakened stimulus bill written by three Senate Republicans won't improve the economy much and that Republicans will be able to stop further recovery plans without even threatening a filibuster. Or if they find it necessary to filibuster they assume Senator Reid will not change the Senate rules to stop such filibusters dead in their tracks and approve legislation and appointments with only 51 votes.

[stillcool]

8. So Obama will be a one-term President...

if the people buy what the Republicans are selling, what difference does it make?

[Better Believe It]

9. No, that's not what Obama said. President Obama said that if the

economy isn't better in four years he wouldn't be President for a second term.

That could mean he doesn't think he could be re-elected or might decide to not run for a second term if the economic slide into depression isn't halted.

[MineralMan]

2. Let them oppose. Pass it anyhow.

Publicize who held recovery funds up in 2010. Campaign on their obstructionism.

Let's put an end to the GOOP, once and for all.

Republican governors aren't doing this opposition. They know. Freeze the GOP assholes out.

[kirby]

3. Let there be no doubt...

The Repukes in the House are going to oppose everything and are hoping for Obama to fail. They will try to pretend they oppose Pelosi, not Obama, but I think it will backfire. Their plan is to regain in 2010 with a bad economy as the issue.

[AndyA]

4. Hey, Cantor: I guess you've forgotten about that money pit over in the Middle East, eh?

You know the one: the one that's cost the American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars since 2002. Remember that one? You know, the war based on lies. No WMDs. No harboring of terrorists, etc.

Remember that, Cantor? You stupid putz.

Someone make a note to salt the Earth after the GOP has been buried, OK?

[radfringe]

5. GOP=NOP (National Obstruction Party) eom

[Renew Deal]

7. Why did they vote against it if they don't know what's in it?

:dunce:

[Juche]

10. Who cares

The GOP in the house has no power to stop anything.

[susu369]

11. I'd like to know how he comes up with this

"When you’re looking at the policy here, you’ve got to start with the fact that 93 percent of America’s families are current on their mortgages."

[radfringe]

12. ........just sayin' ..........

[PA Democrat]

13. Yeah, I'll bet Cantor is just OUTRAGED after all of the bailouts including the $267 million that

went to a privately owned bank which caters to wealthy clientele of which Cantor's WIFE is a managing director.

Yes, I recall Cantor's outrage over THAT bailout....NOT!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aram-roston/gop-congressman-cantors-w_b_160420.html

Cantor is such a lying, hypocritical little weasel. :puke: