From the AP: Reid: Cantor should not be in debt limit talks

[Change Happens]

Good on you Senator Reid!!!



WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should not be part of the debt limit negotiations. He's calling the Virginia Republican congressman "childish."

Reid says Cantor's conduct during the sensitive White House talks have shown, in Reid's words, "he shouldn't even be at the table." Reid says other congressional leaders are negotiating in good faith as an Aug. 2 deadline approaches for raising the debt limit.

That's when the Obama administration says the government would begin defaulting if no agreement is reached to raise the borrowing limit. Leaders of both parties and the business world have said that a default would be catastrophic.

The daily talks ended Wednesday with Obama and Cantor clashing, and the president leaving the room. They resume late Thursday afternoon.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Cantor's job duties as House Majority Leader is to round up the votes, not

set policy like the Speaker of the House. He isn't co-Speaker in other words.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Why's Boehner letting him disrupt the talks anyway?

It's Boehner's job isn't it? Is he so afraid of doing the work himself that he has to have Cantor there to play scapegoat?

[mopinko]

3. yes

and too drunk.

[liberalla]

4. calls him childish!

Right on, Harry!

We have corroborating evidence from Cantor himself:




"I want what I want when I want it."




Thanks to jefferson_dem's thread: http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x710368