As House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was walking down a Congressional office hall on Wednesday, a girl identified by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) as 9-year-old Liz Maquez attempted to ask him to help move immigration reform forward on behalf of her undocumented father. Without allowing Liz to ask her question, Cantor immediately responded that he couldn’t help her.
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We are only getting dumber from sequestration.
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think-progress:
Protesters turn their backs on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA).
Credit: @SteveFriess
I wonder if Cantor is going to learn this lesson. #doubtit
Way to go MICHIGAN! WAY TO GO!
zher delikat schadenfreude
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA07) has abruptly canceled a speech planned for this afternoon at The University of Pennsylvania that was meant to lay out the GOP’s plans to address income inequality. While the university gave no reason for the cancellation, CNN is reporting that Cantor canceled after the university decided to make the speech open to the public. Cantor had signed up for a “selected audience.”
What a chickenshit
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IDK but this made me laugh really hard.
Laughing is one reaction when you realize it's people like you who they'd set under their wheels. Maybe it's easier to live in denial then admit to yourself that you've got a life full of struggle just to make a decent living.
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This is one of the biggest problems about the pure ideological operation of the market economy… if people aren’t going to consume, if they aren’t going to continue to prop up the flawed system - even if it’s because they work dead end jobs or got retrenched due to the GFC or whatever - then they can go off into a corner and die, for all the market cares. That is what people mean - in its truest form - when they talk about letting the market decide.
And the people driving this ideology are the ones that do have the money, that do continue to consume and will never have to be concerned that they won’t be able to cover their own bills that get them good health care and good food that stops them needing the health care.
The morons of the middle class that are out there waving banners around for the Tea Party, that think they’re part of the winning team who won’t ever need to worry about that sort of stuff, a lot of them are being conned by the big money behind the Tea Party and are really just a couple of strikes of bad luck away from being the ones that can’t afford to cover their monthly bills or care for their children if they get sick. When that happens, in a world where (their) demands have become reality, or closer to reality as we’re seeing now, the market will tell them, too, to just fuck off and die.
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Protesters Rally Outside An Eric Cantor Event In Richmond, VA (by ThinkProgressVideo)
They did it to themselves:
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What makes Eric Cantor a better person than Michele Bachmann? He doesn't drag God in to his call for cold-hearted miserliness .
A few years ago sometime - like around a spring break, I was in La Jolla getting a fou-fou coffee and I recognized Eric Cantor with his wife and his son. I tried to take a picture in conspicuously of the guy, but he saw me hold up my lobotomized phone (what were Palm Centros, after all?) to take the picture and he covered his mouth. He, his family, his body guard and the couple scurried out of there a few minutes after I snapped the pic. I'll never forget the benevolent smile on the face of the man that was visiting at the table with him - I knew better than to believe that the guy was any less than a vampire.
I only wish that I had a better phone that I could send a stream of posts here and tweets to the internet to start a flash mob.
There you go, Missouri — you got what you voted for:
Cantor: Private healthcare rationing better than government’s
By Julian Pecquet The Hill, May 3, 2011
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Tuesday that private healthcare plans ration care for profit but that consumers should be free to buy whatever coverage they can afford rather than depend on government rationing.
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This is a woman who puts ideology first. This says to voters, ‘we’re not listening to you.’
Likely House Majority Leader Eric Cantor • Dropping his two cents into the whole Nancy-still-wants-to-lead thing. Is this the guy who should be trashing people for putting ideology first? We remember what Eric did during the the Health Care Summit at the White House, and when you have to use attention-grabbing props to get your point across, you’re in it for the ideology, not getting things done. None of this is to say that Nancy should try to keep her leadership position. But Eric Cantor is the wrong guy to make this argument. source (via • follow)
Considering that Cantor isn't afraid of bringing the government to a grinding halt, I'd have to say that he's in no position to call anyone else an ideologue, but in Eric Cantor's Alice In Wonderland conservative world, your faults and weaknesses are not your own, but your enemies. I'm waiting for Cantor to start blabbering on a Sunday news talk show about how the sun rises in the north, keeping a straight face the whole time.