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And They’ll Get Away With It, Too

Josh Marshall:

Okay, this is rich. Rep. Eric Cantor is insisting that Speaker Pelosi hold an up or down vote on the original senate bill alone rather than a single vote on the original bill and the amending bill.

Really?

Have we forgotten why we’re here? The entire reason we’re in this situation is that Cantor’s fellow party members in the Senate won’t allow any votes on health care at all. They wouldn’t allow it last year and they’re still blocking a simple up or down vote on any health care bill in the senate. That’s the whole ball of wax.

So why doesn’t Speaker Pelosi propose a trade. Cantor gets his pals in the Senate to allow a simple majority vote on health care and then everything can be done through a plain old-fashioned conference report. And voila, everything’s taken care of.

Seriously, Republicans are standing tall on majority rules and procedure when everything happening here stems from the Republicans refusing to let the majority vote on anything?

But no one, whether journalist or Democrat, is going to confront (preferably on television) Cantor or any other Republican who jumps on this talking point, so Republicans will get away with their bullshit, as usual.

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We Must Have Bipartisanship!

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)How horrible would it be if the Democratic majority passed healthcare reform with only Democratic votes when Republicans are so open to compromise:

“Be assured not one Republican will vote for this bill,” [Rep. Eric] Cantor said, to big cheers and shouts of “Kill the bill.”

But we must have bipartisanship because, um, Olympia Snowe? Or maybe it’s because David Brooks will be sad? Ugh. If the Democrats have learned anything from Tuesday night (and I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t) it’s that Democrats don’t show up to vote for candidates who insist on running far to the right.

11/5/09 1:39 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , ,

Can’t Set Deadlines Because We Need More Time for Fisticuffs

  • After fist fights have broken out and arrests have been made at town hall meetings across the country, it seems newsworthy that “there were no angry mobs or Nazi SS symbols at a health care town hall in Maryland’s heavily Democratic 4th Congressional district on Thursday night.” (WTSP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/CNN Political Ticker)
  • Spineless Harry Reid won’t set deadlines for bipartisan healthcare reform negotiations because he wants more time for the rational, intelligent debate that we’ve seen taking place across the country. Oh wait… (HuffPo)
  • A federal judge has tossed out the obviously-forged Kenyan birth certificate from Orly Taitz’s birther lawsuit. (Fired Up! Missouri)
  • A group of Republican congressmen led by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) went to Israel to undo President Obama’s Middle East policy. Hm, if only there were something in the Constitution about who makes foreign policy… (AP)

8/7/09 9:09 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , ,

Shorter Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)

Eric Cantor Rips Chris Matthews, MSNBC, HuffPo, Liberal Bloggers For Inflating Birther Story

  • Why are the liberals so obsessed with Obama’s birth certificate?

[Ed.: Ahh, the joys of being able to rip-off my old posts. Thanks, Rep. Cantor, for staying on message!]

7/31/09 4:41 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , ,

Wanker of the Day

Eric Cantor

7/30/09 12:27 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , ,

Boys Club

  • So the Giant Stimulus Bill of Doom heads to conference, but guess what’s missing? Women. There are no women on the conference committee for this bill. Wonder if the room full of men will restore the cuts to programs that employ women? (Writes Like She Talks/Dollars and Sense)
  • Republican House Whip Eric Cantor’s response to AFSCME ads targetting Republicans for opposing the stimulus: a profanity-laced video describing the unions as a goon squad. Stay classy, Eric Cantor. (The Plum Line)
  • Happy Birthday to Sarah Palin, the woman who helped give us President Barack Obama! I was going to get her a year’s subscription to all the newspapers she reads, except she reads all of them. (Los Angeles Times/You Tube)
  • Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been selected to exorcise respond to President Obama’s big speech to Congress, scheduled for February 24. (TIME/New York Times)
  • John McCain (who?) today was the only member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to vote against giving Washington DC a vote in Congress because he is a maverick my friends. The full hypocrisy of this vote, however, can only be explained in blockquote form:

    McCain was the only one of them who voted nay, and he gave two reasons. The first was that the proposed compromise that would give D.C. voting rights while giving Utah a fourth seat in Congress was unfair to other fast-growing states. The second was that McCain didn’t want to pass a bill that constitutional scholars are still tussling over “and then have the Supreme Court decide whether or not it’s constitutional.”

    This is a problem. What would happen if — a totally random example here — a senator introduced a campaign finance law that, according to many constitutional scholars and the president of the United States, violated the First Amendment? What if the Supreme Court had to decide whether or not the law was constitutional? That would be crazy. A Republican who wrote a law like that probably couldn’t even win Indiana.

    Heh, indeedy. (Washington Independent)

     

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