Eric Cantor

Wisconsin Club For Growth Weekly Funny

October 12, 2011 by The Political E...

Far-rightwingers in Wisconsin with an email account can get a weekly update from the Scott Walker/Koch brothers support group known as the Wisconsin Club for Growth.

This week's edition sent to me by a friend contains barbs under the heading "Happy Columbus Day!" for those trying to eliminate Native American mascots and nicknames from Wisconsin schools, including this line:

...people who define themselves by their grievances are unlikely to [sic] ever satisfied by the steps taken to appease them.

Remember that when you hear the wealthiest 1%, and their cheerleaders - - Eric Cantor, Charlie Sykes, Herman Cain, et al,  stamping their feet and grieving about any incremental increase in their tax rates.

Eric Cantor "Olive Branch" To Obama Based On Major Math And Policy Error

September 10, 2011 by The Political E...

Eric Cantor is getting credit for offering a compromise to President Obama on national transportation funding, but hold on.

Facts, please.

Cantor says he wants Obama to reprogram the 10% of highway funding Cantor claims is going to projects that do not directly pay for roads, bridges, etc.

In a statement responding to Friday’s disappointing jobs report, Cantor highlighted a proposal to eliminate a rule requiring states to set aside 10 percent of federal surface transportation funds for “museums, education and preservation.” Scrapping that provision, Cantor said, “would allow states to devote these monies to high-priority infrastructure projects, without adding to the deficit.”

Facts, please.

Except that the correct figure is 1.5%, not 10%, and many of these projects, called "enhancements," pay for biking and walking paths, and other transportation alternatives and supplements that provide jobs in their construction, too.

Jobs' Speech Timing Kerfuffle Again Shows Boehner's Political Priorities

September 1, 2011 by The Political E...

So John Boehner closes off President Obama's access to a Joint Session speech on jobs for 24 hours so a small-audience Republican pre-primary debate can air without presidential and real-issue competition.

Another delay on the job front?

In Boehner's world, that's no big deal, as Obama's failure, regardless of the cost to the nation, and sticking it to Obama whenever possible, is the GOP's Job #1.

Politics first, substance second.

Maybe the Republicans can use the extra day to end the financial blockade that Eric Cantor, Boehner's top lieutenant, has erected in front of Hurricane Irene victims.