eric cantor's ugly ransom

[spanone]

Yesterday night, MSNBC showed a clip of high school students at a graduation ceremony in Joplin, Mo., last week hearing a speaker tell them how fortunate they were to be embarking on a new and exciting chapter in their lives.

One of those graduates, who is now homeless, talked about how different things were a week later and how fortunate he was to be alive.

Surveying the ruins of her home and the rubble around her, an elderly woman shook and cried as her husband put his arm around her. "All we have now is each other," she told the TV cameraman.

In the wake of the deadliest tornadoes in Missouri's history Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he wouldn't okay aid money for the Joplin tornado victims unless Democrats agreed to an equal amount of spending cuts.

Cantor said, "If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental."

http://peoplesworld.org/eric-cantor-s-ugly-ransom/

[CurtEastPoint]

Spoken like a person who has never known want or need...

From Wikipedia:

Cantor was born in Richmond, Virginia. His father owned a real estate firm and was the state treasurer for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign.<3> Cantor graduated from the Collegiate School in 1981. He enrolled at George Washington University (GW) in 1981, and as a freshman he worked as an intern for House Republican Tom Bliley of Virginia and was Bliley's driver in the 1982 campaign.<4> Cantor was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at GW and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1985<5> He earned a Juris Doctor degree from William & Mary Law School in 1988, and received a Master of Science degree from Columbia University in 1989.<2>

Cantor worked for over a decade with his family's business doing legal work and real estate development.

[MineralMan]

1. Cantor is a slimy piece of excrement.

I'd like to see his stupid statement as a headline across the media.

[spanone]

2. republicans get a free pass on stupid or so it appears.

where's the offset for war

where's the offset for tax cuts for the wealthy

on and on and on and on.....

[lunatica]

3. Cantor is a sadistic psychopath

Up to now he seemed to just be greedy. Now he proves he has no soul as well. The Boner heads a pack of shitty sadistic psychopaths who feel so empowered that they aren't even pretending to hide their wide streak of cruelty.

[barbtries]

4. as someone else on DU pointed out,

he didn't demand pay-fors when it came to millionaires' and billionaires' tax cuts. FUCK him.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Maybe Democrats should have done the same thing on the Iraq war.

We need to keep reminding them that most of what we are paying for now was brought about by Bush/Cheney -- those two guys who are enjoying their retirements.

[hfojvt]

9. actually Democrats tried

that was one of Kerry's supposed 'flip flops'. The famous, "I voted for it, before I voted against it".

Meaning that Kerry voted for the version where it ($87 billion in war funding) was paid for (a version that Bush promised to veto) before he voted against the version where it was not paid for. But most of the media sat back, or assisted, as Kerry was attacked for not supporting the troops because of his "no" vote on one version, but Bush is not similarly attacked for threatening to veto the Democrats version of war funding.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh091004.shtml

[GoCubsGo]

10. The Democrats couldn't do the same thing then.

The did not control the House. Far from it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. We need to put his statement on bumper stickers

I know he really pissed off a lot of republicans in Missouri. But have the rest even heard what he said?

[vssmith]

7. Republicans are good at leveraging misfortune to gain their ends

[GoCubsGo]

8. I hope the Democrats call his bluff.

I don't think Nancy Pelosi will stand for it in the House, and she has been quite capable of getting the vast majority of Dems in line when needed. The Senate is another story. It will be Cantor that looks bad here, not that he already doesn't.

[pansypoo53219]

11. and NO tax increases for the GREEDY RICH.

NO SHARED SACRIFICE.

[Skidmore]

12. Who gets thrown over the cliff?

The elderly and the disabled or tornado survivors? I vote for Cantor and Ryan to take the dive.