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Edited on Fri Oct-28-11 10:46 AM by Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
What a douchebag House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, poster child for holding government hostage, holding disaster relief hostage, sabotaging talks between the president and the House, walking out of talks between the president and the House, condemning the Occupy protests as "mobs" whereas the tea partiers were nice, upstanding patriots and such, is sad. He is sad because he thinks he's being unfairly demonized for, well, doing all that stuff I just mentioned. So he is launching a campaign to show everyone that he's really a nice guy:
Cantor is allowing CBS News’s “60 Minutes” cameras into his life, filming his three children and wife to show that he’s not the hard-line ideologue that has become the object of Democratic caricature. He’s invited the “60 Minutes” cameras to spend Thanksgiving with his family; Leslie Stahl is slated to be the reporter on the piece. In an effort to humanize him, Cantor’s staff has started an online video series called “Snapshot of the Leader,” which depicts Cantor’s daily routine in short bits. The first installment had him talking about the “American dream” and “trying to promote achievement and success for everyone.” There will be a dozen of these rolled out on Cantor’s website.
See there? He can't possibly be a guy who would rather drive government to the brink of default than allow even one damn cent more taxes on extremely rich Americans and corporations while blocking tax cuts directed towards workers and the middle class. He's got a family. Nobody with a family can possibly be an asshole.
Cantor planned a speech at the University of Pennsylvania to talk about a favorite progressive topic — income inequality. His speech included hundreds of words about his immigrant grandmother, who came to the United States from Eastern Europe and lived above her late husband’s supermarket in Richmond, Va., after being widowed at age 30. But the event was canceled when the Service Employees International Union and the Occupy Philadelphia protest movement threatened to fill the 300-person audience. That won’t stop Cantor — he has upcoming speeches planned at Northwestern University and Rice University. Of the cancellation at Penn, Cantor said there was “no sense” in giving a speech about “trying to pull people together” to an audience of “100 percent professional protesters.”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/27/1030296/-Eric-Cantor-launches-drive-to-make-you-realize-how-nice-he-is
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