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In reply to the discussion: Eric Cantor is your new House Speaker. [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)45. Josh Marshall's spider-sense is tingling....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/01/buying_on_installment.php?ref=fpblg
It is almost as though Cantor is plotting or hatching or just purchasing his coup on layaway.
Cantor is beginning to remind me a lot of Dan Sickles, also a ruthless, plotting, remorseless, boundlessly ambitious and thoroughly corrupted person.
That suggests to me that Cantor will only be permitted to rise as high as his past indiscretions permit. Whatever they are. We have yet to learn the best of them, publicly.
It is almost as though Cantor is plotting or hatching or just purchasing his coup on layaway.
Cantor is beginning to remind me a lot of Dan Sickles, also a ruthless, plotting, remorseless, boundlessly ambitious and thoroughly corrupted person.
That suggests to me that Cantor will only be permitted to rise as high as his past indiscretions permit. Whatever they are. We have yet to learn the best of them, publicly.
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No, I think he and the Teaparty idiots are at their zenith and now facing the other side of the hill
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#4
The actual vote count is what matters. Subtract 17 from the Rs and add 17 to the Ds and
Coyotl
Jan 2013
#43
Bring it on...lance the boil... 2 years of total bullshit from the House followed by
pkdu
Jan 2013
#11
Eric Cantor Speaker? The Likud would be two heartbeats away from the Presidency!
FarCenter
Jan 2013
#24
Rep. Eric Cantor Tells Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: New GOP Majority Will 'Serve As A Check On The A
FarCenter
Jan 2013
#59
What is wrote on the wall is that Cantor just lost, just got totally ignored. nt
bemildred
Jan 2013
#53
Boehner was done when Plan B was rejected. Cantor was all smiles after that.
MjolnirTime
Jan 2013
#55