Cantor to GOP: Quit whining and vote

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) delivered a blunt message to the Republican Conference Tuesday morning: Quit the “grumbling” and “whining” and come together to rally behind Speaker John Boehner to pass his debt ceiling plan.

Cantor’s heavy rhetoric came out in a closed session at the Capitol Hill Club as the GOP majority tried to whip up support for Boehner’s latest deficit package. Cantor summed up what he knew many Republicans were thinking as they head into another critical vote.

“The debt limit vote sucks,” he said, according to an attendee of the closed meeting. But Republicans have three options, Cantor said: risk default, pass Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) plan — which he thinks gives President Barack Obama a blank check — or “call the president’s bluff” by passing the Boehner plan, which not only cuts deeply into domestic spending but calls for a bipartisan commission to find more savings.

Cantor also announced that the House will hold a vote on a balanced budget amendment Thursday, a nod to vocal conservatives in the conference.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59920.html#ixzz1TEjGgqe2

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Would it have been asking too much of Boehner to count heads before going on TV and trumpeting his "bipartisan" solution?

[Renew Deal]

1. How would the Boehner plan call Obama's bluff if it never makes it through the Senate?

I bet his people realize that.

[karynnj]

3. Boehner seemed to think that passing just one House is better than

passing no House - even if that's not how it works. (Think of what we could have done in 2009 or 2010 if just one House were needed.

[Gin]

4. heard on NPR that people in Cantor's district don't trust him

since he voted for increases in the bush years and now he is against it all....so...keep it up Eric...your constituents are paying attention...( I am not in his district thank heaven.)

[mikeytherat]

7. I am in his district.

Ick.

mikey_the_rat

[atreides1]

9. how's the employment picture there?

Just curious.

[mikeytherat]

12. Richmond area and Virginia in general are doing OK, actually.

Employment hasn't been horrendous, and home values here in Central Virginia never got really crazy, so the "corrections" have not been as severe.

mikey_the_rat

[No Elephants]

23. I don't think Cantor can get credit for any of that.

Maybe someone should study the areas of the nation that ARE doing relatively well and figure out the common elements?

Ah, no. What am I thinking? Invesigating a non-existent war on Christmas is a lot more important.

[mikeytherat]

27. Cantor had NOTHING to do with it.

Central Virginia is located between the Federal money of Northern VA/DC and the Federal money of Tidewater/Portsmouth Virginia. There are also all the State agencies here, and lots of manufacturing. As for his electability, like many in his district, Little Eric is a conservative dickhead (though he still doesn't understand why his nickname in the GOP fraternity is Token).

mikey_the_rat

[iwishiwas]

15. Boner was blocking the shorty last evening during the national TV

rebuttal. I was more into watching him peek around boner's head. chuckle.

PS. I am a shorty myself so I know how it feels but maybe Boner put him there by fault. te he.

[Ship of Fools]

8. GOOD. I hope the asshole gets ditched.

[elleng]

2. Interesting, Think this is 'real' Cantor, supporting boner,

or just 'face-time?' Trying to 'save' teabuggers?

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Why, knowing it will be DOA in the Senate?

[harun]

18. Tea Partiers just care how they look to their loony supporters. They don't

care what really gets passed.

[No Elephants]

24. "We tried. It was the damned Democratic Senate that stopped us. So, voters and donors, help us

take back the Senate in 2012 and all your conservative dreams will finally come true."

That's why.

[florida08]

6. well there it is from the horse's ass

"The truth is what I say it is" (quote from The Shooter with Mark Walburg)

link:
Pelosi: House Dems united against Boehner debt ceiling plan
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/26/998923/-Pelosi:-House-Dems-united-against-Boehner-debt-ceiling-plan

..the speaker has put himself at the mercy of his right wing by designing a bill that writes off most House Democrats to get at the president.

...If these conservatives now defect — and some already were doing so Monday — Boehner risks real embarrassment when the measure comes to a vote, possibly as early as Wednesday.

Boehner is talking about bringing his plan up for a vote tomorrow, but within a couple hours of unveiling it yesterday, at least three House Republicans came out against it—Jim Jordan, Tim Huelskamp, and Jason Chaffetz. Assuming Pelosi is right and virtually all Democrats oppose the plan, Boehner has very little margin for error: he needs 217 votes to pass a plan, and with at least three defections from his 239 member conference, he can lose no more than about 19 votes. Given that math, it's not a surprise that when asked whether his plan could pass, Boehner dodged, tossing the mic to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, who was noncommittal.

[atreides1]

11. He still has the Blue Dogs

And that might be enough!

[florida08]

14. keep your fingers crossed

"He may pick up some votes from the 25 fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, but just 5 crossed the line last week to support Cut, Cap and Balance."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20083455-503544.html

[No Elephants]

25. Cantor gives asses a bad name.

[gratuitous]

10. Less stalling and more falling

Now jump, you fuckers!

[Broderick]

13. Cantor will blow over depending on the wind and in what direction

it flows. He is a weasel, and he is a pushover all at the same time. Every time I see his smarmy mug on tv I cringe.

[tavalon]

16. Well, that's pretty recursive, coming from Mr. Petulant Whiny himself.

[florida08]

17. Boehner Plan Faces G.O.P. Resistance and Veto Threat

House Republican leaders Tuesday made increasingly frenzied pleas to their members to approve a plan to temporarily raise the nation’s debt ceiling, but passage seemed in growing doubt. The White House reiterated that it strongly opposed the bill and that President Obama’s advisers would recommend a veto should it somehow pass the House and Senate...

As a further blow to its prospects, the Club for Growth, which scores members on their fiscally conservative votes, came out against the plan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/us/politics/27fiscal.html

[beac]

19. This from a lifelong whiner,,,

[TomClash]

20. That's the Whip's job nt

[AEEHINRRTTUW]

21. Cantor complaining about whining?

Hilarious!

[DCBob]

22. There had been even more whining since then..

Conservative groups such as the Heritage foundation, Club for Growth, and FreedomWorks and a big chunk of teaparty House Repubs do not support it. I think it is crashing and burning before it even gets off the ground.

[No Elephants]

26. Wonder who leaned on Cantor?

[and-justice-for-all]

28. vote all you want, it will get vetoed...nt