Wall Street Journal: Greatest Threat To The Left Is … Eric Cantor
GOP Rep Eric Cantor took some hits yesterday for worrying about “overreacting” to the crisis, but Cantor and his people have to be high-fiving about this Op ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal.
It claims, rather creatively, that Cantor represents the single greatest threat to the “left” in American politics right now:
The thing about fear is that you can see it. For an insight as to what the left today fears most, witness its attempted political assassination of Eric Cantor…
Democrats know their current dominance in Washington is in no small part due to public disillusionment with the GOP. They are also aware that their current tax-and-spend governance is creating plenty of opportunities for that opposition to remake itself. Thus the furious campaign — waged by every blog, pundit, union, 527, and even the White House — to kneecap Republicans who might help lead a makeover. Mr. Cantor is the top target…
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is so obsessed with Mr. Cantor, he can barely find time to be indignant about anything else. Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post, Think Progress and other leading liberal blogs are today all-anti-Cantor-all-the-time.
Hmmm. I thought that the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy had hatched a plot deep inside the White House to make Rush Limbaugh the right-wing demon of the moment. That’s what I read on the Journal editorial page the other day, at any rate.
In all seriousness, no matter how far-fetched this thesis may sound, this kind of piece is a huge boon to Cantor. Congrats are due to his press guy, Brad Dayspring.
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In an electoral since Eric Cantor is the greatest gift we have in the Republican Party precisely because they view him as their next great hope and he is a blithering idiot. He hasn’t had an original or innovative thought since he has been in the House and he wears his ambition on his sleeve. The Journal knows this and are just trying to cover his @ss because he probably gives them anonymous quotes. But hell I hope they name Cantor Minority Leader soon. He is so far out of his league it isn’t funny. Remember this was the guy who said the Republicans voted down the TARP bill last year because Pelosi hurt their feelings. Limbaugh is good but Cantor is the personification of Limbaugh as far as ideology in practice in Congress right now. Hell I keep checking to see if their are strings coming out of his back everytime he appears on Tee Vee.
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Just like Limbaugh I hope the right wingers keep elevating Cantor so more people in the middle can see him and notice that he is the person that Republicans think are the future of their party. Its not going to help their cause.
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BTW did you notice that he voted present yesterday on Congressman Grayson’s bill to take back or restrict the bonuses of TARP recipients? Weren’t the wingnuts all a flutter last year about then Senator Obama voting present? I do believe that John Boehner called it, and I quote, “the chicken sh*t button”. I hope Sevugan picks up on that.
Wow! the Op Ed page of the WSJ now reads like a blog post over at Red State. Seriously. Thanks Murdoch.
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I haven’t done a statistical analysis or anything, but my impression is that it’s a gross misrepresentation to say that Olbermann has been spending a disproportionate amount of time on Cantor. There’s been a lot more O’Reilly (as usual) than Cantor in this week’s shows. And the blogs/sites mentioned aren’t exactly obsessing over him either. A little wishful thinking on the part of the WSJ, perhaps. As is the idea that Cantor, a lightweight if ever there was one, is striking fear into the heart of “the left.”
Where is Tena at? She hasn’t been around for the past few days?
Wondering about Tena too. I don’t think she’s been here since she blew through the profanity filter.
Do these WSJ op ed peeps even re-read what they send in? Nobody cares about Cantor. He’s rarely a target of anyone.
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What alternate universe do these people live on?
DJShay — seriously. Their reasoning has declined to the level of an ordinary wingnut troll: “The fact that you talk about us means you’re afraid of us!”
Their spelling and grammar are still better, though.
mike from Arlington — well, people have been mocking him pretty regularly, because he keeps saying stupid things. He’s no Michael Steele, but still.
“The left is frightened by pastels” Strassel may as well have said.
These folks are having a very hard time finding any narrative that has a shelf-life of more than eight seconds.
Кстати где-то я уже эту статью читал … Наверное скопировали её с другого сайта ? Если я не прав, то извиняюсь…
Спасибо за статью, очень граммотно написано.
На мой взгляд очень нужная статья. Я думаю вы со мной согласитесь.
CONGRESS —-SENATE—-ADMINISTRATION —JUSTICE WAKE UP
WE GOT SOME LITTLE FOXES IN OUR HEN HOUSE BEWARE——-
WE THE PEOPLE NEED A
Strategic Planning and Development Stimulus Summit
NOW
Monday, April 06, 2009
To the Honorable President Barack Obama
Of the Untied States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
info@barackobama.com
OPEN LETTER — To whom it must concern
Mr. President,
I am but one voice in America today that has your interest at heart. My words are fashioned best as I can. So what I propose or say is never meant to bring any one or any thing into being called intent to deride or chide.
Thanks for all the good work you are doing, and in keeping with your status as our President. We have prayed that you would not back down or cower to anyone.
Many of WE THE PEOPLE are proud to be Americans and we are NOT inane of political science and the actions needed to protect and insure our equity in justice. And because of that we respect your work and for those high and lofty goals to be the centerpiece of your Administration. With you as our solicitous vanguard we do have HOPE once more. In you taking the lead with your strong and strident voice and will in words and deeds to overcome all the many things, people and matters facing our solvency and sovereignty in our rich and abundant America.
One of the most vocal matters that is discussed daily in the televised media and printed News has been –— when and where is the real CHANGE going to come from as promised. Many good a moral folks and I too have been your devoted staunch and strong allies for each step you have taken. And seems now a new chilly wind from a bad direction has begun to blow. In my perception that is because many of your very close cabinet appointees and confidants have a proven track record that is not very good and that comes from their affiliations with groups and societies that have un-sound and un-reasonable long-term goals that have severe lacks of care and concern for our rights to life in our rich and abundant America that we have clung to in our communities and Constitution.
The following list was furnished by WIKI about those active today in your administration that has been apart of the Bilderberg Group.
Mr. President we elected you to set the stage for change and with those listed on your staff now — how can you do that? Obviously you have your work cut out for you to reform our government to integrity… and genuinely caring and working with the highest good of all in mind. You have a tall task you have taken on and we salute you and back you anyway we can.
Their connectivity to others around the world that have a different strategy about the way we should go —- I think it is NOT as a sovereign solvent nation with our own self interest at the core of all we do —- if their plans are implemented that will simply lead us to change not but for more of the same. And to bypass that end game some things that you could do in the way things go for us—– would be:
Richard N. Haass (1991, 2003, 2004[11]), president, Council on Foreign Relations
Christian Herter[12] (1961, 1963, 1964, 1966), former Secretary of State
Sam Nunn (1996, 1997[4]), former US Senator
Kathleen Sebelius[15], Kansas governor and nominee for the the Health and Human Services secretary post
Timothy Geithner[16], Treasury Secretary
Lawrence Summers[17], Director of the National Economic Council
Paul Volcker[18], Chair of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
1. The best measure as our President Commander and Chief to do now so that you would have many more ideas put on the table to think about would be —- To hold one if not more Strategic Planning and Development Stimulus Summits — with or without any of your staff and cabinet members or close confidants in the loop now—-then arrange for many other good Americans that are noteworthy with credentials in scholarship and proven track records in name honor and recognition to attend and allow them to have your ear for at least three consecutive days. That you might hear many others opinions and suggestion why and how to move forward then that might bring another perspective of what needs to be done now.
2. Each passing day in America is filled with insidious, hideous and tenuous stuff as was the days when the BUSH BUNCH GANG was in power doing their THANGS. And because of that— things must change now you know that wholeheartedly, so please don’t wait —- to make the Strategic Planning and Development Stimulus Summit one of the matters most important on your agenda.
3. Now my suspicions are like many — if a Strategic Planning and Development Stimulus Summit or one of like kind —– is not done soon by you —-then your men might with their faulted and failed plans prevail.
4. The Bilderberg Group agendas are very clear they are out to protect the accumulation of wealth held by the old line and some new Barons [or benefactors of the spoils of war] to do what is best for them in exclusionary measures no matter what is best for the people affected. Because in their grand scheme of doing things all their goals are about exclusion for all reasons.
One thing for sure all of us agree you have guts to want the job of being our President to lead us out of the espionage and sabotage done by some corrupting our Nation that has been going on for a long time. And one thing you can count on us for doing —-is watching your back day and night, best as we can.
What ever you need us to do just tell us. Give us BIG JOBS to do —-there is a lot of folks that will work for free to help us get back on our feet—-WHY — They like me love this our home America —– think about holding a SUMMIT with the many others that have a good heartbeat from the grass roots of the American folks right now.
As in all good things —- change comes little by little and we should not rush any longer to put out fires that might be needed to burn down the old failed ways of doing business as usual —– that has us in the fix we are in.
Best regards
Dwight Baker
Co –Founder of the Bondservants of Christ Jesus Ministries
Chairman of the Voices of We the Peoples Lobby now [Advocacy or WTPA] grass roots actions
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com
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