Another faux punditry. Cantor's
loss is less of a "conservative" / tea-party win. Many of these pundits
forget that Eric Cantor worked hard, at least in the last couple of
weeks before his defeat. They also forget that Dave Brat got little or
no support from the tea-party guards who are now claiming his "victory"
as their own.
The true narrative the pundits are working so hard to supress, or are two ignorant to recognize are 1) Mr. Cantor's arrogance and 2) Mr. Cantor's lack of conviction. For 5 years, he yearned to one-up Obama, and soon after the 2010 elections began to angle for the Speakership. His hubristic ambition, in many ways, paved the way for the do-nothing congress of the last 4 years - led by a spineless speaker. These are men whose interest in being "leaders" far outweighed their sense of responsibility to the nation they purport to lead. Many of the faux pundits parroting of Republicans recently found (5 years old) fiscal conservatism conveniently forgot their role in unfunded Wars and unfunded Medicare-Part-D, and their unfunded tax-breaks, or their no-string attached bail-out aka TARP I.
The lesson other Republican politicians in Washington should heed from Cantor's loss is this "there will soon be a day of reckoning". These mostly rabble rousing crowd of charlatans should remember their tribes of yore who defended the gilded age, and later those who defended segregation, and before them, those who defended slavery.
Americans of all strips should come together for the good of the nation and in support of common sense policies. Let us find the resources to fix the nation's broken infrastructure and put people (millions) back to work doing so; let us guarantee access to health care for all (perhaps not cadillac plan for all); let us all agree that no one should work for 40 hours and still not be able to afford a decent livelihood. It is shameful that Republicans will rather praise foreign leaders (Natanyahu, Putin) than rally around their own President. I wonder what Abe Lincoln would have thought of that.
The true narrative the pundits are working so hard to supress, or are two ignorant to recognize are 1) Mr. Cantor's arrogance and 2) Mr. Cantor's lack of conviction. For 5 years, he yearned to one-up Obama, and soon after the 2010 elections began to angle for the Speakership. His hubristic ambition, in many ways, paved the way for the do-nothing congress of the last 4 years - led by a spineless speaker. These are men whose interest in being "leaders" far outweighed their sense of responsibility to the nation they purport to lead. Many of the faux pundits parroting of Republicans recently found (5 years old) fiscal conservatism conveniently forgot their role in unfunded Wars and unfunded Medicare-Part-D, and their unfunded tax-breaks, or their no-string attached bail-out aka TARP I.
The lesson other Republican politicians in Washington should heed from Cantor's loss is this "there will soon be a day of reckoning". These mostly rabble rousing crowd of charlatans should remember their tribes of yore who defended the gilded age, and later those who defended segregation, and before them, those who defended slavery.
Americans of all strips should come together for the good of the nation and in support of common sense policies. Let us find the resources to fix the nation's broken infrastructure and put people (millions) back to work doing so; let us guarantee access to health care for all (perhaps not cadillac plan for all); let us all agree that no one should work for 40 hours and still not be able to afford a decent livelihood. It is shameful that Republicans will rather praise foreign leaders (Natanyahu, Putin) than rally around their own President. I wonder what Abe Lincoln would have thought of that.
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