Chris Wallace RIPS Eric Cantor as Fox News Drops a REALITY BOMB on House Republicans

[Segami]

Chris Wallace tore through Eric Cantor with some tough realistic question on Fox News Sunday, and proved that Fox News is frighteningly more in touch with reality than House Republicans.



Chris Wallace first asked Cantor, “Is what you have been doing the best way to spend Congress’s time when you are about to go on recess for five full weeks?” Cantor tried to defend the votes with standard House Republican talking points, government doesn’t create jobs, blah, blah, blah. Wallace then dropped a reality bomb on Majority Leader Cantor, “But Congressman, rightly or wrongly, none of these bills that you passed is going to become law. Your own members say they’re not going to pass the Senate. The president won’t sign them. Let’s talk reality. You haven’t passed a Farm Bill. You’ve only passed 4 of the 12 appropriations bills you’re supposed to pass. We face a government shutdown and debt limit in the fall. Again, is the best way to spend your time passing bills that aren’t going to become law? An added question, with so much unfinished business why not stick around instead of taking a five week vacation. Rep. Cantor blamed Obama for being out giving campaign speeches, and not cooperating with the House.



Wallace kept after Cantor, “You could tend to your own knitting. You could pass a Farm Bill. You could take. You have the power of the purse. Only 4 of the 12 appropriations bills have you even passed. Why not do what the House is supposed to do?” Cantor claimed they passed a Farm Bill, and tried to turn their complete failure to pass a comprehensive Farm Bill into Republican reform. Cantor blamed the Senate for lack of passage of appropriations bills, and said the House has passed more than the Senate.



When Fox News is more in touch with reality than the Republican Majority Leader in the House, there’s a big problem. This a network that is still hyping the debunked IRS and Benghazi scandals, but yet, they are telling House Republicans to wake up and get real.




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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/04/chris-wallace-rips-eric-cantor-fox-news-drops-reality-bomb-house-republicans.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. Damn, Chris, let 'em slumber, man!

I think Fox sees Waterloo next November and is trying to help.

[Jackpine Radical]

24. Tell it to Nate Silver.

[Doctor_J]

51. uh, no

Someone needs to drop a reality bomb on you.

[BeyondGeography]

56. If you say so, Doc

[Sheepshank]

76. Fox news brining reality to their listeners is a good thing

maybe it's the only way some RW'er get their dose of political news. Why not shine a light on the failure of Congressional politicians to actually act on bills?

[dballance]

2. I LOVE the look of utter shock on Cantor's face

When they come back from the video clip Cantor looks stunned that he's actually being confronted with the GOP obstructionism. And why wouldn't he be shocked? He's being interviewed on FOX, not Maddow or Ed or by former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien. He certainly wasn't expecting a real question.

[Heather MC]

16. This man is such a Roach

He never answered the Questions, I hate that he is from my state. Not me district though. if he was from my district I would have firgured out a way to vote against him twice

[SnowCritter]

18. Cockroaches everywhere take umbrage at the comparison!

And I'm pretty sure he's not related to Hal (the Roach that gave us "The Little Rascals&quot .

[Heather MC]

22. I can't help it I just want to step him, it's the reaction I have when I see a roach

[Politicalboi]

31. Cockroaches serve a purpose

This POS does not.

[Lordquinton]

42. Roaches serve a purpose in nature

But when they get in your house, you should step on them or they will move in and destroy everything you love.

[deafskeptic]

45. I hate that Cantor used to attend my brother's old hs and he represents my old district. :P n/t

[Heather MC]

46. I was really hoping Wayne Powell would have unseated him. But I don't think the people who vote him

care about anything but the R infront of his name

[BlueManFan]

71. Hang In There And Remember... Somebody Somewhere Is Dying A Little Too Everyday

Down here is Texjesustan we have Johnny Cornpone and Ted Cruz in the senate. Spend a little time ruminating on that and see if you don't feel a little better.

[Stuart G]

44. I saw that look too. loved it.. and he sure didn't expect it....nt

[kentuck]

3. I was impressed with the tenacity of Wallace.

But I had never thought that he was on the far right. I've always thought he had a sense of fairness about him.

[PragmaticLiberal]

11. I'm not even sure Wallace is "on the right" at all.

I just think he's an old school journalist...more or less.

[kentuck]

14. You may be right?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Government does not create jobs says the guy with a government job.

[kentuck]

7. They fail us when they do not point that out.

I guess he doesn't look at his position as a "job"? He's not there to work for the people, you can bet on that.

[Jackpine Radical]

25. It's not a job. It's aPOSITION.

World of difference there.

Nobody ever said "drop a (money) bomb on that job."

[Jim Lane]

36. When they want to protect military spending, the Republicans believe otherwise.

Then they'll always talk about how cutting the Pentagon budget will cost jobs.

[Enthusiast]

63. They say exactly that.

For some reason they don't see military jobs as government jobs. They have skewed understanding of the relationship between the government and the military.

[Botany]

41. + 1,000,000,000,000,000,000

BTW the military is a job, the national weather service is a job, the FBI is a job,
the dept. of interior is a job, the state dept. is a job, ......

[Scurrilous]

5. LOL

Cantor is a fucking clown.

[Enthusiast]

64. A dangerous, arrogant fucking clown. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Are we heading for a train wreck? Can you...

fix everything in the nine days you have when you get back from vacation?

Why take a vacation anyway with all this left undone?

Why can't you pass a bill, any bill, that will pass the Senate and the White House?

These questions are not so difficult if you actually want to govern and not blame Obama for your own stink, but Cantor doesn't even bother to answer them and pulls the politician's switch and changes the subject.

Actually, if you want to govern, these questions should never have to come up.

And if Cantor has Fox all over his ass, the game's over.

[pscot]

8. K&R

[Auntie Bush]

9. Wow! The pigs are almost flying!

They've taken off but headed for a crash landing.

[Katashi_itto]

10. K&R

[Rex]

12. I wish people understood that for years the GOP

actively tried to shutdown the country in protest of Obama being POTUS. I WISH that would sink into peoples heads as they lose their food stamps (the ones that vote R) the ones that no longer have unemployment or have to go to a state sanctioned rape room if they want an abortion. If you are part of the working class and vote for a Repuke, you are admitting to being ignorant to your own parties platform.

Repukes are SOOOOO lucky most people don't pay any attention to what they do daily.

[Heather MC]

47. I have a strong R friend that admits to being part of the 47%

And he happily blames Obama and Obamacare for why he has not been able to find a job since before the election. but you better believe he cashes his Gubment check right on time.

He lives in Arizona but um yeah it's Obama's fault,

I seem to recall Mitt Romney got blamed for his state being 47th in the nation for Job Creation when he was the Gov of his State.

But in Arizona it's Apparently Obama's fault

[Fla Dem]

13. Actually, I saw this as Wallace setting up softballs for Cantor to hit out of the park.

Yes, Wallace appears to be pushing Cantor on the shortcomings of the republican congress, but then Cantor just takes Wallace's comments and turns them to his advantage. No appropriations bills? Not true, we have passed 4 and the Senate has passed NONE!

Wallace: but why with all the unfinished business is congress taking a 5 week vacation. Cantor: but the President is already out there campaigning like it's an election year.

These aren't verbatim quotes, but just a sense at how Cantor worked off Wallace's supposed criticisms to get his talking points across.

I also detected a smirk from Cantor when Wallace began his questioning, as if to say, I am so ready for this.

Unfortunately, for most of the people who watch FOX, they will see this as a slam against Obama and the Democratic senate.

[kentuck]

15. Maybe so but...

...this is not the usual tenor taken by FOX reporters, in my opinion. The questions were there. You may think Cantor did a good job of parrying them but that is subject to opinion.

[chillfactor]

27. I do not agree.....

Wallace pushed Cantor and Cator responeded with standard republican talking points.....Cantor looked like the douchebag he is.......

[Fla Dem]

74. Yes to you and me, but he gave the answers that the faux followers love.

That's all the rethugs have are talking points because they have no accomplishments to talk about. But the push their talking points ad nauseaum and the faux followers believe every word they say.

[QuestForSense]

28. That was my take too, Fla Dem

An old (and effective) technique -- throw 'em something to push against. And it works so well because most Faux viewers are only watching and waiting for validation of own views, and nothing else.

[JDPriestly]

40. The Constitution provides that appropriations bills are to start in the House.

Read it.

The Senate can then propose changes.

So it is the unique responsibility of the House to start the appropriations discourse in Congress.

The Republicans like all extremist fanatics cannot bring themselves to propose an appropriations bill that the Democrats in the Senate could tweak and agree to.

That is why we need to get more Democrats into Congress.

It is very frustrating to see Democrats have to bend their backs and their morality more and more to the selfish, egotistical, Ayn Randian Republican whip.

It is simply wrong. We need more Democrats in Congress -- far more. And we need about half the Republicans that we have. The Republicans egg each other more and more into a stubborn unwillingness to enter into the slightest compromise.

Do everything you can to get Democrats into Congress in 2014.

If we don't, Americans will increasingly lose faith in the ability of our people to govern themselves. It isn't a matter of partisan politics at this point. It is a matter of keeping the give-and-take that is essential to a constitutional government that requires a separation of powers or simply giving way to a form of presidential dictatorship -- not because our president wants it but because members of Congress can't work together.

Rigid ideologues cannot work within our democratic system. Our republic will be lost if we continue to elect rigid, backward Republicans.

[Heather MC]

48. Cantor has become a better bullshitter. I remember in 2008

When Tweety would often make him look like a stammering idiot.

[Doctor_J]

52. yeah it's pretty pathetic that dems are celebrating this right wing propaganda

onslaught. We are getting desperate it seems.

[John2]

65. Trying to make FOX

a news organization again? Wallace should have moved in on him with more attacks. Once he gave his answer about Government not creating jobs, then why are you blaming President Obama for the economy and unemployment? Shouldn't you blame those who create jobs? They are making a lot of profits on tax cuts but nothing to show for it? Why don't you blame the job creators for the Economy, instead of the President?

[Dustlawyer]

75. This was a set up to look like vigorous journalism, but notice they had 3 union leaders

pictured when Cantor starts saying Obamacare is criticized by union leadership. Just like everything else in D.C., this interview was rigged. If Wallace was so tough on Cantor how come he didn't call him out when Cantor was talking about the "growing" deficit? This was their attempt to show that Obama, not the House GOP, was the one obstructing.

[Fla Dem]

80. Thank you...exactly my point. n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. Republicans act like

Because they control 1/3 of the federal legislative process, everybody else should just STFU and just do what they want them to do. Their no-compromise obstructionist attitude just doesn't work with divided government (or democracy) unless their goal is just to blow everything up (which it sort of seems like it is). Also, it is sort of hard for the Senate to pass much when they are being blocked by filibusters against anything they don't like- which is pretty much everything

[kentuck]

20. And Boehner acts like he was elected Speaker of the Republicans...

His actual title is Speaker of the House. He is supposed to be the Leader of the entire House. He uses the "Hastert rule" to keep the Democrats from ever voting or even having a voice. It is totally a shirking of his duties. Even the minority has a right to bring up bills and have them voted on. However, with the Hastert rule, unless the majority of Republicans support a measure, Boehner doesn't even bring it up for a vote. He is less than worthless.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. Yeah

I don't understand how they get away with it other than they can- but they shouldn't be able to. It would be nice if somebody would start questioning THAT more

[L0oniX]

19. Eating their own. Luv it. n/t

[hue]

21. Reality bites....apparently not hard enough...

[cantbeserious]

26. The House And Senate Will Have To Face The Voters During Recess - Let's Hope It Goes Poorly

eom

[totodeinhere]

30. Unfortunately many of the hard line baggers in the House GOP caucus will

return to gerrymandered right wing districts where there will be nothing but an echo chamber.

[totodeinhere]

29. If they are even getting it from Faux News then they must really be pathetic. n/t

[AnotherMcIntosh]

32. Without a passage of a farm bill, will Chris Wallace not receive a farm subsidy?

[DallasNE]

33. Chris Wallace Is Not Sean Hannity

While Wallace has a clear bias he is still a journalist by training. Also, Fox News is a arm of the big business wing of the Republican Party and this reality means that Wallace will go after Cantor and other Republicans for foot dragging on appropriations. And Cantor fumbled the ball badly. All appropriations bill must originate in the House so Cantor is just lying when he tries to blame the Senate for lack of progress on appropriation measures. It is not uncommon for 2 or 3 of these large appropriation bills to not be passed until the last minute. It is unheard of for 8 of these measures to still be pending post Labor Day as has happened this year. 32 bills passed in 8 months comes to one bill per week. That is crazy.

[matthews]

34. Ah! 'Entitlements are the real problem'. What a nasty nasty

little man he is.

[valerief]

53. 99%er entitlements. Not CORPORATE entitlements. nt

[Politicalboi]

35. There should be NO vacation

Till this shit gets done.

[Berlum]

37. Republicans don't just hate truth, they hate reality, too

No wonder they are so widely disdained.

[dlwickham]

38. who did Cantor piss off

when the official voice of your party goes after you, you know you're in trouble

[JDPriestly]

39. So Republicans want "entitlement reforms."

It's a euphemism for cutting Social Security and Medicare. And I assure you, seniors cannot survive without Social Security and Medicare. Might as well just kill us all right now on the spot as cut the funding for those two programs.

The alternative to Social Security and Medicare is that the children of the elderly take care of their parents. That would bankrupt many, many young families.

There is no easy solution to the senior bulge that the baby-boomer generation will bring. But the country can't just defund the programs that keep seniors alive.

Bank rates right now are almost nothing. That makes it far harder to cover the bare essentials with the present Social Security check than it was for previous generations because those who did save see their savings dwindling not growing.

The decision to save Wall Street and not Main Street was a really, really bad one. We are all paying for it now.

What needs to be reformed is our Congress. We need a strong pro-labor, pro-people Democratic majority in the House as well as in the Senate.

The focus needs to be on bringing in new Democrats to our Congress. Do we all agree to work together to achieve that goal?

Seniors who have the time to volunteer should consider giving priority to volunteering for the Democratic Party this coming year. It is time to start right now.

[matthews]

58. They can't defund what WE paid into it. We have already paid our dues. We

(most of us anyway) sure as hell could have used that money that they took out of our checks specifically for the purpose of getting it back in our 'golden' years.

[Stuart G]

43. K and R thanks for posting

[CakeGrrl]

49. K/R, but

the situation is just so beyond ridiculous that I can't find any humor, ironic or otherwise, in it.

[Cha]

50. I'm pleasantly SHOCKED!

mahalo, Segami.

fox is suppose to let gops like cantor go on and on about how great they are and how bad Pres Obama is and Chris Wallace wasn't having it.

[closeupready]

54. K&R - Cantor is part of the problem

why Congress doesn't get anything useful done.

[2Design]

55. his voice is irritating - his convulted bs is just incredibly stupid - he is just plain stupid

[sheshe2]

57. I couldn't even bring myself to watch the clip.

Couldn't watch smarmy ass Eric dribble his half ass comments. It's Obama's fault!

Keep digging boys, you need a deeper hole to bury yourselves in.

Thanks Segami.

[colsohlibgal]

59. He And Shep Smith - How Do They Get Away With This On The Right Wing Propaganda Network?

Tough follow up questions instead of softball after softball, occasionally real journalism breaks out on Fox.

[PatrynXX]

60. ahh yes Benghazi and what IRS scandal

as I had my dad say the so called terrorist threat is just a fake attempt to divert attention from Benghazi and the IRS Scandal O_O

not really. Bush did the same thing but his were actual scandals.

[ecstatic]

61. It's not Fox News, it's Chris Wallace, who appears to be going rogue

and a little off script lately (with this and his comments defending Obama's Trayvon Martin remarks). The moderate righties are really disgusted with the direction of their party.

[pacalo]

62. If Cantor only knew how others see him. He thinks he's slick.

[faithnomore]

66. What a smarmy, lying, little bastard.

Cantor embodies everything I hate about repugs.

[maddiemom]

67. Cantor is such an obvious tool, that it come across every time he speaks.

He should never appear on talk shows. The late, great Mike Wallace may be spinning a little less frantically in his grave after his son's uncharacteristic handling of Cantor.

[maddiemom]

70. Jump back! He's usually safe on Fox, Chris Wallace surprised us all.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

68. Eric Can't or Won't.

Eric [font size = "+1"]CAN'T[/font]or won't.

[maddiemom]

69. Who exactly is "lame duck" Obama campaigning for? Other Democratic

candidates? That's been American political tradition forever. I love how today's Republicans turn traditional politics and anything else that they can come up with as a NEW political evil perpetrated by Obama!

[Stuart G]

72. kick again

[tallahasseedem]

73. I really hate this guy...

The talking in circle deal is just ridiculous. Someone needs to show him an episode of School House Rock so he can finally understand that it is NOT the Presidents job to get bills through the House and Senate.

[SummerSnow]

77. Here he is in full regalia

[Jack Rabbit]

78. Chris Wallace on Fox News is asking Eric Cantor tough questions

Hang your head in shame, David Gregory.

[KansDem]

79. Oh, Gawd, not the "government doesn't create jobs; the private sector creates jobs" horseshit again!

We've been hearing that for over 30 years. It simply isn't true!

Stop the lying!

[B Stieg]

81. Good grief! Cantor is practically paralyzed by his own sense of self-importance.

Talk about pomposity on a stick.