"When the going gets tough, Cantor gets going".

[DainBramaged]

Cantor pulled out of the debt reduction talks because the Democrats refused to pull tax increases off the table. But he's really putting the onus BACK on Boner to keep his 'bagger cred.



WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH what an asshole.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/23/eric-cantor-debt-ceiling-talks_n_882897.html

[sufrommich]

1. The Tea Party is already gunning for Boner. Cantor knows a

good victim when he sees one.

[DainBramaged]

2. I grow less and less afraid of these 'clowns' every day, and I am POSITIVE they will turn

America against them by 2012 elections. Just the fact that they voted to kill medicare should be on commercials in prime time RIGHT NOW everywhere, and ad space should be purchased on the AARP website proclaiming such. But I will give Debbie Dahling time....

[gratuitous]

3. So, will the Democrats proceed without him, or give in to his hostage demands?

I'm on pins and needles!

[vi5]

5. Wow. I wonder too!

I mean seriously the outcome is so up in the air. I mean Democrats fighting and pushing back and holding their ground, or caving in to Republican's hostage demands. I mean it could really go either way.

:sarcasm:

[kentuck]

4. Republicans walk out of negotiations...

...after all the cuts had been agreed upon and the talks turned to tax increases. No Republican wants to be in charge of a tax increase. That is why Cantor bolted. He felt like somone threw him under the bus. He wants Boehner to get involved. He doesn't want to take the bullet alone.

However, if the Repubs cannot agree to these tax increases, they have no one to blame but themselves. The Democrats have already agreed to cuts. Now they are waiting on the Repubs to get their shit together and agree to some tax increases.

The Democrats can go no further. The ball is in the Republican's court.

[DainBramaged]

6. Repukes don't know how to play ball....

[DCKit]

8. Well, after President Clinton screwed them to the wall with their own rhetoric...

about deficits and fully funding any and all new programs (then left a 1999/2000 surplus in excess of $400 billion), you can hardly blame them for being a bit more than a little gun-shy. After all, they don't actually work for us... and it wasn't the middle class that took the hit when Clinton balanced the budget.

My issue is with my fellow citizens who can't see the (R)s for the mentally deficient, unethical clowns they are - this past year and a half has been one, long, incredibly awkward dance for them. Boner, Cantor, McConnell, Bachmann, et al... none of them are smart enough to pull it off with any degree of conviction. As with Cantor today, they'll pick up their toys (or steal yours), and run home to Mommy, the second they get frustrated by those smarty-pants Demoncrats.

[annabanana]

7. Does this mean that the Repugs have to send their emissaries back

out to the haunts of the rilly-rilly rich to reassure them that, no, they will not let everything go to shit?. .that this is just some more theater to spook the shakey Dems?