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Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor addresses the Value Voters Summit in Washington, DC, Friday. The Value Voters Summit, sponsored by the Family Research Council, is an annual gathering of the religious right; it provides Republican politicians and presidential candidates an opportunity to display their conservative bona fides.
The second-ranking House Republican castigated "Occupy Wall Street" protesters on Friday, just as Democrats begin cozying up to the weeks-old demonstrations.
House GOP Leader Eric Cantor decried the protests that started several weeks ago in New York, and have spread to major cities across the country. Cantor said in a speech at the Values Voters Summit in Washington that he is "increasingly concerned" about the "growing mobs" represented at the protests.
Cantor's remarks, some of the harshest by a Republican toward the "Occupy" demonstrators, comes amidst a growing political divide over the protests. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi backed the demonstrations, saying, "God bless them for their spontaneity." And other Democrats have been even more open in their embrace of the movement, which has also attracted support from organized labor.
Organizers behind the movement, which expresses outrage toward the conduct of corporate America and seeks campaign finance reform, have hoped it develops into an analogue for the Tea Party on the left, which has helped fuel a Republican political resurgence over the past two years.
"Some in Washington have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans," Cantor said of the protests after accusing the Obama administration's policies of being an "assault on many of our nation's bedrock principles."
Other political leaders have been more coy in their approach toward the demonstrations; President Obama nodded toward the protests as a sign of broader frustration over the state of the economy.
As for Republicans, Mitt Romney accused the protesters of engaging in "class warfare," but has otherwise stayed silent about the demonstrations. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called them the "Obama demonstrations," while Texas Rep. Ron Paul encouraged the protests.
"If they were demonstrating peacefully ... and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed–I would say, good!" he told the libertarian magazine Reason.
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Cantor needs to be concerend for he is just one of the biggest ducks in the puddle that created the mess our country is in however he has proven that he doesnt really care about his country as a whole,he is just grandstanding and likes to hear himself talk.
What can I say that hasn't been said? He made his lack of respect for the Office of the President and the man who holds that Office when he acted like a spoiled child who could not or did not get his way then turned his back and walked out. Did you really expect him to respect anyone else to express their First Amendment Rights? All he wants is face time! The more he gets on TV or in the paper or Internet makes him happy and satisfies his ego. He is a bully and nothing more. He seeks the approval others to be okay. All he wants is attention. Wake up people! The entire crew needs to be replaced. That position was intended to be a privilege not a career. Being a Representative was supposed to be an honor. You served you term and went home. Now it has increased to where Uncle Sugar provides more bennies to them than they do for those on welfare. When you hear a politician saying what you think sounds good or great them you should probably vote for the other one. He really needs to get over himself.
This is a socialist movement! now they are pushing it to all cities? to create chaos all over! one of the consequences will be that more corporations will move more of their operations overseas, investors may look into other options, ... the list can go on! The silent majority must wake up! Demonistrating for a day, two days, even a week is ok! The leaders behind have an agenda, and they have been using the youngesters who have no real sense of the real world to screw up America!
The Soros Agenda
LOL you need to take a better look. The entire Group are the ones that are receiving more than any one else so in that regard Congress would be a socialist Agency that stands all alone unhampered by anyone. Can you vote yourself a longer vacation on your job? Can you vote yourself a raise? Can you create and vote yourself a cost of living increase? Do you continue to get your salary once you leave your job? Do you get free medical for you and your family? maybe you should read Carl Marx and see what Socialism truly is. Why did they take Civics out of the high school curiculum? No wonder no one knows the difference between various forms of government.
Socialism- Government owned and run.
Facism- Goverment controlled.
Not much difference.
Tea Partiers are for freedom, not government control.
This is the "silent majority" dummy! They just stopped to be silent. And the chaos was created long before that movement begun. But I guess you were just off sick?
Politicos- So what is it you want?
The GOP wants EVERYONE to be successful, because that's their base. The Dem's want EVERYONE dependant on the Federal Government, as that is their base.
Some Wall Street fat cat must have pulled the string around Cantor's balls. Are all tea party members corporate mouthpieces?
There are 2 Americas. Those that want to control everyone else and those that want freedom.
So one group are just a bunch of peaceful tea drinkers and the others are a dangerous mob run amok?
Tea Party - Have a rally for freedom, go home, none arrested.
Wall Street Haters - Have a rally, mob, get lots arrested, stay longer and longer, hate capitalism and freedom, love socialism, create huge messes and overrun locals.
Frank -- did you ever consider the fact that corporate and political corruption, plus economy-leveling greed and conniving, have irritated people other than your distinguished self? People who do not care for the Tea Party's 16th-Century social agenda, but are, in their own way, every bit as disgusted with the system as your lot purports to be?
No. You haven't. You just see Strangers and start to cry.
Cantor is a joke ! this idiot stood by when tea-party members shouted down congress persons at meetings ! the stood silent when member of congress short that the President was a liar ! as far as i am concerned someone should Pill this bastard !!!!!! and maybe some of the other republican idiots ! (forget peaceful dialogue )
HAH! A GOP tea bagger shill calling the demonstrators a mob! What a hoot!!
Cantor is a bit of a fool for making these Occupy Wall Street bone-heads out to be anti- Republican. These people, to the extent they have any coherent and consistent viewpoint at all, are simply railing against the establishment. Obama is every bit a part of the establishment as is Wall Street. In fact, his big bail-out was very beneficial to Wall Street interests.
Since most Americans own a lot of stocks, we don't exactly want them to fail.
Gee.
I was going to jump in and put the idiot, Cantor, in his place, but seems like there are more thoughtful people than I thought existed doing a pretty good job of it. Poor Cantor. I don't like to bully..
..but, then again..
Yo, Cantor! Shut yer mealy mouthed conservative YAP!
The traitor israelite, man-boy, loud mouthed, GOP scumbag is "concerned" about the PEOPLE'S demonstrations against his elitist wall-street employers, is he???
Ohhh, the poor gold-worshiping baby!!
Did this scumbag, CRYING WHOOSIE, eric cantor, actually believe the people in general were going to simply fall in line with his "upper 2% only, corporate-elitist corrupted politics?
Damn right this man-boy loud mouth needs to be concerned -- real concerned -- which would heighten tremendously if and when his office doors get kicked in and he is physically dragged out, tarred, feathered, and tied to a rail and exiled to GITMO!
The reason we are now seeing these wall-street owned and elitist managed GOP-scumbags talking tough about these "mobs", is because they do pose a very real and genuinely deserved -- threat to the GOP-corporate corrupted agenda.
The protests are growing, and will thankfully grow even quicker now thank to this traitor man-boy's big mouth and self-aggrandizing ego...
GOP = Gestapo On Parade....
BuddyThis~
Just another Jew - hater --- seem to be a lot of them coming out of the flea-bagger woodwork.
It's not that he's Jewish. He's a whore.
CANTOR, ROMNEY and other GOPERS ARE SCARED. THEY SHOULD BE--because they are a big part of the problem and they are miffed that finally the sleeping masses are waking up to the truth of what is really going on. Cantor and other GOPers never said the sort of thing they are now saying about the "occupy wall street" movement. And lap dog journalists never question such outrages. Instead, they are asking what rural America will think of this—a question they never asked about the Tea Party, an artificial hybrid of billionaire backers and ordinary people they use for their own end. YES, THE OCCUPY WALL STREET CROWD IS ALREADY A PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT. ASK THOSE WHO REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE SUBJECT. The Tea Party was never really a "movement." It is very reactionary and is the cunning invention of Rich backers like the Koch Brothers to protect the rich (the top 1%) and to work against the interest of the people; the Occupy Wall Street crowd is a spontaneous people's movement of the 99%. The Tea Party is very corrupt, corrupted by the rich. They even financed the 2010 elections that got many Tea Party activists into the US House of Congress. The Occupy Wall Street crowd is innocent in its demands and focuses on the interests of ordinary people--common will. The Tea Party has never drawn the kind of spontaneous crowd we are seeing in New York and all over the country.
Class-warfare? 400 families own more than 150 million americans. They are the only ones who can afford class-warfare. The rest of us are just trying to pay our mortgages and keep our jobs (if we are lucky enough to have one), we don't have the clout because they don't fear us and they can buy the police and politicians.
Maybe these fat cats and republicans need to have a little fear. The French Revolution didn't start over night, neither did the American Revolution. Both were working class people being tired of having taxes extracted from them and the wealthy living at standards so much higher on the backs of the miserable poor. If they don't learn from history, it will happen again. And neither democrat nor republican will be safe.
Nobody owns me.
Sure, it's o.k. for the tea-twits to protest but Americans protesting against banks [those big spenders that buy congressmen regularly and keep them in hookers and handbags] that's a no-no. Until this country gets back to being for ALL AMERICANS, and not just the richest, protests will continue to escalate until we reach an American version of the Arab Spring; which may resemble the French Revolution and that's something the likes of which congress should fear. But, alas, they're well-insulated in their mountains estates, high-rise condos and demented delusions.
Sounds like you just want handouts.
Cantor's a tool. I've learned to respect him about as much as I respect Palin.....and jock itch. These people, along with MILLIONS more across the U.S. represent the majority of Americans. If Cantor doesn't like it....he should secede along with Perry and the rest of those pug clowns. Let's see...... we'll give em Texas...Arkansas....maybe Oklahoma. They would have PLENTY of room and time....to rip each other off. They're done doin' it to the working class.
did you know...Cantor's poop does not stink...he said so
A mere legend in his own mind...
history will repeat as always. it started in france and england. i feel that we are at the point where the wall streeters are saying 'let them eat cake' and we all remember where it went from there.
the protestors need to take it up a couple notches before they really are taken serioously. they protest on wall street becasue they know where the real seat of govt is.
This is the stupidest thing I have seen in a while. This hapless, pathetic mob of losers is epitomizes the shallowness and foolishness of the left. Spurred on by more nitwits like Sarandon and Moore, they are desperate to recreate the protests of the 60's. But there is no sincerity to this effort at all. It is pure hype, faceless and meaningless drivel that only draws attention to what losers they are. Unfortunately, I am certain that somewhere in a classroom there is an aging hippie who longs for the good ol' days who is using this to instruct the students on "civil disobedience", "freedom of expression" et al and then after class goes to the teacher's lounge to fondle themselves.
Sorry workhorse, but since the 1980's there has been class warfare: 50% of the wealth of the entire country is currently in the hands of 400 or so families. Over 80% of the wealth is in the hands of just 10%.
Surprise, surprise, the results have been obvious: consumers can no longer drive the economy, and as a result, there is no mechanism for economic growth left. Consumer spending and consumer demand creates upward pressure on jobs [to create a supply of goods]. Without that consumer demand, there is no economic growth.
The "Class Warfare" Republicans speak of started 30 years ago under Regan. Now the middle-class is near non-existant, and we see the economic results that have transpired as a result.
Hey cantor!I got NEWS for you: Trickle down economics SUCKS
so let me get this straight: this guy has a problem with people voicing their displeasure about constantly getting screwed over by our govt, in combination with their complete and total lack of ability to do the "right" thing!!!??
he should be among the first to go...another useless talking head who thinks we (the people) are there for him (the elected official).
NEWSFLASH JACKASS: IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND! you weren't put into the office to see how much you could improve YOUR position in life...you're supposed to be there as part of the process that helps to maintain and/or improve all of OUR positions as a COUNTRY. dope--get the hell out!
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Cantor does not represent the 99% of his district. He is strictly for the Rich 1% and ways to continue the slide of the Middle Class into poverty.
I visited the kids in the "park", most are young and "smart" and "read from all sources" not just listen to the "Choose the Right Corporate radio of Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck".
The facts are wages in this country have flattened over 30 years even though with productivity increases that were NOT passed along to the employees who made it happen. In the meantime, CEO and the executive 1% have seen their compensation mainly paid in stock taxed at 15% increase from 40 times employees compensation to over 500 times, way out of line with the rest of the world.
The USA allows our Medical Service to Fix Prices for Profit doubling every 7 years and says it is OK for a family to fall into bankruptcy because of Outrageous Medical Bills. No othe country in the industrialized world permits Medical Indebtedness bankruptcies, the USA has nearly One MIllion families who fall into medical debt, loss of home, savings and the chance to retire. No anti-trust law enforcement, our Medical System is a Monopoly and thanks to the $Billion dollars pushed into Congress to defeat Universal Health Care for all, we are continuing down the path to poverty and a few, like the CEO of United Health Care who had $1.7 BILLION dollars in compensation in 2009.
The Babyboomers saw their defined benefit pensions, over 100,000 DB plans, disappear because no one in our Republican Controlled Congress underfunding watchdog agencies like the SEC and CFTC while Corporations stole, robbed the Defined Benefit Pensions of millions of babyboomers.
The farce of the 401K where an average 65 year old, has $55,000 in his 401K to supplement his Social Security while Cantor wants to eliminate SS of people who have contributed for 40 years 15% of their wages to it.
Young people cannot find a job because the Babyboomers are having to work even though about half of them have disabilites and work with difficulty because of aging. The 25% unemployment of young people is the result of the babyboomers not being able to retire, not because they did not plan, but because Corporate America Stole their pensions and Wall Street skims their 401K's with high speed trading that has not been outlawed.
How can we ignore the 13 million kids in poverty?
Cantor is an instrument of the Rich 1%, he does not represent anyone who earns less than $100,000 a year. I hope he gets kicked out of Congress so he can be with his Rich Buddies.
Most people get more out of SS than they put in. SS benefits are cut or taxes are raised about every 20 years because socialism is unsustainable.
401k averages are what they are because people don't start saving until they are 50 and they take out too.
Eric Cantor should be worried....he is a weasel.....out for the rich and the hell with the middle class....how the heck can Virginia keep this idiot in office/????? need some competition for him and Boehner.....
With all the hate directed at the rich from everyone else, maybe they should have a little protection.