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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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If ANYBODY in Congress is bought and paid for it is Cantor. He is the poster boy of what it means to be BRIBED for influence
Agreed!
Would you expect anything else from such a devisive republican like the a$$hole cantor who is bought and paid for by wall street and big business.
So Cantor has no problem with Tea Party demonstrations, but this somehow is a "mob". Well, sorry Eric, but people with different perspectives from yours are also protected by the Constitution. Whether you like it or not.
Actually this mob is a bunch of lowlife, lice-infested, weed-burning, do-nothing bottom-feeders.
Probably because they went back to work after the weekend demonstrations, and cleaned up after themselves... unlike the sorry azz children who don't want to get a job that 'doesn't pay enough'. Pfft!
Hey "Fights" where are you tuff guy?
Huh? Make no sense there gofinger, and I'm not a guy.
Fights
Actually this mob is a bunch of lowlife, lice-infested, weed-burning, do-nothing bottom-feeders.
Judging from the 4 pages of posts, you must be in the 1%; huh?
aw just shut ya corporate whore
Bold statement from someone who has hijacked American progress. This toad should be looking for work.
Amazing that Cantor the hypocrite had no problem with his teabaggger friends and their demonstrations with pictures of the president as an African witch doctor or Hitler. Maybe when the fool read the constitution at the opening of the House session , he missed the part about the right for peaceful assembly. For a constitutionalist he is such a liar.
Just look at the nut case posts - the republicans haven't passed anything since taking over the House? Really? Tell me you went to school and have no clue how a bi-cameral congress works?
Eric doesn't like democracy,it scares him and his gop pals. We are all just supposed to shut up and shine his shoes. Join AA now,the AMERICAN AWAKENING !!!!
They don't like it cause it's not in their pocket! If the Republicans can't buy it, it scares the bejeebers out of them.
He calls anyone protesting against those who own him a mob but if it was a group of tea baggers with guns he would call them true Americans.
exactly Mark.
But it's okay for the Dems to come out and call the Tea Party names... Can't have both ways, children.
I haven't seen anyone in Congress calling the tea party names. Whatcha talkin' about?
It's about time they cracked down on these mobs. What does their constant whining produce accept civil unrest?
@fair and balanced ?
It's about time they cracked down on these mobs. What does their constant whining produce accept civil unrest?
Do you mean the civil unrest is accepted ? Or....were you trying to spell "except" ? It's difficult to take someone serious when they display less than high school grammar. As far as the mobs go, they have the first amendment right to demonstrate.
Hey, Fair and Balanced, your ideas sound a lot like what the British thought about American colonists at the original "Tea Party," which involved actual tea instead of a stout, aging white folk with teabags stapled to their colorful costumes.
F Eric Cantor and the rest. There are Grandmothers, college kids, college graduates, police, fireman, teachers-even some that work on wall street ! And Druggie Limbaugh calls them "human debris". They are peaceful ,not carrying guns "because they can" not tryiing to intimadate with weapons, not attcking handicapped people-all of which we seen with the tea party. In fact, if the Tea Party had any credibility, they should actually join in. Wall Street made a couple of trillion dollars evaporate. Peoples pensions and jobs. they get bailed out, the GOP oppses reform that would keep it from happening again, and the middle class gets plundered.
Why cant the 1% pay their fair share? Why is the system rigged for them?
Draft dodging , drug addicted, illegal hirer of workers Bigbone Limbaugh isn't exactly the person to lecture anyone on what he considers "human debris" unless is is using his own experience as a reference point.
If a republican is against it... I am all for it.
The Republicans encourage you not to jump off the bridge.
Is this the beginning of the Revolution??? The "haves" and "have nots" regardless of what we think about "free enterprise" will eventually face off. History is just repeating itself. Greed, corruption, etc always lead to the downfall. How long before troops are called out to "disperse" the "MOB"???/
Unfortunately, this entitled generation views things just like that. Rather than putting in the work to make things better, they prefer a handout... and if that doesn't work, violence.
Thats right , those returning soldiers of the entitled generation with their huge unemployment rate it's their fault. Right republicans who sent them to die for your phony wars? It their fault they don't have a job because they were so busy feeling entitled while fighting in Afghanistan. Your a moron.
These people are a lot more civil, right now, than the Tea Party mobs were, and we all know that. Unless some rambunctious police or some body else with an agenda tries to change that.
Stop blaming Republicans for all your problems. Or do you want the government to take care of you cradle to grave?
Cantor the traitor, your days are numbered, you will be removed from office in your next election cycle.
Gimme a break. Traitor? Seriously?
GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- the same day when the actual U.S. Secretary of State met with Netanyahu -- and vowed that he and his GOP colleagues would protect and defend Israeli interests against his own Government.
We're talking about a powerful member of Congress engaged in foreign policy, vowing to a foreign government to oppose the administration's policies regarding that government.
Cantor Limbaugh the Jews. What else can you say! Yea stop the spending,stop kicking the can. End obama care,while they still recieve their tax payer funded Govt. health care for them selves.
People are starting to see what been going on.. an they don't like it.
I can accept Cantor and others having health care provided for them. Their jobs are more important than most.
Truthteller - picking on the Jews? Really? Well, true colors show.
Fair and Balanced 78
Unfortunately, this entitled generation views things just like that. Rather than putting in the work to make things better, they prefer a handout... and if that doesn't work, violence.
Fair and unBalanced
Take you FOX talking points where the jobs are across the sea.
Try less "cut and paste" and more using the brain. Or at least change the font so as not to be so obvious.
Oh, really, Fair and Balanced? "[Politicians'] jobs are more important than most?? What kind of clueless tool are you? Are politicians more important than surgeons? Small businessmen? Teachers? Whoever picks up after you, the poor soul?
The most hilarious thing about the Tea Party is its absolute, nuthatch lack of consistency, aside from bottomless anger at anyone who Ain't Jist Exackly Like Yew.
I think the GOP congress is a mob that garners our concern. So, Cantcer and Boner and Harold Romney (look at his birth certificate ;>) see #occupywallstreet as insurrection? Good! Be afraid gentlemen. The playing field is about to level.
Cantoon is a joke, he's upset because boner has been hoggin all the news lately. He should be more concerned about that mob of teapublicans he work with in the house of reps. These guys will do anything to get attenion....."You miss your mommie" cantoon?
He is the first one we need to 'run out of town'! Then we go down the list from there.
Did you know that Cantor's poop does not stink...
A legend in his own mind...
Couldn't anyone see that Eric Cantor was and is really a "Weasel" when his face started to appear on the cameras. If he begins to get even more television exposure, that alone will turn all voters off to him and the right. You can smell the sh!t coming from his nose and mouth; it's so obvious.
These protesters might set their sights on some of their "own", meaning Democrat, lawmakers who helped create the terrible housing market, and subsequent economic collapse, by their cavalier embrace of using class and economic warfare to push through legislation which played into the belief that everyone deserves, as in entitled to, home ownership. The deplorable rules, caused by such men as Dodd and Franks, turned terrible credit risks into no-down-payment, no-credit-check, no-money-down home "owners", even though they were sure to fail to make their payments. The financial institutions, foolishley owned by the banks, were allowed to bundle these securities, knowing they stunk to high heavens, on an unsuspecting populace, leading to collapse. The credit agencies and mortgage insurance companies were blinded by their greed, passed on their duties, and heads should role. The protesters can say what they want, but their situation has little or nothing to do with the "distribution of wealth" they rail against, and all to do with failed economic policy by their own so-called leaders.
Total B.S.
Cantor,a political sleeze, is in Bed with everything thats wrong in Washington. He and his com patriots, Boehner and MCConnell and Pelozi and Reid with different paying lobbyists and special interest groups. The whole damn bunch should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. America needs to get back to the constitution, the way our country used to be.
"while Texas Rep. Ron Paul encouraged the protests." Go Ron Paul! The only Republican who thinks like an independent! And the only candidate that would pull us out of our decade long wars. He is a true conservative who would ironically do more for liberals than Obama has.
If Obama loses then be very very scared, I am not a big fan of the big o but he said it best, if the Tea-party or G.O.P will not listen at least to the American people then run them out of town, now we know that will not happen so be prepared for a dictatorship, careful who you vote for folks, seriously.
Cantor is a hipocritical scumbag! He rides the Tea Party into creating Washington paralysis - accompanied by "mobs" that hurl racial remarks - and spit on diabled people - and then he has the nerve to complain when people peacefully demonstrate for a point of view that his greedy Wall Street masters don't approve.
When are people finally going to recognize this self-serving creep for what he really is?