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Eric Cantor’s press shop has a leader again.
Veteran GOP operative Doug Heye, who most famously served as the communications director at the Republican National Committee during Michael Steele’s tenure there, will return to Capitol Hill to head the House majority leader’s messaging operation. Heye is a constant fixture as a GOP talking head on national cable shows, and he utilizes a down-home style often injecting WWE references into his punditry.
Heye replaces Brad Dayspring, who left Cantor’s Capitol Hill staff last month to work for Cantor “Young Guns” issue advocacy organization. A Democratic aide familiar with both men told NBC News, “While Dayspring was a pitbull for Cantor who liked to agitate, Heye is a calmer still effective hand. He’s less about conflict and more about making his boss look the best.”
More importantly, many on Capitol Hill feel Heye’s signing will usher in a stronger more unified bond with Speaker John Boehner’s press team. At times since the GOP took back the House majority, there has been a well-documented rift between the Boehner and Cantor camps about messaging on major issues. A GOP source who asked not to be quoted so that person could speak candidly about the hiring said, “Heye at Cantor’s office will help foster a close and effective working relationship [with Boehner’s office.] Doug is a talented veteran who brings valuable communications experience and perspective to the job.”
Heye’s presence will further continue the softening of Cantor’s public image, which took a hit when many blamed him for the collapse of the “grand bargain” debt deal between Boehner and President Obama last summer. Recently, Cantor has pushed bipartisan bills through the House to help small businesses and ban insider trading by members of Congress.
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So, the Lone Ranger has a new & improved Tonto... lmao!
Boehner had better continue to watch his back...
At least Boehner made it through the "Ides of March".......wonder if Cantnor thinks he has the impossible dream of being Speaker?
Geez, how bad must your image be if hiring the guy who was communications director for Michael Steele is considered a step up?
"He’s less about conflict and more about making his boss look the best.”
Hmmm, Speaker Boehner should definitely sleep with one eye open.....
"He’s less about conflict and more about making his boss look the best.”
Heye will find that making Eric of Can't look like anything but the weasel that he is, a difficult or impossible task.
JOANNE IN PA,
I was thinking the same thing.
Heye was so good he communicated his boss right out of his job as chair of the RNC. But maybe he had a hand in getting Steele his gigs as a pundit on cable.
I think I should have stayed outside longer and pruned some more shrubs. Cantor wants better messaging so he hires a guy who injects the WWE into his punditry chatter. Well, that'll do it.
JoAnne, I think Boehner should just skip sleeping all together.
Chilled, maybe Heye will get combat pay.
with the way Eric Cantor swishes and sways about . .he should probablu watch his front too!
Heye will need more than combat pay, Jody!
So, Eric of Can't has a PR man.....Sorry Eric, it won't work!
Cantor is a big mouth redneck punk and his time is coming too
So GOPers like Cantor hire "operatives" with code names like "Young Guns," to conduct
messagingpropaganda to improve their image... (insert sound of needle on album here) -- This isn't cops and robbers, or Shock and Awe military games "man boy" Teapublicans, with playbooks, Rovian/Luntz verbiage, and "strategery." The GOP/TP douche-bags could hire the best PR companies out there, along with dictators and diabolical corporations (Enron, WorldCom, BP, Goldman Sachs, Health Net), but it will just be lipstick on a pig.This is about real Americans who are hurting, who have lost their jobs, their homes, their health insurance. Real Americans who are barely making it! GOPers can't talk about kitchen table issues, because they're too busy lining their own pockets. Teapublicans are like WWE wrestling fellow -- They are fake!
Nothing new here. The GOP hired an operative to dumb down the message for the average republican.
Whereas the average Democrat gets their 'dumbed down' message weekly, with a check in the mail from the government for doing nothing.
Don't you get tired of repeating the lies you are fed or is it that you simply don't know the difference?
Hey Bob. It seems that your brain needs repair. I guess your governor giving you a personal vaginal ultrasound did not help the situation.
Don't worry about Bob he's just another Republican drunk
Couldn't agree more Feisty. Headline could read, "Pit Bull replaced by Doberman, Boehner still in Danger."
Then I thought, wow, the architect of the "Young Guns" (called out by Joe Scarborough for ridicule) is replaced by the messenger for...Michael Steele.
No disrespect; but how many blind kids can they shove into the batting cage?
If it wasn't funny, it would be sad.
Eventually, John (town cryer) Bonehead, Mitch McDumbell and their boss Groper Nutquist will all be voted out.
the only way to make cantor look better is to put a condom over his head-- then he will look the part
Wonder how he will spin Eric's statements that victims of natural disasters shouldn't get any assistance unless it is taken away from other programs?
Looks like Cantor likes the Romney etch-a-sketch idea. He is bringing in the new to try and hide his true colors.
Don't kid yourselves. Cantor wants Boehner's job.
Maybe it's just me, a taxpayer, but I'm wondering how much money will Heye and those like him get paid; wondering if the RNC or DNC pay these hired hands or is it the taxpayer funding it. Do the House democrats even have outside "hired help" to coordinate their message and get it out? I don't recall the democrats hiring an equivalent to Heye but I could be wrong.
What??? It is virtually impossible to make Cant-nor look good! He is a slimey weasle! Bonehead better watch him closely! And i know that Cant-nor will still be involved in insider trading, right along with the Koch Bro's. Cant-nor is one of those that needs to go bye bye real soon!
Weasal is a VERY appropriate name for Canter. That is just what I think of when I see the baby know it all with ALL the answers. He believes in NO rights for the middle class. If a person wants to vote republican...here are the things he is supporting:
1. No minimum wage
2. No overtime pay
3. No 40 hour work week (the week is how long the employer wants it to be)
4. No retirement plans (unless you pay for it yourself--on less than minimum wage of course)
5. No health insurance (tough luck if you cant pay for it yourself)-except legislators of course
6. No Social Security (tough luck if you cant save for retirement yourself) AND you live with your kids the rest of your life.
7. No medicare or medicaid
8. No rights to sue (no matter whose fault it is)
9. No rights to take bankruptcy (even when medical bills force you into it...as is happening now)
10. No grants for college or higher education (they want you poor and ignorant...and bankrupt)
11. No deductions for home loan or school loan interest...in fact...NO deductions...you pay ALL the taxes while big business pays NONE.
12.No safe working environment. (no safety regulations)
13. No CLEAN air and water for your children and grandchildren (they have to make the money NOW...who cares about the future)
14. No restrictions on poisonous food...or ANY poisonous product put out there (YOU dont have a right to KNOW what they REALLY put in your food or products...so keep giving to cancer research)
15. No FREE press (only their propaganda spewed out day and night like fox no-news for instance and their paid goons like Rush Limbaugh.
16. Using the abortion issue to convince people they can only vote for one party and when they get the MAJORITY on the supreme court....you will not know what hit you when they have CONTROL of the law to enslave people even further...very very dangerous.
These are only a FEW of the obvious things that "men"? such as Canter support...and ALL republicans.
When you vote republican, you are voting for a Nazi dictatorship. The German people did not want to know what the Nazi's were doing behind the scenes as long as THEY were living the good life. Americans are looking the other way and becoming cold and uncaring that the other half of society is in the process of being sent to another sort of gas chamber...enslavement by the haves.
8.
Everyone already knoiw what their message is, "protect the wealthy".
RUSH LIMBAUGH - Conservative or Charlatan?
I have oft wondered about what lurks beneath the radio talk show host's overt pedantry. True, he assumes the Quixotic mantle of chasing after liberal windmills, but his own "baggage" would suggest to a diehard "Reagan Conservative" that his actions indicate he is more of a charlatan, and is in only for money. The gift of the gab is divinely bestowed, and the mortal is supposed to employ it for the good of humankind and for the enlightenment of others. If the onlly motivation for Limbaugh is sponsors, money, he truly epitomizes the "money sluts" that most of our famous american celebrities have become.
Rush Limbaugh is not a Conservative. He is anything BUT one...in my opinion.
They are ALL in it for the money. I used to think Lou Dobbs was concerned for ordinary Americans when he used to show what the crooked Chamber of Commerce was all about and other issues. Now look who he is working for...Fox propaganda station. So you wont hear him complain about the Chamber of Commerce again. He will rant about whatever republicans want him to rant about. Whoever pays the most...determines what they believe in. Rush Limbaugh is a pig on a stage.
Is Cantor word challenged? He can't speak for himself? Why would a congressman need a PR front man to speak for him..........what is that about.
This is the best reason to vote Cantor out of office.
Too bad the Boy King is so confident - the Court will rule against him and he'll find his "landmark" piece of legislation is not worth the paper it's printed on. What I am confident of is America will take back the White House in November and the Chosen One will be relegated to once again being a thug on the streets of that disgusting city called Chicago. I do hear there's a social service agency looking for an experienced community organizer.
Do wrap yourself in the Constitution, pinhead!
He actually pays someone to write the things he says?!?!
Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every
foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and
the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and YHVH hath remembered her
iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is YHVH thy Father who judgeth her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived
deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see
the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great
city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all
manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all
things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and
purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying,
Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea
by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for YHVH
hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into
the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown
down, and shall be found no more at all.
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice
of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for
thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that
were slain upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the blood of his
servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful
unto his land, [and] to his people.
Psalm 79:10
Why should the nations say, "Where is their Father ?" Before our eyes, make
known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
Chapter 137
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing YHVH song in a strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Remember, O YHVH, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Psalm 137:8
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us--
Isaiah 17:5 It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests
the grain with his arm--as when a man gleans heads of grain in the Valley of
Rephaim.
Isaiah 47:7
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou didst not lay these
[things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
Jeremiah 50:12
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:
behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah 51:25
Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith YHVH, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Jeremiah 51:49
As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Yisrayl to fall, so at Babylon shall fall
the slain of all the earth
Jeremiah 51:33
For thus saith the Father of hosts, the Father of Yisrayl; The daughter of
Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little
while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah 51:64
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil
that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of
Jeremiah
Ezekiel 27:30
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly,
and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the
ashes:
Hosea 6:11
"Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed. "Whenever I would restore the
fortunes of my people,
Zephaniah 2:15
This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I
[am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.
Matthew 3:12
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his
wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Revelation 19:2
for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants."