"...and Eric Cantor's attempt at re-branding the Republican party's image"

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I believe something about lipstick and a pig are to be inserted somewhere in here. Sticking one's middle finger up to someone with a frown vs sticking one's middle finger up to someone with a smile may display an ever so slight move in the right direction, but I'm not certain is going to move the needle all that much in the end.

In our quest to make education "relevant," we've lost much of what makes living relevant.

We've lost the real gold of it, in search of the dross.

Eric Cantor is one of those creatures who could never convince me of being sincere about anything.

If he truly was trying to change his or his party's image, he wouldn't have to announce it, he'd have shown flashes of sincerity before now. If the Republican party is sincere at working to improve their image on several points, Eric Cantor is not the one to send out as a messenger. More stupid party tricks.

Flippity-Flop, Flippity-Flop.

Advice for Cantor and the rest of his party: Don't talk about it.....Just do it. Actions speak louder than words. Tick tock.

Students of the fine arts and of literature do not need that thrown in their face. They know what they are doing when they choose a major. If they do not, it will be explained properly. There are people with the devotion to follow that road, not I.

Many of these student, as I recall, were more affluent. Good for them and people like myself who they will aid.

People have already written tons of books and songs and painted a bunch of paintings. We don't need any more of those. This is Cantor's mindset.

Someone needs to warn political science majors, if they go into politics, they risk becoming a burden on society.

Eric Cantor is a twit and a phony one at that. That's about the nicest thing I can say about him; Speaker Boehner needs to keep one eye looking back over his shoulder.

The primary goal of a college education is to prepare one for a job. I imagine there are some college students who will never need to work a day but most will need to. If a person has no intention of teaching fine arts or pursuing a career in fine arts, then majoring in it doesn't make a lot of sense for most students. One can certainly enjoy and take classes in fine arts as part of their general degree electives. Otherwise, it's a lot like majoring in sociology or psychology without intending to pursue a career. If someone is pursuing more than one major, that's another ballgame.

I failed to say that adding fine arts as part of one's education is a good thing. We all need to appreciate art, music, and literature as much as we appreciate the courses preparing us for whatever field we select. It is what they mean by a well-rounded education. Having music and literature as part of K-12 provides students with a bigger picture view, expands their horizons beyond the basics.

Conservatives call a ban on the sale of animal "crush" pornography, government interference, but instruct schools to warn students away from majoring in music. What is the role of government again?

Good luck finding an artist skilled enough to make-over that image.

In Chicago there is a school that is teaching math and science through art. The students are excelling in all of their subjects and it is a direct result of the art being taught. Kinda squashes the argument against art, doesn't it?

[You have to change an "image" by making drastic changes]

You mean like holding a retreat for your party at a former plantation owned by a slave owner doesn't count?

Or like holding a committee hearing on women's reproductive issues, and NOT inviting any women to sit on the panel?

When people say they are going to change their image, it always begs the question: Which image is phony baloney, the old one, the new one ... or both?

We will see and compare his comments today to the upcoming vote in the House on VAWA, the Senate votes on the bill this Thursday.

We already know how this comes out, regardless of what he says.

Mickey, they're clueless.

What they don't understand is that not only is America changing, but that the entire world is changing.

They were perfectly clear in their post-election self-reflection vivisection that theirs was a problem only of presentation and perceptions... They found their core beliefs and positions to be as rock-solid as an airport men's room rendezvous...

One thing that remains consistent in the republican history is the penchant for post-mortem relations. They will return time and time again to the inanimate remains of what they themselves have killed and make repetetive and passionate advances on the decaying objects of their perverted love while the rest of the world looks on in horror.

Their platform is solid...

They just need to change the wording a bit... Yeah, THAT'S the ticket!!

Just 3 short months ago voter suppression was all the rage -

Think Progress: Black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to vote:

During the November 2012 election, Black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to vote as whites, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis. New York Times graphs summarizing the analysis show that white voters waited an average of 12.7 minutes, while Black and Hispanic voters waited an average of 20.2 minutes:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/05/1542061/blacks-hispanics-waited-almost-twice-as-long-to-vote-as-whites-in-2012/

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This is the mainstream Republican Party doing this.

Yes. The conjugal relations with Tea-Party faves were only meant to be a cloaking device to provide a scapegoat for the blatant racism already bubbling up from their previously "closeted" ranks. Once they tainted each other while holding hands the scant difference between a racist holding a sign and a racist afraid to hold a sign became negligible.

Fox had to close their online comments section for the duration after they saw how their "viewers" could accidentally expose the mindset they willfully pander to... You lose plausible deniability (as if they had any) when you let the pitchfork and torch brigade out in the raw.

Eric Cantor's attempt at re-branding the Republican party's image.

GOP are not pro-rape, they just want to redefine rah!

GOP are not anti-poor Black. They are anti poor blahs!

GOP are not against homos. They are against hah!

GOP does not have a War on Women - they have declared a War on Whas!

GOP are not anti-abortion - they are anti-aah!

Mmmm, Eric, I think your re-branding effort may need a bit of work.

I don't know...look at the President's approval rating and that of Leader Cantor. Perhaps he does indeed need to be trying something new.

I guess taking your comment at face value, that would make Representative Cantor fall under the dreaded 'leading from behind' category.

Allen - and when you're just behind, with no leadership skills whatsoever - like Cantor - what does that fall under? Sheish! The guy is clueless!

Tact is discretion. Tack is a course of action. So, yes Obama uses Tact even though Cantor has no Tack or Tact.