Cantor blames press for lack of GOP economic plan, but McConnell just says "No"
By David Monday Mar 16, 2009 8:00am
The Republicans in Congress have opposed President Obama's plans to revive the economy at every turn but don't seem to have a plan of their own. Rep. Eric Cantor told NBC's David Gregory that the press was to blame for the perception that the Republicans don't have a plan.
"The Republicans will have a plan, we had a stimulus plan, the problem with being in the minority, David, is that sometimes your colleagues in the press don't want to cover the ideas that the minority has," said Cantor.
Cantor should probably have talked with his buddy, Mitch McConnell who told ABC's THIS WEEK that the GOP didn't need to have any new ideas.
Stephanopoulos: But shouldn't you have to have a comprehensive approach that lays out the trade offs? If you just have rifle shot amendments then you don't have to make all the trade off that you have to make in an overall budget.McConnell: Well we're just sort of getting down in the weeds here on procedure. Through the amendment process we would absolutely reformulate the Democratic plan. Whether you have a comprehensive approach or whether you offer an amendment approach is something that parliamentarians can debate. But the point is, we're going to have alternatives just like we had alternatives when they offered the massive stimulus package. We would have spent half as much money. We would have fixed housing and put money back into the pockets of taxpayers. So we have offered alternatives all along the way and we will offer numerous alternatives on the budget when it comes up.
So in other words, NO. They have no proposal and again they're going to do nothing but obstruct. Stephanopoulos is right and the GOP's "rifle shot" approach allows them to take shots at what the Democrats are doing without having to actually say what they would do instead.
Because all their old ideas worked for us, oh--so--well.
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Maybe if the "minority" wasn't so busy attacking the majority, they could talk a little about their plans.
Uh...doc...your receptionist just shot me in the lobby, and I'm bleeding all over your floor!
You need a tax cut.
I assume you mean "President Obama's plan to revive the economy" and not "President Bush's..."
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i still do that in my head at times, but have never seen it in print!
when i hear "president" my mind conjures the horrendous bush...
happens less as time goes on... gratefully!
The Republicans in Congress have opposed President Bush's plans to revive the economy at every turn but don't seem to have a plan of their own.
Do Freudian slips mean
Sigmund is a transvestite?
... they're pink slips, then he's a Republican.
Obama is president now! the day repubs oppose bush is when hell freezes over and its pretty hot out today.
Weekend talkies are full of Republicans, and you're bitching that you're not getting dry-humped enough by the media?
Maybe you need to dress up in a diaper or something.
Cantor just got to the National scene and is clearly a seasoned liar.
. . a top position.
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aaah...beat me to it.
But...it was too obvious.
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The title says it all! This guy had better steer wide of me in public, that's all I have to say.
Cantor what?
isn't that how the republican(t)s work?! Lie, obfuscate, lie some more, point the finger at someone else, "wiggle me waggle" to quote Michael Palin of Monty Python's Flying Circus... I hope I got that quote right...
And idiots like this are making money while hardworking Americans are out of jobs and out of their homes... too effin' pitiful and pathetic for me!
Cantor should be honest about himself and wear the fuzzy hair and big clown feet on the air.
he'd look great as Sideshow Bob, don't you think?!
Geez people, where are your editors?
You'd think that you'd be used to writing President Obama by now.
He's certainly be on the teevee enough over the last six months to talk about their plan. He's fucking everywhere.
I think I even saw him as one of the hopefuls on 'Shot at Love'
I had one once
At a community clinic.
For republicans, it is always somebody else's fault... ain't it?
"The press ate our economic plan, I swear I had it... we worked all night on it..."
since when is the press considered to be a "colleague?" Or is this just something about the GOP/ press dynamic I wasnt aware of?
What a complete ignorant, hypocritical, Reslug ASSHOLE, that refuses to answer any questions.
he's a Republican rising star!!
Ponder that.
We would have spent half as much money. We would have fixed housing and put money back into the pockets of taxpayers.
and mcjowl continues: "and, further, we would have made everyone a millionaire, saved the endangered unicorns, solved the energy crisis, made all the women horny and grown every man's penis by 15%. vote GOP."
what a fuckin joke this mcjowl is. and, why didn't this happen when the GOP controlled congress mr. liar liar pants on fire?
especially jowley yesterday.
McConnell would again line the pockets of the top 2% of the taxpayers. that's the GOP's idea of tax cuts. Only if you're in the club. The media will do the rest.
I feel the power of the smirk. The force is strong within this one. May the smirk be with you!
When he repeated the lie about the train from Disney to LV, I cringed. Someone should really smack them about that lie.
If they are so much against earmarks, why do they add so many to the bills that they oppose. If they are going to oppose a bill, then don't add anything to it!
yeah, somebody should put that lie out of its misery, like a journalist... too bad it was rove's dance partner, david gregory doing the interview.
russert's MTP was the favorite place for cheney to get out his propaganda unchallenged, and it seems that MTP is still the venue to broadcast GOP talking points...
of the party of NO. Cantor, Bachmann, Steele, Jindal, Palin, Joe the Plumber and Boss Limpballs. You couldn't make this up if you tried. Truth is really stranger then fiction.
How long before Cantor is caught with a prostitute? He's really got that look.
How long before Cantor is caught
withas a prostitute?FIFY...
Would you boink a guy who looks like this?
http://home.comcast.net/~nalter/webpics/ed_gr...
Quite a resemblance to me.
I'm really surprised he didn't blame Bill Clinton.
I'll bet it end's up with the family pet instead of a prostitute.
Even woist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TITiaRAGqxs
'nuff said.
Thanks.
"Can't eat pork
Not even with a fork
Can't touch this!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3CRYvgXX_Q
Fuckers Cantor and McConnell. They have nothing. The only thing they say over and over is tax cuts. Well they got their god damn tax cuts under Bush. The economy was booming even though it was a Republican induced bubble by fraud it was booming. Could they balance the budget? Could they create jobs? They obviously destroyed the economy to the point where we Democrats have to spend eight years cleaning it up and and we have to pay for it for the rest of our lives. Now they want to give the rich even MORE tax cuts because Obama has not raised any taxes on them... yet. But they want to lower the already lowered taxes. It didn't work for Bush/them over the past eight years why on god's green earth would they think anybody with half a brain think that it would work now? Fuck them!!! Rat bastards is what they are.
More smoke and mirrors; more shell games; more lies and bull shit. Given enough platforms to spew their deceit, they'll convince a good portion of the population that they are a serious party rather than nothing more than a bunch of self serving hypocrites that lie and distort every fact that makes them look like the "grand obstructionist party" that they are.
"colleagues in the press"???
When did the press become part of our Congressional Legislature?
Why is it that, when reminded of Bush's incredible spending over the last eight years, Republicans can say it was a mistake and then move on to blaming President Obama with too large of a stimulus package? David Gregory does an excellent job of showing McCain's video from 2007 where he blamed the GOP for their wasteful spending during 2006 and then listing stats from Cantor's own voting history. Apparently, increased spending is okay during wartime but not in one of the worst economic recession's this country has ever faced--when, certainly, the economy needs a lift more than it has in decades.
Props to Gregory on this one.
...consists of "making sure your kids don't drink no piss from no fuckin' water fountains."
Did anybody else pick up when Cantor was asked about the role of the Republican party now that they are in the minority? This tool replied that now they have to be the "honest opposition." What a joke. Anyway, I just saw the David Shuster had a nice synopsis of Cantor's hypocracy on "1600 Pennsylvania Ave" that can be streamed on NBC.com.
Eric Cantor is so frickin gay, not that there's anything wrong with that, except the hypocrisy, and the fact that's he's trying to lead a "straight" life. Doesn't anyone else with a good gaydar see it.
OK, who here (including you, John Amato!) besides me has noticed Eric Cantor's and Mitch McConnell's creepy resemblance to "The Gentlemen" in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode of "Hush"?
Maybe if we all scream real loud, their heads will explode!
Mr. Gregory calls this rabid Republican out for his lying and right-wing rhetoric. Nice to see.
Amazing that we are still talking about the train from Las Vegas to Disneyland. I wish Gregory had throttled Cantor right at that point.
Smarmy weasel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY
Yeah that’s right the republicans have a problem getting their message out to the media. That’s the only thing they do well. The msm spews every disingenuous republican talking point so why wouldn’t they report on the republican’s plan to fix the economy they broke. Try again jackass
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