And "his warm, Southern gentleman demeanor"? WTF? Compared to what-- a cottonmouth or a water moccasin?

When Mr. and Mrs Imbecile continue their ignorant roll by stating the Titanic is unsinkable and the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are real while speaking in tongues to a replica of St .Ronnie the Farcical.

. . . it is still a turd.

It's the party of idiots, uninformed, science hating, fantasy believing, home schooling idiots. The good old days are long gone, they're all non critical thinking, rush limbob listening dorks.

Here's more proof Cantor and ALL Republicans are sick, bigoted Conservative extremists, fueled by the hatred, fear and lies of Bigotry (Religious, Moral, Political and Racial Bigotry). Truth and honesty are not some of their stronger traits.
While spewing their hateful lunatic ideology in a smoky, dingy neighborhood corner Bar might be unavoidable , vomiting their terrorist self centered Conservative lies in public or as a supposedly public official is really harmful and dangerous to a civil society.

That was his puppet master, stepping out of character. Imagine Jeff Dunham, speaking for Peanut, and accidentally allowing his lips to move. Everybody would be startled by that. This is why they all looked off stage when the handler spoke. He totally ruined the whole skit.

She should have told the clown shouting off camera to shut up and if he gets elected to office she will interview him but right now she is talking to Cantor and YES REAGAN DID RAISE TAXES and your should go back to school and complete your homework assignments clown!

The next interview. Stahl sucks and there is no hope for the exisiting bobbleheads for the most part. Part the biggest obstacle to having a real in depth look at the likes of Can"tWhore is that if you make him look like an idiot (and that would not be hard to do with this clown Can'tWhore) you will not get the next interview after the clowns in Virginia send him back to congress and he gets more powerful....because its all about the ratings folks...eyes on the prize is not about emancipation anymore its about advertizers paying those inflated saleries to the likes of Leslie Stahl and company.

Because he is talking to his base and not the majority of Americans. The under-educated voters, especially in Virginia will believe all of the lies that their representatives spew. If John Boehner had
any cojones, like Lyndon Johnson, he would have axed Cantor when he started undermining his authority. I guess he was out playing golf at the time.

Are members of the Cult of St Ronnie, a group of rigid political lemmings modeled after Jonestown. These androids have no leader worth following today so they just made up a phony Ronnie v2 to worship.

More power to you Eric and your imbecile followers believing a myth as you head for political obscurity.

When you see this obvious weaseling liar mincing around and batting his eyelashes at every opportunity to avoid answering a question and instead repeat a Republican campaign talking point, you wonder why the half of the USA that rushes to the polls on election day to vote people of his ilk in haven't already sent all their life's savings to that Nigerian Prince email scammer.

This was still a puff piece. Stahl could have mentioned that it was Cantor and a handful of the then House Republican minority who reneged on their already whipped votes to pass the original TARP on September 29, 2008 that actually crashed worldwide stock markets and economies in our generation's Black Monday 1929 event.

The media has worked very hard to cover for their precious Republicans on this critical point, spinning instead the inaccurate and easily debunked notion that it was the collapse of Lehman Bros. two weeks earlier on Sept. 15, 2008 that crashed the market and set world economies, the USA included, into paralysis. Not true. Although the market didn't like Lehman Bros. collapse, it took it in stride and didn't collapse. In fact, over the next several days the broad U.S. market closed higher than it was the day before the Lehman Bros. collapse. And why not? The Great USA was going to put a piece of legislation on the table in a couple of weeks to make sure the banks stayed open and we and the rest of the world wouldn't plunge into another Great Depression...right?

The Great USA under George W. Bush would show they had the political will and smarts not to repeat the mistakes of a previous Republican presidential failure heading toward a Great Depression and tighten the money supply...right?

Wrong. A handful of Republican House minority members who had previously told then Republican Minority Leader John Boehner that they would vote yes on passing TARP reneged on their vote at the very last minute and the legislation failed to pass, shocking the world. The market crashed more than 7% on that single day, taking worldwide economic confidence with it. And it and those economies, ours included, have not yet recovered from that serious blow to our confidence and might not for several more years. The Republican House members who triggered our generation's Great Crash of 1929 and edged us precariously closer to another one of their patented Great Depressions, represented by none other than Eric Cantor, held a quick press conference to explain that they had pulled their votes of support at the last minute because then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had supposedly said something that hurt their feelings that morning. Swear to god.

Thus was one of the first of the more recent "brinksmanship to nowhere but disaster" moves made by the congressional Republicans and it had NOTHING to do with the "tea party" because there wasn't even a tea party yet. This was ALL regular ol' congressional Republicans headed by Eric Cantor.

How nice of Leslie Stahl not to mention that little bit of critical information about Eric Cantor and his Republican Party and instead pawn off most of the crises events leading to decline over the past few years to some non-existent fall guy for Republican responsibility for that decline called the "tea party". It isn't the "tea party". It's REPUBLICANS, pure and simple. Allowing the Republican Party to hide behind the "tea party" label is simply another means for them to eke out an advantage come election day. When voters step into the booth to cast a vote and are understandably angry at the "tea party", they're not going to find anyone on the ballot running under the "tea party" banner. So that allows for at least the possibility that they'll vote for a Republican anyway.

He has that "southern gentleman demeanor"?? Up north, we call that "used car salesman bull shit".

I can't believe this southern drawl lying sack of shit can be confused with "southern gentleman demeanor", just because he "drawls" when he talks, and he exhibits a cool, unclear manner about himself. What a complete douchebag.

If this is what "southern gentleman demeanor" is, I want no part of it.

refreshing.

Stay classy, wing-nuts.

Tried the same thing on palin's facebook. Not only is my link and comment erased, my ability to comment on her page has been blocked. Wouldn't want any of her cult members exposed to a pesky little thing like facts now would we.

stupid me how could I forget that lol.

You can always tell when Cantor is lying. He smiles.

Cantor smiles a lot.

Southern Gentleman?
If being a conniving, weaselly, back stabbing, scheming little conman, with a shit eating grin on their face from Virgina, equals a Southern G, then OK I agree.

I love that at the beginning of the clip, Eric is on his bicycle wearing one of those geeky helmets that make him look like Lt Weenie of the Dork Patrol. It's 60 Minutes, no, maybe it's an ad for cholesterol medicine.

His main goal is not to balance the budget, but to get rid of government programs he doesn't like. In one sense, Reagan is a good role model for Cantor, because Reagan's plan, according to David Stockman the head of the OMB at the time, was to create such huge deficits that programs would have to be cut drastically or better eliminated. That's why Cantor insists on revenue neutrality. We have a budget that is way out of balance. It can be balanced through spending cuts (only that won't really work), tax increases, or a combination of the two. If you make a deal that is revenue neutral, you've done nothing to balance the budget or cut the debt. Cantor is simply trying to do the same thing Reagan failed to do -- gut the social safety net, using budget deficits as the justification. The last thing Cantor wants would be for the American people to see that we can afford a safety net. If we cut Defense, and start taxing the wealthy at rates that are more in line with historical norms, we'll be on our way toward getting the budget under control. Will cuts still be necessary? That depends on the choices we make. Get rid of the Bush tax cuts and our fiscal picture will suddenly look very different.

Luntz would be so proud that he didn't say compromise. Compromise might be used against him in a primary, so that is a bad word. How dare you believe Reagan raised taxes?? Once those new history books come out we won't have to worry about future generations learning the truth. Now they just have to erase those tapes Nixon style.

I'm really glad C&L ran this clip of Cantor to show how deeply the modern Republican Party is submerged in its own counter-factual version of reality. It's really frightening to consider how a political party like the GOP has a major voice in determining our nation's future, yet so stubbornly denies the basic facts on such things as evolution, global warming, the causes for the nation's debt crisis, the need for raising taxes and Obama's citizenship and religious affiliation, and even, bizarrely, whether Reagan pushed for tax increases.
History abundantly shows the dangers that can occur when power accrues to a political party whose central tenets are founded on irrational theories of history, science and race. Just look at the lessons of the 20th Century and the irrational beliefs that fueled the genocidal movements that slaughtered tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia and Africa.
I am not saying the Republican Party is anything like the Nazi Party of Germany in the 1930s, but still....it's easy to spot the same irrational tendencies, the same black and white view of the world, the same enthusiasm for mythology and secret conspiracies; the same irrational belief in a counter-factual history that demonizes their opponents --- who are portrayed as monsters and oppressors who threaten all that is good and sacred, and who therefore must be destroyed at all costs.
It is hard to believe that Cantor and the other Tea Party members belong to the same party as Lincoln and even Reagan, who, for all his flaws, still grasped reality and did not treat his rivals as traitorous monsters. I am praying that eventually the Republicans, after serious losses at the polls, will eventually end their denial of reality and rejoin the world of facts and science.