Laura Ingraham Browbeats Rep. Eric Cantor About Repealing 'Obamacare'
If Eric Cantor thought he was going to get a friendly interview on the O'Reilly Factor last Thursday night with guest host Laura Ingraham, he was sadly mistaken. Ingraham hammered Cantor about whether the Republicans would bring forth a bill to repeal "Obamacare" if they regain control of the House of Representatives to which Cantor responded "Absolutely I will pledge to do that! Are you kidding? Of course!"
As even Ingraham acknowledged though it's not likely the Republicans will have the numbers to over ride a veto by President Obama. Cantor laid out what their strategy will be instead of they regain control of the House.
So we are faced with a situation where, hopefully, this November, a conservative majority will regain position in the House. And we're going to do everything we can to repeal the Bill, to delay the Bill, to defund the Bill, to do all of the above. I mean, these things go hand in hand, Laura.
So they're going to take the weak tea we managed to get passed, most of which hasn't gone into effect yet and make it worse when what we need are improvements to the bill. Wonderful. Between that type of obstruction for obstruction's sake and Darrell Issa's endless witch hunts if the Republicans get back the House as well, they're going to make the days of the Clinton era look mild in comparison.
One last note on this interview as well, after the browbeating Cantor took from Ingraham during this segment, I've got to wonder if he'll be coming back on the air with her any time soon. Laura Ingraham tends to regularly emote about all of the warmth and fuzziness of a rattle snake IMHO.
Full transcript below the fold.
INGRAHAM: In the "Impact" segment tonight, what's the political prognosis for Obama care after the November election? The question many conservatives, Tea Party activists, Republicans and even some Democrats are asking is this: if they take the House in November, will Republicans immediately push for an all-out repeal of Obama care?
Joining us now from Richmond, Virginia, is Republican Congressman Eric Cantor.
All right, Republican Congressman Eric Cantor. You've now got to correct the record because Politico is reporting that Eric Cantor, if he's the House majority leader come -- come November, that you're going to push for a more modest approach to Obama care, meaning defund it, not repeal it. Did Politico get it wrong?
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), HOUSE GOP WHIP: Laura, I'll tell you one thing: as you and I have known each other for several years and as many of my constituents are, I'm a big fan of yours. So I got several calls from constituents over the last day or so saying, "What's Laura Ingraham talking about that Eric Cantor is not for a repeal of Obama care?" Of course I'm for a repeal of Obama care.
As you know, Laura, I'm the Republican whip in the House, and the duty of the Republican whip was to marshal as many votes as we could against Obama care to make sure it didn't become law, and in the end, we didn't have one Republican vote that voted for it. Unfortunately, the Bill passed.
So we are faced with a situation where, hopefully, this November, a conservative majority will regain position in the House. And we're going to do everything we can to repeal the Bill, to delay the Bill, to defund the Bill, to do all of the above. I mean, these things go hand in hand, Laura.
INGRAHAM: Will you pledge, Congressman -- will you pledge, Congressman, if you are House majority leader, to see to it that a Bill is brought to the floor of the House of Representatives to immediately repeal Obama care? Will you pledge to do that tonight?
CANTOR: Listen, without measuring any drapes about what position I will be or won't be, if I'm in a position to make that difference, absolutely I will pledge to do that. Are you kidding? Of course.
I mean, listen, the discussion, I think, in the article that you were reading was about how we going to have a comprehensive strategy to ensure that a trillion-dollar takeover of our health care in this country does not occur. And it's got to go forward on all fronts, full throttle. We've got to make sure, initially, that we are defunding every bit of the regulations process.
INGRAHAM: But 56 percent of -- see, I hear what you're saying, Congressman. But, look, 56 percent of the country wants it repealed. The latest poll out Rasmussen, you read it. I read it. Fifty-six percent immediately want it repealed.
CANTOR: Laura -- Laura...
INGRAHAM: I know you say you want it repealed but then you say, "Well, I mean, it's ambitious..."
CANTOR: Laura...
INGRAHAM: "... and President Obama might veto it." I say let him veto it. That will be great for you.
CANTOR: Laura -- Laura, absolutely. But, listen, if -- absolutely.
INGRAHAM: What's the "but"?
CANTOR: We're going to put a Bill on the floor if I'm in a position to do it. You better believe it.
INGRAHAM: Well, if you're House majority leader, you'll have the position to do it. If you're House majority leader, you will...
CANTOR: Look...
INGRAHAM: ... push forward the Bill immediately to repeal this?
CANTOR: Yes. Yes, yes, yes. I don't see how you ever thought I wouldn't be for doing that. Now, come on.
INGRAHAM: Well, because here's one reason.
CANTOR: You and I are on the same side here.
INGRAHAM: Here's one reason. Here's one reason I just wanted to trust but verify, like Reagan. "Doveryai no proveryai" in Russian. I wanted to trust and verify because this...
CANTOR: Yes, but you know what?
INGRAHAM: ... because this -- because of this. Because the things -- some of the things that you've said -- and they're not all negative, but some of the comments you've made about the Tea Party movement: it's good as the grass roots movement, which I agree. And then you also said, but not -- as a caucus, might not be that helpful.
And then, you know, your -- I think your comment, maybe it was last year about Rush Limbaugh wanting the president to fail. And people get a little worried that...
CANTOR: What?
INGRAHAM: ... you know, even Eric Cantor can get caught up in the Washingtonitis, that's all.
CANTOR: Laura, Laura, you know better than that from me. We've known each other for years. Now, come on.
Listen, we've got to get a president in the White House who will sign a repeal Bill. We're going to put repeal bills on the floor, absolutely. But just to do so for that sake without actually accomplishing repeal is not enough for me.
I want to make the case. I want to go and expose to the American people how egregious this government takeover of health care is. It will change health care as we know it. People won't be able to afford it. We won't have the quality of care that we expect and deserve in America. We've got a lot of work to do...
INGRAHAM: We all agree on that.
CANTOR: ... to make sure that we stop this thing from happening.
INGRAHAM: A hundred percent. Why are you not for an all-out ban on earmarks, then?
CANTOR: Listen, I don't earmark. OK? And so Republicans are not about earmarking. All right? I mean, we -- we are the ones that went -- I worked for five years to make sure. And John Boehner and I were able this year to make it so that our conference supported a moratorium on earmarks.
And so what I will say is, if these earmarks come back, they will not be earmarks that will include monuments to me and teapot museums and frankly, we'll have...
INGRAHAM: They'll be good earmarks?
CANTOR: ... no tolerance for corruption.
INGRAHAM: They'll be good earmarks?
CANTOR: Listen, there will -- if these earmarks come back, there will have to be a demonstration to the American people that their taxpayer dollars are being spent prudently in a way with a federal purpose.
Listen, again, I say I don't earmark. And Republicans are not about making the case for earmarks.
INGRAHAM: They shouldn't do it. Are you going to sign on to Ryan's road map for the future going forward? Because I think that's a great slate of ideas, and I don't think you've signed it yet. Have you?
CANTOR: Listen, I am working very closely with Paul Ryan to make sure that we put in place a way for us to balance the budget, a way for us to get to the point where these entitlement programs that we've got don't bankrupt this country. At the same time, that we can honor the commitments to America's seniors. And I think Paul will tell you that.
INGRAHAM: All right.
CANTOR: And so we've got to have a serious conversation, Laura. And it's time for conservatives to come together so that we can win in November and begin to take this country back.
INGRAHAM: We're going to hold your feet to the fire, just like we hold the other feet to the fire. We can't go back to the old Republican ways. We have to have the new conservative Republican ways.
CANTOR: Absolutely, Laura. But it's about all of us -- it's about all of us coming together.
INGRAHAM: Not what happened in 2004 through 2008, absolutely. I appreciate it, Congressman. Thank you very much.
CANTOR: I'm the first -- and I'm the first one, Laura, that will say that we have learned our lesson from those years.
INGRAHAM: I hope so. I hope so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxy9-Em2z68
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Ingraham is an idiot who plays the victim card more than Jesse Jackson...As to cantor...well he walked into the lions den knowing that her agenda was not credibilty but lies! Language- rhetoric and fear mongering!
It fills me with blind bloody rage to watch this poisonous hell-snake and this driveling little weasel talk so adamantly about the urgent need to kill poor and middle class people. Damn their shit-fill souls to hell. To bad the democrapintheirpants are such abject cowards!
Thanks Laura and Erik for just being yourselves.
Any sane person will run away from these slugs like their lives depended on it. (because it does)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
This will not be the first vid I watch today.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/...
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The real chances of the GOP taking back the House are extremely remote but robotic dupes like Ingraham and Cantor accept it as fact as they indulge their fantasies about being important and powerful. They are neither and their idiotic drivel about same is really annoying.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
She called Brad Pitt a pinhead during a clip of him talking about the failure to help New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
All in all, she put on a pretty vile display.
is BillO with testicles.
NOBODY 2012
C-mon, Eric Cantor can't be the Idiot that Stephen Colbert is mocking.
The only way this is going to happen is if so called progressives don't vote in droves which is typical of progressives during midterms. So anyone who points to the problems and is looking for someone to blame. Look in the mirror. That includes the author of this article.
the Rethugs deserve her.
Obama and Biden's health care plan is not the best, far from it! But I will say this...If Cantor and the Reps want to try and repeal this, I only ask that THEY give up their taxpayer-funded health care. That's all I'm asking for. I'm sure they'll be willing to do so...
NOBODY 2012
The CNN blog site is rife with comments from conservatives on becky's rally. I tried to enter a comment only to get a message that the site is already closed to comments....
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I've seen those comments. I'm convinced that they're all doubling-down on their love for Beck to hide their disappointment at getting fed a revival meeting when they were expecting a feed-the-lions-red-meat political rally.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
But since most of them are ostensibly Christian, wouldn't that make them the plats principaux?
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From the looks of most of them I think they are getting more than their fair share of red meat. Lot's of high frutcose corn syrup too.
Don't forget the pommes de terre frites.
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...what plan do they support for bringing manufacturing jobs back to America.
If their answer involves any combination of tax cuts for the wealthy or banning union participation, then they are lying to you and it should become obvious to even the KKKool-Aid drinkers that they don't care about how the other 95% will survive the next 30 years of de-evolution of the individual citizen.
'Talk to the hand'
one day shes for the Park 51 project and the next shes shrilly against the Park 51 project. except by then she was slandering it as the 'Ground Zero Mosque'. what did she say to Imam Rauf's wife: "I like what you're trying to do here." or something to that effect. Laura you're a beeyatch. and where did you get that Star Trek dress? ugh. it looks militant kinda sorta, but that 'fits' you in a way.
That voice,my gosh.
We have been listening to clips of Ingraham all week, and that voice is like a nail dragging across a chalkboard......not that O'Reilly's smugness is an improvement, but sheesh, can't they filter that out?
Hah! Silly me, Faux noise is all about aggravation and obfuscation.
'Talk to the hand'
I can see her reaction now, "I never jest, and don't call me shrilly."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAaTzccCik
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I love what he says about earmarks....because that's exactly the definition that the Democrats have imposed on their earmarks already (as opposed to the short-lived grandstanding "no earmarks at all" position of the Repubs this term).
But this debate of repeal of health care law will be taking place in debates this and next month across the land.
We'll get a good feel about what the public really desires when the nuts and bolts of what a repeal would lead to.
Finally, I notice Laura didn't bring up Cantor's reaction to Darryl Issa's intentlion of using subpoenas to try and replicate what the Repubs tried to do to Clinton in his first term.
"If the Republicans get back the House as well, they're going to make the days of the Clinton era look mild in comparison".
True. Very true. It's what they do. We know how they govern.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Did I misunderstand? Was Laura saying that Cantor will be challenging Beohner for the speakership if Repubs do take the House?
Geez...that will be interesting to watch. I'd hate to lost Man Tan John as a target for satire, but it would give him even more time for golf.
Repealing health care reform is simply irresponsible, and these people know that. Then again, Eric Cantor's primary motivation is "makin' sure your kids don't drink piss from no fuckin' water fountains."
to change one word in the bill.
Good luck to the Republicans on getting there.
There's a reason Harry Reid put that provision into the bill.
Unless there is a "Super Majority" to repeal it in the Senate, we are stuck with it for the next ten years.
If anybody has other information, please let me know.
This is one of the reasons Californians who support a Single Payer Healthcare Bill for Cali are screwed.
Even if Jerry Brown becomes governor and the State Assembly and State Senate pass Single Payer we won't be able to implement it without changing the federal bill. The federal bill says states will have to wait until 2017 to begin any Single Payer programs. In order to even change the DATE in the bill to, say, 2013, will take a Super Majority in the Senate. I especially don't see this happening considering that the last thing anyone on the federal level wants is to see a state like California stick a successful Single Payer program in the nation's face.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
The republicans will be lucky if they don''t lose any seats.
Where is the enthusiasm in America to see the same psycho's who caused all of the problems to begin with, be put back in charge?
Outside of the idiot tea baggers and MSM GOP propagandists' - NOBODY!
I have yet to see an election where republican wins are not extremely over exaggerated, other than 1994. But that was when two generations of voters (who had no idea of the great depression the GOP policies created) started to vote.
They have a track record, and cpme election day, most people who are trying to tread water are gonna remember what the GOP did, and how they reacted to the country in America's hour of need.
Sorry, tax cuts for the rich ain't gonna float anymore. When you have 20-25% unemployment and underemployment, who really gives a s**t about a grubby $100 GOP tax cut?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
unfortunately, most people don't get any of this information from the "village people", who control the content of the MSM. they get drivel from the likes of maureen dowd and frank rich, supposed "liberals", and nothing of substance from the major networks. why should they reasonably be expected to know any better?
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