Eric Cantor is supposed to be a conservative leader in the House of Representatives. He voted for and supported TARP. He is now talking about something far worse. He wants a second stimulus. You read that right. Eric Cantor wants to pass a second stimulus package. He doesn’t like the “Washington spending machine”, but he still wants stimulus money for high speed rail for his district.
“Where do we go from here?” Cantor asked, later adding: “We ought not to be cranking up Washington’s spending machine.”
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But Cantor doesn’t want to nix all the spending from February’s stimulus. He is trying to get stimulus money for a high-speed rail line from Washington, D.C., to Richmond, Va., a project he said could generate 185,000 jobs in Virginia. Even with his support for the rail line, Cantor said the larger stimulus package was a mistake.
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“I don’t see any inconsistency there,” he said.
Yeah, keep this up and see how far your star rises buddy.
Supporting a project in your own district is always fine, right? You only call out this behavior when other people do it.
He supports the project because he thinks it will bring 185,000 jobs to the area. When did government spending become the way to provide people with jobs? That is a socialist/Keynesian way of looking at economics.
Do none of these guys understand how the free market is superior to statism?
It’d be nice if you would actually read what he said before criticizing him.
Cantor doesn’t want a 2nd stimulus – he was the leading critic of the first.
Cantor said that a 2nd stimulus is a false premise because it implies that there was a first – and the first was nothing more than a spending bill.
He said he would be for redirecting ALL of the unspent stimulus money toward tax relief for small businesses and Americans.
He voted against the stimulus and was the national leader against it.
Perhaps you should stop killing your own – and listen to what they actually say. They agree with you.
We had a first stimulus already. If Cantor wants something else that can be characterized as a stimulus (even though he disagrees with that characterization), then that means he favors a second stimulus. The fact that he voted against the first stimulus is irrelevant to the issue of whether he supports a second stimulus. He says that there was no first stimulus, but that’s just playing with words. There was a first stimulus. It failed, predictably. But it was still a stimulus. Just because a stimulus didn’t produce any significant response doesn’t mean it wasn’t a stimulus.
And he voted for TARP–the Great Gang Rape of the American Taxpayer. For that alone, he deserves to be substituted for Ned Beatty in the best-known scene in Deliverance. And, by the way, how can someone vote for TARP but be against the stimulus? That just doesn’t make any sense at all.
“how can someone vote for TARP but be against the stimulus?”
TARP was a Republican idea, and is therefore a good idea. The stimulus, despite being exactly the same, was suggested by Democrats.
TARP was a liberal idea. Most of the GOP was against it. The Bush administration crafted the legislation but without the massive Democrat majority in congress it could not have passed.
Yet more proof that RINOs and Democrats are the same thing.
Agreed, Mike.
In Soviet America, economy stimulate you.
LOL, I love those soviet jokes.
In America you have community organizers, in Obamanation community organizes you.