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Historic Loss: House Majority Leader Cantor Loses Virginia Primary To Tea Party's Brat
While The Tea Party had been relatively aggressive in the race, it is still quite shocking to the establishment that the second-highest House Republican just got unseated (despite outspending Brat by a ratio of 20-to-1) by a local tea-party-backed economics professor:
- *HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER CANTOR LOSES VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
- *DAVID BRAT BEATS CANTOR IN VIRGINIA PRIMARY, AP REPORTS
- *TEA PARTY CHALLENGER BEATS SECOND-HIGHEST HOUSE REPUBLICAN: AP
Echoing Europe's dissatisfaction with the status quo, it appears the announcement of the death of the Tea Party was a little premature. Cantor was elected to Congress in 2000... looks like we have to add one to initial jobless claims this week.
Cantor's loss is the first time in history a sitting House Majority Leader has been defeated for renomination in a primary.
— Ken Rudin (@kenrudin) June 11, 2014
Early...
With 90% counted...
90% of the vote has been counted in #EricCantor's primary race. #AC360 pic.twitter.com/vF6jwe9FYd
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) June 11, 2014
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the Speaker-in-waiting who was bidding for his seventh term in Congress, was defeated in a primary election by a little-known conservative economics professor, David Brat, in one of the most stunning upsets in modern political history.
Brat defeated Cantor despite having no experience in elected office and despite Cantor outspending him by a margin of nearly 20-to-1. The Associated Press called the race for Brat shortly after 8 p.m., an hour after polls closed in Virginia's 7th district. Brat was leading Cantor, 56 percent to 44 percent, with 80 percent precincts reporting.
For Cantor, the loss marks an abrupt end to a fast rise through the House leadership, a path that many expected would make him the first Jewish Speaker in U.S. history.
And it is perhaps the most significant jolt to the Republican establishment since the emergence of the Tea Party in 2009. While conservative activists have ousted veteran Republicans like Sens. Bob Bennett (Utah) and Richard Lugar (Ind.), a sitting majority leader has never been defeated in a primary election.
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Wary of allowing Tea Party groups to turn his district into a top battleground, Cantor unleashed a an early and heavy barrage of negative ads against Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College who previously lost a race for the state legislature. Cantor spent more than $1 million on the primary and attacked Brat as a “liberal” who served on an advisory board for former Gov. Tim Kaine at a time when the Democrat was pushing tax increases.
In the waning days of the race, conservative radio stars Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin boosted Brat and condemned Cantor for backing “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. The attacks came even as Cantor was under fire from advocates of immigration reform for his refusal to bring legislation to the House floor that would offer legal status for undocumented immigrants.
Cantor's friends are FURIOUS, said he was told by consultants that he was up 20-30 points, didn't need to worry...
— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 11, 2014
Brat on Fox: "The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street, and not enough attention to Main Street"
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 11, 2014
Meet The Man Who Just Crushed Eric Cantor (via ABC)
Brat, who admits that he has supported several Cantor candidacies over the years, says he mounted his improbable primary campaign because the House GOP's No. 2 leader has lost touch with his constituents, "veering from the Republican creed."
"Years ago he had a good conservative track record, but now he's veered off," Brat told ABC News during an interview on Capitol Hill. "If you go to Heritage and look at their score, I think he's at about a 53 right now. I mean, that's an F-minus."
Heritage Action's scorecard tracks Republican votes, co-sponsorships and other legislative activity to gauge how conservative members of Congress are performing. Cantor actually receives a 52 percent, which ranks seventh among eight Virginia House Republicans.
While a recent profile of the race in the Washington Post characterized Brat as "a potential threat," the quirky challenger knows he has a tough road to victory in the June 10 primary.
"Most of these [primary] races don't kick in until about 30 days prior," he said. "Now everyone's looking, what's the race? It's an open primary and it's just Eric and I on the ticket."
Brat, 49, isn't the first primary challenger Cantor has faced. The Richmond Republican smoked primary challenger Floyd Bayne in 2012 by nearly 60 percentage points before cruising to a 17-point victory in the general election.
But with low primary turnout (just 47,000 voters turned out in the primary two years ago) and anti-incumbency fervor at an all-time high, Cantor's team says they aren't overlooking Brat, although they "don't see him getting a great deal of traction."
"We're on the ground, running the campaign," Cantor campaign spokesman and senior strategist Ray Allen said in a phone interview. "We take every figure seriously and do our own due diligence. It is what it is."
Brat claims "the money is flowing in right now," expanding an underwhelming campaign war chest that he last reported contained just $40,000.
"The race was once viewed as a long-shot, [but] it's tightening now," Brat said. "We're well over double, triple what we had on the books just a month ago and so now we're getting the national attention I always hoped."
Brat complained that Cantor, 50, has a "crony-capitalist mentality" to take care of the corporate sector ahead of the interests of small businesses.
"On the conservative scorecard, on the free market votes, he's doing everything wrong," Brat said. "He's not following what folks in his district want him to do and it's hurting the country."
Allen described Brat as "a weird duck" and criticized him for serving on then-Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine's Joint Advisory Board of Economists.
"Eric Cantor is a conservative leader," Allen, who has advised Cantor's campaigns since 1991, said. "[Brat] doesn't like being called a liberal college professor, but that's what he is and what he's always been. Tea Party conservatives don't serve as an economic adviser to Tim Kaine."
Brat calls himself as a "free market guy," and says he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He also pledged never to increase taxes and to stick to a five-year promise not to vote to increase the debt limit.
"This isn't a personal race. I'm not running against Eric," he stressed. "I'm just running on the founding principles that Adam Smith and free markets - they made us the greatest nation on the Earth. All right? It's no mystery. Our rights, tradition, along with free markets and the Judeo-Christian tradition all together made us the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. I think we're veering off course a little bit there and I want to get us back on that course that brought us to greatness."
If Brat ultimately wins the primary and is seated in the 114 th Congress, he would not commit his vote for speaker to House Speaker John Boehner, but offered his support to any contender who's "more free market and more fiscally responsible."
"I'd have to take a good look at what they're doing but I support people who follow the Republican creed, and so it doesn't look like the leadership is doing a good job on that right now," Brat said.
"They're not free market at all, right? They do not take free market seriously and they're off on fiscal responsibility."
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And the social reactions come pouring in:
it's the biggest blow to the GOP establishment in years. Whole network of DC Rs have been wired into Cantor, prepping for when he got gavel
— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 11, 2014
Cantor's friends are FURIOUS, said he was told by consultants that he was up 20-30 points, didn't need to worry...
— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 11, 2014
Top three Zip codes where Eric Cantor got campaign money this election: NYC, NYC and NYC — h/t @opensecretsdc #VA07
— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) June 11, 2014
What is America coming to when we can't buy elections anymore???
— Timothy Connolly CFA (@SconsetCapital) June 11, 2014
Eric Cantor has rarely strayed from the majority of House Republicans when voting: http://t.co/EJWmmdjO73 pic.twitter.com/Sex6cV1vP1
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) June 11, 2014
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See Virginia "sore loser" law.
It's good that Cantor is escorted out to pasture. He is a farce.
But playing politics in a broken political environment isn't going to work fast enough to stave off the reality of bad decisions (and playing politics) over a long period of time.
The piper needs to be paid, a reset needs to happen, and the social forces now in play as a result of these bad decisions are not going to go away.
And as they do not go away... there are two forces lined up to fill the vacuum: further Control, and Chaos.
Is " Bad Decisions" the best words you could come up with? LOL
Is this Brat a Austrian economics guy?
Fuck you, Cantor. We're coming for the rest of the useless republicans.
Can't wait till McCain gets the boot.Hope the Tea Party gives it to the rest of the neo cons running the State Department.Start helping Americans at home and start on rebuilding infrastructure in order to rebuild the economy.Stop giving money to all these wacko regimes around the globe and for god sakes put an end to this rubbish "that we have to lead", "Americans are exceptional" and "we're the world's guardian."
"Brat complained that Cantor, 50, has a "crony-capitalist mentality" to take care of the corporate sector ahead of the interests of small businesses."
spot on.
"[Brat] doesn't like being called a liberal college professor, but that's what he is and what he's always been."
darn, he's smart.
now, for sure, this 'brat' guy has points of view that few would suggest are signs of intellegence, but, really, what did the other guy do but take the bucks. maybe this new guy will help restore real free markets:
"Brat calls himself as a "free market guy,"
or at least tweek it in that direction.
:)
sorry double post
So which revolving door will Cantor slither through to claim is piece of the owners' pie?
scumbag ain't goin nowhere
ADL or AIPAC
Looks like the banksters will have to buy another CONgressman.
its a good thing Brat is well aligned with Bankster Judeao Christian values and their love of Constitution.
Repugnicans are so out of touch it ain't funny. they dropped the ball on stopping Obamacare which infuriated Seniors who loudly vocied their feelings at Town Hall Meetings [where, by teh way, Piglosi called them 'Nazis']. This was the Pugnicans chance to capture and solidify I thought but they completely screwed it up.
Glad to see new faces. That means hope for a real change.
All that hatred coming from the right......er, I mean LEFT always from the fucking LEFT. LOL
I'm a conservative/reduce size of governmeny guy.
Never saw this coming.
Is this good news? Guys like me don't get good news often from the political sphere.
He's not a lawyer, so that's a positive.
I'm an anarchist/get rid of government kind of guy.
As long as people are voting, there's work to be done.
See this as a sign. People are going to begin to say fuck you to some of the same old party hacks. I refuse to vote for anyone who is associated with either wing of the one party state. Either a third party candidate or I will not vote in the race.
Don't waste your vote.
Vote out the incumbent in every election.
Ther're all Fascists, and have no ideology anyway.
A greasy coin, all.
God, I wish we had a parlimentary sytem.
We won't have to vote every piece of shit out. A few more Tea Party wins and the rest will start turning over like the whores they are. Number one issue has to be campaign finance reform. Get it passed ASAP. No more outside money. Government will fund campaigns through tax collections. If we can get special interests out of politics, the government will shrink and we will have plenty of money to fund campaigns. It's the only way.
All I can say is LOL and good riddance. Too bad this Brat guy isn't talking about defunding the NSA and ending the Fed. Then I would be a little more excited.
Paul Ryan better change his position on amnesty.
If he wants a career in politics.
He'll do what his corp overlords tell him to do. And, if he loses an election, he'll get x5 pay working for them. Best democracy money can buy.
He must want to work in the private sector really bad.
Would you believe him if he said he had changed his position?
No.
Get Mitch McConnell's comments on how the Tea Party is done...
one down, 535 to go.
Martin Armstrong is right again!
Tea Party candidates are going to kill old school for as far as the eye can see.
Yeah, but can they win against the FSA?
Plus in order to hold their own against the FSA, they are going to have to become the Biatch of WS, which kinda defeats the purpose of running, no?
Diebolt wins election, details at 11.
PS. I would hate to be an election consultant. Asshats, all of them.
Na, Na, Hey, Hey, goodbye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE
It is about time than citizens of the United States admit that our current government is full blown communism cloaked in democracy. The proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing.
I have been watching closely as the left, right, and the absolutely disgusting lapdog for sale sign on their forehead media as they have ridiculed the Tea Party. Fuck all of you!
Is everybody in the Tea Party perfect? No, but they are not communists. 2010 was really the start. We had a small setback. Our communist enemies that fill both the Republican and Democratic parties are worthy adversaries, which will make their demise all the sweeter.
Yep, the Big Secret.
Communism has to be destroyed.
One look at the Fed tells you ALL you need to know.
ho hum
so much for cuntish cantor and his fast heroic rise through the House leadership, a path that many expected would make him the first Jewish Speaker in U.S. history.
bye bye israel
see yar later moshe give us a partin dance like your 911 mossad crew.
That's funny. He doesn't look druish.
Gentiles in the woodpiles? I wish I were a songwriter, I have the title.
You make me laugh.
I would bet that a good percentage of the people here in Virginia would say if asked tomorrow who they voted for, would say "The Other Guy, Not Cantor"
I voted against Cantor...I don't know that Brat will make a difference, but the status quo 's not working. Margin of victory was amazing.
See what I mean.
I hear ya guy. (Midlothian? I probably live 5 - 10 miles from you. Aghast in the westend)
The fucking homo Graham got the primary nod in SC.
Damn, those people are fucking morons.
I'm suspecting that Graham won because of all the transplants from the Northeast who have been moving down there over the last 20 years. Same thing happened in the Northeast a while back. The left destroyed Massachusettes, then fled to the surrounding states while taking their Liberalism with them. Now the whole Northeast is a disaster.
Same thing happening on the West Coast. Left destroyed California. Then fled from the results of their elections to Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Colorado. Notice where those states are heading?
Not true. California was conservative, actually more so than many Southern states at the time. What happened was that it was invaded (with federal acquiescence), and having the best climate and economy many/most invaders moved there. Yes, many moved after that and are doing so today but most of those 'liberals' were transplants to begin with. It was 'immigration' that did it, and now that 'immigration' has been spreading to the rest of the country in different ways and at different speeds and that is what is/was the prime cause, not because California was always socialist and just starting puking its socialists up to move to other states. The 'left', the tribe, and others destroyed California through immigration that Californians never voted for, not because they Californians were inherently socialists like most blacks, Mexicans, or Bostonians.
I wonder how long until this one will be bought and paid for -if not already.
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I find it pretty damn funny that this guy puts Reagan in the "What We Believe" section when the MIC was heavily boosted under that guy's administration, and has contributed heavily to the fall of so-called "free market economics" and the rise of Keynesian economics. Even more funny is that Brat considers himself a "free market economist" as a result, and some people here are getting ooey gooey sticky over this guy.
Seriously, I love this site.
It was past time for a wake-up call to the moron RHINO douchebags in congress... I hope this is a good step... they need to declare WAR on Obunga and his fucked up regime... including the roach Wasserman-Shits. WAR on those that are tearing down our Constitution... WAR on the mass illegal immigration that BathHouse Barry is facilitating... WAR on the criminal banksters and the defense industry shitbags. WAR on the crooks that sent our jobs overseas and war on the mafia unions that helps cause it... WAR on the liberal activist judges... let's ROCK!
It´s all fun-n-games until the Republicans nominate Ted Cruz for president- a disciple of the New Apostolic Reformation and married to a Goldman Sachs Executive, portraying himself as a down-to-earth outsider (because all outsiders are married to Goldman Sachs V.P.s) and all reasonable people believe that in 2001 God declared to a few select people that a new apostolic age had dawned and gave 10-15 mega-church leaders apostolic powers... but no one else).
Jamie Dimon 2016.
Middlemen are like condoms...
No to Cruz!
Fabian!
Cruz was born in Canada btw
99.9% of all politicians are SCUM!!!
...and the .01% are in the ready room, getting injected....
Well you people disappoint me once again.
The American political system corrupts anybody who enters it. Political change through normal democratic processes is no longer possible. We are headed for civil war.
As such, this news is utterly meaningless.
It's hope in the system that gives them the urge to cheer. They want to believe the system can be saved -it cannot.
Give them time, and let them indulge in the false dichotomy a bit longer
I agree on the civil war...only it ain't gonna be that civil...lemme tell ya
Cantor?
Fuck him. Glasses wearing douche....plenty of next gen douches to step in....this was not part of the script....but they'll do some re-writes...the cunts
"The American political system corrupts anybody who enters it."
Disagree entirely - that's tantamount to saying that organized crime corrupts anybody who enters it.
The truth is that those entering it are either in agreement with the stealing, killing, enslaving actions of government, or they are too stupid to comprehend what government actually does.
Who thinks Cantor and the Boys will get this election nullified?
This was one of the 3000 of them running the 330 million of us. If only he could be tarred and feathered now...
OH NO - this is BAD for America - LOL
http://news.yahoo.com/eric-cantor-loss-earthquake-011217181--politics.html
Right on, bro.
He lost his "Above the law" status. Can we put him in jail now? And what about the rest of them? When can we put them all in prison?
I’d really like to know. I used to be just disgusted with these animals but more and more I’m getting pissed off. I must have some kind of psychological problem for not trusting these thieving, lying traitors… Oppositional, authority, paranoia disorder or some such sh#t. I think I read it in the DSM-VI. Really, you can rely on the impartiality of the AMA. I mean it was founded, funded, and is controlled by the Rockefellers. Now there’s a name you can trust.
If this kind of electoral outrage continues they will have to stage more terror attacks. Simple as that.
Awesome, they can all go piss up a flagpole.
He has friends?
'Political' friends. They're not real friends. Nothing about these people is real.
Brat is on to something here folks!!
In the 80's the death knell for ANY politician was to have the label "liberal" slapped on him and have it stick. Hell, even midget liberals running for president in the 80's used to put on goofy helmets and drive around in an army tank for the photo-op to deny that they were a lib'rul.
The death knell "tag" in this case appears to be "corporatist" and we need to ECHO that.
Start using that as a perjorative to candidates that your "conservative" *cough* or republican friends reflexively and blindly support. Remind them that he/she doesn't stand for free markets or small business, because he's a rotten "corporatist" that kisses the asses of Wall Street. Remind them that "Reagan would piss on you for voting for a corporatist". (Conservatives, *cough*, LOVE Ronald Reagan!).
Tell your "liberal" *cough* friends that Pelosi doesn't stand for the "working man", and that she's just a dirty "corporatist" that throws her constiuency a bone here and there while kissing the asses of Wall Street. Tell them that Karl Marx himself would piss on you for voting for a corporatist in socialist clothing". LOL
Make the label "corporatist" stick. It won't at first. In fact, it never sticks... Until it does.
You should be a shepherd, you have the instincts of a natural born sheeple handler.
I don't know if I should take that a a compliment or an insult. If you're equating me to a congressman or senator then you and I need to go out into the parking lot and settle this the old fashioned way, man to man.
Fuck You Mitch
Cantor made his bed.
Now he has to sleep in it.
Be out by 11 a.m.
Incumbents all over the country are shitting their pants tonight.
Graham wins in SC. Too bad.
think Joe Lieberman in 2006-- the infamous, 'Party-Switch'. when your an AIPAC's son, it's a gimme!
I don't think he'll do it. I think it would only rally this district further against him.
God Bless these Voters!
yo, Tyler, you're gonna want to frame this story in blue and keep it prominent...this is a WAY bigger than some forsaken chopper that a bunch of bedoins can't fly, much less maintain (best they could do is sell it to iran, and then the persians can reverse-engineer the thing).
Republicrats Cantor, McStain and the rest made a concerted effort to destroy the tea party.
The MSM will again call the tea party, "Tea baggers", like it's a joke. The democrats were hoping the republicrats would destroy the party into history.
The Republicrats are scurring like scared rats now.
I hear Europe's version of the tea party is gaining strength. Folks are Fed-up!
"Eric Cantor is a conservative leader," Allen, who has advised Cantor's campaigns since 1991, said. "[Brat] doesn't like being called a liberal college professor, but that's what he is and what he's always been."
Wrong FUCK TWAT.
I highlighted 1991 as a GLOWING BAD EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE (CANTOR) BEING IN PUBLIC OFFICE FOR 20 + YEARS....THAT'S THE FUCKING....PROBLEM.
Then, for good measure...a hearty FUCK YOU ALLEN to your asinine and down right stupid remark about "what he's always been."
Only a sniveling cunt would spit that shit out....
You're starting to resemble a favorite poster no longer with us....LongSoupLine. His rants were epic. Thank you.
The voters in Cantor's district are anti-semetic....
/sarc
LOL - was waiting for that one. It must be true - that's the ONLY reason anyone would oppose Obama - because they are racists.
Fuck Eric Cantor! He's about as phoney as a $3 Dollar Bill. Now, let's get rid of Boner, McConnell, Paul Ryan... Replace them with Tea Party Patriots!!!
GOP=DEM=INC
Nothing changes until K Street burns.
Congratulations Mr. Brat!!
The only way to know if this guy is for real is that he either resigns out of disgust before his first term is finished or he declines to run for reelection on principle; meaning: no incumbent, however "successful" or well-intentioned should desire to serve more than one term. This would go a long way to demonstrate to the electorate his disdain for career politics.
On every important vote, Cantor voted with the Democrats (as did Boehner and Ryan). The only time Cantor voted like a conservative it was for bills that had no hope of passing. Nice to know there are consequences.
I don't care who beat him.........get the incumbent career criminals the fuck out!!! Even if we have to replace them with uneducated fucking idiots because so far all that educated has proved thus is that they are smart enough to keep fucking us.
Good job!
Seriously,
Do you think a plumber or a carpenter, who deals with reality and common sense every day of the week and is held accountable if his efforts fail to work, would somehow do a worse job representing you than a lawyer who is trained to obfuscate and reshape reality?
(Apologies to lawyers who do not fit this characterization.)
This is the problem. Not enough citizen patriots and too many self serving trough feeders.
Brat taking down the #2 anointed is a very big deal and a sign 'the times, they are achangin'.'
Kinda thinkin' that 'ole Obama's most recent shenanigans might have helped get the Tea Party voters out...
By recent are you referring to the last seven years?
Paying too mush attention to Wall STreet? Say it ain't say, reds.
Just Wait. Cantor will end up as a Lobbyist or hired by some Wall Street Firm where he'll be buyng the "Brat" and filling his offshore accounts with the profits from shared losses stuffed up the sheeples' asses. Until these corrupt fucks are swinging lifeless from a lamp post, nothing will change. Cantor makes my skin crawl. Stand him uip next to Geithner.....there are two creepy little fucktards.
So this was what, a 15% voter turnout?
Maybe oly 15%, but point being Cantor wasn't worred about winning period. Believe me, Cantor has fille his personal coffers...and probably has enough dirt on his colleagues on both sides of the isle to wield some serious sway as a mere private citizen.
how do you think obama got elected.
everyone thought romney was such a bad choice, they didn't even bother.
ps-still think he woulda been better, in whatever little ways, than the fuck we have now.
Hope Karl Rove and his Republicrats lose other elections.
Look at Karl Rove's past and he's one screwed up ahole. Watch Rove turn 180 degrees and support anyone that wins.
The tea party needs to make sure this bad egg isn't part of the party.
The best thing I can say about this is, in any Republican or Democratic primary, somebody has to lose. To hell with winner. If you vote Republican or Democrat you are part of the problem.
I am Dexter Morgan.
No matter who you vote for, government gets elected.
If you vote, at all, you are a part of the problem.
Who the fuck down-voted you? You would kind of think that anyone with an ounce or so or gray matter and who has been around for more than 25 years would realize that voting is the way to procreate this bullshit that everyone on this site complains about on a daily basis. Bizarre.
The solution is to let them steal your country from your kids and hide like a rat in a hole.
Brilliant choice.
somebody tell those robot tweeters to shut up. the dems must be dancing in the street. why is it none of them ever gets tossed over the side in the primary?? thinking cowleffphoneya
The Dems are slower and sill drinking Kool Aid but that will change too.
Cantor lost huh? AMF.....
We'd be better served by picking our officials randomly from the phone book, than dealing with these psychopath career politicians.
I love it. Pretending to be a conservative and libertarian is not working anymore. Everyone in Congress is a paper tiger. Everyone here should be thinking about running for political office too.
I'd fucking kill myself before becoming a politician.
I am thinking of patriots and statesman stepping up. The founding fathers could have chosen not to. It would have been easier to have not gone in to politics. I know where that would have left all of us.
People tend to forget that when these guys with their nice comfortable livings signed that Declaration, they put a rope around their necks and their families out on the road if not far worse.
Not a split second heroic decision, but a cold calculated stand that would be undone at any time by a mere whisper of betrayal.
Those are brass balls most uncommon in ordinary men.
Who were the rocket scientist political consultants who told him he was 20-30% ahead? That's the big question. We want them to consult again for the 2014 and 2016 elections! LoL
One less warmongering israel first bootlicker gone.
Now many more to go...
You hear that Lindsey Grhram and John McCain?
Fuck all government.
Fuck all politicians.
Best News I've heard in a long time.
They don't come much more scummier than Cantor..
(Looks like Mossad forgot to hack the Diebold m/c)
Get ready for the pasture globalist scumbuckets.
Most everyone here is cheering. Have you considered it might be a case of rats dropping ship before it sinks ? The credentials on the newcomer tends to make me think "more of the same, different ways". Just a thought. Maybe i am just paranoid.
Yep, my first thought was "economics professor? - Uh Oh!"
We'll see though. It's highly unlikely he'll be worse than Cantor.
'even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in awhile.'
this is great news.
that guy was an arrogant pain in the a**
Too bad, Cantor - not to worry though - you always have a place in Israel.
Cantor was an israel-firster just like lindsay graham and ted cruz.
Good Bye Asshole!
RE: Derek Willis's tweet shown at the bottom of the article - "Eric Cantor has rarely strayed from the majority of House Republicans when voting: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/upshot/eric-cantors-voting-record.html … "
Cantor may usually vote the same as other Republicans. But, it just goes to shown that Republicans are not conservative, just less somewhat radically progressive than their Democratic colleagues.
So VA's own Frank Underwood walks the plank. Bwaaaaaahahahahahahaha!
While not seeing so much of the smarmy Cantor is good news, the likelihood of anything changing is almost zero -- unhedged.
I drink my tea from right handed cups
thanks for allowing insider trading in congress you fuckwad, don't let the door hit you in the ass as you get your next job on wall street
Cantor made a mistake to expand the 7th District in Virginia.
The area outside Richmond is very conservative.
Cantor is not a conservative.
Progressives out. Big guberment out.
With people like cantor in there it's no small wonder the squid got a huge bailout.
Why do I get the feeling Cantor was thrown under the bus as an early-on red meat distraction to the proles?
Yup, take nothing at face value.
Even if Brat is actually meaningfully different than Cantor, he'll be made one of the pod people soon enough, or he'll likely be out by whatever means necessary.
Not that I'm cynical.
Let me posit a hypothetical.
Let's say Brat received a constant stream of letters, e-mails and phone calls from his constituents advising him on votes and issues that need to be addressed with a subtle but clear reminder that his place in Congress was by sufferance only.
Let us say that the folks that claimed they were concerned about the culture in Washington of buy-a-vote, really were concerned enough to send those communications every week without fail.
Let's say everyone did the same with their reps and Senators. Constant and unyielding with a basic message: Fix it or die.
Naturally they understand that the plum jobs after gov. go to those with tenure and that one or two termers go back home with memories only.
I'm going to suppose that a change in Washington might build momentum to the point where real serious campaign finance reform might take place and shut down K St.
Drive them into passing brown bags in back alleys again and at the least, make the weasels stop pretending they're legit.
A hypothetical, of course, because nobody would be so silly to bother. I mean ordinary citizens.
The guys with a quid pro quo and lots of money stay in touch regularly. They know it takes a bit of 'activism' to get things done properly.
Well, you DID say hypothetical...
Disagree. They spent a lot of time building this clown up and as you can see from those tweets, alot of people were connected and ready for him to get the gavel.
Huge blow.
But I also agree with the idea that the new guy will most likely become a pod person. I can always hold out hope but the way it works, if you go against the GOP (or likewise the mainstream dems) they will just prevent you from getting any leadership appointments, will withold from your constituents.
Ultimately, if he gets support from those that vote, when he gets nowhere because he's against the status quo, then change can begin.
Chances at this point? 20%
I don't know - maybe Cantor didn't pay his lodge dues. Could just be how the dice rolled this time, but I can't disagree with your point on the vested interests in Cantor.
Honestly, everything smells funny anymore. We're wallowing in so much bullshit, it's well-nigh impossible for it not to.
Nice! McConnel, McShitstain, Lindsay Graham, John Boehner, Orin Snatch, etc... need to be primaried as well.
Graham sails back in handily.
Too bad theres no such thing as Constitutional defender Democrats.
Owned by the Financial services industry ...see ya Eric!
Israel first sell-out piece-of-chit C YA !
Nothing will change. Civil war in this country is now mathematically impossible to avoid. But in the mean time, bread and circuses for all.
que the child porn investigation of Mr. Brat!
just the results of the already obtained 'details' found or created by NSA, FBI, CIA, etc
While were talking about the unlikely, wanna see another flying pig?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/california-teacher-tenure-laws-rule...
Judge rules California teachers tenure Unconstitutional.
Another lugnut on the lefty 'Bus to Destruction' tour just fell off.