The House Republicans are getting cranky about one of their top guys. Eric Cantor is being trashed by fellow Republicans. This GOP fratricide is showing no signs of subsiding. It's great:
A rising star in the Republican Party has dimmed over the past week.Cantor is a terrible leader, just terrible. But, then again, any Republican would be terrible.
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.), a politically shrewd up-and-comer in the GOP, has broken with his party on two high-profile issues. And the defections on last week’s AIG bonus tax bill and the Obama administration’s troubled assets plan have exasperated some members in the GOP conference.
The grumbling started when Cantor unexpectedly voted with Democrats last week on a measure to recoup the bonuses of AIG executives. Many Republicans called the bill unconstitutional, with more than half of the GOP conference rejecting it. Cantor, who has been labeled “Mr. No” by some Democrats, was one of only two Republican leadership officials who voted for the bill. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.) was the other.
“All the unconstitutional stuff aside, if you don’t believe in raising taxes, why would you vote to raise taxes?” House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter (Texas) said.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) added that supporting the retroactive tax cut “sets a terrible precedent, just terrible.”
It is fun to see the cranky old GOPers knock the "politically shrewd up-and-comer" Cantor around.
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