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  • Utter Failure

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 1
    Eric Cantor, noted partisan hack and corrupt politician, spoke at the recent job fair he hosted in Culpeper, Virginia and called the stimulus plan an “utter failure.” This is daffy on a number of levels.  First off, many of the employers at Cantor’s job fair weren’t actually hiring.  Some might say [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:07pm EST
    by Brad

  • Stimulus FTW

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Call it a zombie lie, and Eric Cantor is its zombie liar. Since he successfully pressured every Republican representative to vote against fixing the economy, Cantor has been claiming that the stimulus has “failed.”  Despite the long-term nature of it, and despite the obvious signs of the economy rectifying itself after [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:49pm EST
    by Brad

  • Party of No’s Enforcer

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 1
    I wrote yesterday about the pathetic charade Eric Cantor engaged in over the “doc fix,” the permanent measure to make sure Medicare doesn’t slash payments to doctors.  Cantor and other Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee supported it before, yet for political reasons they decided yesterday  to oppose the [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:43pm EST
    by Brad

  • Doc Fits

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    In case you weren’t paying attention, Congress today passed a “doc fix” for health care, preventing a 21% cut in Medicare payments to doctors.  This is what’s considered “a good thing.”  Unless of course you’re Eric Cantor and trying to make a political point. See, Eric Cantor supported it several months [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:02pm EST
    by Brad

  • Eric the Hypocrite

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 1
    So, yeah, basically what I said yesterday.  The DCCC is leveling a new attack on Cantor for his “hypocrisy.” I would throw in “liar” but you know, different strokes. The Washington Post reports that, once again, a showpiece job fair drummed up for a cushy Cantor photo op, is featuring a [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Brad

  • Eric the Hypocrite

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    So, yeah, basically what I said yesterday.  The DCCC is leveling a new attack on Cantor for his “hypocrisy.” I would throw in “liar” but you know, different strokes. The Washington Post reports that, once again, a showpiece job fair drummed up for a cushy Cantor photo op, is featuring a [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Brad

  • Seriously?

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    So every time you see Eric Cantor, as he did today, squawking about “jobs” and “deficit,” please keep in mind some simple facts about Mr. Cantor. First, Eric Cantor was a loyal lieutenant in the Bush regime, helping to force through the massive deficit spending in the form of tax cuts [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:23pm EST
    by Brad

  • Constituents Mad!

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 4
    I get a lot of email from people, both inside and outside the district, bemoaning the fact that such a pathetic representative pretends to serve their interest in Washington, DC while not actually representing anyone but himself and his cronies.  Some I have printed before, more I will in the [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:35am EST
    by Brad

  • Does Cantor Support Abortion?

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Lee Fang asks the question of the day: Does Eric Cantor provide abortion services for his employees? See, the right wing is up in arms that, after fighting to prohibit any federally subsidized insurance money from abortion services, the Republican National Committee’s own employee insurance program provides abortion services to those [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:26pm EST
    by Brad

  • ADL Calls Out Cantor

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 10
    The Anti-Defamation League, a non-partisan NGO committed to fighting anti-Semitism and bigotry around the world, has called out Republican leadership, especially Eric Cantor, for his refusal to forcefully condemn the hate-filled signs featured by Republican operatives in their health care protest at the US Capitol. In the letter they addressed to [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:55pm EST
    by Brad

  • High School Journalism

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 1
    Really, CNN?  This is what you consider news? CNN.com has a breathless profile piece on Eric Cantor, shedding basically no insight into either him or his politics.  The thrust of the piece is that Cantor’s colleagues believes he has his sights higher than Congress.  Seriously.  That’s it.  Had anyone at CNN [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:42am EST
    by Brad

  • FLASHBACK: Matthews Eviscerates Cantor

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    Slow day in Cantor news.  He’s probably off doing fundraisers or something.  So here’s an old gem for your viewing pleasure. Chris Matthews sure loves making inadequate Republicans look like babbling dunces from time to time. From February, 2007 Matthews tried to pin Cantor down on whether or not he thought we [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:34pm EST
    by Brad

  • To Holocaust or Not To Holocaust

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 1
    On the same day he was getting rave reports in the press for his mild rebuke of those who invoke the Holocaust in discussing American politics, Eric Cantor seems to have invoked the Holocaust in discussing American politics. Speaking at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly yesterday, Cantor spoke [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:36pm EST
    by Brad

  • A Bridge Too Far

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    Here’s the video of Eric Cantor on Bloomberg expressing mild displeasure with references to Hitler and the Holocaust (referenced before). Apparently, Rush Limbaugh went just a little bit too far for Mr. Cantor by claiming that Obama is like Adolf Hitler and that health care reform is similar to Nazism.  Everything [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:01pm EST
    by Brad

  • Whip Fail

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 1
    After Cantor promised this whole week that the Democratic healthcare bill would get no Republican votes… After Cantor twisted his arm on the House floor… Joseph Cao, Republican representative from Louisiana, voted for the Democratic healthcare bill which just passed 220-215. A good day for America, and, yes, Mr. Boehner, the future is [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:20pm EST
    by Brad

  • Intelligence Deficit

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Eric Cantor, noted liar, speaking in defense of doing nothing to improve health care, made the false claim that the House health care bill (all 2,000 pages of it!) increases the deficit. False.  The Democrats’ bill will decrease the deficit by over $100 billion.  In fact it saves $36 billion more [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:48pm EST
    by Brad

  • Out of Time

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Sometimes I struggle, I’ll admit.  I struggle to find the words to express how truly vapid and out of touch Eric Cantor is.  How low this congressman has become.  Sure, he’s corrupt, rotten to the core, and in it not to help people but only to expand his own political [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:48pm EST
    by Brad

  • Insolence!

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Eric Cantor, under fire for standing by idly while extremist Republicans brandished anti-Semitic, violent, and generally insulting signs mere yards from where he was standing, has taken the bold step of calling out Rush Limbaugh and firmly denouncing those extremists! HAHA!  Just kidding.  You see, Eric Cantor is a coward, so [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:08pm EST
    by Brad

  • Will Cantor Denounce His Own Party?

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 3
    At the great teabag circle jerk of yesterday on Capitol Hill, the crazy came out to play.  And as usual when you get this number of dingbats, wingnuts, and general freaks in one area, at least some anti-Semitism is bound to break out.  See also:  the picture above referencing an [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:09am EST
    by Brad

  • GOP Health Plan LOL!

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 4
    Surprisingly, the House Republicans after months and months of dithering, promising a bill was imminent, then backing down, have FINALLY released a bill to counter the Democrats’ proposals.  Unsurprisingly, it is laughably bad. The early reports the other day were harsh, including that the plan refused to prohibit insurers from reject [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:46pm EST
    by Brad

  • Start the Races

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    With the 2009 mid-mid-term elections mercifully behind us, it’s time to start the focus like a laser on November, 2010.  2009 resulted in unequivocal gains for the Republicans in Virginia, although nationwide it was more of a wash, with Republicans adding two governors and Democrats picking up two more desperately [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:07am EST
    by Brad

  • Politics 101

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Noted political genius Eric Cantor, he who proudly proclaimed the GOP would keep the congress in 2006 and who predicted they would take it back in 2008 (and 2010), is back with another prediction: that Bob McDonnell will win the governor’s race in Virginia and that it will be a [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:10pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor a Moderate?

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    Okay, that’s not technically true.  He’s far to the right of the American people.  But compared to the deformed, shrunken band of misfits, freaks, and degenerates known as “today’s Republican Party,” Cantor is actually somewhat moderate. Look at what’s going on in the 23rd District of New York.  Dede Scozzafava, a [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor Rushes to Defend The GOP Communications Team

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Fox News is the communications arm of the Republican Party.  It’s about as clear-cut as it gets.  So when those nasty mean Democrats called them out for it, Republican members of Congress rushed to defend their media arm. Like Eric Cantor.  He said: Under fire for its management of a wave of [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:42pm EDT
    by Brad

  • McDonnell Doesn’t Understand What “Leadership” Means

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    At the armed 7th District Republican Roundup, gubernatorial candidate Bob “Thesis” McDonnell praised Eric Cantor for his “leadership.” Really, that’s about all you need to know about McDonnell’s lack of judgment.  But Lowell at Blue Virginia lays it out beautifully. [N]ow that Cantor and his merry band of right-wingnut naysayers want to [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by Brad

  • What Is Cantor Hiding?

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Here’s a quick piece of advice for Eric Cantor: A representative who managed to somehow avoid ethics investigations for his dealings with Jack Abramoff, including co-signing a letter lobbying for Abramoff’s clients, with rumored ties to Abramoff going all the way back to his George Washington University days, probably should think [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:35am EDT
    by Brad

  • This Should Go Well

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 12
    Back in 2007 I went to the Henrico County Republican Roundup at Innsbrook in the far west end.  And it was depressing. George Allen sulking, Eric Cantor attempting to fire up an un-fire-up-able crowd, and families seemingly much more interested in the free food and alcohol than in the politics.  [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:55am EDT
    by Brad

  • Thesis Read By Real Virginians

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    And the effects are pretty stunning. Here’s a new web video put together by the good folks at NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia.  They did something, on a smaller scale, that I’ve been desperately hoping the Deeds campaign would do: get Virginia’s women on camera reading Bob McDonnell’s thesis word-for-word.  I figured the [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Whip It Good

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    There’s a strange dissonance in this Washington Post article raising the (shocking!) possibility that no House Republicans will end up supporting health care reform. Now I’m pretty sure Ben Pershing knows what he’s talking about when it comes to politics, but he sure doesn’t show it here.  He includes Eric Cantor [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
    by Brad

  • O’Bannon vs. Women

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Today’s GOP, and especially the Virginia Republican party, has huge problems with women.  Republicans don’t seem to like them very much and have a downright archaic view of them.  We already saw Bob McDonnell and his abhorrently medieval view of women and their role in society, and just this past [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor Resoundingly Rejected By His Constituents

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Eric Cantor went on The Early Show this morning and criticized the Democrats’ health care reform proposals.  He took specific aim at the public option, which he claimed has been “resoundingly rejected” by Americans. He said: You know, in the house, as you know, the bill that will make its way [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor Preparing the Attack Over Afghanistan

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Eric Cantor has an op-ed this morning in Politico in which he lays out the conditions of his, and Republicans’, support for Obama on Afghanistan.  They will support the President only if he follows General McChrystal’s advice and increases the number of troops. This has all the potential to be a [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:52am EDT
    by Brad

  • Dr. No’s Theme Song

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    The official theme song of Eric Cantor and the Party of No. Lyrics: I don’t know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway, Whatever it is, I’m against it. No matter what it is or who commenced it, I’m against it. Your proposition may be good, But let’s have one thing understood, Whatever it is, I’m [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 8:08pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Shields at Qimonda

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Tom Shields delivered a major address yesterday at the former Virginia headquarters of Qimonda, the company that slashed thousands of Henrico jobs months after John O’Bannon voted to deny funding to them.  Mr. Shields was joined by several environmental groups as he spoke to the need to bring more green [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 7:32pm EDT
    by Brad

  • President Obama Finally Getting Serious

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 5
    Good for him.  President Obama has apparently stopped consulting with House Republicans on health care reform.  So sayeth whiny child Eric Cantor. “The White House at this point has shut down, as far as any kind of engagement. I think that the last time that we as a Republican leadership were [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 11:46am EDT
    by Brad

  • Party of No – Olympic Edition

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    Anything Barack Obama does is bad.  So sayeth Eric Cantor. Eric Cantor and his staff had a collective hissy-fit about Barack Obama actively pushing to bring the 2016 Olympics to the United States.  Apparently, they don’t understand the windfall such a massive event can bring to the area, including billions in [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 10:04am EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor to Uninsured: Meh

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    It’s really time to have a serious conversation about whether Republicans, like Eric Cantor, care at all about how Americans are struggling.  They have been working their asses off to defeat health care reform, and for what purpose? Take Cantor’s distressing performance at the Times-Dispatch-sponsored debate with Bobby Scott.  Cantor was [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 8:40pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Civil Debate

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Dana Milbank, a writer who I tend not to like at all and was actually the main reason I ditched my Washington Post subscription, has a solid piece up this morning about Monday’s Cantor-Scott debate on health care.  He was struck by the civility of it, both from the attendees [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:56am EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor Really Does Love Bachmann

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    It was reported a few days ago in Politico that John Boehner and Eric Cantor, two two highest ranking Republicans in Congress, were struggling to deal with Michele Bachmann’s increasingly erratic behavior which has included urging constituents to slit their wrists, calling for a McCarthy-esque investigation of members of Congress, [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:51am EDT
    by Brad

  • Answer the Question

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    As a veteran observer of Eric Cantor, I’ve long been fascinated by his frequent refusal to answer a simple question.  He has this uncanny ability to talk and talk and talk without ever actually saying anything of substance. Now, I know, this is certainly not a trait that’s rare in Washington.  [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
    by Brad

  • John O’Bannon Embarrassed by Wingnut Tom White

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 4
    Now it’s hard to stand out as a frothing hack moron in Virginia’s conservative blogosphere.  The entire conservative culture in the state has been debased by over four years of some of the most disgusting and least intelligent commentary ever put on the internet, and every day dozens of brain-dead [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 8:43am EDT
    by Brad

  • More on the Unconstitutional ACORN ban

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 6
    Say what you will about ACORN and whatever they may or may not have done.  The jury’s still out on that after the two filmmakers got caught in a series of lies.  As I raised the point in a previous post, the act to ban ACORN from receiving government funding [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Constituent Blasts Cantor at Debate

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    At this morning’s debate which was a joint appearance with Eric Cantor and Richmond Representative Bobby Scott, a constituent grilled Cantor on why he has not held a town hall on health care. Watch below (h/t Think Progress): (TP was having some problems with the video from their site so here’s the [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 12:48pm EDT
    by Brad

  • John O’Bannon Taxes Small Businesses

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    In a childish little fit, Virginia Republicans voted months ago to turn down $150 million in federal recovery act money to help cover unemployment claims.  They were apparently seeking to prove something, putting their ideology over the needs of Virginia workers.  The money was there for the taking, but Virginia [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 6:04pm EDT
    by Brad

  • House Nuts

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 4
    The House yesterday voted, in an apparently unconstitutional act, to pass a bill of attainder denying federal money to ACORN.  The Senate has already passed a similar motion. Eric Cantor stated, “Acorn has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 8:25am EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    As Think Progress is reporting today, “sources” say that Eric Cantor and John Boehner have some misgivings about frothing, screeching wingnut Representative Michele Bachmann.  Michele Bachmann, in case are you are not aware, is the fact-challenged rep from the 6th District of Minnesota who has urged constituents to slit their [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Standing With Joe

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 10
    As Erick Erickson, as wingnutty as the wingnuttiest bloggers get, points out, Eric Cantor has dug in his heels to stand with Joe Wilson’s complete lack of respect for the nation. As Eric Cantor himself said on the House floor: The gentleman from South Carolina has apologized to the White House; The [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 8:46am EDT
    by Brad

  • Cantor-Scott Town Hall

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    Here are the details for the bipartisan town hall/debate Eric Cantor will be having with Richmond Representative Bobby Scott. It is on Monday, September 21 at 10:00 AM.  It will be held at the offices of the Richmond Times-Dispatch at 300 E. Franklin St., Richmond, VA.  I have yet to find [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
    by Brad

  • First Hat in the Ring

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 3
    The race to take down the House Minority Whip, one Eric Ivan Cantor, officially began today. Charlie Diradour, owner of a Richmond-area real estate development company, announced via a video slamming Cantor over his disrespectful use of his Blackberry when he was supposed to be “attentive” during President Obama’s health care [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 2:23pm EDT
    by Brad

  • Bipartisan Health Care Forum

    —Where's Eric Cantor?

    Number of comments: 2
    Eric Cantor has agreed to hold a public town hall/debate with Democratic Richmond representative Bobby Scott on September 21.  The event will be hosted by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Good for him.  This is a great move that hopefully more members of Congress will adopt in the near future.  To his credit [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 8:23pm EDT
    by Brad

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