If, as pundits predict, Republicans recapture the House of Representatives from the Democrats in elections next month, Congressman Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would most likely become majority leader, and “he could be Barack Obama’s worst nightmare,” according to an October 2 Wall Street Journal article by Steve Moore, senior economics writer for the WSJ editorial page.
Cantor held fast with fellow Republicans over the past two years to vote against the Stimulus, Obamacare and the Financial Reform law. In the article Cantor says the first order of business for a Republican-controlled Congress would be to retroactively extend the Bush tax cuts to all filers. Next would be to cut government spending and “rein in the size of the bureaucracy.”
Incumbency used to have its privileges, but the 2010 political forecast is vastly different, with an anti-incumbent wave taking the shape of a national tsunami. Cantor was first elected in Virginia’s 7th District in 2000, so he must answer for the sins of Republicans, who controlled the House before losing it in 2006. Cantor admits that “we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money….”
Moore met with Cantor in his office at the Capitol, where Cantor had “just arrived back in town after five weeks criss-crossing the country stumping for scores of Republican challengers,” and to conduct a national media tour to promote a book he co-wrote called Young Guns. Meanwhile, back home in Virginia’s 7th district, Cantor faces Democrat Rick Waugh and Independent Green candidate Floyd Bayne in the congressional race. He also faces some criticism for refusing to debate his opponents. At a September 17 book signing Bayne, who calls himself the “real conservative” in the race, confronted Cantor about his lack of willingness to debate, as reported in the Richmond Times Dispatch. This past week Cantor took some heat from WRVA-AM radio Host Doc Thompson, who sarcastically conducted an “in absentia” interview using previously recorded comments from Cantor, after he says he made numerous unanswered requests for the Congressman to participate in a radio town hall.
Will Cantor stop the flood of government spending and point us back to a course of limited government? As always, the answer rests with you. Be sure to register to vote by October 11 and educate yourself on the candidates and issues so you can make an informed decision on November 2.
The Republicans sound sure that they will win the House and Senate, but i’m not so sure that will happen. The Republicans just want to extend the Bush Tax. for the Richest 2% and the Middle Class can pay for it.
The Tea Party candidates are unexperienced Special Interest Lobbyists owned, that want to do away with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
All the Tea Party Candidates names is on Charles and David Koch contribution list. What these Billionaries want they buy.
Senate
Total to Democrats: $0
Total to Republicans: $122,500 Recipient Total
Angle, Sharron E (R-NV) $5,000
Ayotte, Kelly A (R-NH) $5,000
Bennett, Robert F (R-UT) $5,000
Blunt, Roy (R-MO) $10,000
Boozman, John (R-AR) $10,000
Castle, Michael N (R-DE) $5,000
Coats, Daniel R (R-IN) $5,000
Fiorina, Carly (R-CA) $10,000
Grassley, Chuck (R-IA) $7,500
Isakson, Johnny (R-GA) $5,000
Kirk, Mark (R-IL) $5,000
Norton, Jane (R-CO) $5,000
Paul, Rand (R-KY) $5,000
Portman, Rob (R-OH) $10,000
Rossi, Dino (R-WA) $5,000
Rubio, Marco (R-FL) $5,000
Thune, John (R-SD) $10,000
Toomey, Pat (R-PA) $5,000
Vitter, David (R-LA) $5,000
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FreedomWorks PAC is excited to announce its latest “Champion of Freedom” endorsement as part of the Take America Back in 2010 campaign. John Raese, a fiscal conservative with a diverse history of leadership experience, is running for Senate in West Virginia.
As a lifelong West Virginia resident, John Raese has seen firsthand how Congress’s path of wasteful deficit spending and excessive regulation burdens West Virginia small businesses and kills opportunities for entrepreneurship. FreedomWorks PAC applauds his commitment to a common-sense, limited government agenda that includes spending restrictions and relief from excessive market regulation.
Raese is also a signer of the Contract FROM America, an authentic grassroots document created by the people, for the p…
Freedworks Fundation leader is Dick Armey, who works for Charles and David Koch.