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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat if Eric says fuck it allows votes on senate bills
What has he got to lose? He has 5 months left, I don't see him giving it up before his term is over.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)play loose cannon, and be spiteful towards the Republican Party. I expect him to be. It's going to be a delicious time to be a Dem in the House
Rex
(65,616 posts)He can rot in Hell. One piss poor human being out of office, replaced by a wackadoodle that will lose them millions of votes.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)or if he goes out like a good foot soldier because he might be rewarded with a lucrative job after he leaves office.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'd bet his staff is researching the most appropriate time for Cantor to resign his seat and get on with making some real coin. The fly in Cantor's ointment is that if there's any discretion left to the governor, it will be a Democrat making the call.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)He can run in another district. He can run statewide. He can be a lobbyist. He still has support of traditional Chamber of Commerce republicans and corporate donors. Why would he burn his bridges?
longship
(40,416 posts)He isn't in any position to do anything in the Senate. Or am I missing something here.
JI7
(89,173 posts)so they can make it to the white house and get signed by the pres . because that is what is holding up the bills from being passed right now.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)but I agree he probably won't do it because it will burn the rest of them running in 2014 to force them into a vote
warrior1
(12,325 posts)to vote for anything
pampango
(24,692 posts)to the forces they are afraid of.