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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:36 PM Jun 2014

Step Right Up and Place your Bets on Where Eric Cantor Will Go To Cash His Wingnut Welfare Check:

So, where will Eric Cantor cash his WINGNUT WELFARE check? Any bets?

Here are the possibilities:

1. The American Enterprise Institute: Koch brothers funded welfare institution for fake eggheads. Aka, political hacks that like to think of themselves as serious thinkers. Generally for ex-politicians who tried to maintain some image of intellectualism while in office. (ie-Kissinger, Wolfowitz)

2. The Heritage Foundation: Koch brothers funded welfare institution for retired, broken down, clapped-out 'culture warriors.' (ie-Jim DeMint.)

3. The CATO Institute: Kock brothers funded 'farm team' version of the American Enterprise Institute. Generally for people can't hold more than one economic or political idea in their head at the same time, and therefore combine them both into one big SIMPLE ideal called 'libertarianism.' Generally for ex-political staffers who graduated from college, and went straight into a job stuffing ballot boxes for some hacky Representative in Washington. (ie-Lew Rockwell, former staffer to Ron Paul.)

4. 'Pundint' at Fox News: Generally for clowns, felons, crooks, and political ratf#ckers (the actual term for a political dirty tricks specialist) who are too much of an embarrassment for any of the other organizations listed above; but who were at least entertaining, and know how to juggle and drop their pants. (ie-Karl Rove, Oliver North, Sarah Palin)


My bet is on The Heritage Foundation. "Eric Cantor, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation." Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

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Step Right Up and Place your Bets on Where Eric Cantor Will Go To Cash His Wingnut Welfare Check: (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 OP
I think we will see him on TV. femmocrat Jun 2014 #1
True! But I just don't think he's 'entertaining' enough for that gig. Unless, of course, he starts TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 #3
The tv stuff is easy and increases his billing fees. lovemydog Jun 2014 #7
I think he'll do two of the above and lovemydog Jun 2014 #2
Very true about the corporate consulting and lobbying stuff. I didn't put that on the list because TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 #6
Lol, yeah. It's huge money lovemydog Jun 2014 #9
The 'Corporate Consultant' thing always reminds me of that episode of The Sopranos. Where TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 #15
He'll head up a big tobacco organization in Virginia. eom MohRokTah Jun 2014 #4
Or be a spokesman for 'clean coal?' Possibly. TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 #8
Lobbyist Mz Pip Jun 2014 #5
Yep, I should have put K Street lobbyist on the list. Most of these career politicians believe that TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 #11
Tobacco underpants Jun 2014 #10
I guess you're right. But I was guessing Cantor wouldn't want his historical legacy to go down as TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 #13
Nice.. sendero Jun 2014 #12
Well, that's the main reason they make it a point to bribe BOTH parties, I guess. nt TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 #14
They're not mutually exclusive are they? Johonny Jun 2014 #16
He'll be a Koch whore. TeamPooka Jun 2014 #17
It ain't just wingnuts. Warren Stupidity Jun 2014 #18
Game Show host Armstead Jun 2014 #19

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
3. True! But I just don't think he's 'entertaining' enough for that gig. Unless, of course, he starts
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:52 PM
Jun 2014

up a daytime TV talk show, or something.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
7. The tv stuff is easy and increases his billing fees.
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:54 PM
Jun 2014

The think tank stuff he gets paid to let his name be used and other folks do the work.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
2. I think he'll do two of the above and
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:50 PM
Jun 2014

get fees consulting on corporate bribery. While hoodwinking the gullible who still believe taxing billionaires hurts working folks.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
6. Very true about the corporate consulting and lobbying stuff. I didn't put that on the list because
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:54 PM
Jun 2014

it's so ubiquitous that I didn't think it was worth mentioning.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
9. Lol, yeah. It's huge money
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:57 PM
Jun 2014

and basically requires going out for dinners and drinks and complaining about people who work for a living.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
15. The 'Corporate Consultant' thing always reminds me of that episode of The Sopranos. Where
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:07 PM
Jun 2014

the guy who owns the Public Sanitation company that picks up the city's garbage dies, and his son takes over, read the company's expense sheets, and wonders what Tony Soprano is doing to earn a $200,000 per year 'consulting fee.' Especially when he hasn't shown up to a company board meeting in 20 years.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
11. Yep, I should have put K Street lobbyist on the list. Most of these career politicians believe that
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:59 PM
Jun 2014

they were actually hard done by by being confined to a piffling six figure a year salary, and an unlimited expense account during their decades in Washington; and want to make up for lost time by making piles of money facilitating corporate bribes to Congress after they retire.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
13. I guess you're right. But I was guessing Cantor wouldn't want his historical legacy to go down as
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:01 PM
Jun 2014

stating that he finished his career as a drug pusher for cancer sticks.

sendero

(28,552 posts)
12. Nice..
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 06:59 PM
Jun 2014

.... but I agree with the previous poster, lobbying is where the $$$$ is.

Can you even imagine how ineffective these revolving door lobbyists would be if half of congress lost their seats every election.

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