that powerful already? It seems to me that to do those things would be suicidal for the GOP.

We've moved on from savoring Cantor's angst to worrying about what Brat might do as his successor? Yeah, it's about time for that.

Cantor's district went heavily for McCain and Romney in years where the whole state of Virginia went for Obama. I have no doubts that Brat will be the next representative from there. He's probably not going to say anything too stupid, but I'm sure that he'll vote for chained CPI if he ever gets the chance. We have only Obama's veto power keeping that from happening, and since the President once put chained CPI on the table, he'll be hard pressed to back away from it in the next couple of years.

I expect that Brat has learned from the Todd Akins and Sharon Angles of the tea party wing, and is just going to stick to his stump speech for the rest of the campaign, and cruise to victory in November.

What's that old saying about the devil you know being better than the devil you don't know?

The Conservatives Have To School Him As To What To Say & How To Say It Intelligently Which They Failed To Do With Sarah Palin, she still believes the world is flat The Conservatives Will Make Him Or Break Him. Compliments Of Faux News..

he's fiercely apposed to minimum wages laws and social security in it's entirety. Brat may have appealed to the lunatic fringe in the GOP but, he's a nail in the coffin overall.

saying it outright.

So he's smart enough to know voters like having a minimum wage, but unwilling to lie baldly and say he's for it.

He kept swing back around to saying you couldn't 'arbitrarily set wages', but that wage increases should be a 'result' of productivity growth. The problem even with that is that wages have been essentially flatline for 50 years despite enormous gains in productivity. So unless you force business to actually tie wages to productivity, they simply won't reflect productivity, and his whole argument falls apart like the house of cards it is.

Older people who receive S.S. are more likely Repub. voters. This could change their minds.

...he not cutting or abolishing squat.