Eric Cantor: GOP's Drama Queen with an Agenda

Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Republican House majority leader, has been in the spotlight with his headlining-grabbing intransigence on the debt ceiling negotiations. While his name recognition has dramatically increased since the 2010 elections, it hasn't always been positive. Now Salon magazine has labeled him "the most dangerous whiner in America."

Cantor has steadily moved up the Republican ranks since 1992, when he ran for and won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, where he served eight years. In 2000, he upgraded, winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.In 2002, after he secured reelection, House Republican Whip Roy Blunt offered him the position of chief deputy whip, the number four position in the Republican leadership. He accepted, beginning a meteoric rise in political power. In 2008, as Blunt retired, Cantor was elected minority whip, the number two spot behind John Boehner. He was even rumored to have been on John McCain's 2008 vice presidential short-list, before McCain made the fateful choice of Sarah Palin.

Cantor's attitude towards the political process became apparent during the initial failed TARP bailout of Wall Street. As deputy whip, it was his duty to wrangle Republican votes for the bill, which he supported (even though he runs away from that now). However, when the bill failed to pass, Cantor knew where the blame fell: Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the House, hurt the Republicans' feelings.

Pelosi made a somewhat partisan speech that Cantor claims was why the vote failed. However, other conservatives disagree. Former Bush speechwriter Pete Wehner, in National Review Online's The Corner, called Cantor's attitude "lame and adolescent." Even then-freshman Rep. Michele Bachmann chimed in claiming, "We're not babies who suck our thumbs."

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Unfortunately.....it has been a failure, because the funds were never directed to the mainstreet the way the program was laid out....

How the bailout killed local lending and how some states hope to get it back
By Ellen Brown
Posted on July 7, 2011 by Ellen Brown
Wall Street banks have cut back on small business lending . . . more than double the cutback in overall lending. . . . options just keep disappearing.—Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel

The Wall Street bailout of 2008 has radically altered the banking business. The bailout was supposed to keep credit flowing to Main Street, but it has wound up having the opposite effect. Small and medium-sized businesses have traditionally been the main engines for increasing employment, and they need bank credit for their working capital; but today credit to local businesses has collapsed nearly everywhere.http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/2406

its in his record