Cantor's GOP Ideas Factory Declared Dead A Year After It Launched

It was supposed to be a GOP ideas factory that would fill the leadership vacuum on the right after Barack Obama's landslide election. The National Council for a New America was supposed to be, in the words of founder Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), "a conversation with the American people" to "develop innovative solutions that meet the serious challenges confronting our country."

But, Roll Call reports, the group is now dead one year after it launched to what, in hindsight, appears to be excessive media coverage of an entity that hadn't actually done anything.

"Republican Party plans comeback" declared CNN; "GOP recasts brand, sans wedge issues," said Politico; "GOP Forms Ideas Coalition" said National Journal. In fact, there were no less than 5,000 positive media hits for the National Council for a New America, Cantor's spokesman told Roll Call.

Despite all that, the national conversation never really happened. There was only one town hall meeting attended by GOP heavyweights, in Arlington, Virginia.

Roll Call reports that the Cantor camp is blaming "liberals" for killing the group:



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say about the populous?

The repugs may lack viable ideas, but they certainly know how to play on fears.

done to the country.

:shrug:

I blame the Obama administration, as will the Republicans.