Washington Watch: CANTORING Through Washington

Segami

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Washington Watch: CANTORING Through Washington

"...Boehner’s greatest fear is that his deputy will try to do to him what he and others in the GOP House leadership tried to do to Gingrich in 1997..."

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" Shortly after last year’s congressional election, Rep. Eric Cantor met with Binyamin Netanyahu in New York and told him that as the incoming majority leader of the House of Representatives, he would have the prime minister’s back. Don’t worry about Barack Obama, he said, I’ll be there for you.

John Boehner, his one-time mentor, probably wishes he could count on such loyalty from his No. 2. It is no secret around Capitol Hill that Cantor wants to move up to the top job, and he’s a man in a hurry. A line Cantor put in his high school yearbook – “I want what I want when I want it” – seems to guide him still. Howard Fineman, a veteran political analyst, said at the height of the debt limit crisis, “Cantor has spent months undercutting Boehner.”

Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in the 112th Congress and, as majority leader, the highest-ranking Jew in Congressional history. Since his arrival on Capitol Hill in 2001, it’s been widely assumed he would like to be the first Jewish speaker. He has strong pro-Israel bonafides and considers Netanyahu a friend, but even so, it is unprecedented for a congressional leader to tell the head of a foreign government he would stand with him against the president of the United States.

A Cantor spokesman said that wasn’t exactly what he meant, but that “Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the administration.” Confused loyalties appear to be a problem for Cantor, according to many Capitol Hill denizens. Boehner, 61, has his base in the old guard, and Cantor, 48, is a leader of the more ideological hardliners and Tea Partiers. These would seem like complementary qualities for the leadership, but instead the two men are seen more often as rivals.

At several critical points during the debt crisis, Cantor seemed not only out of synch with the speaker, but to be deliberately weakening him.

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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=232342

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flamingdem

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:00 AM
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1. Eric "shiney balls" Cantor

see yesterday's thread for details on said balls.

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Segami

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:02 AM
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2. Do you have a link?

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flamingdem

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:10 AM
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4. lolz here it is

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1657380&mesg_id=1657380

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Segami

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:13 AM
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6. LOL! Thanks!

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no_hypocrisy

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:02 AM
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3. Cantor's motivations have been baldly obvious for months.

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gateley

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:10 AM
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5. I think it's pretty much a given - anyone who's paid attention

knows it.

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no_hypocrisy

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:17 AM
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7. I think this is Cantor's gameplan.

To rattle Boehner so much that either Boehner doesn't run again as Speaker in 2013 or Boehner keeps his title and more or less defers to Cantor and does it his way while Cantor remains Majority Leader.

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gateley

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:24 AM
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8. Boehner has really been humiliated, I think, by this situation.

I ALMOST kind of feel for the guy.

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Thu Aug-04-11 10:26 AM
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9. Maybe we will get lucky and out vote the Republican Election Fraud machine

and regain control of the House.

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