Cantor: Time to broaden our agenda, guys
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sought to lead Republicans past their dollars-and-cents fights of the last two years, arguing Tuesday for a more expansive agenda that resonates with a broader scope of Americans.
As the GOP works to redefine itself in the wake of an electoral drubbing last fall, Cantor outlined a series of policies he said Republicans would pursue over the next two years. The agenda includes staples of Republican politics — tax and entitlement reforms, for instance — but also education, immigration and research and development, particularly in the sciences.
“In Washington, over the past few weeks and months, our attention has been on cliffs, debt ceilings and budgets, on deadlines and negotiations,” Cantor said at a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington. “But today, I’d like to focus our attention on what lies beyond these fiscal debates. Over the next two years, the House majority will pursue an agenda based on a shared vision of creating the conditions for health, happiness and prosperity for more Americans and their families.”
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Which can only be accomplished by getting government out of the way. Good luck with that under this
kingpresident, champ.Kataklysmic on February 5, 2013 at 6:03 PM
If five million of us marched on DC and literally tossed them into the ocean, who could stop us?
Oh God, let it happen. Let me be a part of it.
sartana on February 5, 2013 at 6:05 PM
Go F yourself, Cantor.
VorDaj on February 5, 2013 at 6:06 PM
Cantor is absolutely awful, his biography is pedestrian, and his voice is like nails on a chalkboard.
How the heck did he manage to rise to majority leader. Pathetic.
commodore on February 5, 2013 at 6:07 PM
Government attracts the worst of the worst these days. Scum from top to bottom.
SirGawain on February 5, 2013 at 6:08 PM
… and reach out to gay, illegal-alien welfare-seekers …
Pork-Chop on February 5, 2013 at 6:12 PM
Cantor, if you don’t address these fiscal matters and fight to rein in the imperial president, just exactly how do you expect to create “the conditions for health, happiness and prosperity for more Americans and their families.”????
INC on February 5, 2013 at 6:17 PM
I just read more from Cantor at this link:
and I’ve decided that Cantor is either a nincompoop or yet another politician who has succumbed to some D.C. contagion called “Usery.”
Lourdes on February 5, 2013 at 6:17 PM
We would vote the same people into office afterward. You know we would.
thebrokenrattle on February 5, 2013 at 6:17 PM
For the common good, no doubt.
Some people just don’t get it. He is basically promoting that conservatives start being taught how to “feel”, by taking ques from the leftist script.
If there are 10% of these established politacans worth listening to I’d be surprised.
Idiots.
Mimzey on February 5, 2013 at 6:19 PM
Not a penny more.
It’s really time for a new party. I really don’t the purpose of the GOP, except to sort of get in Obama’s way. It’s one party rule.
Oil Can on February 5, 2013 at 6:19 PM
I do agree that the Republican Party has problems and needs to change, but unfortunately Cantor is one of the problems and it is he and others that needs to be changed.
FloatingRock on February 5, 2013 at 6:19 PM
…by supporting as many liberal policies as possible.
No thanks, Eric. There’s already a party for those kind of things, and they have more experience at it than you do.
xblade on February 5, 2013 at 6:20 PM
You just know this is what he wanted to say, lol.
xblade on February 5, 2013 at 6:22 PM
Funny – I just cannot warm up to Cantor – and I HAVE tried.
jake-the-goose on February 5, 2013 at 6:42 PM
Compassionate Conservatism 2.0
Is Rove’s new group pushing this, too?
Wethal on February 5, 2013 at 6:42 PM
Cantor=Whig
Bmore on February 5, 2013 at 6:54 PM
“…the House majority will pursue an agenda based on a shared vision of creating the conditions for health, happiness and prosperity for more Americans and their families.” Unless what you’re proposing is to get government the hell out of the way, how is it that you can say this?
Hill60 on February 5, 2013 at 6:57 PM
This seems to be floating around the Cantors and Jindals of the world.
No one knows exactly what “move beyond dollars and cents means,” but the bottom line is that if they were up to anything good, they would be speaking English.
HitNRun on February 5, 2013 at 6:58 PM
Time to broaden our agenda… I thought this was about Michelle.
Fallon on February 5, 2013 at 6:58 PM
Meaning that the producers/taxpayers will be scroomed, royally, officially, by both sides now.
Also, what VorDaj said. He knew about Benghazi ahead of the election and said nothing. To Hades with him and all the Rs.
Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 7:15 PM
I’m sure its part of the incremental script to hopefully protect their self image and gravy train.
This is not some kind of eureka moment…its most likely part of a plan to manipulate peoples opinions in their favor. THEIR favor. Not whats best for the country.
Mimzey on February 5, 2013 at 7:34 PM
People tell Cantor and Jindal to F off, but both are right. A single minded focus on tax cuts and spending cuts makes it difficult for many middle class Americans to see how it would benefit them. Will tax cuts make their child’s school better? Will spending cuts help them make their household budget and pay their bills? There is a case to be made for such things, but right now the party is not making that case.
For example, compare these two positions on education:
1: Eliminate the Department of Education, get rid of overpaid teachers, cut property taxes for schools.
2: We need to improve education by being more innovative and flexible. The best way to do this is put decisions in the hands of local parents and schools, giving them to the power to make their own decisions. Federal mandates, rules, and unions make things more rigid and wasteful. To improve education, we need less federal meddling, more local accountability, school choice, scaled back teacher unions, and less wasteful bureaucracy. We can actually improve education and spend less tax money in the process.
Both arrive at the same conservative ends, but the first appears to many people to be anti-education because it presents no positive agenda for improvement.
AngusMc on February 5, 2013 at 7:38 PM
Unfortunately, their solution will be number 3: No Child Left Behind, with a little Dream Act or two for illegal immigrant children thrown in for good measure.
xblade on February 5, 2013 at 7:52 PM
Yeah Eric.. Like caving on ‘gun control’.
I remember when a bunch of you folks proclaimed him one of the few conservatives in the Senate. Well, at least you found out before you nominated him to be President or VP.
LegendHasIt on February 5, 2013 at 8:57 PM
Cantor is dead wrong on his solution. Pollack at BB nailed it.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/05/Top-Ten-Things-Republicans-Have-Failed-to-Learn-from-Democrats
Wigglesworth on February 5, 2013 at 8:59 PM
He has access to a lot of $$$.
So we’re going to spend American $$$ on education for foreigners who will do the R&D at a lower cost after we “reform” immigration and hand every Third Worlder a visa and a “patheway to citizenship”, right? I mean, that’s what I’ve been hearing from the GOP lately along with the standard Hannity-esque platitudes.
Punchenko on February 5, 2013 at 9:10 PM
Screw the GOP…there is nothing there to salvage any more. Thinking we are still living in a Constitutional Republic is also ridiculous. Prepare to water…
trs on February 5, 2013 at 9:26 PM
Mark Levin tore Cantor up on tonight’s program. Mocked him and schooled him on reality, LOL
Cantor supported Lugar in Indiana against Mourdock. He should have been brought up on Ethic Charges. Why was he involving himself in a Senate race?
I lump Cantor in the same category with Karl Rove.
bluefox on February 5, 2013 at 9:46 PM
And besides that he’s a kiss up.
bluefox on February 5, 2013 at 9:48 PM