http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/cantors-move-to-middle-rankles-gop-leaders-88791.html?ml=po_r
is this a clever move to change for him devoid of the rest of the republican congress, if so what is his endgame 2016?
Eric Cantor has spent the last four years carefully cultivating his image as a foil to President Barack Obama and the conservative conscience of House Speaker John Boehner. No more.The man who once threatened to block emergency aid for tornado victims unless Congress found an “offset” is now pitching himself as a man just looking to get important issues like job training and education reform through a partisan Congress.So far this year, Cantor has maneuvered behind the scenes to push the Violence Against Women Act through the House — scheduling a vote on the floor before an angry Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy had a chance to gauge its support.He kept lawmakers in town during a storm chiefly to mark up job education legislation.He made a high-profile visit to Selma, Ala., with Democratic Rep. and civil rights icon John Lewis.And he spoke on education at a school in New Orleans and – wait for it – Harvard.
all well and good but that tornado aid he blocked was his home state of Va. has his eyes found the prize that evades the rest of the party? is he setting himselff apart from his party and why wasn't there more press on the events. more important how is the T- taking it or is it their plan?
Cantor’s move to the middle comes as many national Republicans are looking to broaden the party’s appeal after a disastrous election in which they failed to win the White House or the Senate and lost seats in the House. A message beyond balancing budgets and fiscal brinksmanship could help on that front.“Our party needs to do a better job at getting to know different constituencies,” Cantor said Monday at Harvard, the AP reported. “I am much about trying to force that to happen.”Cantor later added, “One of my priorities this Congress will be to move heaven and earth to fix our education system for the most vulnerable.”
coming from one republican who has upheld the mantel of do nothing, while others continue on their merry way of alienating everyone,
how much does it really mean, not like they have not made promises and soon as they got in set about an entirely differnt undisclosed before program, jobs, union busting, voter blocking, voter purge just to sight a few,
so do you emrace this oration of change by a single right wing politician who till now spewed the same rhetoric as the rest of them lies included or do we continue to watch our backs and our votes?
