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What a POS!! And what a mixed message. He is such a liar.
Republican leader rips the media for shoving us in the corner
By Jonathan Easley - 05/08/13 05:48 PM ET
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ripped the media in a speech Tuesday to the Ripon Society, arguing press coverage is partly responsible for the GOPs messaging woes.
Cantor, who has tried to recast the image of the GOP with his Making Life Work agenda, said the partys economic message is often drowned out by coverage of debt and deficits.
The media has done a great job of sort of shoving us in the corner, because all they say we are concerned with is somehow balancing the budget and cutting spending and taking things away from people, Cantor said. What were trying to say is that we need to do those things in order to reenergize the opportunity machine of America. Were about giving people opportunity. And thats really what our agenda this year is about.
But Cantor said Republicans shoulder much of the blame for the partys failure to capture the White House and Senate in last years election. He said the party must do a better job of speaking to the concerns of people at the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
We also want to speak to the people who, frankly, have begun to turn us off because they dont feel we have an agenda that speaks to them, he said. What are we doing for that assistant manager of a fast food restaurant? What are we doing for single moms who are waking up in the District of Columbia this morning and facing the fact that their kids are going to schools that cant even provide a safe place for these mothers to leave their kids, let alone get an education?
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/298599-gops-cantor-rips-media-for-shoving-us-in-the-corner
muntrv
(14,505 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)and people who didn't have the bread didn't like the quality of the shit sandwich available to them ...
spanone
(135,874 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Sometimes people do put baby in the corner.