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(55,745 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)it's not a pretty sight.
I love the Eric-Cantor-Is-A-Douchebag page. I'll check it out more when I get a chance, but I loved what I saw at a glance.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)And I'm good friends with Oliver Stone.
Regarding Eric Cantor, who really is a lying scumbag:
THE REAL REASON WHY REPUBLICANS ARE TERRIFIED ERIC CANTOR LOST
By Grace Wyler
Vice.com, Jun 11, 2014
EXCERPT...
In the process, he sided with business on some unpopular issues, including extending the governments terrorism-insurance program and taxing private-equity income at lower capital-gains rates. Cantor raised close to $5.5 million this election cycle, drawing in cash from trade groups like the American Chemistry Council, the NRA, and the National Association of Realtors. According to data from Open Secrets, Cantors top five campaign contributors were Blackstone Group, Scoggin Capital Management, Goldman Sachs, Altria Group (the parent company of Phillip Morris), and Charmer Sunbelt Group, a major liquor distributor.
Brat, on the other hand, was a Tea Party candidate in the truest sense, reflecting the right-wing populist sentimentsthe xenophobia, the hatred of both big government and big businessthat first propelled the movement back in 2009. Tellingly, his campaign did not receive any money from professional Tea Party groups like FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth, but instead ran on just $200,000, which is about the same as what the Cantor camp spent on steak dinners for donors.
Academically and politically, Brat is best described as a libertarian, and an unabashed champion of free-market economics, in the vein of other Tea Party libertarians like Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee, and Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash. On the campaign trail, though, Brat couched these positions within the context of the increasinly resonant themes of crony capitalism. He relentlessly criticized Cantors cozy ties to Wall Street and groups like the US Chamber of Commerce, as well as his unwillingness to go after Big Banks after the financial crisis.If youre in big business, Erics been very good to you, and he gets a lot of donations because of that, right? Brat said at a Republican Party meeting in April. Very powerful. Very good at fundraising because he favors big business. But when youre favoring artificially big business, someones paying the tab for that. Someones paying the price for that, and guess who that is? You.
He elaborated at a town-hall meeting last month: "All the investment banks in the New York and DCthose guys should have gone to jail, he said. Instead of going to jail, they went on Erics Rolodex, and they are sending him big checks.
[font color="red"]I'm not against business, he added, summing up the central theme of his candidacy. I'm against big business in bed with big government."[/font color]
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http://www.vice.com/read/the-real-reason-why-republicans-are-terrified-that-eric-cantor-lost
The fascist greedheads just found out what they thought was water is nitro. Call me a dumbass or a traitor, but I'd rather have in office a tea bagger with integrity than a fellow-minded liberal, progressive, Kennedy Democrat who's crooked -- not that Brat is anything other than just another fascist greedhead.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)would be my hope, for defining the catalyst for this past Tuesday's wonderful outcome in the Old Dominion. The great unwashed masses are seeing varmints like Eric, for the villains who they are in reality. Smirking as he ties old Granny to the railroad tracks of life, in order to render the last penny out of Granny's pocket-purse, in order to reward Goldman Sachs, Charmer Sunbelt Group, a major liquor distributor, the National Association of Realtors, Blackstone Group, Scoggin Capital Management and the American Chemistry Council(KochCo?) to name but a few. With various political favors, loopholes, corporate welfare, deregulation and corporate bailouts.
Maybe it's simply because Eric and his crew in the US house "job creator republicans", never created any..."Jobs Jobs Jobs, like they swore they would do?" Perhaps the voters noticed the GOP in the House, trashing every jobs bill and trying to crush a minimum wage increase?
Whatever it was...I love it!
Rider3
(919 posts)Brat is as dangerous - if not more - than Cantor.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)Maybe by election day the sane folks of Virginia will see this Brat for what he really is? Dangerously deranged?