WASHINGTON (CNN) – House Minority Whip Eric Cantor told CNN's John King that the Obama administration's position on the spending bill currently before Congress did not have "any credibility" and represented a "false position."
The Virginia Republican said on State of the Union Sunday that the White House's contention that the legislative process was too far along to change course was completely inaccurate. "Let’s call it how it is. First of all, if you make a promise, people expect that you live up to it. And that's why this administration's refusal to go in and change this bill is, I think, is a false position.
"There is no way anyone could take what Mr. Orszag has said with any credibility. Of course they’re negotiating on this bill in the Senate right now. To say that we would have drawn it differently, but leave $430 billion plus on the table like this? No way. People are expecting this administration to live up to the promises made."
Watch Cantor slam the White House on spending
Cantor denied that Republicans were being hypocritical by blasting earmarks while some GOP congressional leaders and key committee chairs had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of that spending in the bill, saying he and House Minority Leader John Boehner had asked their party to adopt a moratorium on the practice.
Watch CNN's Dana Bash on earmarkers attacking spending
"There is no question that we’ve got to change this entire process, it is a system gone bad," he said.
Cantor sidestepped the controversy over remarks by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele - who said in an interview published this weekend that the GOP was "mired in its own muck" - and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
"Listen, the future of the Republican Party is tied to the future of this country. People right now are desperate for leadership, are desperate for us in this party as well as the other to begin talking about ideas that deal with the relevant challenges that they're facing every single day," he said.
"And it is not about individuals, it’s not about Rush, it's not about Rahm Emanuel, it’s not about any particular individual... if we do not begin to start acting more like adults in this town and produce so that people can get back to work, all of us are very concerned with where this country will end up."
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Obama and the Democrats are ruining the economy.
Please remember people, Pelosi and the dems were and are in control.
Another republican nut trying to make a name for himself. If the republicans were so darn wonderful, if their way was so wonderful, tell me this, why are we in this mess. Why did we have a war were we invaded an innocent country. Why did they give the republican friendly big business tax breaks to take their jobs over seas. Why did they de-regulate Wall Street, the Banks, Mortgage Companies, Why did they allow the oil companies to squeeze billions of dollars out of a public that had no choice but to buy oil....
I wish someone, anyone had the darn guts to stand up on TV and ask these greedy nogoods WHY THEY ALLOWED THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION for eight years to ruin this country and now try to obstruct and delay every single darn thing that is being done to try to bring us back.
I think republican trash like cantor should be sent to one of cheney's undisclosed locations and stay there til his term expires.
Look, the thing that I find the most irritating is the hypocrisy of Cantor and much of the GOP. Republicans have plenty (plenty!) of earmarks in this bill, including Ron Paul, Mitch McConnell, and many, many others. So here is the game they play: they get earmarks included in legislation, then when the legislation with their earmarks comes up for a vote they vote against it and say, "This bill is terrible and fiscally irresponsible. I mean, my goodness, it has earmarks in it and everything." Talk about no credibility.
Six of the top ten earmark recipients in this bill are Republicans. Six of the top ten.
Oh my – from what I've heard from Cantor for months, he has no credibility. Pot, meet Kettle. Offer positive solutions, or quit whining.
The republicans have no credibility when it was under their leadership that we find ourselves in this mess. I think they need to stand back and let the new President do what we elected him to do.
hear an abusive Government crying and apologizing to the battered People saying "I'll change, I really will, next year will be different." And just like the battered spouses, The People will buy it, accept the apology and have torrid "make-up sex" with The One and his Advisors.
Where have you been the last eight years Mr. Cantor... oh that is right, we know where you and your cronies have been... watching all of this develop under your collective noses. You sir are a hypocrite.
40% of the pork is GOP pork, hypocrites!!!!!
Eric Cantor enjoys being in the spotlight. It would be refreshing if Cantor would TELL us his solutions in specific terms other than the tired rhetoric of "we could do it better".
Surely Mr. Cantor was part of Congress during the past eight years, eight years in which there were clear indications of recession. If he has a BETTOR idea, why did he not take action then.
Actually, it is the Limbaugh bootlicker named Eric Cantor who has no credibility with the American people – just look at the polls, which are very consistent on this point.
I love it. They had no problem spending billions of dollars and raising the national deficit to record levels when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. However now that they are in the minority and have a Democrat in the White House, Republican's are all about fiscal responsibility and anti-earmarks. Hypocrisy at its best!
Orzag and cantor need a straight debate about whether or not this bill can be rewritten. I find this format obnoxious.
Canter looks and acts more like a strap than a whip.
There is blame to toss around on both sides. There is no question on that fact. The bottom line though, President Pelosi is in control. Obama is nothing more than hers and the congress puppet until he stands up and say enough is enough. Which he promised with
his " Change " campaign.
Congress with Pelosi running the show will take this country to ruins.
It is not about politcal parties, pointing fingers, it is not about one lin insults tossed out by people posting on websites, it is not about left or right wing, it is ALL about the USA.
Until the idiots in Washington, and the John Doe public idiots who are so entrenched in thier own politcal party, on both sides, this country will fall the depths we have not see since the early 40s. If not deeper.
I do not care if Obama is Democrat, I do not care if the Speaker of the House is Democrat, but Pelosi needs to be brought under control.
Ried need to be reined in. Obama needs to stand up and say, CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN,, and MEAN it. Not just use it for a campaign promise. Use it int he way he runs this country, the way he controls Pelosi. If he wants a second term, and he REALLY wants to do what is right for the country, he needs to take control. So far, Pelosi and her cornies have ran right over top of Obama. And will do so until stopped.
The Republicans have earmarks in this bill just as the Democrats do. They are both guilty. If they are serious about it then they both need to take out all the earmarks and clean it up. For you Linda to say that the Dems are in control doesn't matter.. they ALL have added stuff to the bill. Since the DEMS are in control they have cut the number of earmarks in half. When the REPs were in charge there were over twice as much as there are now.
Pres. Obama said he wanted to REFORM the process.. he never said he wanted to eliminate it.
McCain was the one who wanted to ELIMINATE it and make everyone famous..which is what he seems to think he is doing..except he doesn't want to name anyone...because they are mostly republicans.. he just wants to get his face out there yelling.
When oh when are the republicans going to quit their negativity and give us "their workable" solutions? They obstruct everything but offer no alternatives. The earmarks in the budget are as much republican as they are Democrat, but make up a very small portion of the budget. Some earmarks are credible, some are ridiculous. The ridiculous shoud be weeded out.
I am so sick of their hypocrasy.
I seriously doubt that the GOP wants to talk credibility when it comes to spending. The Obama Administration inherited this mess including a huge deficit from the Bush Administration. Keep in mind, when President Bush came into office there was a budget surplus.
Now, that the economic policies of the Bush Administration has run the U.S. economy into the ground - the only idea that the GOP has is to do more of the same. That is where there is a total lack of credibility.
Cantor is simply blowing gas, how come he couldn't answer John King directly when he was confronted with all the earmarks the republican sneaked into anti-recession deal. The guy is simply looking for cheap popularity, where was he when his 'cousin' GW Bush rammed the economy down and put America in the present cul-de-sack. Cantor should go and sit down, and do some serious soul searching, it is time for a collective non-partisan effort to take America out of the hole. The man should stop pontificating.
Obama and the dems will blame Bush and GOP for next 4 years and the news channels will cover for them. The Dems took control Nov 06 and the economy started it fall. Bush wasn't the greatest but he did keep america safe after 9-11 and he did get us out of the economic mess after 9-11...AND while he was president the stock market hit an all-time record high.
Hows is demonizing Rush and any other citizen helping the unemployed.
Only option for Obama is that he veto this earmark filled bill.
Let's face it "Call it how it is" neither party can keep their promises or commitments remember 1994? How about that Republicans are about less spending and less government how did that work out? Stop the bickering and lets get down to the business of the country we the people deserve that. I beleive that Rush is the leader of the Republican Party and has set the goal of failure so only the Republicans can elect a new leader and set a path for success we'll all benefit from that. And, stop the double talk.
I like this guy. He seems to really understand the problems facing this country. Obama, on the other hand, talks like he does, but doesn't act that way. WE NEED CHANGE!!!
good point linda, and Pelosi has done more to damage this country than anyone. Obama needs her to go, for him to be a success. She cares abount winning and getting her own way, not about the American people.
Wait, a republican is suggesting that the democrats "lack credibility" when it comes to the spending bill? HAHAHAHHA. The last time I checked the US was in a recession because of republican policies. I believe that it's the republicans that "lack credibility". Keep up the good work, Obama, don't let these dopes distract you.
Linda, please remember ever since Obama took office the Repubs are being nothing but obstructionists
Mr. Cantor should not keep on lying to the american public that the GOP leadership is against earmarks and only the dems are the ones that are for earmarks. It it were true Mr. Cantor, the previous eight years under GOP should have seen a much prosperous America and we would not have been in this economic mess now. Don't be an hypocrat.
Cantor denied that Republicans were being hypocritical
really?
then show us your plan.. what did the republican party bring to the table of solutions?
what positive thing have the republican party had in the last 8 years and 45 days?
I seen nothing but a bunch of grown people whine and moan ... but not get off their bums to do anything about it but whine and moan..
you lose more respect daily by this... bring a solution of shut up
It's funny how instead of coming up with ideas of "how" most of the republicans keep coming up with more complaints. When you have no credibility to stand on, blaming someone else holds no water. Here is a revolutionary idea, "Work together a fix the situation and stop playing political games." I don't care about Rush's idiotic rants, Michelle Bauchman crying that we are running out of rich people, or the silliness from Bobby Jindal saying we don't need to fund the study natural disasters; I wish they'd all have a 60 day gag order so they can focus on just fixing the problem instead of focusing on how they look in the coming interview or the news. This is real life not a game. Have they really forgotten that their work effects us? Have we gotten so tied up in the silliness that we've forgotten that we are all really on the same team?
Rep. Eric Cantor the party of no what a joke. Please it was President Bush and the GOP put this country in this shape. Please Virginia in the next election defeat Rep. Cantor.
Harry, Tom.
Your guy must be in bed with Rush L. and the GOP propaganda machine. Get the real facts about socialism country, before your guy open your mouth and lies, BS facts, quit crying like a baby. Always ask and look at yourself first. Who created the mess last 8 years.
Where your find a job in the first year and have 6 weeks vacation ?.
Worry free about their health care.
With 2 years unemployment.
People in Western European still live happy and well.
How many rich people live in europe live in America? Specially from England. France, Germany.
Absolutely zero credibility.
if the Republicans keep bocking everything that the Dems try to get through Congress, then it doesn't matter what Pelosi and Co. try to do.
I am proud to have voted for Cantor our future Speaker of the House.
Jeff Spangler says:
"And just like the battered spouses, The People will buy it, accept the apology and have torrid "make-up sex" with The One and his Advisors."
...says the party who spent the last year physically abusing and torturing the American people, as well as foreigners. Pot? Kettle?
Cantor's remarks are disingenuous. He knows full well that Obama doesn't just have to contend with the right-wing ideologues in Congress. He also has to work with the various shades of democrats, some of whom are just as dogmatic and self-promoting as Cantor. The idea that a president is going to change decades of political habits in his first 50 days in office is ridiculous. This is a process that is taking place during a national emergency. Compromise is ON BOTH SIDES has been essential to get anything done at all. One of the compromises that Obama has had to deal with is earmarks, which is crack cocaine to senators and representatives. It will take time to detox and rehabilitate them. The reason it has never worked before is because past leaders didn't have the stamina or vision to pursue it and work past obstructionists like Cantor. The resistance to change we're seeing in the 'good old boys' in Congress should surprise no one.
I believe that the Obama Administration is talking about the relevant issues. Tax cuts at a time when we were fighting an expensive war under the Bush Administration left little to invest in areas like education (which can improve our overall competitiveness); alternative energy (which can lead to more jobs and greater international security) and health care reform (which can take a major burden off of our remaining businesses). These are areas that the Obama Administration is now aggressively developing.
For far too long, the Republican party has talked only about moral issues such as the abortion debate, stem cell research, and gay marriages and cut taxes while increasing spending. That is why they have become irrelevant.
Why didn't Mr. Cantor object when his party controlled the Congress and President Bush doubled the national debt during his 8 year term?
Hypocritical? the Republican party needs to get used to the idea that the American public knows and see's more than ever. We can fact check for ourselves, we don't need to rely on their word or anyones.
This is the new age... we love to bust the lies.
as We now know that had we been given all the facts and truth Bush held out... this expensive war might not have even taken place.
Bury your head in the sand .. untill you can start telling the truth..
Who ran the country from January 2001 to January 2009?
Who ran Congress from 1995-2007?
"I will take a pen and go through the budget line by line and veto all
earmarks."
What else did he lie to you about?
It's the republican party that has no credibility....they have no answers to the problems our country faces (problems they created the past 8 years)... all they have is negative talking heads that are just plain ignorant. They don't even have the guts to rebuke Limbaugh and all his nastiness.
So, who you gonna' listen to – the republicans that have run our country into the ground or our new president who has the best interest of our country at heart and is working hard to undo the mistakes of the Bush years?
I choose to listen to President Obama...and completely tune out the republican attack dogs. Let the republicans stew in their own hate and ire.
LOL...here we have a Republican talking about credibility, and the lack thereof?
Ohhhhh the irony...
Is it me or does this guy look like a little weasle.
I want a list of every single earmark and pork related item in this new spending bill put there by the republicans.
I know for a fact that Lindsey Graham from South Carolina (republican senator) has an earmark for a new convention center in Myrtle Beach S.C. (a totally unnecessary new convention center!).
We also know that the town of Dillon S.C. has a crumbling school that is in desperate need of repair or replacement – but Lindsey dosen't want to spend money on that school, he wants a new convention center.
Lindsey graham has been in hiding since that little bit of news came out. Go get him, CNN. Make him fess up!
IS IT 2012 YET !? said:
[Obama and the Democrats are ruining the economy.]
That's a joke, right? Is that why the majority of Americans see it quite differently...that you can't ruin something that was already a pile of crap.
The indignant cries over earmarks are misleading and an unnecessary distraction to solving the problems of the economy. Ear marks make up only a very small percentage of the total budget. Obama has a bold plan to fix the economy. The Republican plan is the same old message of the last 8 years which contributed to the economic mess.
What is amazing is all the "talking heads" on TV everyday who helped to put us into this depression are still talking. Yes we are in a despression. Where were they all these years when Bush and others were ignoring the issues??? Please stop the whining and criticizing...begin giving the president and the people some help as far as the solutions and resolutions of this crisis.
I listen everyday and I realize that you people on TV..commentators and analysts..do not truly understand how mad we are out here or why we are mad. You think we do not trust the president? We are aware that he just got here and it will take time for him to fix the mess. The mess is here because all of you choose to ignore it.
Why was the government and what it was doing all these years never exposed? What about the spending bills for the wars? What about the different ponzi schemes? WHERE WERE YOU?
The Republicans had no problems throwing our tax dollars around while Bush was in office. Now that they're in the minority, they are obsessed with fiscal responsibility. Morons.
How do I open an offshore acct. to hide my money from being taxed Mr.Cantor?I want to get rich too.
HA! HA! HA!
Why is it that the repubs can only critique and not say anything good? "If your're not part of the solution, YOU are part (or all) of the problem." HMMMM sounds like the title fits and America is tired of the excuses and lame attempts to let someone other than the "Re'lic' party* "try" to fix the mess we are in. (Which everyone with ANY intelligence, knows they are the ones who put us in.) *I think the "party" is over-r-r-r-r...
Will you all please stop complaining and get some work done like saving the economy. By the say,What are your plans to save the economy? I have not heard them yet
Right on Eric Cantor.
Cantor is a radical Repub from a old area of Richmond. He does not speak for all of Virginia, just old Virginia.
Our state government is disfunctional because of the Repubs like Cantor who hang on to their old prejudices and bigotry, whether it be related to race, social stautus, finacial ability, personal lifestyle, or not pandering to their religion of choice.
We have made huge steps in Virgina to vote them out, but they are keen on the rehtoric that enrages their base, just like Limpball does. They are a dangerous gang that will say and do anything to gain power and push their backward social and political agendas on everybody, locally and nationally.
Eric Cantor sounds like a 5 year-old on the playground.... "They started it...it's not MY fault at all"...
If Republicans want to make the point about earmarks in the omnibus bill, let them pull their earmark funding and then stand tall facing the Dems with a "Now, it's your turn" attitude.
This is an another example of the Repugs blasting the Dems instead of just offering their own affirmative responsive action. You don't like the earmarks – REMOVE YOURS to make your point.
Talk about no credibility – Cantor, Boehner, McConnell – they're all a joke.
Republicans are experts in fooling the public with their earmarks. Wake up America, they just gave us a ton of earmarks (for themselves) in the past eight years!!! We are where we are today because of Republicans.
Republicans, you guys have a long 4 years ahead of you. Obama isn't going anywhere. Most of you are clueless to begin with. How about this:
1. Name 5 policies you disagree with Obama on and why (you shouldn't have to do a search on google as you should already know)
2. Name 5 policies you agreed with of the last President you did approve and why?
Anything dealing with BIg Government or Socialism automatically makes you clueless because in reality, it's all a political gimmick. I realize you didn't know that but please close you mouth...
I'm so sick of the Republicans all of a sudden concerned about our well-being. These idiots didn't give two hoots about the middle man for the past eight years.
Cantor is like the nerd on the playground that wants to "fit in" so he goes along with the thugs and bullies around the school. Cantor has nothing original to offer the American people. I feel sorry for the people he represents in his state.
I think the reason the Republicans are so upset with todays politics is that their "exquisite" lifestyle is over. The $$$ aren't flowing in like it did when Bush and the boys were doling it out to them. Whine on ....the public is on to you all.
eric, with chumps like you in the gop you will never be part of a majority party. when you had a chance to confront the pres you looked like a love sick teenage girl. admit it you are jealous of barack and are dying to find a way to get that popularity. be honest eric the tool youre biggest concern is winning your own election. with guys like 7-11 jindal and you as the chosen talking heads the gop is lost. if you realluy think you and the gop have a chance you better get fat boy rush to shut that food hole he uses to sput venom. you need the independants and he wont bring them
And the Republican "slime" keeps seeping through.
Psalm 2008-2012
Obama is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He leadeth me beside the still factories.
He restoreth my faith in the Republican party.
He guideth me in the path of unemployment.
Yea, though I walk thru the valley of the bread line, I shall not go hungry.
Obama has anointed my income with taxes.
My expenses runneth over my income.
Surely, poverty and hard living will follow me all over the days of his
term.
From hence forth we will live all the days of our lives in a rented home,
With an overseas landlord
But I am glad I am an American, I am glad that I am free.
But I wish I was a dog and Obama was a tree.
GOP is out of touch.... This guy is a loser... This guy needs to get his head out of his a#$ . He need to get educated about economics. I took econimics in college and its not that hard. dummy....
Its funny to say that half of the bill has Republican earmarks. Its always been that way. Now the GOP is crying wolf over earmarks. You got to be kidding me. Their cynism continues.
The GOP (neo-conservatives) will do anything to make sure Obama and Democrats fail in cleaning up their mess for the last eight years. It just won't happen because Democrats have the majority now.
The GOP doesn't love this country, just power and money.
What else would you expect a Republican to say? It was fine when Bush was giving tax breaks to the obscenely wealthey! Bail outs for Wall Street with no regulatory system in place, not to mention billions of dollars for a war that has accomplished NOTHING but the distruction of Saddam, while bin Laden hides out in caves all over the Middle East .......those things were all very VERY credible.
Oh, and by the way, if they could fine Saddam in a hole in the ground, I'm quite sure that we could bin Ladin in a cave!!!! All depends on your priorities!
Does John King have nothing else to do but try to discredit the current administration? His questions this morning are irrelevant and he keeps beating the same dead horse – that the administration didn't know how big the problem is. Well of course not. His show is completely discredited by his performance this morning.
ERIC CANTOR IS A SICK MAN JUST LIKE HIS FELLOW REPUBLICANS. THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS TO SEE A MENTAL DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY.
UUMM JOHN KING,
I HAD BEEN WATCHING YOU FOR A WHILE NOW I REALLY KNOW WHERE YOU STAND..... ON THE FOX NEWS LINE.....
Linda, please remember ever since Obama took office the Repubs are being nothing but obstructionists
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Statement eight years ago:
Linda, please remember ever since Bush took office the Dems are being nothing but obstructionists
FACT!!
Yes, Republicans spent from 2002-2006, backed by a strong economy. What the Lefties and the Media likes to overlook is that Democrats took over congress in 2006. Congress is in charge of taxing and SPENDING (read the Constitution).
The horrible fiscal decisions beginning 2006 with the Fannie May debacle are directly responsible for the current credit market depression and the current housing market depression.
The current oil and natural resource recession is due to global issues, not just the US. Blame Bush for military spending and foreign policy, he certainly made a mess of that. Blame Repubs for lack of oversight and lowering taxes.
But put the blame where it is due. The 2006-present Democratic congress has the worst approval rating in US history (far worse than GW Bush's approval rating) and the worst track record to prove it. The stimulus and budget have shown us in stark relief: Obama answers to Pelosi/Reid, not the American people.
Is it 2012 yet?
So, JJ, do you have any constructive suggestions, or are you just like the rest of the GOP–"full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." (William Shakespeare, MACBETH)
Cantor thinks the public is stupid, and the Republicans do as well. This so called budjet was put together before President Obama was even elected !!
John King knows this, and he himself is trying to tag this to Obama. John, you are not being fair or balanced. I hope your show gets cancelled.
To say about yourself, "If I were to become a mayor of a city, on the promise of battling crime, and I hear about a gang robbing banks, and do nothing because they started it under the previous Mayor"
That is like comparing apples and oranges. It was stupid of John King to even let those words leave his mouth.
He is starting to sound like Shawn Hannity, with a little Rush Limbaugh threwn in !!
Alex – you left out the part where Bush/Cheney/Repub Congress failed (as usual) to keep us safe on September 11th, 2001?!
Bush/Chenney/Repub Congress continued their reign of failure; to keep us safe form oil terrorists by persuing renewable energy sources and they instead conspired to give huge tax subsidies to oil companies, they castrated the EPA to benefit the multi-national corporations at the risk of our children and their children, sold out the interior department to coal companies and natural gas companies to freely degrade our environment with wild abandon for profit of the few, and all of this is only a small tip of the huge iceberg of "Bush/Chene/RepubCongress" that weighs heavely on all the people and creatures on American soil.
This is the challenge we and our President face, to recover from the horrors of BUSH/CHENEY/REPUB CONGRESS in control for so many years.
come up with a plan
don't just nay say
Without knowing it we have been during the last administration a 4.6% tax hike away from being a socialist.
Canter and republicans politicians had so many great ideas to solve all issues plague us for a while and so much to say against Obama's policies. I understand this is part of democracy in our country but where were these smart (or worthless) republican politicians in last 8 years?? They ought to sit down & shut up for a few months not just 7 weeks to complain. If a house was on fire and firemen tries to put the it out and it sure will take months for a new house to go up by a builder. What a bunch of whiners, just run their mouths non-stop.
Lauren,
How could you even justify saying that Obama is a puppet? I'd love to hear this argument instead of seeing you ramble on about stuff you have no idea about! Pelosi and Obama have two differen agendas, beliefs......are you serious? This is why we aren't number 1 in education anymore cause we have idiots voting and commenting on stuff they can't comprehend!
Dear CNN;
I am a Canadian/Italian citizen who follows the news of CNN and other channels.
Maybe I am not entitled to judge the CNN political views, as I am not a US citizen. However; since the US is the World Leader, I feel I can be part of the world citizens involved in the political arena of today. Therefore, I also can have an opinion on the political views of CNN TV and its anchor men and women.
What is evident and clear, in viewving and listening to your political opinion, is that the Republican leaders do not want to participate in the well being of American citizen and do all they can to make it appear that the new Administration is the cause of the present recession.
Furthermore, your political commentators are always negative to the point to appear absolutely rightist conservative partizans, and only devoted to disrupt the programs established with the Stimulus by the Obama Administration to stop the present recession.
With best regardsx.
Marco Verdi
If any of you had actually LOOKED at this spending bill and read it, I think the question you'd be asking is, if we republicans are soooo against spending and pork, why are about 70% of the earmarks Republican. And please don't say the Dems made us do it. We're already looking foolish in the eyes of the American people. To the republican leadership, Stop tearing down our country and let come up with REAL solutions. Giving tax breaks to the top 2% or 3% is not putting more money in MY account.
BTW, Obama has been in office less than2% of the total time Bush had the reigns. Are we that afraid he might succeed and prove to the country we are a bunch of idiot naysayers.
I was a Republican until the GOP completely lost it's mind in Bush's second term.
And while I thinking about it,
It seems to me that the Republican party spends a lot of time explaining that they "don't want the country to fail, they just want the President's policies to fail". I believe our President has taken the "hard" approach to getting things "done" because that IS the only way that you can move mountains in Congress. The old approach of "do just enough so it looks good but not enough to hurt politically" is just what brought us here. At one time we had financial institutions regulated to kept them from having "casino nights" on wall street. Lets be clear though, no matter how many time the Republicans would like to say it ain't so to make it seem true, Republicans were in charge and turning a blind eye to the lack of oversight that was taking place. Not that the Democrats didn't have some issues of their own to be fair but the Republicans clearly had a strangle hold on the country for the last 8 years. By the way, lets remember that Obama has been in office LESS than 1% percent of the time Bush & the Republicans took to create this BLACK HOLE they led us too! These new policies aren't popular with Republicans because it is a completely different way of doing business in Washington. Money likes money and we're spreading enough around that I believe it will have the desired results. That being said, what will the Republican party do when the money starts to come back and the DOW starts to rise, people start spending again? I betcha they're going to say that we need more tax breaks. It is sad to see that the person that the GOP/CPAC seems to want to let lead the party is a guy that if he had to be as politically correct as the politicians do, he couldn't do what it is that he does. He preaches Ideology for the Republicans when after 8 years they got nothing from the 8 Bush years except a black eye!
Once again Cantor finds fault with absolutely no solutions of his own....Moron.
You know, when I listen to Mr. Obama and his people speak, I feel like he is trying to do the right thing, that he is being honest and that he will hang in there and do right by the people. When I listened to Eric Cantor today, he says things that don't make any sense, things like "what the American people want, what the American people feel." He clearly does not know what they want or what they feel. Polling proves it - the Republicans keep talking and getting media coverage, but they don't really have any basis. To say they are trying to change Washington is the worst kind of hypocrisy. The only thing they are trying to change is the fact that the American people do not trust them anymore.
Shannon Wa ST March 8th, 2009 11:14 am ET
GOP is out of touch…. This guy is a loser… This guy needs to get his head out of his a#$ . He need to get educated about economics. I took econimics in college and its not that hard. dummy….
Well if this is true then tell us great economics man how you solve the problem?
Throwing trillions of dollars into our economy will not cut our deficit; it will in fact just cause huge amounts of inflation. Obama is using money that has not even been earned yet. Tell us how that is good for our country?
The problem is you might know about it from a book, but some times you need to work in the real world and no book can tell you how to get out of the mess Obama and his party is making for us all.
And they just keep whining....over-grown babies!
Gosh this country will go straight to ruin and the people posting here will continue to post childish slams on Rush Limbaugh the entire way.
Lauren – excellent point. There are earmarks from both political parties in this bill. Hold them both to the fire, both sides have promised no-earmarks, spending reform, fiscal responsibility many times. But so far it is all words no actions!
The liberals will find out how much the republicans do love this country after Obama finishes putting us in total ruin by all this spending. Rich people create jobs not poor people but poor people can't live without jobs it's sad but a fact. If you tax the people who are making jobs enough so they can't expand then there are no jobs. Everyone seems to forget that Dodd and Franks had a big hand in helping Bush get to this point. Both parties are to blame not just republicans but you would hear a liberal say that. They are to busy spewing their hate.
Neither Cantor, nor the republican party has any credibility talking about financial matters, not after the eight years of Bush. This isnt Obama's mess, he just has to clean up after the pigs in the GOP.
Let me guess, Cantoris getting ready to announce his bid for President in 2012. What Republican hasn't ? Ha!
Let me guess, Cantor is getting ready to announce his bid for President in 2012. What Republican hasn't ? Ha!
The GOP have absolutly no room to talk they gsve us this mess they ruined our country and now they want to take the high road no way.As a party they are zero null finito.
I like how the republicans are trying to put thiscalamity at the democrat's door. The comment that the stock market was doing well under bush is hilarious. The economy under bush was a house of cards that finallt colloapse. He didn't have a clue. When it crashed he hid. President Obama is not hiding he is out front trying to solve this problem.
It's simple. VETO the bill Obama! VETO IT!!!!
Don't let those Republicans who have all those earmarks listed in the bill get one darned thing. Why should they? They're all against earmarks right.. doesn't create jobs right? Doesn't stimulate the economy right?? I say VETO IT!! & either it gets revised to the point where there's only spending that will help the economy or create jobs.. OR JUST TAKE YOUR BIC PEN & VETO IT!!
In my opinion, it is the Republicans/Conservatives that have no credibility, they lost it a long time ago.
And, here we see yet another Republican who has put his head under a bottle of hair dye. Trying to fit-in with the younger generation...too late.
JJ: You're ridiculous & your little Psalm poem that you wasted so much time on is ridiculous. Check yourself in somewhere immediately, you need HELP!
like to see a list of republician sneak in earmarks
What else would you expect a Republican to say? He's in the "Party Pack" and will say and do anything to look blameless. IDIOT!
WHY did John King permit Eric Cantor to LIE about a train from Disneyland to Las Vegas being in the stimulus bill this morning???? That particular LIE has been debunked many, many, many times. So WHY does John King allow it to be pedaled again???? Perhaps John King just doesn't know what's in the stimulus bill. Who knows. There were many other errors (GOP "talking points") John King allowed Eric Cantor to spew. What's wrong with this picture?
Why can't we have INTELLIGENT journalists asking questions - people who DEMAND actual ANSWERS to their questions instead of warmed over lies!
JJ,
Your little mock prayer is an insult to those who hold Christian beliefs. To take the Lords prayer, and use it to mock Obama serves to show that you are a truly horrible human being. Helping those in need, defending the weak and feeding the hungry are at the root of what Christ preached, and also form the core of what America is suppose to stand for. But I guess you wouldnt know anything about that.
I think it is OK to criticize the GOP's opposition as long as we forget the Florida election in 2000. I bet president Bush never forgot it. The Democrats would not let him... Do as I say not as I do...
Its not Obama and the Democrats ruining the country is Congress and the President. Doesn't matter what party is in charge or what color of lipstick they have on, they just don't get it. Pork spending has been a part of congress since the beginning of time. Instead of blaming each party, why don't we all call our congressmen and tell them what we want done – they work for us. Represent the American people, not your political party.
like to see list of earmarks republicans put in bill
JJ – In your "prayer," you say your income is overwhelmed with taxes thanks to Obama?
Have you been gainfully employed since January 20, 2009?
If not, you haven't had any payroll taxes since then.
And Obama has done nothing to increase your taxes. In fact, if you ARE working, you should see a reduction in your payroll taxes by April 1, 2009.
"People right now are desperate for leadership..."
Yeah, that's why we voted for Barack Obama and not for the do-nothing Republican Party.
Reality,
Its interesting how you spin things to favor your views, yet ignore the 900 pound gorilla named Bush that is in the room. It doesnt matter what excuses you make, this is still a GOP produced mess that we are in. To try and blame it on the democrats strains all common sence.
Dont let these talking heads from either party fool you,they are here just to keep your eye off the ball.The richest few people in the world planned everything that is now happening.They made tons of money in every reccession and both major depressions.We are but players and pawns in the great chess game.
John King did a terrible job pressing the GOP the way he pressed Orzag. I swear Cantor did not answer any questions he asked but did not even followup on it. He asked Cantor about putting your Social Security in the Market, Cutting out Medicare and giving individuals a lump sum in a single check and 3 trilliion dollor tax breaks for corporations and wealthy but there was only rambling but no answer.
John King is pathetic. Why not ask the Cantor about why they are not telling their guys to take the Ear marks out. Im sick of one sided questioning.
Government is not suppose to be benevolent......what is happening right now is called PLUNDER....
John King is part of the problem. That was the worst powder puff interview. When King asked Cantor about specifics, he went off on some rediculous diatribe that offered nothing, and King didn't bring him back to the question. King let Cantor repeatedly lie and misrepresent the facts. I'm so sick of letting this Disney Train thing slide .... IT's an absolute lie! When people lie,.. clock them on it !! King and his journalistic D Bags are the first line of defense against people like this intellectually, and policy weak Cantor idiot. I could have shreaded this guy on basic reading skills alone. I'm more disgusted with journalism than anything else. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. This Cantor is missing a good portion of his cerebral cortex and you guys let him go on and on about total disengenuous garbage. The vast majority of MSM would be better in the porn industry.
It is becoming abundantly clear UNTIL many of our politicians are directly impacted by the economic crisis NOTHING is going to change. Put them all on food stamps, put their homes into foreclosure, send their children to school 4 days a week, take away their police protection... their insidious bickering, obstructionism and rationalizations are the same as the AIG execs. NO more blame games – it was Bush, it was Pelosi, it was... I am living in the NOW. Could we all begin focusing on solutions rather than hindsight?
Why don't cantor and mccain ask lindsey graham and john boehner to take out their earmarks along with the other republicans, then there would be 40% less earmarks in the bill.
"We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way." Barack Obama, November 25, 2008.
I am still waiting for Eric Cantor to answer John King's first question, viz., how does a spending freeze create jobs? King permitted Cantor to respond by criticizing the Obama administration's approach to our current economic crisis. But King let him go with that. Even when King pointed out that 40% of earmarks were done by Republicans, Cantor's response was a weak "well, we urged them to...", with King rushing thru a "this undermines your credibility" throwaway.
Why doesn't King know that the spending bill is not "full of earmarks", but that out of $410 billion about $7 billion is earmark money. That comes to about 1.7% of the bill. That's a lot of money, yes, but it hardly makes the bill full of earmarks. Not to mention, as Cantor himself indicated, some earmarks are merited. King ought to talk to Iowans about pig odor and its effects on the quality of life in parts of Iowa.
IMHO, Peter Orszag handled King's repeated hammering deftly. And may I say that, per King's comment that a pitcher in the ninth inning can change a game, King should realize that in the ninth inning the pitcher's role is either to save the game if his team is ahead or prevent any further damage if they are behind or tied. The only way he can change the game is to give away his team's lead or to allow the other team to break a tie. He's gotta be careful what and how he throws the ball.
And please...I know Congress has a bad reputation but that terrible analogy to bank robbers more than limps.
So young and inexperienced. Where does he get off giving advice? So just shut up and try to learn something.
Where was Mr. Cantor during the last 8 years of Bush? Mr Bush inherited a surplus from Clinton and left a very hugh debt for Obama. I guess if it's your party running up the debt then it's OK. What a two faced jerk.
If the Republican and Democrates wont say it, I will. Obana is going to turn the USA into a socialist ran government that will be run by a dictator that uses persons who keep the race issue alive that will rival Germany when Hitler ran it. Look closely at what Obama is doing, everything he has been doing is government run, health care, nationalizing banks, identifications, keeping race an issue is the same as Hitler tried to do, but with this sweet talker the people who are engulfed by his smoke screen are letting him and his SS troops do it. Think about it.
Ok, now they're trying to push this geek on us. Palin failed, Jindal, failed, Steele failed – NEXT...
I'm sick of looking at this idiot already. Whenever the Repubs speak – he's always in the background, trying his best to get his unappealing mug on camera.
He has nothing new to say. Nothing new to offer. Well, I guess that anti-union, profanity-filled, video of his was something new.
Another loser.
i think im starting to think politics as usual. I wonder what McCain would be doing in this situation uhhhhhh look people we are in a crisis give the admin a chance some of these earmarks are needed gop u make this process so hard.
Cantor: White House spending stance has 'no credibility'. CANTOR, you have absolutely no credibility in your stance! You are the bozos who got us into this mess in the last 8 years! Now you need to stand back with your mouths shut and let Obama try to clean up your mess. His solutions may not be perfect and perhaps not all will work as planned! But his plans HAVE to be better than Bush/Cheney's, he can't possibly do worse! Seriously....
IS IT 2012 YET !? March 8th, 2009 10:00 am ET
Obama and the Democrats are ruining the economy.
REALLY? BUSH AND THE REPUBLICANS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS MESS? YOU NEED TO CRAWL BACK INTO YOUR HOLE AND LET OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS CLEAN UP YOUR MESS! AND WE SHALL JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN 2012! I'M REALLY GROWING WEARY WITH THIS STUPID REPUBLICAN RHETORIC!
For all you leftist out there, who wanted to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac deregulated so people who should never have qualified for a home loan got one? It was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, Acorn and othe liberal activist groups! In 2005 the republicans did try to stop this housing bubble from bursting but the democrats not Bush stopped it leading to the economic down turn. Remember out sourcing started during Clinton with manufacturing going away and service jobs replacing them. The American People are also to blame with this I deserve it know attitude, not when I have earned it. I did a foreclosure in the early 90's and I have no sympathy for those in trouble now.
Nothing says "credibility" like rallying against a bill as filled pork barrel projects with 40% of them being Republican earmarks.
Canter and the republicains think they can just resort to the same old tatics of the past that is if they say the lie long enough loud enough and ram it down the throats of the public they will win out. It is true just listen to the interviews of the republicains its all the same playbook that they played to the run up to the iraq war. They scream overtalk everyone else and never answer the question they are ask rather go to a talking point and demonize the questioner or the other guess and we end up with nothing solved.
With out Government spending how would three hundred million people travel around this country on a one way dirt road?
To R in Maine- You WERE talking about OBAMA, right?
These back and forth political GAMES by both parties are really starting to get me pissed off.
Democrat politicians:
STOP cramming your feet in your mouths at every turn, and start delivering the kind of change you promised when a clear majority of Americans voted you into office. REMOVE THE STUPID EARMARKS that only hand Republicans ammo to unite against Obama.
And please get a spokesperson who does not say "uh" or "umm" every 4 seconds.
Republican politicians:
You never challenged your boy Bush on...ANYTHING while he was in office. Never stood up against a mismanaged war, reckless spending, cronyism on a grand scale, TAX CUTS DURING A TIME OF WAR, and deregulation that only helped get us into the mess we are now in. Stop pretending you were the guardians of all that is good and right for the American people for the last 8 years- and stop pretending this all started going downhill the minute President Obama took office.
Apart from the "ditto heads"- you have ZERO moral or fiscal credibility with the American people. Quit running for the next election, and come up with better ideas than "TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, and
"NO".
I was watching John king drill Mr. Orzack on every response he offered yet when Mr. Cantor began responding, even to the very first question possed to him, Mr. King let him slip away.... I find that very uneven in this particular interview. As usual, another politician got away not awnsering the question possed. I was very dissapointed.
Art/ Chicago
Peter Orzag has demonstrated that he is an intelligent and knowledgeable individual. Conversely, Eric Cantor is a talking head who has no new ideas and insists on using fear and misinformation to create divisiveness. Sounds like the same old Republican tactics of old.
Orzag's use of the ninth inning is a good one when it comes to the Omnibus bill. Why sacrifice 98% of the good in a bill for the 2% of so called pork. Remember what is pork to one politician may be bacon to a small town who needs this investment.
It is the ninth inning, and when you are down 25 to nothing, no one or nothing that you do in that inning will save a game. So John King's idea of coming in during the ninth inning to change the game's outcome is not realistic given the seriousness of the spread.
Talking point memo to Republicans – you may not want to use the word "credibility" in any sense, in any conversation. Just don't use it. You have none.
Good morning everyone,
Isn't there a bit of common sense available to both sides?
President Obama is about to prove FDR's policies did not work. Many economists have argued whether WWII was the factor that got us out of the Great Depression or whether FDR's taxing policies did. That bit of history will finally have an answer so economists don't have to argue about it anymore.
As for me, I am still struggling with the idea our President has spent more in six weeks than any other President in US history, and has outspent Bush in six weeks, which took Bush 8 years to do.
President Obama began to own the economy once he signed the stimulus bill, once he urged Bush to bail out automakers, and now when he intends to sign another 410 Billion dollar budget. He cannot blame Bush any longer. Bush's policies took our stock market down to 9K. President Obama's policies he has announced has driven it down to 6.5K. What people forget, is that is mostly retirement accounts at this point.
Hey Andrew..you are OBVIOUSLY, a racist.....7-11 Jindal!!!! Come on! You Sir, are a racist pig!
Who is the super-censor on CNN's Political Ticker this morning?
I have had many of my posts censored. Maybe they block our email addresses?
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN WITH NO SOLUTIONS. HAVEN'T HEARD ONE WORD ABOUT WHAT CANTOR OR ANY OTHER GOP MEMBER WILL DO FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS AND HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE, NOT EVEN JOHN MCCAIN.
It is funny to read all the crap here. Many people who all of a sudden are experts on politics. Be a bunch of good little lemings and follow the democrats without asking questions. The precipice of your demise is closer than you think. Our problems go back beyond bush. This mess has been in the making for decades.
I did almost forget about the spending freeze question going unaswered. What the hell is King doing out there. I am sick and tire of this stuff. I hate to go on with rants but why not let me question this guy. The anlogy about gangs killing people was so stupid that it could keep me from ever watching the show again. King was almost as bad as B Jindyl today. I really miss the old Meet the press. Sometimes you dont miss shows until they are gone.
Cancel this show and move on
R in Maine writes "So young and inexperienced. Where does he get off giving advice? So just shut up and try to learn something."
R in Maine – you obviously know not what you are talking about if you are speaking of Peter Orzag!! Paulsen and Greenspan were much older than Mr. Orzag and they got it so wrong, it will take the country years to recover. They had plenty of time to learn!!! And look where that took the country.
The country needs new ideas and smart people like Peter Orzag to help move it out of the greed and nonsensical policies of the past eight years.
John King always gives "powder puff" interviews to Republicans, yet badgers Democrats when they have answered the question. I thought CNN was supposed to be fair and balanced!!
NEXT!! Eric Cantor is a joke. No alternative plan just block and obstruct. If this is the future of the Republican party the Dems have nothing to worry about.
What two faced crap the republicans are trying to pull, "call it like it is" and a "moratorium on earmarks". The republicans feasted on earmarks during their past 8 years being in control loading up their congressional districts with "GOP Pork" but, now we are supposed to be restrained when the rest of the country needs help at the federal level. Then their is the "call it like it is" on the economy, the republicans refuse to acknowledge that giving rich people enormous tax breaks and almost totally deregulating the country's corporations led us to this economic depression. Well, it time to break from the past trickle down bull and make people take responsibility for their thievery at the corporate level and to level tax increases on people that can afford to pay their "fair share". We have listened to decades of corporate slogans that more money doesn't motivate people to do good work, so why do we then buy it that it takes multi-million dollars in compensation for the executives to compete in the marketplace.
Love the simpleminded idiots in these comments who like to try and blame this mess just on Bush. Might as well just put a sign around your neck that says "My IQ is Five." This mess is a combo of Dems And Republicans gone wild with the money and the greed of the people of this country. It's not anywhere near as simple as "blame the Republicans." That's what Obama keeps trying to do with his "we Inherited this mess" cop out. Where was he these last 8 years? Mostly campaigning but the also in the Senate. One of the ways to fix this mess is to start voting out ALL the imcumbents in 2010 and then finish the job in 2012.
2012...you are in total denial about Bush and why we are in this mess. The economy was ruined well before Obama took office. At least admit that so we don't just laugh at your posts.
Hey Cantor! You guys need to get your opinions straight and inline. Lindsey Graham doesn't want earmarks, just the 37 he inserted.
Why are all the Democraps so upset? They know they get to leave town in 2010. Try not to steal the china this time.
Reality writes "Yes, Republicans spent from 2002-2006, backed by a strong economy. What the Lefties and the Media likes to overlook is that Democrats took over congress in 2006. Congress is in charge of taxing and SPENDING (read the Constitution)".
Wow how out of touch with reality you are!!! This economic house of cards that the Republicans began to build after 9/11 was bound to come down. It didn't begin in 2006 with the Democrats. It began after 9/11 when Bush told everyone to go shopping and Greenspan lowered interest rates a multitude of times. Then, the Republicans spent their brains out on a bogus war, taking a large surplus and turning it into the biggest deficit in history. Time to get your facts straight!!
Did Cantor get the latest poll that states that less than 26% of Americans trust them and 68% believe in the President. Republican party- YOU HAVE 0 CREDIBILITY! We, the American people, want our Pres to succeed and are aware that we may have to wait years for the economy (after 8 years of Republicans ruining it) to turn around. The GOP needs to come up with some viable solutions or SHUT UP!
John King: Please look at your interview again and ask yourself- Did you press Cantor as hard as you pressed Orzag? Did Cantor answer why they should have credibility when the Republicans have 40% earmarks in the bill? I usually don't blame CNN for bias but King did a terribly Republican biased interview today.
My question is "where the hell were all these politicians the last 8 years when Bush was president?" The hypocracy stinks to high heaven!!!! All of them, some Democrats included were quiet at church mice. Now all of a sudden everything that President Obama does is called into question. What needs to be done is to "throw all the bums out" and give President Obama a new crew to work with! They repubs are the worst!!!!
May God continue to bless and surround President Obama with wisdom and good people who care for this country!!
No Republican stance on ANY issue has ANY credibility.
Don't you just love the repubs solution? Spending freeze and to critcize President Obama and his administration. typical bigmouth do NOTHING blowhards. where were all these geniuses when that village idiot was suppose to be running this country? the only thing he did was run it into the ground.
We should all demand better of our leaders than political spin. The way I see it, the Republicans need to spend time working with Obama, sharing their ideas if they have any, rather than spinning on these talks shows every week. Those who care, will demand more, those who are spiteful will be satisfied.
John King's bias is all to real. I recall in an earlier interview with John McCain; he was allowed to say anything unchallenged. I was wondering why didn't King ask any questions of McCain. McCain went on and on with his talking points unchallenged. John King is going to need to work on being objective in his interviews. If I wanted republican bias I will watch Fox or if I wanted democratic bias I will watch MSNBC.
Whenever anyone is trying to solve any of America's problems, Conservative leaders leap into action. They block, deny, delay, postpone, prevent, filibuster, criticize, exaggerate, lie, stop, prevent, exclude, minimize, and distort. They do this repeatedly and endlessly until any effort to solve any problem has been defeated.
Conservatives would rather rule a bankrupt nation than help govern a prosperous one.
Shannon I agree 100% percent . The problem is not Obama nor the GOP, the problem is simply one name PELOSI!!! We need to get her out of that seat and quick before America goes bankrupt!!!
King just sits there and lets Cantor distort the so-called "Rail to Disneyland earmark", a blatant lie. So far King is very weak as an interviewer.
force AIG to create a health care division, then the 13 million young people who are not insured, ( ages 19-29 ), would have a provider, and AIG would benefit from the premiums; I know, it's too easy..
I heard a major section of this program. Orszag also challenged the Republicans for specific alternatives to the administration's proposals,instead of being verbally negative in opposition.
It is ridiculous that King and CNN would dwell more on other aspects of Cantor's piece.
It is the neocons who have no credibility. There simple agenda: help the rich get richer while ensuring their own reelection. In the process, who cares if the country and the American people pay the price.
Voicing my concerns whether CNN post this remains to be seen........
Mr. Cantor avoided Mr. King questions and moved into a rehearsed dialogue WITHOUT INTERRUPTION but refuse to crtisize his colleagues on earmarks other to say we need an earmark moratorium. Pleezze Mr. Cantor this is not a campaign let's really talk about solutions not campaign slogans from McCain camp. John King dropped the ball and smacked Mr. Orzag to please republican di** heads.
So why doesnt the GOP simply cut their 40% of the pork from the Bill?
Put your money where your mouth is.
Oh thats right, John King asked that question and Cantor wouldnt answer. Then King moves on without pressing him on it....what a pus.
No disrespect to Rep. Cantor intended, but I'm tired of all these Republicans criticizing President Obama and the Demcrats in Congress on spending by the federal government.
The former Republican president and the Republican-controlled Congress ran this country so far in debt that it will take several years to recover. These Republicans left in Congress seem to think that being in the minority gives them the right to criticize. All that being in the minority does is prove that the people finally got wise to Republicans' attempt to destroy the country. Hopefully in the next election cycle Republicans will be even a greater minority.
Eric Cantor looks better than Tom Delay, Roy Blant and company but he has the same old recipe for the economy which did not work and sent our economy in nose dive.
I don't believe that old-guard Republicans such as Eric Cantor should be allowed to use the word "credibility" or "credible" as they have none.
CNN will not let certain individuals post on the other ticker, yet someone posted a racist comment on the McCain Ticker and will not allow anyone to post a negative response. Real fair and balanced news CNN, NOT. You should be ashamed of yourself. Just another rag news media if you ask me. CNN is getting worst than the National Inquirer. Just another gossip paper. No wonder your losing viewers.
As a Democrat I have to say that I am tired of how little the Democrats value our money.
Would they be throwing away this money so easily if it was there own personal money......HECK NO!
So stop wasting the taxpayers money and starting thinking with your brain before it's too late!
Republicans have nothing else but to wage war against Obama and his plan, because if it works, republicans are dead in the water. Historically republicans have advocated for small government and less taxes. But what is hypocritical is that republicans have delivered intense government growth since Regan, Bush Sr., Clinton and GW. They must think of us in main street as stupid and just do not get it. Well, we in main street do get, have got it and understand that huge changes need to be made and made now.
Changes that are needed in regulating the economy, implementing a national health insurance plan, getting out of a worthless war and using government to stimulate the government is not socialism, it is do or die. Government is for the people, by the people. So when republicans whine about government, they are whining in the mirror. This economy, war, crumbling health care is indicative of a person who has terminal cancer and tells everyone he is fine.
As far as I am concerned, republicans can find another country to ruin.
Erick cantor looks like a sleezy used car salesman.can you trust anything out of his mouth.
Republicans are a bunch of Moron's, only 40% of the pork in this bill is coming from them any their on every Sunday morning show slamming the President about earmarks. You can't get one of these guys to answer a Yes or No question all of them put their party's spin on their commets. Has anyone told these Idiots that Americans aren't that stupid?
I agree with auc throw all the Republican's out of office.
Why does the defense of "They did it too!" not bring me comfort?
STOP! JUST STOP THE INSANITY!
This is a never ending argument about who did what INSTEAD of who is GOING TO DO what to fix it. Eric Cantor is full of criticism, along with many other Republicans, but has yet to clearly define what should be done.
@K Fergus...
What you seem to NOT realize is that this country has been under a de facto dictatorship for the 8 last years. Lest we forget that going against the Bush regime and its criminal policies most certainly branded one UNPATRIOTIC. The level of hypocrisy, blame shifting and self-righteousness running rampant among the GOP is absolutely amazing.
What Cantor doesn't say is that most of the spending in this bill was [put in there by Geurge Bush before he left. This bill is the product of six months negotiation...let's see...Barack has been President for 6 weeks? Do the Math!
Cantor is a talking head hoping to get the GOP nod. Speaking of no credibility!
You know this guy is full of alot of BULL!! Talking about creditibilty, isn't this the party who is responsible for this crisis this economy is in. As much as they try, we can't forget the eight years under George W. Bush. Who was in charge of the White House, the Congress, and the Senate? Who kept telling the people that the economy was in sound shape? How many times did John McCain and even Bush say those very words ? You made this crisis, now you are trying to blame President Obama for it. And all I hear from people like Cantor is what Obama is doing wrong. What are his answers to this crisis? Do he and his Republicans buddies have any? I am sick of him and John Boehner. Look at the Spending Bill, they sit on tv talking about how much pork is in that bill, but never tell the people that there fellow Republicans own some of the biggest pork in the bill. Check out the bill for yourself, and see how hyporcrites work. Obama Supporters don't be fool by people like this Cantor guy. Never, Never, Never, forget the mess which was left for President Obama to try to fix. This President is being honest with us, he is doing his best to get this country back on the right track, he is putting the people first instead of the Party. From the time he got in the White House, he have reach out to people like Cantor, Boehner, and what have they done? Sit on tv saying NO! NO! NO! Just imagine if former President Clinton had left the mess for President Bush, like Bush left for President Obama.
cnn maybe the fairness doctrine needs to be in acted this interview
with cantor could nt have ben more biased then if you tried. may be
cnn will become part of fox news. john king ,lou dobbs among others
would fit right in glen beck is is allready on foxnews team.
what abount the coment from anonymous abount the presidents
daughters.
I suppose that pesky little $10 BILLION/month war has noooothing to do with the quandry in which this country finds itself. The GOP always seems to forget that lil' tidbit, huh? Like they seem to forget that 9/11 happened ON Bushie's watch. Why does the " George Bush kept us safe" counter always begin on 9/12??? How convenient when framing false arguments on False....um, Fox News.
HOW DO YOU DEFINE HYPOCRIT? First, this is GEORGE BUSH'S OMINIBUS BILL, NOT OBAMA'S!!
Also, Cantor [LIES] that Republicans were being hypocritical by blasting earmarks while some GOP congressional leaders and key committee chairs had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of that spending in the bill. Moreover, six out of ten of the biggest earmarkers are Republicans and the Republican Senate leader has more earmarks in the omnibus bill than the Demoncratic Senate leader.
Importantly, President Obama NEVER promised to rid of ALL earmarks. He only promised to REFORM the process. And the transpirancy of these earmarks and the amount is a tremendous reform over those Bush approved.
Also, speaking of hypocrocy, Cantor decries demoncratic "spending," while blantantly ignoring the fact that he voted for 300 million dollars of bailout for his wife's bank.
Obama doesn't have any credibility?!? Wow. Where was he these past eight years. I love how the Republicans have selected memory.
I just read that a gold fish only has a memory that lasts 3 seconds. I think the GOP should drop the elephant and go with a gold fish instead.
Republicans promise lower taxes, smaller government, less spending. What they practice is, lower taxes, bigger government, higher spending, record deficits, and record debt.
Cantor you talk about credibility, you got to be kidding.
Canter your complain about our children having to pay back the spending in the stimulus bill, but I heard no such complaints when Bush and your party wiped out the surplus that President Bill Clinton a Democratic left you.
From a suplus to record deficits and debt, and now that its your party that's out of power, its back to being fiscal conservatives, till you can again get your hands on the country's money, and spend baby, spend.
Cantor needs to get a hobby. He must have too much time on his hands.
Republicans crashed the car, and think by filling up the tank halfway it will run again.
Democrats are forced to buy a new car the Republicans drove into a tree by their leader who used to be a drunk.
All the while Republicans jump up and down screaming "Don't spend money on a new car. Look at us; we're putting in a half tank of gas so that this totaled car can run again. Oh and we like to torture innocent people and kill women and children too."
Mr. Cantor needs to shut up because he's done nothing to help this country or the people who need it most.
K Fergus, get YOUR facts straight. Every economist says that the current recession is 100% due to housing and mortgage default risk. And that, my friend, is 100% the fault of Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd and their buddies at Fanny and Freddie and ACORN and Countrywide lending money to lying unemployed deadbeats to get McMansions for no money down on $750,000 homes. Now Barry is going to let them off the hook.
Democrats = Liars
"Cantor denied that Republicans were being hypocritical by blasting earmarks while some GOP congressional leaders and key committee chairs had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of that spending in the bill, saying he and House Minority Leader John Boehner had asked their party to adopt a moratorium on the practice."
Then you know what Mr. Cantor?? SHUT...THE...HELL...UP!!! I'm gonna tell you this once, we got dirt on everybody, I mean, E-VERY-BO-DY! You wanna go that far, huh? Is not just you, Dems also do this. Shut up!! Alright?!?! Shut...the...hell...up!!!
This has turned into the chicken or the egg question. Well I know the answer, its the egg. The egg in our economy is the majority having money to spend. If they don't have money to spend, the rich won't create jobs. They don't just create jobs for the fun of it and want to burn some cash. They create jobs when they see money coming in, not before. Its nice how the Cons would like you to believe the opposite.
Millions of uninsured medical citizens?? You need a few hundred more Hospitals first... Your Beach is Crowded. Where will you put them? In the Sea???
"Cantor denied that Republicans were being hypocritical by blasting earmarks while some GOP congressional leaders and key committee chairs had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of that spending in the bill, ..."
The what should you call it? Ours are needed: their are pork and our s..t don't stink!
This bill should be vetoed – sent back to Congress to be scrubbed clean but for heaven's sake ... stop the bull – stop the lies and just who do Republicans think they are fooling now?
Vote out every politician with more than two terms in office. No matter which side of the aisle. Then they will start working for us. Bring in the new blood with a mandate whether it b a republican or a democrat. Out with the old in with the new. They think they own us. They play us all day long and we let them. its time to wake up.
Isn't it just the height of hypocrisy for these Republicans to pick and choose what outrages them? Against earmarks, for earmarks (if the earmarks are THEIRS)... fix the banks, let'em fail... smaller government; growing government... no socialism, but hey, let's nationalize banks.
All over the map and, let's face it... floundering like a stinky fish flopping on the crusty leftovers of what 'trickled down" under their watch.
Chris March 8th, 2009 12:04 pm ET
Nothing says "credibility" like rallying against a bill as filled pork barrel projects with 40% of them being Republican earmarks.
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Hmmm! Then that means that 60% of them were Democrat earmarks?
You know, I do hope that Pres. Obama does veto this bill. That way he only won't be fulfilling a campaign promise, but he can tell all of these Repugs who criticize him on spending, to put their earmark "outrage" were there mouth is. If they are truly upset about these earmarks as they say they are, they will work out some of the ridiculous spending they have put in the bill. All I have heard from many Republicans is that they are upset with all the spending, but when push comes to shove, they defend their spending projects instead saying that they would cut them out. Are we all surprised?!
I have a question for these G.O.P senators. Where were they when G.W.Bush was on a spending spree? For an unnecessary war and by the way how about his 2008 budget? why didn't we hear these complaints then? I mean seriously. President Obama is trying to fix the economy and as much as we hate it, it is going to take money to fix this. This problem is not just going to go away on its on.
We should have a line item veto and neither party should be able to stick earmarks without discussion of the floor. This practice is nothing more than theft of the American taxpayer and needs to stop on both side. It's time for a real reality check here, if the spending proposal can't stand up on the legislative floor and be measured on its merits, it should not be snuck in the back door. Neither side of the aisle has enough integrity to give the president a line item veto because it removes their ability to steal.
OK–let me get this straight so I can be prepared for what's to come: no one wants the earmarks because they'e so expensive–they might employ thousands of people and create income but that's not the point–the political opportunities override the good of the population. It's more important to be able to say "Gotcha" than to look at what might come out of the spending. GOP wants to pull their earmarks so they look good because Democrats, of course, have only put wasteful earmarks in. If the President vetoes anything, he will have to veto everything or both sides will be screaming favoritism. There will be screams of 'impeach him" if he does nothing but If some programs continues, there wil be screams of "socialism/communism". "Country first"????????????????
I have a question for these G.O.P senators. Where were they when G.W.Bush was on a spending spree? why didn't we hear these complaints then? I mean seriously. President Obama is trying to fix the economy and as much as we hate it, it is going to take money to fix this. This problem is not just going to go away on its own.
How about the last 8 years of reckless borrowing and spending under Bush and the Republicans that have driven the US to the edge of fiscal sanity?! Any credibility there?
Why does everyone blame the current economy mess on Bush? He had 9/11 and he had the wars. Whether you feel they were justifued or not he had to make tough decisions. What about the mess he inherited from Clinton? Please look at the trickle down and stop blaming the Americans. After all Pelosi and the dems ran Congress...herein lies the problem. Please dems get educated and read history!
You really have to wonder if Obama knows what he is doing. Even if he doesn't he would never admit it to anyone because of his narcissistic personality. That's why his free wheeling ways need to be looked at critically.
Cantor has no credibility. He is just posturing for 2012.
I used to like John King. NO MORE! His one-sided interview in favor of Cantor was sickening. If only those "fat cat"Republicans, that are still left in congress, would give our new president a chance & get off of the NO button, he might be able to pull this country out of the mess that you & Bush got us in to. Until then, SHUT UP & let him do the job we elected him to do.
Lori,
John King and Anderson Cooper are very biased in their reports and in their interviews. I have been watching for some time, and cringe at their slanted reporting. I am sure John King is a Republican. Anderson, I think, is just silly. They (CNN) televised Limbaugh's whole speech at CPAC. During the campaigns, I observed that McCain's blubbery speeches were given more time than those of then Sen. Obama's.
They (R) realize that the economy is in dire straights, thanks to their compadre, Bush. What they are doing is using the disaster to try and discredit President Obama, by casting doubt on his ability to lead. They are already campaigning for 2012. They don't care about the economy. They don't want to fix it. They want to use it to gain votes.
Mr. Cantor, I'm from NJ, your from VA. U and Bush made american's pain! Pres "O" is a "LEADER", you are a foller! VA 40% needs Pres "O" help!