But, this was obvious the first year of the Bush Adm.
So I say, welcome to your brief trip into reality. For Cantor, it will be a brief passing by.

Unless the Republican party comes to the realization that these issues are of the most importance to families, they will be left as a minority party for a long time.

The Republican Party will be primarily the party of the deep south.
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Umm, didn’t you really mean to say… the party of the Deep Sh*t???

arleang Says:
Republicans have demonstrated collosal ignorance over the past eight years; unfortunately the democrats have not been far behind.

The dems forced passage of minimum wage increased and stopped the gop from privatizing your social security……what more can you hope for when in the minority in both houses and with a republican president…..

The primary reason the republicans lack relevance is the intolerance they exhibit and, in the deep south, the fulminating racism that is part of their base.

The Republican Party will be primarily the party of the deep south.

Their policies over that time have only become more extreme as have their public claims for their effectiveness and sustainability.

Reagan spent his way out of the original fuel crisis and then just kept on borrowing and spending when the crisis had passed, whilst he gutted infrastructure investment, starved health and education (which provide long-term economic benefits)through tax cuts and instead expanded military spending with preposterous future weapons schemes.

Bush Sr. at least rescinded Reagan’s tax cuts but did nothing else.
Clinton reversed the policies of Reagan/Bush41, disproving the Republican model and proving the Democratic approach—but all for naught.

The Bush43 GOP then doubled-down on the same “principles” of the Reagan years and created twice the immediate damage.

Cantor says “Let’s set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations [...]It’s education, it’s health care. These are the issues, frankly, that we have not been on offense with“.

To the contrary it was precisely the Republicans relentless ideologically-driven offense on all quarters and by every means available that has not only bankrupted our present but our future and what is more has saddled other countries with the consequences of self-serving Republican profligacy.

Cantors message is to ignore the past and the lesson that needs to be learned is that the old “values” propaganda, not the policies, no longer provides electoral success.

If the GOP were actually capable of rational introspection and significant reform then they’d just adopt Democrats principles and change their policies to serve the majority public instead of themselves–but doing so would be be admit that they have been wrong, criminally wrong, all these years, and that would make them truly irrelevant.

All Cantor and his ilk are doing is advertising a ‘new and improved’ product in the hope of attracting investors when they don’t even have a prototype.

I LOVE that 11th century quote!

We need to do a better job in civics classes, too.

Since when is less self-government a good thing? That is what they were after – less Democracy, which is our style of government – and more fascism.

I wonder if the American people truly understand how close were were to losing our Democracy.

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Interesting backdrop behind Cantor.
He’s from Virginia, home of some major armament manufacturers.
Just like Joe Lieberman’s home turf in Connecticut…
Guess what the major export of the state of Israel is?
That’s right. Guns. Uzis. Desert Eagles.
Anyone else see a pattern here?

While the Republican brand should be taken off the shelf, please leave something for the millions of newly unemployed to eat.