Cantor Complains Of Distractions, But He Co-Sponsored Resolution Celebrating The American Dental Association
Cantor Complains Of Distractions, But He Co-Sponsored Resolution Celebrating The American Dental Association
Yesterday on CNN, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) strongly criticized President Obama for his expected decision (Obama signed the executive order this afternoon) to reverse the Bush administration’s limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, claiming that the move is a distraction from the country’s economic troubles:
CANTOR: [T]here’s a reason why this discussion is coming up this week. Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job number one; let’s focus on what needs to be done. [...] We’ve got a new Congress now. And certainly that is something that we ought to be talking about, but let’s take care of business first. People are out of jobs. And, again, there is a reason why all this is happening right there — right now.
Watch it:
Except it might be difficult for Cantor to have any credibility in criticizing others for not, as he said, “tak[ing] care of business first.” Just in the first few months of the 111th Congress, Cantor has co-sponsored legislation that one might consider “distracting”:
– H. Res. 204: Congratulating the American Dental Association for its 150th year of working to improve the public’s oral health and promoting dentistry.
– H. Res. 18: A bill honoring the life, achievements and contributions of Paul Newman.
– H.R. 997: To declare English as the official language of the United States.
– H.R. 836: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level, and for other purposes.
While the life and work of Paul Newman is certainly something to be celebrated, it seems Cantor doesn’t have a leg to stand on when criticizing others for distracting from the real issues.
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Well that beer one might help take care of business
March 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pmThese morons with (R) after their names feel entitled to go to DC and draw a salary for distupting business. When will the American people quit electing these welfare recipients?
March 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pmHe is a Repug.. Don’t do as he does, Do as he says.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pmWhat is so hard about that?
I, too, congratulate the American Dental Association on its 150th anniversary. (full disclosure: I’ve been an independent contractor for one of the organization’s affiliates here locally)
So let’s just get back to the business of saving civilization, allright? Both sides?
March 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pmPerhaps Mr. Cantor’s district has a problem with tooth decay?
March 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pmI’d be interested to see some figures on exactly how much it costs for each minute that the House is in session. Between salaries of congresspeople, staff, security, energy, etc. it can’t be cheap.
But you go right ahead and keep wasting the taxpayer’s time and money, Can’tor. We’re watching…
PEACE
March 9th, 2009 at 6:10 pmI can’t watch the video. Does Cantor offer any suggestions (besides tax cuts) to help the economy?
March 9th, 2009 at 6:17 pmWhen the GOP speaks, be prepared for an off the wall and easily debunked talking point. No facts, no proof, no sense at all. Just loaded words for the gullible and uninformed.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pmEric Cantor (R-VA) cosponsored a resolution honoring the life, achievements and contributions of that lefty Paul Newman? A guy who was on the original Nixon Enemies List?
Cantor better hope Rush don’t hear about this.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pmHAHAHAHA what an idiot.
Instead of celebrating dentistry he should sue his dentist for his fake looking chops.
newt gushed that cantor is an up and coming name in the repug club. Another HAHAHAHAHA
March 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmDistraction ? Huh ? It’s only a distraction, if you MAKE it a distraction, stupid. If Cantor wants to use senate time to make a protest, just to appease the religous right, HE’S the one being devergent.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:33 pm“– H.R. 997: To declare English as the official language of the United States.”
cantor’s from the south, do they even speak english there? maybe if they removed the goddamn marbles from their mouths before speaking…
March 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pmCantor Complains Of Distractions, But He Co-Sponsored Resolution Celebrating The American Dental Association
– - I’d rather have a root canal, sans novocaine, than listen to Eric the Putz.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:36 pmIt is not surprising that Cantor feels distracted. He is use to a president who couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time much less deal with a multitude of issues. Though Republican leadership as left our country in a bad way Obama has the ability to deal many problems at once. Its nap time, Cantor, hush, hush.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pmalph the wonder llama Says:
Eric Cantor (R-VA) cosponsored a resolution honoring the life, achievements and contributions of that lefty Paul Newman?
– - What we got here…..is a failure to c’mmunicate.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:39 pmSome people say that Cantor blows goats.
Just saying.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:40 pm[T]here’s a reason why this discussion is coming up this week. Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy?
That argument doesn’t even make sense. Why distract from the economy when you just passed a 787 Billion dollar stimulus package, and just uneveiled a plan to help struggling homeowners? Wouldn’t you want the focus to stay on the economy? So people can see you taking steps to solve them! And the GOP didn’t want to focus on the economy during the stimulus debate or the 2008 election, why now?
March 9th, 2009 at 6:40 pmHow distracting was it, really? He signed his name. Somehow I doubt that that demanded a lot of his attention.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:40 pmBack in the saddle…again
Back where a friend is a friend…
Yippi ki ai there pilgrim…
March 9th, 2009 at 6:45 pmHey Cantor you a$$clown, you had your chance to help the American people and the economy, but you voted NO to the stimulus package because Boehner told you to.
Go hang out with the rest of your brain washed hypocrites of the GOP, complain to them about your nonsense, people who actually work for living like myself, don’t want hear your crap.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:48 pmCantor is the congressional poster boy (this week) for narro-minded thinking and nit-picking through selective perception. That is a long-winded way of saying he is silly, crass and stupid. And I don’t like him, either.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:48 pmOh for crying out loud, Cantor! As soon as President Obama signed the EO, it was done and out of his hands. Do you get that moron? It’s not like the stem cell research EO will take up 18 hours day of President Obama’s day from now until the end of his term(s). Jees.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:50 pmKayInMaine Says:
Oh for crying out loud, Cantor! As soon as President Obama signed the EO, it was done and out of his hands. Do you get that moron? It’s not like the stem cell research EO will take up 18 hours day of President Obama’s day from now until the end of his term(s). Jees.
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hear, hear. i wish these guys would study a little informal logic (i.e., baby logic). when cantor cries that obama’s distracting from bigger issues, but can’t argue that the “distraction” would actually prevent the congress from reaching the important issues, THAT’S A DEFINITION OF DISTRACTION, MORON.
ahem. i think i’m done ripping on cantor for now. check back in twenty minutes.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pmHe who smelt it, dealt it.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:57 pmVote Cantor out, another RepubliCon stooge!
March 9th, 2009 at 6:57 pmThese remaining republicans are the most clueless or villainous people in politics. Just because nobody is sure which, shouldn’t mean we have to put up with them in the political system!
March 9th, 2009 at 7:07 pmActually, Cantor has a point. So he and the other republitards shouldn’t distract Obama and the other adults in charge from conducting important bizness.
March 9th, 2009 at 7:20 pmI suggest they all go on a fact-finding mission for the rest of the Congressional session – perhaps Disneyland Baghdad? I hear there’s plenty of space at the new FourSeasonsAmerican Embassy.
HYPOCRISY, Thy Name is GOP
March 9th, 2009 at 7:22 pmI guess Cantor wasn’t thinking of all the jobs removing the ban on stem cell research will create.
March 9th, 2009 at 7:30 pmAnother sad dullard’s head to carve onto the National Monument of Republican Failure.
Ingrown hairs are more charismatic than Cantor. Pity the wife of that one.
March 9th, 2009 at 7:51 pmCantor is as repulsive as Rick Santorum ever was.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:29 pmThe repugniscum party just keeps producing them.
Maybe Eric can jump on this bill, dedicated to a co-founder of The Carlyle Group:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=sj111-8
March 9th, 2009 at 9:02 pm“– H.R. 997: To declare English as the official language of the United States.”
Which version of English? The kind spoken in England, or the kind spoken in America, which changes every day, and has new words added to it all the time, and is often an amalgamation of words from other languages? This idea both sucks and blows.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:41 pmhey, i just typed “d0ucheb@g” into google and got redirected to eric cantor’s website!
March 9th, 2009 at 11:01 pmCelebrating the American Dental Association?
No way, I want the American Dental Association to FAIL !!
We need to obstruct this sort of Fascism……Someone give me a cigar.
March 10th, 2009 at 2:57 amspencers mom Says:
I’d be interested to see some figures on exactly how much it costs for each minute that the House is in session. Between salaries of congresspeople, staff, security, energy, etc. it can’t be cheap.
But you go right ahead and keep wasting the taxpayer’s time and money, Can’tor. We’re watching…
PEACE
http://www.rules.house.gov/Archives/RL30136.pdf
March 11th, 2009 at 11:42 amspencers mom Says:
I’d be interested to see some figures on exactly how much it costs for each minute that the House is in session. Between salaries of congresspeople, staff, security, energy, etc. it can’t be cheap.
I looked for it but it seems that no one knows what the cost is.
If anyone does know then please post it here. The closest I came to an answer was :
http://www.house.gov/IG/95ccs12.pdf. This report is useless.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:17 pmSo, who of us are distracted by President Obama reversing the Bush administration ban on funding for stem cell research?
Perhaps Mr. Cantor can only do one thing at a time, but we the American Public are quite capable of multi-tasking!
This is just another case of the GOP being told that this Administration is not going to slow-play anything, so they must step up and play or get the heck out of the way. Complaining looks like incompetence!
March 11th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSesLi Chat-
March 11th, 2009 at 9:08 pm-SesLi sohbet–Kamerali sohbet-
Cantor is obviously a tool of special interest groups. We have a dental health crisis in the US because 80% of dentists won’t treat Medicaid patients and 108 million Americans (and growing every day) don’t have dental insurance.
In pockets of America, tooth decay resembles that of third world countries.
Organized dentistry not only has allowed this dental health crisis to occur on their water; but they lobby heavily against any viable groups willing to fill the void such as Dental Therapists.
Meanwhile, 6.5 million Medicaid children have unfilled cavities, according to the General Accounting Office.
Unfortunately for us, Organized Dentistry with its deep pockets filled with corporate cash gets legislators such as Canto to pass legislation that benefits dentists and not the people Canto is supposed to represent.
Dentists need to be mandated to treat at least 5% of their business for low-income people, whether for free, for what Medicaid offers or on a sliding scale basis. But dentists don’t like mandates – for themselves anyway. However, they are behind every fluoridation mandate in this country.
Dentists prefer to treat the water with fluoride chemicals rather than low-income Americans who need their care the most.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:50 am