House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (VA) audaciousness never
ceases to boggle the mind as he recently commented on Wednesday that the
Democrats and President Obama hold the “key” to resolving the fiscal cliff by
outlining what spending cuts they are willing to accept. Now, all of a sudden,
the ball is in the Democratic Party’s court, huh?[1]
According to Cantor, the Republican Party just isn’t sure
what spending cuts the Democratic Party is after. Cantor commented, “It’s the
specifics on the spending. There’s been no discussions of specifics
whatsoever.”[2]
The problem with Cantor’s statement is that the Republican Party hasn’t come
close to offering many specifics on spending cuts themselves!
What Cantor is essentially offering is to hold up any
Democratic Party proposal for spending and fill it full of mammoth sized holes
just so he and his party can say, “see, look how ridiculous their proposals for
spending cuts are.” Thus, it is the political position of an unimaginative
group of political bullies who know little more about moving our country
forward than actually practicing what they preach.
Cantor has perfected the art of governing with less, indeed!
So much less, in fact, that anyone would be hard-pressed to find out just how
the Republican Party, and Eric Cantor more specifically, plan on moving America
forward.
In one vein, as America keeps bleeding money for two wars
that Americans no longer seem interested in, let alone seem interested in
paying for, politicians like Eric Cantor continue to hold disaster relief for
the victims of Hurricane Sandy hostage to a narrow ideology that is as
impractical as it is misguided. Oh yeah, and he his cadre also seem more than
willing to once again bring the U.S. economy to another “fiscal cliff.”
Last I checked, governing was an active verb, not passive.
But from all reasonable indicators, Cantor and company are about as active as
the icons of Reagan that they all apparently worship. This is not a recipe for
a better America, it’s a recipe for turning the clock back on the progress
that’s been made in the past 4 years.
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