The outrage is refreshed almost daily: the union busting in Wisconsin, the attempt to airbrush the labor movement out of art in Maine, a whole slew of seriously offensive comments, and on and on. Lately, the Republican threat to destroy Medicare is dominating, deservedly, the political
Evil Republican of the Day, Eric Cantor
debate.
But today, Eric Cantor (R-VA), who is the House Minority Leader, so not exactly some crazy unknown from the back end of nowhere, said he’ll try to block any federal aid going to Joplin, Missouri unless the Democrats agree to budget cuts. Joplin, Missouri. The town that just got whacked with a tornado and 122 people died.
Now, first of all, something’s going on here. I grew up in Iowa, we had tornadoes all the time, they’d tear up a trailer park or two, but casualties were usually in the single digits. So, it definitely seems to me that tornadoes are getting worse, which is a sign of global warming, but that’s a side point.
Eric Cantor would pass by a burning building and refuse to call 9/11, he would drive right past the scene of accident without stopping to offer aid, he would just flat out refuse to help that old lady across the street because that’s the kind of no nonsense fiscal conservative he is.
He would never consider cutting the defense budget, which could lose $50 billion or so without anybody noticing a difference. He’s not suggesting doing away with farm subsidies. He is, being a Republican, most adamantly opposed to raising taxes on the rich a teeny tiny bit.
So, he has no intention of doing anything whatsoever which will actually solve any of our problems, economic or otherwise. But he will make the people of Joplin, Missouri, pay if he doesn’t get his precious cuts to Medicare, and Head Start, and a slew of other programs that Republicans want to slice up, a couple of million dollars here, a couple of million dollars there.
And this guy is the Republican LEADER in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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