Good diary from SaraBeth about the callousness of Eric Cantor:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri’s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere else.
“If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental,” Mr. Cantor, Virginia Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. The term “pay-fors” is used by lawmakers to signal cuts or tax increases used to pay for new spending.
Reminded me of a quote from this same piece of shit regarding funds to help Japan during their crisis:
"All of us need to be tempered by the fact that we've got to stop spending money we don't have," Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told reporters at his weekly press briefing. "Essentially, what you are saying is to go borrow money from the Japanese so we can spend it there to help the Japanese."
Yes, SaraBeth. Eric Cantor is a bastard, but he's so much more than that.
He's a man who has never had a hard day in his life.
He's a man who's parents paid for the most prestigious schools - and had a job waiting for him at his dad's business once he got out of college.
Cantor grew up in relative affluence in western Henrico. He attended Collegiate School, a private prep school. He received an undergraduate degree from George Washington University, a law degree at the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree in real estate management from Columbia University. There he met his future wife, Diana Fine, from Coral Gables, Fla., who was working for Goldman Sachs.
He's a man who's a republican because he's never had to live or think like a democrat.
Eric Cantor probably can't understand why anyone would question his theories or attitude. He's never had to face adversity (even his rise to the Senate came when his previous boss, Tom Bliley, decided not to run and Cantor got the support of his entire infrastructure). He's never been fired from a job. He's never had a house disappear in a tornado or a flood and, even if he did, he has enough family money to consider such an event a non-issue.
I've got nothing against the rich. I grew up in the same affluence Mr. Cantor did. What I have a problem with is his blind spot when it comes to valuing the lives of human beings below his class bracket. If he statements now and in the past are any indication, he either sees the most tragic situations as heartless political opportunity - or he just doesn't give a shit about the people he feels the need to pull the rug out from under.
Either way, Mr. Cantor can go fuck himself.