What with our esteemed House Majority Leader decrying the "mob" of OWS... I thought perhaps he could use a reminder...
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free"."
"President" Matthew Shepard... from the movie "An American President"
I've known Bob Rumson (substitute Eric Cantor here...) for years, and I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob (Eric) devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob's (Eric's) problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's (Eric's) problem is that he can't sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson (Eric Cantor) is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character.
Nuff said...