Just a quickie since I'm at work, but this was just toooooooooooo delicious to let pass without comment and general enjoyment by all...Apparently poor Eric Cantor is NOT getting the slavering devotion from the poor slobs he's been misrepresenting all these years, but THIS time they're letting him know it, and apparently pretty good, and now poor Erics fee-fees are hurt...Follow me below the orange Kos optical illusion for the relevant quote and a short observation...
According to an article today in the Huffington Post, at a Republican convention in VA District 7 where Cantor slithers, his handpicked favorite was narrowly defeated byt a tea party backed candidate for the position of committee chairman...Tea party activists were touting this as a bellweather in Cantors upcoming primary against a tea critter with the seemingly appropriate name of Dave Brat...This being an "event", with actual people within shouting distance, and this being Eric Cantors district, and since there WAS a microphone lying around anyway, Eric felt it incumbent on him to say a few words...And that's where the going got sticky...According to a Washington Post report on the meeting
Any sign that Cantor’s support has slipped among the region’s most active Republicans could spell a tougher challenge during next month’s election. And some of the crowd’s reaction Saturday when Cantor took a shot at Brat made clear that the Republican majority leader has not yet fully shored up support.
“When I sit here and I listen to Mr. Brat speak I hear the inaccuracies — my family’s here.” Cantor said. As he was interrupted by the raucous crowd, Cantor’s anger was evident: “That’s enough — we are a country of free speech, so decency’s also part of this.”
The thing that struck me immediately and instinctively upon reading this, other than the obvious pleasure of the thought of watching little Eric Cantor, his eyes flashing angrily behind his tres chic glasses, his week little chin trembling with rage, his teeth grinding together as he suffers not just the humiliation of being shouted down by what should be HIS peeps, but in having it done in the presence of his family. is the incredible BALLS of the man!!!
“That’s enough — we are a country of free speech, so decency’s also part of this.” This is coming from a man who is second in command of the party in the house who the orchestrated the "death panel" town hall meetings of that passionate summer of not so long ago, smirkingly and snidely trying to whip up the frenzy of emotion against Democratic congressmen, trying in good faith to do something positive for their constituents, inciting everything short of armed insurrection from their turnip brained teabagger stooges...
And now he dares to demand "Decency" in the tone of the discourse just because this time it's HIM on the hotseat, and his family is there to witness his wimpy little ass getting kicked by his constituents???
Fuck you Eric...Seriously...You're a douche who's getting exactly what he deserves, and I hope it gets a whole lot worse before it gets better...