House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) seized on the opportunity to criticize the president Tuesday for over-reaching in his first 50 days on the job.
Following the GOP's weekly conference meeting, the second-ranking House Republican told reporters that President Obama should be focusing on the "economic crisis," as opposed to holding four-hour meetings on healthcare, as the president did last week. The efforts may be laudable, Cantor said, but the White House should be devoting all resources to fixing the economy and not to "impose these cap-and-trade schemes."
"At the end of the day, we are in an economic emergency. Economists are saying that there's a 30 percent likelihood that we're going to be in a depression," Cantor said. "My goodness, we do have an emergency, and we oughta say, look, priority No. 1 is to create jobs."
March 11, 2009
Look, Mr. President, priority No. 1 is to create jobs!
“Forget Rush Limbaugh,” writes Patrick O’Connor, in fact “for all the focus on the king of conservative talk, Democrats may have found a more important villain in House Minority Whip Eric Cantor.” And here is why (via Gateway Pundit):
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I share the opinion that Obama and the Democrats ought to be trying to resolve the economic crisis as their sole first priority. All the other things on their agenda can wait. The way it's going now, and from what I hear and read, a lot of people are beginning to wonder what's going on. They need to get their act together.
ReplyDeleteEric Cantor did hit the center of the target ...
ReplyDeleteAmateur start for Obama and Hilary.
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