Eric Cantor
GQ has published a list of the 50 most powerful people in Washington, excluding Obama and Biden, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is at the top of it.
Cantor’s pledge from November 2010:
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday during a meeting in New York that the new GOP majority in the House will “serve as a check” on the Obama administration, a statement unusual for its blunt disagreement with U.S. policy delivered directly to a foreign leader.
“Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the Administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington,” read a statement from Cantor’s office on the one-on-one meeting. “He made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other.”
This cartoon says it all.
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Look at Cantor. He looks like a frat boy at UVa. What can he possibly know, or not, to be so ill-informed about the Mideast. One wants to scream. He’s dragging the US down a deep hole, just as Likud is doing in Israel. All the military might in the world won’t, in the end, halt the slide.
Cantors meeting with Netanyahu borders on treason. The Logan act, makes it a felony for any American ” without authority of the United States to communicate with a foreign Government to influence that Governments behavior”.
I wonder what other countries it would be acceptable for a House Leader to promise that ‘we are acting in your interests, and blocking anything you may disagree with’. When will such people start putting the US and their voters first?
Here’s something interesting, two comments, one of which may count later: