This was from the plum line

“Mr. Cantor doesn?t question the President?s citizenship, but he has serious questions about the President?s push for government controlled healthcare, taxes on small business job creators, and a huge energy tax on middle class families. He finds it ironic that those most eager to talk about the President?s citizenship are in fact some of his biggest cheerleaders?whether it?s Chris Matthews or others on MSNBC, the Huffington Post, or camera toting liberal bloggers chasing people through the streets of Washington.”

It is interesting that Cantor doesn’t dare question the birthers but tries to blame the “liberal media.”

Check out this Washington Post interview of Eric published on July 17th. With the collapse of his GOP colleagues, Cantore has become a contender on the national stage.

Virginia's Cantor on Front Line In GOP Anti-Obama Campaignn

Remember the “Town Halls” that Cantor and other Republican leaders were promoting. I think there was one in Arlington?

This just appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch:

Group files ethics complaint against Cantor

By Tyler Whitley

Published: July 23, 2009

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a Washington-based organization, has filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, with the House Office of Congressional Ethics.

The complaint requests an investigation into a new organization, the National Council for a New America, that Cantor, the House Minority Whip, set up to promote the Republican Party.

Press reports said Cantor’s staff organized the group and its initial town hall event and created its Web site. This may be in violation of House rules that prohibit House resources from being used for campaign or political purposes, said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the ethics organization, called CREW.

House rules allow members to hold town hall meetings only in their own districts, she said. The first meeting was in Arlington County, which is not in Cantor’s district.

“NCNA looks political and Representative Cantor and the group’s other members talk about it in political terms, so it must be a political organization,” she said.

“We are 100 percent compliant with the ethics rules,” said Stacey Johnson, press aide to Cantor. She noted that there are hundreds of caucuses in the House that operate in similar fashion.

CREW’s Web site says it “targets government officials — regardless of party affiliation — who sacrifice the common good to special interests.”

It recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information on White House visits by 18 health-care executives.

This excerpt is from the LA Times today,

“But that doesn’t mean we are out of options. Together, we can bring about a strong and real recovery. We can create an environment that empowers small businesses and American workers to thrive. We must focus on job creation and restoring the financial and retirement security lost by millions.

And for the sake of our children and our long-term fiscal viability, Washington must stop spending money that it doesn?t have.

That’s why every day, my Republican colleagues are fighting to enact policies that will stabilize our economy, create jobs and ignite prosperity. You and your family deserve no less.

Since January, we have offered alternatives to the out-of-control, big government, Democrat agenda that unfortunately became law and has completely failed to create jobs. Our plan is simple and smart — and its strength is that it doesn?t invest in Washington, it invests in the American people.

We believe Washington should stop its war on the middle class and reduce tax rates so every hardworking, taxpaying family in America will see an immediate increase in their income. A prosperous middle class is critical for our entire nation?s well-being.

We believe Washington must stop targeting America’s small businesses and instead should empower them by allowing employers to take a tax deduction to free up funds to retain and hire new employees.”

Before this quote, he gives us the Republican rhetoric about the stimulus plan not working but what is Eric recommending? As we can see in this quote, only tax cuts apparently, but isn’t that a cost too? Didn’t Bush’s tax cuts get us in this fiscal mess?

Also notice that the word Democrat is missing the “ic”? I guess he wants to disassociate the Democratic party from Democratic principles but it just makes him look inarticulate.