(From TWD)
Enough is enough.
When I saw this tweet from Alan Colmes last night on a thought from Alan Grayson passed to him, it was one of only two resolutions I could see for this ugly situation to end appropriately:
Though I’m not sure if Grayson and his office will actually do this since I haven’t heard back from his press secretary yet after emailing him, it would do us all good if this is the end result.
Or, with how this shameful story has evolved, the only other thing that should be acceptible from Eric Cantor is to show penitence for his unsurprisingly but still nevertheless very shocking and disturbing actions.
Nothing else.
It’s already deplorable enough that the Sad Obnoxious Party won’t take (or are alarmingly slow) any responsibility for their tea partiers dropping coffins, throwing bricks, or leaving chilling phone calls in Democratic officers.
But what Cantor (and Jean Schimdt, more on her in a second) did by trying to join his party in the "victim circle", and burden America with another false equivalency nonsense for the media to play with is too much to take.
It is highly dangerous what Cantor and his press office are continuing to do by now changing every bit of his "high noon talk of a loon" moment. And everyone out here should be slamming him for feigning seriousness, when all he was doing was just an irrational, angry attempt at winning a game.
It’s always a game with him and his pathetic party, no surprise there. But the limits of how low they go is already pass a point where something further toxic and horrible can happen thanks to their lack of maturity.
A handful of extremist actions have been speculated on Democratic Congressional figures this week. But to create that stunning balance effect that our corporate media always is glad to run with, the SOP has Cantor’s ever evolving insanity and a phone call to Schmidt’s office that though was very harsh, did not call a threat on her.
There was no powder or drop dead message that Anthony Weiner received yesterday. There was no obvious signs that family members could get attacked like Louise Slaughter received. And outside of a brick being thrown at a Virginia GOP office that we don’t know anything else about, there has been nothing. (And frankly, who knows who really did that one?).
But we’re all cognizant of the fact that Eric Cantor further disgraced himself by playing the victim card (with him mentioning that he was Jewish too by the way), accusing Democrats of political opportunists in such a serious situation, and then proven to be brazenly disingenuous and a fraud.
This is just an unbelievably, unacceptable action that Cantor has committed in front of the American people, and especially to his fellow Congressmen on the other side of the isle. Cantor must be politically humiliated in some way, and that will only come with a public apology or leaving office for good.
Enough is enough.
Then again, how many times have we said that line in the past, only to see us say it once more?
(From TWD, have a good rest of your Friday and thanks again for even reading.)



11 Comments

Dear Mister Cantor is the best representaion of why voters should be held accountable for who they put in office.
They elected this pompose ass who has done nothing for them, but has used His position for air time to make Himself look like something He is not.
The clerks at the beer store seemed to know Cantor well enough to hate him even before this, and I think that’s a good sign, since I don’t ordinarily consider them high-information voters. But this story has everything… being a total pussy, lying off the cuff, badly, and a false equivalency the size of Yankee Stadium. Cantor will, of course, be thought to benefit, because IOKIYAR does prevail in the eyes of the media, which will only make normal people despise him more. Don’t count on any real consequences, though, look at Ensign, Vitter, and the rest.
“a brick being thrown at a Virginia GOP office that we don’t know anything else about, there has been nothing. (And frankly, who knows who really did that one?).”
But you know who threw bricks at Democratic office windows?
“the victim card (with him mentioning that he was Jewish too by the way)”
From YOUR link:
“Cantor had received many threats on his life in recent days, Dayspring added, presenting me with a series of emails with graphic anti-Semitic slurs and threats to kill Cantor, on the understanding that I not print the details.”
Irony Meter rating: 8.5 of 10
Cantor’s website states his metro office is in Glen Allen. I drive past that townhouse every evening and there has never been any indication that it is Cantor’s address for anything. The nearby (adjacent?) empty building is often plastered with GOP posters but aside from a small brass plaque and a very unique unattractive shade of green paint it is totally nondescript. Eric lied.
http://www.marcusandallen.com/
for who really occupies the building.
The city assessor’s website is down, so I can’t tell who owns it.
Does it really matter who owns it or uses it? It seems the bullet wasn’t even aimed at a particular window, it just happened to fall through that one after being shot into the air.
Could someone tell me what Mr. Cantor’s “very shocking and disturbing actions” were, please?
Mr. Cantor is proud to be shameless although he would never admit it of course because he is also proud to be dishonest.
Holding public office used to be a trust. How in the world did we, the voters, allow so many distrustful people into public office?
it only matters because he characterized the building into which the stray bullet ended as “my office” and it is clearly not
I love the smell of manufactured outrage in the morning!
“it only matters because he characterized the building into which the stray bullet ended as “my office” and it is clearly not”
News reports say he has offices in the building and has used that particular room for meetings. Does that make it an exaggeration for him to say “my office”? Sure, I’ll go along with that. And if that exaggeration constitutes “very shocking and disturbing actions,” if that exaggeration is “shameful” and “highly dangerous,” then how would you characterize the far more over the top exaggerations published here on a daily basis?