Here's the lead up with Cantor's feckless leadership (there's an oxymoron, or two!)...
Horowitz asks, "What’s the next item on Cantor’s agenda?" Not missing a beat, it would appear that Cantor is predictably entering McConnell territory...RedState: Well, it appears that we are on the same page as the establishment with one important goal. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told the Richmond Times-Dispatch “America needs a Republican Party.”
Amen! We’ve been saying for years that America needs a bold choice, not a faint and pathetic echo.
Unfortunately, it seems that Cantor plans to achieve that goal by counterintuitively acting more like the Democrats. After discussing flat wages and anemic job growth with the Times-Dispatch, Cantor said that one of his first priorities is to pass amnesty for young illegal immigrants, opening up the spigot of welfare and Democrat voter registration for years to come.
He also said that he does not expect a 2014 repeat of this year’s partial government shutdown. He is not optimistic about reaching a grand bargain on the federal budget, in part because of Democrats’ insistence on more tax increases, but he is hopeful that a deal can be struck to lift some of the sequester cuts, especially those hitting the Pentagon, in exchange for an equal amount of longer-term savings in areas such as six-day postal service and federal employee benefits.Related links: Mitch McConnell as the Prince of Illegal Immigration
So House leadership has joined Senator Mitch McConnell in jettisoning any demands on Obamacare for the budget bill in January. Cantor is now also part of the ‘repeal it in 2017’ crowd.
The Establishment fights back: Mitch McConnell leads GOP's battle against Tea Party insurgents
Horowitz says that if we merely hold the line during the primaries and 'just elect anyone with an R next to their name,' we'll disappointingly retain McConnell as Senate leader (IMO, likely still in the minority) and possibly gain Cantor (if/when Boehner calls it quits) as Speaker...not that you can really refer to the latter as a gain.
Now getting to the meat of the piece as we swiftly approach the 2014 primaries, Horowitz provides a few principled standards to pursue:
The Cantor/McConnell vision of pre-emptively surrendering every budget battle, using Obamacare as a vacuous talking point, and passing amnesty might please the Chamber of Commerce and D.C. Special Interests. But it doesn’t pass muster with those who are looking for a choice, not an echo.As Horowitz exclaimed in the second paragraph of this piece, "Amen!" The honesty and truth in such a direction reminds one of the not-so-distance plight of another...
As Eric Cantor said, “America needs a Republican Party.”
We need a Republican Party that will end Obama’s immigration lawlessness and protect America first – before pandering to special interests.
We need a Republican Party that will categorically write off corporate welfare and phase out the current regime of subsidies across many sectors of the economy.
We need a Republican Party that will make it clear to the opposition party that they will never blink first, and that they will do everything it takes to vanquish Obamacare.
We need a Republican Party that will fight just as hard, if not harder than, the Democrats to restore our Republic.
It’s time we create one in the 2014 primaries.
"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.Not an echo...the road to 2014 is a time for choosing.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way."
McConnell's challenger: 10 Questions for Matt Bevin, Mitch McConnell’s Tea Party Challenger
Boehner's challenger(s): Boehner to face Tea Party challenger in Republican primary
Cantor's challenger: Eric Cantor Faces Major Challenge From Conservative Peter Greenwald
ADDENDUM: Mark Levin discussed some aspects of the above last night, but going back to a portion of his program from last week, preceding the Thanksgiving holiday, he extended similar sentiments toward the 2016 GOP presidential landscape...
MP: The Great One pushes back against the conventional wisdom promoted by Teams Christie, Walker, and Jindal– that the 2016 GOP nominee needs so-called “executive experience”…
"(If) they’re a big government Republican or a RINO– I don’t care if they’ve been a governor or not. I’m not interested."
To Levin’s point…
Chris Christie’s executive experience:
- Demanded GOP pass a pork-laden, Hurricane Sandy, gift to special interests bill.
- Signed unconstitutional gun control legislation.
- Endorsed Rubiocare amnesty
- Admitted that he agrees with Andrew Cuomo on 98%.
- Accused Rand Paul– Rand Paul– of pork-barrel spending.
- Attacked libertarians as “dangerous”.
- Almost let a 2-year-old girl die because he thinks marijuana is bad.
- Defended radical Jihadists and Islamic radicals.
- Whined about the government shutdown as if anybody cares if lazy, incompetent federal employees go to work or not.
Scott Walker’s executive experience:
- Endorsed Rubiocare amnesty.
- Said the U.S. doesn’t need any improvements in border security.
- Cowardly refused to take public position on Rubiocare amnesty.
- Whined about the government shutdown as if anybody cares if lazy, incompetent federal employees go to work or not.
Bobby Jindal’s executive experience:
- Called the Tea Party “stupid”.
- Opposed Obama’s impeachment.
- Opposed the effort to defund Obamacare.
- Did such a horrible job that, among Louisianans, Jindal has an even worse approval rating than Obama.
