{"id":4655,"date":"2009-04-27T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2009-04-27T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:05:28","slug":"cant-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4655","title":{"rendered":"Can’t. Or…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bad News:\u00a0 Eric Cantor\u00a0 ais making “Sturdevant Republican”-style noises:<\/a><\/p>\n

Early last week, Cantor talked like a man ready to make amends for the unanimous Republican \u201cno\u201d votes on President Barack Obama\u2019s budget and economic stimulus plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we near the end of the first 100 days of this administration,\u201d Cantor told reporters, \u201cI think we can also reflect back and see that the era of bipartisanship we\u2019d hoped for could probably be improved upon, and I believe that\u2019s how we\u2019ve come back from the Easter recess, to say to the president that we do want to work together, that we can actually unite.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The good news:\u00a0 Maybe it only looks <\/em>like he’s drinking Capitol Hill Koolaid.\u00a0 Maybe he’s really spitting it into the flower pots when nobody’s looking:<\/p>\n

But headed for a meeting with the president at the White House Thursday, Cantor and other House Republican leaders couldn\u2019t resist picking at the scab. They sent Obama a letter praising him for his \u201ccommon-sense idea\u201d that \u201cWashington can work together for the American people instead of for political parties\u201d \u2014 but also claiming that Democratic leaders in Congress had \u201cignored your call for a new era of bipartisanship in Washington.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember, Rep. Cantor:\u00a0 when Democrats are out <\/em>of power, “Bipartisanship” means “reaching across the aisle and cooperating”.\u00a0 When they are in <\/em>power, it means the same thing it means to a Marine recruit at Parris Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bad News:\u00a0 Eric Cantor\u00a0 ais making “Sturdevant Republican”-style noises: Early last week, Cantor talked like a man ready to make amends for the unanimous Republican \u201cno\u201d votes on President Barack Obama\u2019s budget and economic stimulus plan. \u201cAs we near the end of the first 100 days of this administration,\u201d Cantor told reporters, \u201cI think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}