So the week's preferred GOP talking point, pushed hard by our new GOoPer friend Eric Cantor (the House Minority Whip), is that Obama's focus on education, stem cell research, and other issues are "distracting" the government from efforts to save the economy. Think Progress looks at how Cantor himsel...

I blogged about previously, here Here: But Jennifer Crider, communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the attention Cantor’s getting now is simply an inevitable part of life in the political limelight. “In Washington, D.C., there is a free hedge-clipping s...

Reacting to Eric Cantor's moronic objection to President Obama's reversal of George Bush's executive order of stem cell research: CANTOR: [T]here’s a reason why this discussion is coming up this week. Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job number one; let&rsqu...

House Republican Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells the world that Limbaugh's ideas are “what I’m about” just five days after soundly rejecting Limbaugh on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Clearly, the Democratic Party forced Eric Cantor to make such boneheaded political moves....

The latest Stephanopoulos entry on ABC News needs a reality check, in a big way, and Erick Erickson of RedState hit it perfectly. The Democrat-turned-born-again-journalist posted the following story on his ABC News blog today, claiming that Eric Cantor had repudiated Rush Limbaugh's CPAC rhetoric: â...

"I feel that my obligation is to be a prudent guardian of taxpayer money." Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA 7th Congressional District) Rep. Eric Cantor has a giant mounted photo propped like a canvas on the arms of a chair in the corner of his office in the Capitol. The image seems an innocently iconic one â...

Count the number of historical inaccuracies in this sentence: But Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.), the House minority whip who led the fight to deny Obama every GOP vote for the plan, is studying Winston Churchill's role leading the Tories in the late 1930s, a principled minority that was eventually catapult...

Here’s a hilarious new video from Eric Cantor’s office, bragging about how he used his “minority whip” on Obama. It rocks the fuck out to an Aerosmith song. Hot damn! This party could win a whole 30% of votes in the next election. [The Plank]...

My colleague Satyam Khanna notes some of the broader context for the revelation that Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) is explicitly modeling his tactics on Newt Gingrich’s obstructionism in 1993-94. In Washington, coverage of politics is dominated by politics rather than the policy consequenc...

As Republicans prepare to engage in a self-described insurgency versus President Obama, doing the will of Republican Leader Limbaugh and hoping for the President and the country to fail, they have coalesced - it appears - around a new leader. This is good news. It is good news for Democrats, because...