The flying spaghetti monster does not love me enough to let this happen:
House Republican Deputy Whip Eric Cantor has spent the last week making calls to fellow Republican House members he believes will survive next week’s election, according to several members who received the call. “He is already lining up support for his next job,” says one member who spoke to Cantor. “I’m not sure what it is, and he doesn’t seem to know, but it’s not going to be deputy job, that’s for sure.”
Please, please, please, Republicans, make this guy your leader:
I am begging you. I think what the Republicans need is this guy on every news show defending the “true conservatism” you all plan to bring us in your comeback.
*** Update ***
I am reminded in the comments that Cantor is the brain trust who, immediately following the failed vote on the bailout (you know, the one McCain suspended his campaign to make sure it passed), stated that the reason it failed was because Nancy Pelosi insulted Republicans:
Railing against her words yesterday, the Republican whip, Eric Cantor, said Pelosi had “frankly struck a tone of partisanship that was inappropriate in this discussion”. He continued: “There is a reason that this vote failed – and that is Speaker Pelosi’s speech.”
That, of course, led to all sorts of awesome, to include having the entire house wingnut caucus being taunted on national television by Barney Frank:
In all seriousness, I hope the Republicans choose Cantor. I am begging. Please.
TenguPhule
But it might hate the GOP enough to.
rob!
no, not Cantor–MICHELLE BACHMANN!
Brian J
So nobody seems to know what job he wants, including the candidate himself, even as he’s lining up support, but one thing is for damn sure: he ain’t no second fiddle! Now that’s a Maverick.
Montysano
I remember the first time I saw this (here on BJ IIRC), I thought it must be a spoof, almost as if someone like Jane Hamsher had hired an actor to play the ultimate parody of the modern wingnut.
Minority leader? Sure, why not? I’m sure many GOP-ers think it’s a fine idea. That, at the moment, is just how wrong-headed they are.
bago
I like the line of argument he took.
Chris: "You’ve had republican carte blanche for the last 8 years…
Douche: "The democrats haven’t passed anything for the past two years…"
Dream Media Analyst: "Logically implying that they have been unable to enact change, meaning that the republican zeitgeist is still in effect and is to blame for our current situation."
Tommy Corn
Wasn’t Eric Cantor the brainiac that came up with the excuse that Republicans voted against the bailout package because Nancy Pelosi said mean things about Republicans?
Person of Choler
Has Barney smartened up since the days when his erstwhile toyboy was running a callboy racket from Barney’s own boudoir and Barney affected not to have noticed?
Llelldorin
They may well do that, come to think of it. Because the country is so regionally split, the Republican party isn’t moderating as it shrinks. Instead, it’s boiling off all the sane Republicans, forming a perfect distillation of crackpot lunacy. Eric Cantor will probably be the perfect spokesman for the insanity that’s about all that remains of the Republican Party.
Josh Hueco
@Person of Choler:
Don’t know. But Barney’s still proudly, openly gay, which is more than can be said for the diaper-clad, wetsuit-donning, restroom toe-tapping GOP.
TR
I would seriously donate a significant chunk of money to any cause that would make Cantor the Republican leader. The comedy factor alone is worth $200, but to know that dipshit would be in charge and send the GOP into a decade in the wilderness? Priceless.
Far Left American Hater Incertus
I can’t imagine Boehner is going to just roll over for this. I wonder what happens to Cantor if he loses–like Omar Little said, "you come at the king, you best not miss."
TR
Cantor’s also the idiot who insisted that the president alone had the power to declare war and that Congress had no constitutional role at all.
No, seriously, he said that.
Tymannosourus
"Hans….buuhby… I’m your white knight."
Elvis Elvisberg
This is what ThatLeftTurnInABQ and I were talking about here the other day.
The national GOP is falling off a cliff, and all it can do is stomp on the accelerator. They are purging and fatwahing all sane people.
It’s funny, but it does suck for America to have one political party this detached from anything resembling reality or intelligence.
boonagain
But even with all the fail that is piling up and even after they are rendered into that disgusting essence of wingnut, will they still poll at 40 fucking %????
Jay C
Right, wasn’t Eric Cantor one of the organizers of the Republican Study Group, or Republican Stoopid Gang or whatever the hard-right, true-believer House GOP wingnut caucus calls itself?
The cabal, IOW, who are poising themselves to "take over" the Republican House delegation in the next session (after a Democratic landslide leaves the GOP with only the "real" conservatives standing)? Who will, no doubt, spend the entire 111th Congress diligently voting "Nay" on any and everything that comes along; while spending the bulk of their legislative energies drafting Articles Of Impeachment against President Obama – probably based on his "lack" of a "valid" birth certificate?
Jay C
@boonagain:
Fundamental loser-base:
Allowing for minor mathematical adjustments; so did (in differing political circumstances) Herbert Hoover, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern and Walter Mondale.
Dunno what that says about the American body-politic. And maybe we don’t WANT to know….
Ash Can
@rob!: LOLZ
ray
F.L.A.H.Icertus comment is valid. Boner and this winger in a cry off will be very funny.
liberal
@boonagain:
Relatedly, is it at all clear that McCain is not going to get a plurality of the non-Hispanic white vote?
Person of Choler
Josh, Frank is proudly and openly gay, and Larry Craig may be gay, but not proudly or openly.
How does that indicate that Barney has smartened up after the callboy incident?
Remember, Barney also shacked up for a while with an official of Fannie Mae (Jesus, is that a funny linkage or what?) while Barney was blocking legislation to better regulate (can’t make this up) Fannie.
This is at least as funny Craig’s sh*t house tap dance, but unfortunately the consequences for the rest of us are more dire.
Surabaya Stew
Who needs the flying spaghetti monster? It’s all about Karma for Eric Cantor, and coming up very soon is the part where he understands that payback for your past sins is a real bitch!
Marshall
I never liked Barney Frank much, but he has done himself proud recently and that clip is one for the ages.
itomasello
This maroon is from my district, and he’ll probably be in the legislature forever. A lot of Old Money (or what passes for it) in Richmond lives in this district. These are people in large brick houses with decorative brick walls. These are people who hire landscapers and then compliment each other on their gardening skills. Eric Cantor IS his district. Those of us who do the actual grunt work in this district just shake our heads sadly, vote against him every time the race comes back around, and wait for the Old Money to die already.
Cyrus
"Where’s the president? He’s pulling one of these Katrinas again," Matthews asked near the end. Which is funny, since part of the reason Bush was uninvolved with Katrina was the fact that he was celebrating the birthday of… John McCain. Karma’s a bitch.
Jon H
"Has Barney smartened up since the days when his erstwhile toyboy was running a callboy racket from Barney’s own boudoir and Barney affected not to have noticed?"
As opposed to McCain, who ran a callboy racket of another sort out of his campaign bus.