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No, Laura, Cantor just took his eyes off his district to chase the Speakership. It’s more of a Tom Daschle situation than anything else. David Brat can still be toast in November, and you can reprise Karl Rove’s star turn 
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Don’t start sucking each others dicks quite yet…
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Oh please. No one saw this coming. From a tweet:
I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of pundits were retroactively deciding they saw the Cantor loss coming all along.
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See look what this proves! Whatever we say it proves.
-THE GOP
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You know what? Not being an idiot I found myself completely certain that IR wouldn’t happen while we had any teabagger infestation in Congress.
Oh look, I was right. And I will continue to be through at least 2016.
Every article, every conversation that was some half-assed teaser of “Because Dickhead A said this one tiny thing which could be considered potentially positive for IR! IR might not actually be dead!” was a total waste of words, and I said so at the time.
If IR is what really killed Cantor (and I don’t believe that, unless the House is about to become 200 idiots lighter in November), then it’s the baggers who are even bigger idiots than I ever thought. IR was not going to go anywhere and until there’s a Democratic majority in ever branch it never will.
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Personally, I think it is a “repudiation” of Eric Cantor as a fairly disgusting specimen of humanity. Cantor always came off as smug, aloof, and arrogant. He exuded “I’ve got mine, so all you little people just suck it up while we cut programs for the poor, disabled, unemployed, and otherwise disadvantaged. And don’t even start on jobs.” Really the only thing that Brat has going for him is that he isn’t Cantor.
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This really has to frighten big donors and other house members in their little gerrymandered world. Brat won on message that resonated in their home districts. Immigration reform ( amnesty as Brat puts it) rung clear with the voters. What really happened was Brat made the election between him and Cantor and didn’t let Cantor run against the Obama Presidency. In most of these small house gerrymandered districts they will be running against the president not their opponent.
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No, Laura, it’s not poor immigrants who are stripping the middle class of their livelihoods, it’s the corporations and billionaires. Stop demonizing the poor who are all in the same boat as the middle class, ripped off by the oligarchs.
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<<“People have just been laughing about this primary, and I’ll say to everybody watching – don’t discount the frustration and the irritation and the fury of the American people when year after year their lives aren’t getting any better,” she said. “That’s the untold story here. The American people are sitting by, seeing their wealth deteriorate, their prospects go under, their future dismal. Meanwhile politicians either throw up their hands or outright lie to them about the situation. That’s what’s undergirding this.”
<Ingraham said voters just “weren’t buying” the idea that Cantor would be tough on immigration enforcement.>
So the reason the middleclass is weaker now than it has been in the last 30 years, is because all those scary brown skinned, Spanish speaking illegals have swarmed across the border and done took all the good, well paying, manufacturing, union jobs from the real Americans?
I guess we know who the boogie man is this election cycle. Step aside scary black man and gay folks…this is the dawning of the age of the scary brown man.
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If Hispanics would only vote…
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They do in greater and greater numbers.
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He can now return to his first job as a weather vane.
I wish I could believe people voted against Cantor because of budget cuts. I wish I could believe they weren’t motivated by hatred of undocumented workers.
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“the frustration and the irritation and the fury”
she could save all of us a lot of reading by saying what she really means… HATE!
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That that is the undertow that has the most potential to take this society where none should ever go.
keep being the party of zenophobia, republicans; yeah, that’s the ticket . . .
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Ya, cross-over voting is a strategy that is hard to pull off (though easier now with social media), but when it works, it works big, because with any luck the GOP takes the election as a message about positioning and policy.
So instead of just tipping their hat to crafty dems, they scramble to look like the guy the dems wanted elected for his beatability.
Result: A clowncar in a deathspiral into a sewer.
Hat tip, VA 7 dems.
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…people who have violated our laws and are living here are going to continue to get benefits that regular working class people are not getting…
Like what, exactly? Sub-minimum wages? No protection from unfair labor practices? Substandard housing? No Medicaid, no Social Security? No right to vote? Please enlighten us about these supposed “benefits.”
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