Eric Cantor is your new House Speaker.

[blueclown]

You can see the writing on the wall.

85 Repukes voted for the bill, 151 voted against.

Boehner voted for the bill, Eric Cantor voted against the bill.

Boehner doesn't have the support of his own caucus anymore. Expect him to be pushed out of his role over the next few days.

Give credit to John Boehner for putting America first, not his party. I think this shows he has a heart. Unfortunately, I don't think we can say the same about Eric Cantor. He is a slimey weasel.

[rustysgurl]

1. I hope you're wrong, but ...

You're probably right. And if Eric Cantor is voted House Speaker then I fear for this country. How his constituents can re-elect him is beyond me. Calling him a slimy weasel is an insult to slimy weasels everywhere.

[Mojorabbit]

20. +1000 Well said! nt

[Blasphemer]

2. As much as I hate the Orange man, this is best he could have done

And if he loses the Speakership then it was lost as soon as the election ended. He was never going to get majority support for any compromise bill. Impossible.

[jaysunb]

3. Cantor as Speaker will be a disaster for America.

We will see 2 full years of absolutely NOTHING getting done.

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

13. Cantor as Speaker in 2013....

....would mean Nancy Pelosi as Speaker in 2015.

[malz]

36. BINGO!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

68. Agreed but we'd still have to put up with two years of bullshit.

[QED]

34. The snake will be forced out from under the rock

he won't be able to hide behind Boehner anymore. His exposure will doom him. While Boehner is/was a cartoon, Cantor will reveal the true face of the tea party and demonstrate what they really have in store for the nation. It will be their last stand.

[Voice for Peace]

56. let his smarminess be the highlight of the House

[KittyWampus]

4. No, I think he and the Teaparty idiots are at their zenith and now facing the other side of the hill

[livetohike]

51. I agree n/t

[cal04]

5. looks like idiot RedState upset with Ryan

Thus ends the Paul Ryan 2016 Presidential Exploratory Committee.
Erick Erickson ?@EWErickson

[glowing]

6. How many teabaggers are left? The pukes are only up by 20 seats.

[Coyotl]

39. Make that 16.5 seats. Convert 17 and Pelosi becomes Speaker!

Which seems like a good idea at this time. Who are those 17 possibles?

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results/house

[Chan790]

41. 40.

Always seriously target twice what you need to pick up, then a handful more for good measure.

[Coyotl]

43. The actual vote count is what matters. Subtract 17 from the Rs and add 17 to the Ds and

it's a done deal.

Just like stealing votes in Ohio, for every Kerry vote switched to Bush, the margin changed by two votes!

[Chan790]

50. I know.

But you won't pick up every one you make a concerted effort to take...and taking more gives you a margin for defections. Hence, target 40, not 17.

Target 17 and you'll be ruing the fact that +1 is not enough to get anything done.

[GP6971]

7. Slimey weasel

is way to kind

[jberryhill]

12. And offensive to slimey weasels!

[Swede Atlanta]

8. Don't be so fast...

remember there is a new Congress as of this week.

The House will still be dominated by conservative pukes but the composition is different. Gone are West of Florida and Walsh of Illinois.

While there may be a shake-up in House leadership, I'm not about to count Boehner out.

[JaneyVee]

9. Eric Cantor owns stock shorting America.

http://www.politicususa.com/unamerican-eric-cantor.html

[RomneyLies]

10. there could have been a back room deal with Pelosi

She delivers the votes he needs to retain the Speaker's gavel if he brings the bill to the floor for an up or down vote.

That is entirely within the realm of possibility. Putting the Blue Dog Caucus out there to vote for Boehner would be a bone to the guy to keep him moving in the direction of getting bills with bipartisan support through the House.

[Chan790]

42. I'd want a little more than that...

if we're going to pull those kinds of shenanigans...look to the NY Assembly for the parameters of such a deal. I'd want some rules consideration and fairly-substantial legislation promised an up-or-down on the floor.

[pkdu]

11. Bring it on...lance the boil... 2 years of total bullshit from the House followed by

a mass-firing of Teabagger congress-critters in 2014

[madamesilverspurs]

14. ...

-

[Silent3]

15. How does voting for Speaker work?

Whoever gets the majority vote of the majority party, without minority party votes mattering at all?

Or could Democrats hold their noses and vote for Boehner as speaker along with a minority of Republicans, and keep Cantor or some other Tea Partier out?

[Stinky The Clown]

16. It is a simple majority vote of *all* Members.

Each party puts up a candidate. The entire House votes. Simple majority takes the win.

By the way, an interesting aside: The speaker need not be a Member!

[ramblin_dave]

19. Couldn't the Dems nominate a moderate Republican

in case Cantor is nominated by the majority?

[Stinky The Clown]

22. Sure. I guess they could.

But I don't think they will.

[Silent3]

25. Even though I know it's just a naive pipe dream...

...I keep hoping a coalition of the majority of Democrats and a few of the more moderate Republicans could get behind one Speaker (almost certainly a Republican, probably Boehner) and we could have the House run that way on a routine basis, rather than having such a coalition be a rare, temporary thing like we got tonight.

[Capt. Obvious]

46. "The speaker need not be a Member!"

Say what?

Has this ever been done/attempted before?

[Stinky The Clown]

48. I don't think it has ever been done, but it *is* possible.

[mick063]

54. I see an opening for Grover

This is a great opportunity for the 1%.

[Capt. Obvious]

65. I just read up on it on Wiki

Some fascinating Speaker elections but none listed there where a non-member was nominated.

[Odin2005]

17. Maybe the Dems and sane Republicans can get together and...

...make a moderate Repub the Speaker and Pelosi the Majority Leader?

[Stinky The Clown]

21. Pelosi would have to switch parties to be the Majority Leader.

Really.

[TeamPooka]

30. facepalm

[Stinky The Clown]

18. I don't think so.

I think Boner will keep it.

He could strengthen his hand by wooing some Democrats, too, with some industrial strength bipartisanship.

An *exceedingly* long long shot is the reverse: Speaker Pelosi.

[Tx4obama]

23. Cantor will NOT get the 217 votes needed to become speaker. n/t

[FarCenter]

24. Eric Cantor Speaker? The Likud would be two heartbeats away from the Presidency!

[SidDithers]

38. Wow. That's quite an anti-Semitic post, isn't it?...

You think that just because Cantor is Jewish, he's controlled by Likud?

Ugly post.

Sid

[MNBrewer]

47. That's not at all what was said, you inferred it.

[Voice for Peace]

57. I don't understand how people leap to antisemitism.

Not all Jews support right-wing politics. If one is criticized
for doing so, all we hear are cries of antisemitism, which is
a false kneejerk emotional and non-rational assumption.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/04/201141611819193138.html

Leave it to House majority leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). With president Barack Obama expected to deliver a major speech outlining a new (or, at least, revised) Middle East peace strategy soon, Cantor decided it was time to invite Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to deliver a speech before a joint session of Congress.

This is one of the benefits of having a Republican House at the same time that a Likud prime minister is in office in Israel: the two right-wing parties can work together to thwart any Democratic president's attempt to advance US national security by brokering Middle East peace.

[FarCenter]

59. Rep. Eric Cantor Tells Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: New GOP Majority Will 'Serve As A Check On The A

Rep. Eric Cantor Tells Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: New GOP Majority Will 'Serve As A Check On The Administration'

NEW YORK -- Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday during a meeting in New York that the new GOP majority in the House will "serve as a check" on the Obama administration, a statement unusual for its blunt disagreement with U.S. policy delivered directly to a foreign leader.

"Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the Administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington," read a statement from Cantor's office on the one-on-one meeting. "He made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other."

Cantor also took issue with Obama administration policies in other areas, including Iran, with the statement from his office saying the congressman "believes that it is time for the administration to fully and aggressively implement the Iran Sanctions Act passed by Congress earlier this year."

Ron Kampeas from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news agency found Cantor's comments extremely surprising, writing, "I can't remember an opposition leader telling a foreign leader, in a personal meeting, that he would side, as a policy, with that leader against the president. Certainly, in statements on one specific issue or another -- building in Jerusalem, or somesuch -- lawmakers have taken the sides of other nations. But to have-a-face to face and say, in general, we will take your side against the White House -- that sounds to me extraordinary."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/eric-cantor-benjamin-netanyahu-israel_n_782738.html

[Stinky The Clown]

49. I think you just made an anti Semitic post.

Please think about a self delete.

[LittleBlue]

67. You told the truth about him! AntiSEMITISM!!1111

lol

[Jack Rabbit]

26. What a terrible thing to say about weasels.

Eric Cantor is not a weasel; he is a Koch snorter.

[YayArea]

27. As I said in another post...Eric Cantor has struck.

And the knife comes out...in poor old Boehner's back.

Medics are currently treating the wound with suntan lotion and Jack Daniels.

More details from hospital to be released soon....

[OmahaBlueDog]

28. OR

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20-25 of those 85 Republicans will see what side their bread is buttered on, and join in a coalition to put a conservative Dem into the speakership in exchange for really sweet committee assignments.

Those 85 are smarter than the 151 that stood with Cantor. The American electorate has had it with gridlock, and there is no way a no-vote on a bill that passed the Senate with 89 votes would be received well by mainstream voters.

If the GOP were smart, they would not elect Cantor or Boehner as speaker. They'd go a whole new direction, and install either Ileana Ros-Lehtinen or Mario Diaz-Balart in the speakership. It'd be a good time to put someone in leadership who's a little more moderate while reaching out to Latinos. It wouldn't hurt their reputation in Florida either.

[Mdterp01]

29. Oh please no!!!

The thought of that man being third in line is scary!!!!

[Turbineguy]

31. Cantor as speaker

will help the Democrats in 2014.

[SmileyRose]

32. DU has been predicting that for at least 2yrs

me included

it will get MUCH uglier.

[aquart]

33. Yeah, I'm gonna put my faith in Republican bigotry.

They may well dump Boehner. But Cantor? Secondary post sure. But top dog in the House? The Jewish kid? Not buying it.

[blueclown]

35. McCarthy then?

[timesamillion]

63. Exactly. The Tin Foil Hat Crew would never let that happen.

And the Republicans need the paranoid extremists to vote with them or else the party will be too little to function.

[JCMach1]

37. gamez going on here....

Would Dems vote Boehner over Cantor just to deep six that douchebag.

My spidersense tells me Cantor is the one who is done.

[reformist2]

40. How did weasels get such a bad image??? :(

Real weasels are kind of cute.

[Voice for Peace]

66. aww! Eric Cantor is NOT a weasel.

[sadbear]

44. Isn't Speaker elected by a majority of the whole House?

Can House Democrats form a coalition with Boner republicans and keep the teabaggers from electing Cantor? (Of course, a Cantor Speakership will definitely usher in a Democratic majority in 2014.)

[sofa king]

45. Josh Marshall's spider-sense is tingling....

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/01/buying_on_installment.php?ref=fpblg

It is almost as though Cantor is plotting or hatching or just purchasing his coup on layaway.

Cantor is beginning to remind me a lot of Dan Sickles, also a ruthless, plotting, remorseless, boundlessly ambitious and thoroughly corrupted person.

That suggests to me that Cantor will only be permitted to rise as high as his past indiscretions permit. Whatever they are. We have yet to learn the best of them, publicly.

[L0oniX]

52. Bunch of rich people selecting the figure head of the rich.

The homeless are watching.

[bemildred]

53. What is wrote on the wall is that Cantor just lost, just got totally ignored. nt

[MjolnirTime]

55. Boehner was done when Plan B was rejected. Cantor was all smiles after that.

[williesgirl]

58. Cantor makes my skin crawl. we tried to oust him in VA, but failed.

[still_one]

60. a new Congress is coming in. Not necessarily

[NYC Liberal]

61. Look at that smirk...

[toddwv]

62. Bring him on!

This is the same reason I wanted Santorum to win the Republican nomination. If one thing came out of the past election, it's that the more the craziest of their ilk talk, the more that the farthest of the right-wing speak their mind, the less the American People like them.

[fadedrose]

64. More gridlock

He won't get the support of the Boener people or Nancy's people, so I hope he doesn't want to pass a bill or an amendment.

I get chills when I look at him. He's a total creep and I think he's possessed (something I don't believe in except in this case).

[libodem]

69. Eric Slmeweasel Cantor

That fits. Also Shitweasel.

[blueclown]

70. Well, I was wrong.

Dead wrong...

[One of the 99]

71. Kudos for admitting it nt