Cantor comes clean, admits he didnt believe his own ACA rhetoric

[Qutzupalotl]

Source: MSNBC

It was Cantor who helped bring ACA repeal bills to the House floor dozens of times. It was Cantor who helped spearhead “defund Obamacare” campaigns. And it was Cantor, we now know, who didn’t genuinely believe his own nonsense.

The former GOP leader in the House talked to the Washingtonian’s Elaina Plott and conceded that his Republican Party is in a tough spot – parts of the conservative base expect the party to repeal the ACA, because that’s what they were promised – in part because of promises he and his colleagues made that they never intended to keep.

Asked if he feels partly responsible for their current predicament, Cantor is unequivocal. “Oh,” he says, “100 percent.”

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Cantor and his colleagues, in other words, played their base for fools – because they thought it’d help them win some elections, which it did.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cantor-comes-clean-admits-he-didnt-believe-his-own-aca-rhetoric?cid=sm_fb_maddow

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[RelativelyJones]

1. Craven

[Freethinker65]

2. Please let this get widely read by the few sane republicans left.

[Bengus81]

3. Yeah...after they leave office they start coming clean

He knew full well when he was STILL in office it was BS talk and would hurt MILLIONS but he kept at it.

[NewJeffCT]

11. It's amazing how often that happens

they grow a brain and/or a heart.

[elleng]

4. and his defeat left Virginia's 7th with Congressman Dave Brat.

[turbinetree]

5. Look where he's at feeding BS

http://billmoyers.com/2015/04/07/living-high-life-congress/

[Leith]

6. They Care More About Winning Than Truth

This proves it. Party over country, themselves above all.

Would that this would be today's headline everywhere!!

[JDC]

7. Suckers vote

[BigmanPigman]

8. There are many guilty parties. John Boehner is another one.

I hope they rot in hell after getting their deserved karma while still living out this lie (oops, I mean life).

[Perseus]

9. And that is why

when I hear people on TV, and they did this during GW Bush a lot, that "they believe that what they are doing is correct", I say BULL, this people don't believe in anything they don't think is a direct benefit for them.

Why people think these politicians are patriots? because they wear a flag on their lapel? These are all moving as their personal agenda demands they do, they don't believe in country, freedom (least of all, only for them of course), the "American people", which is something that drives me nuts when I hear them say it "Because what the American people want...blah, blah, blah...) and now Cantor just admitted it.

These people have lost any sense of principles, consequences, they have a one track mind which is to stay in power and get rich. How does anyone make their voters understand it?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Wow.

You know it's bad when this one resurfaces. After he got primaried, he literally disappeared into a hole created by the earthquake that took place in his district, and hadn't been found until now.

[MrScorpio]

12. As if we didn't already know this bullshit.

[Raine1967]

13. Just a reminder: Cantor might be running for the GOP Gubentorial race in VA.

The issue I see here is that the GOP always wanted the ACA to be a wedge issue.

Now they have to act on the lies they told. They never really wanted to repeal the law, they just wanted to raise money off of it.

and now they have tRump -- those lies are coming back to bite them in the ass.


Cantor can try to run and say he was wrong -- but that will put him at odds with people like Corey Stewart -- he has declared a run.