Jon Stewart: Republican concept of "limited government" is "limited to the shit they want to do"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO @ URL below.

October 13, 2010 11:00 AM
Stewart to Cantor: GOP only limits government 'to the sh*t they want to do'
By David

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/stewart-cantor-gop-only-limits-government-sh

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) is on a tour promoting his new book "Young Guns" but he may have gotten more than he bargained for when he sat down with Comedy Central's Jon Stewart Tuesday.

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"You voted for No Child Left Behind. You voted for Read I.D. You voted for the Medicare bill which was a trillion dollars unfunded. You voted for the Patriot Act. In what way are you a limited government -- in what way do you want to shrink government because your record clearly is not -- doesn't speak to that?" Stewart pressed.

"We understand we got fired and there was a reason," replied Cantor.

Later in the interview, Stewart concluded that it's a "fallacy that limited government is the principled stand of conservatives. It's only limited to the sh*t they want to do."

[DBoon]

1. libertarians want a government just big enough to keep the slaves in line

nt

[kentuck]

2. No, you didn't get fired, asshole!

Otherwise, you would not still be in your job. You would have put your shit in a small box and left the building.

[HillbillyBob]

4. Or maybe

You would have been put in a small box and left the building.

[Cosmocat]

3. I couldn't do it ...

I flipped to HBO after the first half of his show, because while he does such a fantastic job with wingers, Cantor is the kind of arrogant, smarmy little puke that I just could not watch it ...

[dennis4868]

5. I know what you mean....

if it was any other show I would have turneot let him get aweayd to another channel but because it was the Daily Show I knew that Stewar would not let him get away with right wing lies and talking points.

[liberal N proud]

6. Stewart did a find job of grilling the asshole