{"id":32639,"date":"2013-02-26T23:50:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T06:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/eric-cantor-and-the-republican-parties.html"},"modified":"2013-02-26T23:50:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T06:50:27","slug":"eric-cantor-and-the-republican-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/eric-cantor-and-the-republican-parties.html","title":{"rendered":"Eric Cantor and the Republican Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"
A long but fascinating (in alternatingly horrifying, amusing, maddening, and bewildering ways) article about Cantor's attempt to rebrand a GOP that can't decide what it really stands for.<\/div>\n

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Ryan Lizza: Can Eric Cantor Redeem the Republican Party and Himself?<\/a>
\n Cantor\u2019s attempts to reorient himself seemed ham-handed and overly political. But the problem extends beyond Cantor\u2019s personal limitations. The real trouble is that the Republican Party cannot be tran…\n <\/p>\n

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A long but fascinating (in alternatingly horrifying, amusing, maddening, and bewildering ways) article about Cantor's attempt to rebrand a GOP that can't decide what it really stands for. Ryan Lizza: Can Eric Cantor Redeem the Republican Party and Himself? Cantor\u2019s attempts to reorient himself seemed ham-handed and overly political. 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Completely unexpected, from all the news I read.\u00a0I have no use for Cantor, to be honest, and my best hope out of this is that it will further fracture the GOP, create some lovely new outrageous quotes from its Far Right fringe, and actually boost the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30249,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/cutting-domestic-spending-is-bad-inconceivable.html","url_meta":{"origin":32639,"position":2},"title":"Cutting domestic spending is bad? Inconceivable!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-12 8:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Eric Cantor claiming that the budget cuts from the sequestration -- which he voted for -- will cause social harm and increase unemployment? \u00a0Hard to believe. 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