House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Defeated In Primary

“The GOP establishment’s problem isn’t with the Tea Party. It’s with Republican voters,” said political analyst Stuart Rothenberg tonight.

The current tsunami of illegal immigrants coming across the border into the United States along with any hint of squishiness on amnesty for illegal aliens on the part of members of congress just may well spell doom for their congressional careers. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor just found this out.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary race in Virginia because of the immigration issue.

In recent weeks, the House GOP leadership has been drifting towards amnesty for illegal immigrants. This has riled up the Republican Party's base and it came to a head tonight when Cantor lost his primary to Tea Party challenger David Brat. Paul Ryan had better take heed of this!

According to the Associated Press:

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- In an upset for the ages, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-most powerful man in the House, was dethroned Tuesday by a little-known, tea party-backed Republican primary challenger carried to victory on a wave of public anger over calls for looser immigration laws. 

The outcome may well mark the end of Cantor's political career, and aides did not respond Tuesday night when asked if the majority leader, 51, would run a write-in campaign in the fall. 

But its impact on the fate of immigration legislation in the current Congress seemed clearer still. Conservatives will now be emboldened in their opposition to legislation to create a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally, and party leaders who are more sympathetic to such legislation will likely be less willing to try.

And at Newsmax.com:

Tea party advocates nationwide cheered the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by challenger Dave Brat in the Virginia Republican primary Tuesday, declaring it a harbinger of what's to come at the polls in November. 

"Cantor lost touch with the basic conservative principles on key issues we fight for," Washington lawyer Cleta Mitchell told Newsmax. She represents several tea party groups that have been targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

"His loss should be a warning bell to the GOP establishment in D.C., particularly on fundamental issues such as voting rights and amnesty." 

Jenny Beth Martin, chairman of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, said that "analysts will be poring over election returns for months trying to explain how it was that a college professor who had never run for office before was able to defeat the second-most-powerful Republican in the House despite being outspent 15-to-1."

Republican establishment types had better start listening to and vote the concerns of the conservative base or they, too, will be out of a job. Just ask Eric Cantor.

Democrats should not take comfort in Cantor's defeat. They, too, could be swept away by voter anger over the immigration issue on top of the mess they and the Obama Administration made of this country.

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Obama Storms Out Of Debt Negotiations

President Obama got agitated at a conference with congressional leaders on the debt and "stormed" out.

Fox News is reporting:

Budget negotiators will return to the White House once more Thursday after the president declared "enough is enough" on debt talks Wednesday, demanding that congressional leaders find common ground by week's end.

President Obama walked out of the high-level negotiations, saying according to a Republican aide, "I've reached my limit. This may bring my presidency down, but I won't yield on this."

Obama "stormed out of the room" but promised to resume talks Thursday, the GOP aide said.

"He became very agitated, said 'Ronald Reagan wouldn't sit here. You either have to compromise on the dollar figure or the grand bargain,'" Cantor said. "He said, 'Don't call my bluff. I'm going to the American people on this.'"

Obama, in his cushy job as a community organizer and agitator, never had to deal with any kind of real opposition. Now that he has opposition, he can't handle it.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/14/obama-debt-enough-is-enough/#ixzz1S5060leM

Hugh Hewitt: McClellan Republicans

Above, Gen. George B. McClellan.

As soon as I read the title of this article, I immediately knew what Hugh Hewitt was talking about.

You see, I took Civil War history in college and learned a great deal about President Abraham Lincoln's exasperation over Gen. George McClellan's inaction at the start of the Civil War. At one point, the frustrated Lincoln remarked, "If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time."

As Hewitt put it:

George McClellan was the dashing commander of the Army of the Potomac at the start of the Civil War, whom the troops loved but whom Abraham Lincoln scorned as timid and quick to retreat.

Perhaps now even Steelers fans will understand why I have taken to calling the House Republican the McClellan Republicans –always preparing to fight but never quite getting to the political battlefield that is the great spending debate.

Why does Hewitt refer to the Republican leadership as "McClellan Republicans"? Here's part of the reason:

Speaker John Boehner, GOP Leader Eric Cantor and GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy have been in their saddles since November 2, and even though their formal power only arrived in January, they have had more than four months to prepare the debate over the CR, the debt ceiling and the FY 2012 budget.

If they prepared at all they prepared poorly, concentrating on symbolic gestures and focusing on procedural niceties like “open rules” rather than closing with the Democrats and forcing the first of the many showdowns ahead on spending. The phony cuts assembled thus far –the GOP talking points say $8 billion has been sawed from the federal budget—have not resulted in a single lay-off or program closure. One could look for months and see no effect from these paper cuts.

These Republican "leaders" don't seem to want to wage a battle with the Democrats. They were put into their leadership positions because the voters had enough of Obama and the socialism of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

So far, although the Democrats' numbers have been greatly diminished in the aftermath of last year's elections, they are still bringing artillery to the battle while the GOP leadership seemed to have shown up to the fight with fly-swatters.

By the way, George McClellan went on to become Lincoln's Democrat opponent in the 1864 elections.

To read Hewitt's full article, go here.

House Leadership Says "No" On Stimulous

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner.

House Leadership Says "No" On Stimulous

The House GOP leadership is finally showing some guts by urging their members to vote against the proposed Democrat stimulous package when it comes up for a vote tomorrow.

From Politico.com:

President Barack Obama is coming to the Capitol this afternoon to curry favor with congressional Republicans. But it appears GOP leaders have already made up their minds to oppose his $825 billion stimulus plan.

House Republican Leader John A. Boehner and his No. 2, Whip Eric Cantor, told their rank-and-file members Tuesday morning during a closed-door meeting to oppose the bill when it comes to the floor Wednesday, according to an aide familiar with the discussion. Boehner told members that he's voting against the stimulus, and Cantor told the assembled Republicans that there wasn't any reason for them to support the measure, according to another person in the room. Cantor and his whip team are going to urge GOP members to oppose it.

If the House Republican Caucus holds firm with a no vote, they should be commended. The stimulous package is a complete waste of taxpayers' money and would only benefit the Democrats.