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Eric Cantor Moves To Wall Street, Justifying Tea Party Claims

Eric Cantor Moves To Wall Street, Justifying Tea Party Claims

Eric Cantor will be joining the investment bank Moelis & Company as a vice-chairman and managing director, with a compensation package of more than $1 million a year. The new job fits in nicely with the tea party’s claim that Cantor cared more about Wall Street than his own district. In June, Cantor lost his […]

10y ago

Kevin McCarthy Begins New Role As House Majority Leader

Kevin McCarthy Begins New Role As House Majority Leader

Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), begins his tenure as House Majority Leader with critical issues already weighing on his schedule, the L.A. Times is reporting. The Republican, from Bakersfield, officially took on the role Thursday following the resignation of Eric Cantor, whose recent primary defeat has been blamed largely on his immigration policies. McCarthy immediately used […]

10y ago

You Won’t Believe What NYC Paper Headline Calls Barack Obama

You Won’t Believe What NYC Paper Headline Calls Barack Obama

A local community newspaper in New York is receiving intense criticism for an article about Barack Obama entitled “The N*gger In The White House.” Of course, the WestView News didn’t have an asterisk in their title; they actually spelled out the racial slur. The WestView News is a small paper and self-proclaimed “voice of West […]

10y ago

Kevin McCarthy: Blame Harry Reid For Washington Gridlock, Not Obama

Kevin McCarthy: Blame Harry Reid For Washington Gridlock, Not Obama

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), current whip, and newly elected House Majority Leader, is blaming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for the gridlock in Washington D.C. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked if he would be willing to work with President Obama as majority leader. “I believe you can work with anybody,” […]

10y ago

Kevin McCarthy Replaces Cantor: Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

Kevin McCarthy Replaces Cantor: Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

Kevin McCarthy of California has been chosen to replace Eric Cantor as the House Majority Leader. For anyone who has followed either man’s career, it’s a clear cut case of, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” The GOP should have received the message loud and clear when the Republican voters – or […]

10y ago

The 2016 Presidential Election And The Next Manchurian Candidate

The 2016 Presidential Election And The Next Manchurian Candidate

Incoming, US presidential election 2016! Radio talk show hosts, national news publications, and paid off political pundits from “A” to “Z” are busy speculating on who their next “shock and awe” candidate will be during the fast approaching 2016 presidential election. Inquisitr has already given us a nice election 2016 preview of who the “good […]

10y ago

Eric Cantor Was Hated By Republicans And Democrats Alike

Eric Cantor Was Hated By Republicans And Democrats Alike

Eric Cantor apparently won’t be missed by many after his surprising loss in a Republican primary this week. The House Majority leader, who suffered a shocking loss to Tea Party candidate David Brat, a little known college professor, had made many enemies on both sides of the aisle throughout his career. “Cantor was never well […]

10y ago

Eric Cantor Quits As Majority Leader, Endorses Kevin McCarthy As Successor

Eric Cantor Quits As Majority Leader, Endorses Kevin McCarthy As Successor

Eric Cantor announced Wednesday that he is quitting as House Majority Leader after a shocking primary defeat that has swiftly shaken up the Republican Party. “While I intend to serve out my term as a member of Congress in the 7th District of Virginia, effective July 31, I will be stepping down as majority leader,” […]

10y ago

Sarah Palin Calls Out Clinton’s Book And Bashes Cantor All In One Week

Sarah Palin Calls Out Clinton’s Book And Bashes Cantor All In One Week

Sarah Palin has re-entered the media spotlight this week, making waves on two fronts seemingly simultaneously. Palin began the week by reminding the American public who really took the first shot in the “War on Women.” While Hillary Clinton made the rounds to promote her new memoir, “Hard Choices,” Palin zeroed in on one instance […]

10y ago

Emails Betray White House Spin Of Benghazi Cover Up

Emails Betray White House Spin Of Benghazi Cover Up

The “most transparent administration ever” has been caught, once again, in stonewalling and cover up over what really happened in Benghazi. Even now Jay Carney is attempting to convince the media that what they see is not actually what they see. It’s one mis-direct after cover up after deflection after another where Benghazi is concerned. […]

10y ago

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Asks Vance McAllister To Resign

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Asks Vance McAllister To Resign

House majority leader Eric Cantor has asked embattled Louisiana Rep. Vance McAllister, dubbed the “Kissing Congressman” to resign. McAllister (R-LA) announced Monday he would not seek reelection in November but said he would not step down. Politico was the first to report the story and quoted Cantor “I did just meet with (McAllister), I asked […]

10y ago

Greta Van Susteren Confronts Candidate Who Declared War On Fox News [Video]

Greta Van Susteren Confronts Candidate Who Declared War On Fox News [Video]

Greta Van Susteren met face-to-face with a would-be Democrat Congressional candidate who claimed on Twitter that he would “wage war” on the Tea Party, Fox News, NRA and “other trash.” Mike Dickinson backpedaled to some degree on the Van Susteren’s On the Record show, and it later turned out he didn’t even file paperwork to […]

10y ago

Vance McAllister Staffer Loses Job After Surveillance Cam Caught Her, Boss Kissing

Vance McAllister Staffer Loses Job After Surveillance Cam Caught Her, Boss Kissing

Vance McAllister, the disgraced Louisiana congressman that was caught by surveillance camera making out with his staffer, gets to keep his job while the woman has been taken off the payroll, according to News-Star. On Monday, surveillance video, which shows McAllister kissing his scheduler, Melissa Anne Hixon Peacock — who is married — was released […]

10y ago

House Unanimously Approves Back Pay For Furloughed Government Workers

House Unanimously Approves Back Pay For Furloughed Government Workers

We’re currently in our fifth day of government shutdown, and the House of Representatives has extended what appears to be the first olive branch meant to get everything up and running again. Members of the House came together in unanimous bipartisanship to pass a bill approving back pay for furloughed government workers. The vote was […]

11y ago

Newt Gingrich Gives Obama Props For BRAIN Initiative

Newt Gingrich Gives Obama Props For BRAIN Initiative

Newt Gingrich released a statement Tuesday commending President Barack Obama’s plan to spend $100 million mapping the human brain. “President Obama is taking a very important step toward the most dramatic breakthroughs in human health,” Gingrich said in a statement. “Brain research is vital for Autism, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, Parkinson’s, traumatic brain injury, mental health, and […]

11y ago

Grover Norquist ‘Tax Pledge’ In Peril, Lobbyist Says ‘No One Is Caving’

Grover Norquist ‘Tax Pledge’ In Peril, Lobbyist Says ‘No One Is Caving’

Grover Norquist is emerging as another one of the secondary losers in this month’s GOP shellacking, as chastened Republicans jump ship on the lobbyist’s infamous “tax pledge.” Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform, and proponent of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” — a pledge which prior to Election Day, had 95% support among […]

12y ago

Eric Cantor Confident That Mitt Romney Can Win In Virginia

Eric Cantor Confident That Mitt Romney Can Win In Virginia

Eric Cantor has a lot of faith in Mitt Romney’s chances in Virginia. Appearing Sunday on Meet the Press, Cantor said he is confident that Romney will be able to win in the battleground state on Election Day. “I see on the ground in Virginia there is a lot of enthusiasm for Mitt Romney and […]

12y ago

Kevin Yoder And Other House Republicans Reprimanded For Drunken Nude Swim

Kevin Yoder And Other House Republicans Reprimanded For Drunken Nude Swim

Kevin Yoder, a Republican representative from Kansas, along with a group of House Republicans were reprimanded last August for going on a drunken naked swim in the Sea of Galilee when they were on a fact finding mission to Israel. Politico reported last night that there were several Republican House members who were involved in […]

12y ago

Eric Cantor Rips Nancy Pelosi For Patronizing Jewish Voters

Eric Cantor Rips Nancy Pelosi For Patronizing Jewish Voters

House Majority Leader Representative Eric Cantor, went after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for making the inference that Republicans exploit Jewish people for political gain. Cantor is the lone Jewish Republican in Congress. In an interview with Bloomberg’s Al Hunt, Pelosi said that Republicans like to bring up support for Israel to distract Jewish voters […]

12y ago

Eric Cantor Endorses Mitt Romney

Eric Cantor Endorses Mitt Romney

Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Cantor said that the 2012 presidential election will hinge on the issue of job creation and Cantor believes that Mitt Romney is the best man for the job. Cantor said: “What I have seen is a very hard-fought primary. And we have seen […]

12y ago

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