Posted on 07/14/2011 7:29:51 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has become both a key player and big pain to more seasoned negotiators in the White House talks over how to keep the government paying its bills after next month.
"Eric, don't call my bluff," President Barack Obama warned late Wednesday after a dramatic back-and-forth with the Virginia Republican that made some in Cantor's party wince. "Enough is enough."
Not for Cantor, second-in-command to Speaker John Boehner who is widely assumed to aspire to the House's top job. The testy exchange with Obama left Washington bubbling with speculation about whether the self-styled "young gun" had shot his own credibility in a roomful of political veterans.
"I try to be as respectful as I can," Cantor said in a telephone interview Thursday, explaining that he was only trying to understand a difference in spending cut proposals.
In contrast to Wednesday's tiff, the White House meeting Thursday was described as "composed and polite" by a Republican aide familiar with the session. Cantor did not speak during the day's session, according to an official.
The 48-year-old lawyer and father of three has made a career of confrontation with a brash Southern style that chafes opponents and to some extent has strained his relationship with Boehner. However unseasoned his style, Cantor is building support among the no-compromise faction of Republicans who want big spending cuts and an end to Obama's health care law.
Cantor grew up amid Republicans in Richmond, Va. ....
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His penchant for persuasion and fierce partisanship started early.
Democrats are fond of touting his quote from a high school yearbook: "I want what I want when I want it."
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No Cantor came out as the Star,Bonehead as the Rat Lackey, from the looks of it!
Cantor (paraphrasing), Compromise my ass.
I guess that holding back hearty guffaws at a totally irrational statement by a blithering idiot president might be perceived by some as a wince, but not me.
In which a president of the United States, stamped
his foot and left in a pout after threatening the
conferees.
In this instance, every one who wants it can have it.
Which could be faint praise...
The Dems need a evil bogeyman right out of the Alinsky playbook .
So the Soros puppet and the Soros media spin the same old tired evil bogeyman scam.
“Cantor (paraphrasing), Compromise my ass.”
Maybe,Just Maybe, Bonehead will get the Idea.
BTW, what did that whole “don’t call my bluff” mean. If you’re the one who’s bluffing, you don’t tell the other guy not to call it. If you’re bluffing and someone calls it, that’s bad for you. Obama likely meant to say “don’t call my bet” or “don’t think I’m bluffing” but he somehow confused the two concepts.
If some Republican had done that the media would be all over them for how stupid they are and how they’re getting basic vocabulary wrong.
Also, what is with Obama calling him “Eric”. That’s very disrespectful. Obama has a habit of that. During the debates he’d always say “Hillary” or “John”. It was disrespectful then, it’s still disrespectful. And no one ever calls him on it.
“In which a president of the United States, stamped
his foot and left in a pout after threatening the
conferees.”
Punk of The United States.
“I AM ERIC CANTOR”
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just hope the rest of the Jewish people pay attention to Mr. Cantor. They won’t.
“I just hope the rest of the Jewish people pay attention to Mr. Cantor. They won’t.”
There is a major disconnect here,the Jews love the people that absolutely Hate them, as shown in the Rat Votes they cast.
“BTW, what did that whole “don’t call my bluff” mean”
“Don’t send me a short-term debt ceiling increase”
- Obama doesnt want that. Why?
That is exactly what we should be demanding.
Obama wants the debt ceiling raised PAST THE ELECTION. All he cares about is REELECTION.
Well, over in the Senate B*itch McConnell is doing just that.
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