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Posted on 06/13/2014 5:36:34 PM PDT by Din Maker
Many liberals privately mourn the departure of Eric Cantor from the ranks of the House GOP leadership. At a symposium on “Voting in America,” several of the attendees told me that they and Majority Leader Cantor were within striking distance of a compromise to restore many of the provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were struck down by the Supreme Court last year as unconstitutional. The Court ruled that certain provisions that singled out certain states and jurisdictions for special oversight based on 50-year-old data were obsolete and could no longer be justified. Liberal civil-rights groups were furious and vowed to pass a “restoration” bill restoring all of the Justice Department’s power over federal elections.
“It was a heavy lift for Cantor, but we were closer to getting him to be reasonable than with any other senior Republican in leadership,” one civil-rights attorney told me. “We found we could do business with him.” But Eric Cantor’s defeat shows that at least Republican voters are looking for leaders made of sterner stuff — leaders who will resist calls to permanently make American elections about the color of our skin, not the content of our political character.
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I bet they could.
The only people upset by Cantor’s demise are liberals. One would think the Tea Party assassinated JFK and teen civil rights activists by all the moronic hysteria
Ten civil rights activists
I’ve heard some liberals claim that the Tea Party has taken over the GOP.
The thinking is that, if Cantor is too liberal for the GOP base in a primary, and they think Cantor is very conservative to start with, they have their panties in a twist at how conservative the GOP/Tea Party really is.
THANK YOU DAVE BRAT!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
7 months and counting until the duplicitous Eric Cantor is gone from the halls of Congress FOR ETERNITY.
Crocodile Tears.
Eric,
Please exit the stage. Go home!!!!
Confirmation that the voters made the right choice.
“...they and Majority Leader Cantor were within striking distance of a compromise...”
EXACTLY the reason he should be gone. Have any of these Democrats EVER considered compromise themselves? NO, they always want others to compromise with them.
The Supremes would not have had to strike down most of the law had not a Republican congress and Jorge Bush extended it for an additional 25 years.
With Republicans like Bush, Cantor, and the 2000-2006 Republican congress, who needs Dims?
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They may be crying over his loss, but they sure would have savaged him, had he been the Republican candidate for Congress in November.
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