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Cantor to GOP Ranks: Government Can Be Good, Too
Newsmax ^ | Monday, 04 Feb 2013 10:54 AM

Posted on 02/04/2013 12:06:13 PM PST by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 02/04/2013 12:06:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Statists to the left of me, statists to the right...

We are really a 1-party country, huh, Cantor?

2 posted on 02/04/2013 12:07:52 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ("Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov officials committing it." -- K. Hoffmann)
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To: Olog-hai
So can an enema. Both, government and an enema are uncomfortable, unpleasant but necessary.
3 posted on 02/04/2013 12:09:48 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: Olog-hai

Mensheviks. The weaker, paler, shorter lived comrades.


4 posted on 02/04/2013 12:09:49 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Capitol to the districts: "May the odds be ever in your favor.")
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To: Olog-hai

More reason to contintue telling the Republicans to kiss my arse.

Bring on a true conservative party.


5 posted on 02/04/2013 12:10:10 PM PST by RatRipper (Self-centeredness, greed, envy, deceit and lawless corruption has killed this once great nation.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Can be good...” is too general.

Could you be more specific, Cantor? The fact is that pretty much all of you are in government because you cannot do anything else capable of providing you with a livable salary...and you have retaliated by making sure that this is true for a lot of other folks who are much better than you are.

You are a RINO, and as such, should join the dim bulb crats in shoving it up your smelly Obama.


6 posted on 02/04/2013 12:11:00 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor apparently wants his Republican colleagues to pursue a “government can be good” approach to their politics


WHY?... the boy is “peeking” out of the closet..


7 posted on 02/04/2013 12:11:17 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t go so far as to say it’s a necessary evil, though I do love that phrase. But government good? Not usually.

By the way, the programs mentioned in the excerpt, school choice and tax reform, depending upon what he means by the latter, are not examples of good government. They are less government. They are the absence of government where it used to be before.


8 posted on 02/04/2013 12:11:24 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: Olog-hai

No, not really, Rep. Cantor. Even if I allowed for the possibility of government to be “good”, the risks are simply too great to allow it, as history has repeatedly shown.


9 posted on 02/04/2013 12:11:33 PM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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It sort of misses the point, IMHO. I think a majority probably recognizes that government is at best a necessary evil, but where I think he does have a point is that the endless harping on the need to cut government doesn’t really resonate that well. I wish they would just stick with cutting taxes as the unifying agenda, and let the Democrats sweat the need to balance the overall budget a little more.


10 posted on 02/04/2013 12:13:41 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Olog-hai

Cantor voted against the deal with Obama last month but it looks like more political trickery.

By the way, Rubio cast a NO vote as well.

His political snake dancing as well.

OVER 90 PERCENT OF THE REPUBLICANS WE ELECT ARE PHONY BALONEY BUSINESS AS USUAL POLITICIANS.

A total housecleaning is needed next year starting with GOP primary challenges in over 90 percent of the offices we elect plus third party candidates ready to run if the RINO wins the primary.

WE CAN NEVER VOTE AGAIN FOR A BUSINESS AS USUAL RINO POLITICIAN.


11 posted on 02/04/2013 12:18:37 PM PST by Nextrush (PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN IS MY DREAM)
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To: Olog-hai
Cantor, please go and read the Founders thoughts on government.

Their views are in line with Paine's words, "A necessary evil."

12 posted on 02/04/2013 12:18:45 PM PST by sand88
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Fire can be good too, IF it is confined to the stove, Right now the HOUSE is on fire and we have fools telling us we should sit on the lawn and enjoy the warmth....


13 posted on 02/04/2013 12:19:11 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Olog-hai

Cantor has his good moments, but he’s almost as bad as Boehner. Our principles tell us that we need a strong, limited government that serves a narrow set of purposes...and no more than those items. None of our leadership can speak to those principles from the heart...and that’s why we squandered 2012.


14 posted on 02/04/2013 12:19:47 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: Olog-hai

Eric turned to the dark side the minute he reached Washington.


15 posted on 02/04/2013 12:20:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: sand88

George Washington:
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.


16 posted on 02/04/2013 12:21:31 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: backwoods-engineer

After reading your post, I feel like having a cheeseburger and margarita...


17 posted on 02/04/2013 12:22:07 PM PST by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: Olog-hai

Our government is good when it secures the borders, kills savages who plot mass destruction, and imprisons criminals and crazies who refuse to respect the lives and property rights of others. Other than that: I don’t want any, thanks.


18 posted on 02/04/2013 12:23:51 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: suspects; holdonnow

Aye carumba...


19 posted on 02/04/2013 12:26:44 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Olog-hai

The only way government can be good is to get out of the way and be invisible until we need resources for defense against invaders.


20 posted on 02/04/2013 12:27:47 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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