propublica.org - 1/23/2009
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Bank Employing GOP House Leader’s Wife Got Bailout Bucks Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) holds up House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's statement while speaking to the media after the vote failed on the bailout on Capitol Hill on Sept. 29, 2008. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) House Republican Whip Eric Cantor , a ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 1/29/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
It's not just the goose egg that the
House Republicans laid on the Democratic stimulus package yesterday:...
Boehner's Boys have been equally uncooperative on other matters. Case in point: a bill yesterday to delay the transition to digital TV . This ...
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The Republican Death Spiral
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/29/2009
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House Republicans are reacting strongly to reports that
the White House plans a political onslaught to pressure...
Republicans into supporting the stimulus package and to punish those who don't. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) will soon ...
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More Republican Triangulating On Bipartisanship: Cantor ...
dailykos.com - 1/27/2009
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dailykos.com —
So Democrats have bent over backwards watering down
the stimulus bill and even stripping out such "objectionable"...
material to Republicans as family planning funds for the low-income, all in the name of "bipartisanship". And how do Republicans repay ...
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They never learn
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DCCC: Cantor's Wife's Employer Got TARP Money
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... The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) today circulated a news story alleging that the employer of House GOP Whip Eric Cantor's (Va.) wife received a significant sum of bailout money from the Treasury. The story was published online this afternoon by ProPublica, a non-profit online publication whose stated mission is to "produc[e] investigative journalism in the public interest." The Treasury paid $267 million earlier this month for preferred stock in New York Private Bank and Trust (NYPBT), ProPublica writes. NYPBT owns Emigrant Bank, whose Virginia branch ...
War and Piece —
... January 24, 2009 Aram Roston and Paul Kiel at Pro publica : Bank Employing GOP House Leader Eric Cantors Wife Got Bailout Bucks. Posted by Laura at January 24, 2009 12:04 AM
Bank Employing GOP House Leaders Wife Got Bailout Bucks
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... banking company that employs Cantor's wife. The bailout for New York Private Bank and Trust (NYPBT) came earlier this month as part of a Treasury Department program to boost "healthy banks" with extra capital. NYPBT is the holding company for Emigrant Bank, a savings bank with 35 branches in and around New York City. Diana Cantor runs the Virginia branch of Emigrant's wealth-management division, called Virginia Private Bank & Trust, which targets an ultra-rich clientele. Read more: http://www.propublica.org/article/bank-employing-gop-ho...
How Many Republicans Would Rather See America Fail Than Obama Succeed?
DownWithTyranny! —
... And I'm not just talking about the die-hard extremist obstructionists like Jim DeMint (R-SC), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), and David Diapers Vitter (R-LA) in the Senate and Eric Cantor (R-VA), Adam Howdy Doody Putnam (R-FL), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), and ...
Great Moments in Pocket-Lining: The Cantor Family Bailout
Firedoglake —
Minority Whip Eric Cantor, one of the current crop of fresh young faces of the Republican party, whipped his caucus to keep them from supporting the stimulus package. The whole government bailout thing just... bothers him. ...
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videocafe.crooksandliars.com 12/23/2008 — Download | Play Download | Play A telling segment from Wolf Blitzer on Late Edition, although his motivations are a little murky for me. Inviting on House Minority Whip Eric Cantor to be the GOP balance to discuss the auto bailout, ...
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americablog.com 3/16/2009 — Republicans got used to having a president who could only do one thing at a time -- and was incompetent. Now, we have an intelligent president who is determined to fix the mess left by his predecessor. Republicans on the Hill have been looking for ...
GOP Rep. Cantor Attacked For Profanity-Laced Web Video
huffingtonpost.com 2/11/2009 — As first reported by The Plum Line , Virginia Republican Eric Cantor is in hot water after responding to critics with a profane web video.
The union coalition AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), along with ...
Cantor’s Office Responds: Video Depicting AFSCME Members As Goons
theplumline.whorunsgov.com 2/11/2009 — This isn't going to make the big unions very happy. GOP House leader Eric Cantor 's office has come up with an intriguing response to the AFSCME ad bllitz targeting GOP leaders: Sending over a video that portrays AFSCME union members as 1970s-era ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 2/12/2009 — CLASSY.... Yesterday, AFSCME and Americans United for Change unveiled a pretty good ad in support of the economic stimulus plan. The new national television spot tells viewers, "We're in an economic crisis and Republican leaders are playing politics ...
Cantor Continues To Lie About The CBO Analysis Of Recovery Bill
thinkprogress.org 1/28/2009 — Last week, ThinkProgress called out House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) for lying about the economic recovery bill, specifically for claiming that the bill would give more money to “grass” on the National Mall than to small ...
Shuffling the Deck Chairs on the Republican Party
thenextright.com 11/12/2008 — You might think the Republicans in the House of Representatives would be itching to appoint a successor who warned the party that it was losing its way, who challenged the party when it made error after discrediting error, someone who wasn’t ...
GOP Rep: We Can't Be "The Party Of No"
huffingtonpost.com 1/29/2009 — In an editorial in Politico , House Minority Whip Eric Cantor says that Republicans can't simply be the "no" party .
At a moment when the country needs our help, it would be a great mistake for the House GOP to turn inward and simply become the ...
Gillibrand appointed to New York Senate seat —
CNN Political Ticker 1/23/2009
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ALBANY, New York (CNN) — New York Gov. David Paterson appointed Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary Clinton's vacant U.S. Senate seat Friday.
Gillibrand, 42, was elected to her second term in the House of ...
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