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huffingtonpost.com - 3/26/2009
GOP Budget Plan Fizzles Amid Lack Of Details, Infighting, Mockery
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House Republicans today made a big show about how they were going to drop their own brand-new alternate budget proposal, packed with urban-suburban hip-hop "flava" and dance moves Eric Cantor learned at the Verizon Center, watching Britney Spears. As it turns out, READY THEY WERE NOT, and so ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 4/1/2009
A budget perfect for April Fools' Day
— washingtonmonthly.com — A BUDGET PERFECT FOR APRIL FOOLS' DAY.... Rumor has it that Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the... ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, is one of the House GOP Caucus' sharper members. He has a reputation for knowing what... (more) A budget perfect for April Fools' Day

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washingtonmonthly.com - 4/2/2009
Republicans just lost the debate over the economy
— washingtonmonthly.com — REPUBLICANS JUST LOST THE DEBATE OVER THE ECONOMY.... Once in a great while, there are key turning... points in a policy debate. This might be one of them. GOP Whip Eric Cantor ... accused Democrats of "overreacting" to the economic... (more) Republicans just lost the debate over the economy

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Quote For The Day II

Library Grape:  Fake GOP 'Budget' Calls For Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy

Firedoglake:  Come Saturday Morning: The GOP’s Underpants Gnome Budget

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Quote For The Day II
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... "There's one more picture of a windmill than there are charts of numbers. And there's exactly one picture of a windmill," - Robert Gibbs on the inanity of the GOP budget proposal, which doesn't even estimate future deficits at all. ...

Fake GOP 'Budget' Calls For Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Library Grape — ... All scoffing aside on how pitifully meager the fake "budget" proposal was (many in the mainstream media were openly laughing at the document today), there was ...

Come Saturday Morning: The GOP’s Underpants Gnome Budget
Firedoglake — ... don't have any numbers to back it up. Really and truly.  Their budget proposal does not mention how much money they would raise or spend.  In fact, it barely mentions money at all -- and when it does, it butchers the figures involved.   Compare that to the Obama budget outline, which even as an outline comes to 142 pages of hard details, facts and figures.  No wonder this thing is being openly and relentlessly mocked all over the place. So what was the inspiration for this gem of Epic Fail, this ...

Related: "there's one more picture of a windmill than there are charts of numbers. and there's exactly one picture of a windmill.", eric cantor britney spears
Exclusive: Cantor, ‘Democrats’ Attend Britney Spears Concert During Obama Presser
wonkette.com 3/25/2009 — And you all thought Washington wasn’t sexy: the office of ambitious young House Republican Whip Eric Cantor has confirmed to your Wonkette that instead of watching President Obama’s boring press conference last night like the rest of us ...
Cantor skips Obama’s press conference to attend a Britney Spears concert.
thinkprogress.org 3/25/2009 — In recent weeks, congressional Republicans have been critical of President Obama for doing anything that isn’t directly focusing on the economic crisis — such as going on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno or filling out his NCAA bracket . ...
Eric Cantor Attends Britney Spears Concert
huffingtonpost.com 3/25/2009 — And you all thought Washington wasn't sexy: the office of ambitious young House Republican Whip Eric Cantor has confirmed to your Wonkette that instead of watching President Obama's boring press conference last night like the rest of us dingbats, ...
Cantor Passes Up Obama Presser For Britney Spears Concert
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/26/2009 — House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) was asked by NBC this morning if President Obama "said anything last night that you and your colleagues will support." And Cantor answered in great detail ... which must mean he caught Obama's press ...
Horror! Eric Cantor Decides to Watch Lip-Syncher Rather than TelePrompter Reader, Left Melts Down
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 3/26/2009 — If someone can explain the newsworthiness of this, please have at it. This could well be the dumbest story to emanate from the fever swamps in years.There was more than one whip at last night's Britney Spears concert in Washington DC.GOP aides ...
Far left idiocy never stops
sistertoldjah.com 3/26/2009 — The latest “scandal” brewing at far left blogs involves a story that first broke at the liberal Wonkette blog about how House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) “blew off” Obama’s presser last night for a Britney Spears ...
Cantor Mocked On Fox News For Attending Britney Concert (VIDEO) — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Fox And Friends had House Republican Whip Eric Cantor on this morning, where they launched a two pronged attack of uncritically accepting the House GOP budget proposal (that Cantor isn't even a fan of ) as a brilliant document AND gently ribbing the Representative for attending a Britney Spears ...
Cantor Mocked On Fox News For Attending Britney Concert (VIDEO) — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Fox And Friends had House Republican Whip Eric Cantor on this morning, where they launched a two pronged attack of uncritically accepting the House GOP budget proposal (that Cantor isn't even a fan of ) as a brilliant document AND gently ribbing the Representative for attending a Britney Spears ...
Eric Cantor's Britney Spears' concert-going, the story that won't die — Anne Schroeder's Blog
Everybody has been asking GOP Whip Eric Cantor about going to the Britney Spears concert on Tuesday night. The Takeaway asked yesterday - to which Cantor replied that he didn't understand what the big deal was, he was attending a political event at the concert. And this morning "Fox & ...
GOP Budget Plan Fizzles Amid Lack Of Details, Infighting, Mockery — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
House Republicans today made a big show about how they were going to drop their own brand-new alternate budget proposal, packed with urban-suburban hip-hop "flava" and dance moves Eric Cantor learned at the Verizon Center, watching Britney Spears. As it turns out, READY THEY WERE NOT, and so ...
Cantor on Britney: "I had a political event at that concert." — Anne Schroeder's Blog
  The Takeaway by John Hockenberry  interviewed GOP Whip Eric Cantor today - and Cantor's Britney Spears concert-going on Tuesday night came up. He said:   John Hockenberry:Politico is making a big deal about the fact that you showed up at the Britney Spears concert on ...
Cantor on Britney concert: 'I don't know why that's an issue' — News
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) defended his appearance at a Britney Spears concert in Washington this week that has drawn snickers in D.C.'s chattering class. "I don’t know why that’s an issue whatsoever," Cantor told The Takeaway on Thursday. "There was a concert and I had a political ...
Cantor Defends Britney Concert Attendance: Not An Issue Whatsoever — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Rep. Eric Cantor is unimpressed with all the uproar over the revelation that he attended a Britney Spears concert while President Barack Obama convened the second primetime news conference of his presidency. "I don't know why that's an issue whatsoever," said the House Minority Whip. "There ...
Cantor Defends Britney Concert Attendance: Not An Issue Whatsoever — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Rep. Eric Cantor is unimpressed with all the uproar over the revelation that he attended a Britney Spears concert while President Barack Obama convened the second primetime news conference of his presidency. "I don't know why that's an issue whatsoever," said the House Minority Whip. "There ...
If you seek... Eric Cantor — The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings So you know how Obama took all that grief for taking time to fill out his March Madness bracket for ESPN, notably from the loathsome Republican Coach K. of the loathsome Duke Blue Devils ? As if the president shouldn't take any time to himself, as if he ...
Rep. Eric Cantor Hosts a Britney Spears Fundraiser — Politics Daily
If there are three things that stimulate House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) even more than the president's economic package, they are tax reform, GOP fundraising, and Britney Spears grinding in dominatrix gear. And not necessarily in that order ... There was more than one whip at last ...
OMFG! House Minority Whip Attends Skank Concert! — Perfunction
Panties are a-twisting over reports that instead of strapping into a waterboard and watching the Teleprompter last night, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor went to a Britney Spears concert !!1!!uno!! In related total bullshit, it has come to Perfunction's attention that in 2005, then-House ...
Eric Cantor and Britney Spears, Sitting in a Tree…. — Comments from Left Field
Not to worry, though — it was a bipartisan affair : Sen. Mary Landrieu and other Democrats were there, too.
Eric Cantor's Circus of a night, watching Britney Spears — Anne Schroeder's Blog
So, Dems and GOP'ers alike are laughing over Minority Whip Eric Cantor being seen at the Britney Spears concert last night. The same night the president spoke. The same night the NRCC had its after-party. (What does Cantor have against Bill Shuster dancing?) The same night "The Biggest ...
There Was More Than One Whip At Last Night’s Britney Spears Concert — The Moderate Voice
Details here — and it’s especially interesting how the person involved’s camp immediately basically says “but a top Democrat was there, too!”
Oops he did it again — Rising Hegemon
Eric Cantor didn't watch Obama's presser (though he criticized it). But I'm sure Andrew Malcolm would totally NOT bored by the fact the moron went to see Britney Spears instead.
Eric Cantor Attends Britney Spears Concert — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
And you all thought Washington wasn't sexy: the office of ambitious young House Republican Whip Eric Cantor has confirmed to your Wonkette that instead of watching President Obama's boring press conference last night like the rest of us dingbats, Cantor and a bipartisan group of legislators ...
Rep. Cantor speaks out on Britney concert — CNN Political Ticker
Cantor called Britney Spears a a 'great performer.' (CNN) — House Republican Whip Eric Cantor — among the unlikeliest attendees at a Britney Spears concert earlier this week in Washington — told CNN Thursday he went to ...