Eric CANT'OR get no -- satisfaction
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This is why I tell people politics is great entertainment and I don't need cable.
The most interesting part of this is both parties' nominees are professors at the same small university. One is a sociology professor and one is an economics professor. Guess which one is the Democrat and which one is the Republican.
I would love to see that reality show leading up to the election.
The most interesting part of this is both parties' nominees are professors at the same small university. One is a sociology professor and one is an economics professor. Guess which one is the Democrat and which one is the Republican.
I would love to see that reality show leading up to the election.
In addition to spending more on steak dinners than his opponent spent for his entire campaign and essentially ignoring his constituents by rarely doing any retail campaigning (shaking hands at a Walmart, rotary club meetings, etc.) - Cantor gerrymandered himself out of a house seat & republiklan leadership. He redrew the lines of his Richmond VA district to make it more 'reich-wing red' thinking that such a district would shield him from any challengers. As the ONLY 'Jew' in the republiklan carcass, Eric forgot that the tea bag reich wing is also anti-Jewish; their literature is replete with anti-Jewish 'money changers' banksters diatribes. Eric also has Dual United States / Israel Citizenship and has two passports US/Israel. Eric also made the mistake of publicly pledging his allegiance to Israel OVER and AHEAD of the United States of America!! Although he recanted after this fact was reported, it is mentioned in tea bag literature & websites incessantly. Eric is not seen by the baggers as a true AmeriKKKan. They see him as just another money grubbing Jew boy who represents <s>Wall</s> Jew street.
Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
He Would Protect and Defend Israeli Interests Against His Own Government
by Glenn Greenwald | November 2010 | http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26808.htm
Tea Party Gives Eric Cantor The Axe
Tea Party Gives Eric Cantor The Axe
Tea Party Gives Eric Cantor The Axe
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The media is trying to play this bum rush on immigration but the fact is, this dude was 33% among publicans in his district according to PPP polls. Plus, he never bothered to show up to campaign. Most in his district wants immigration reform but crackers who oppose it are using it as a threat to scare the other spineless publicans that might want reform.
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The media is trying to play this bum rush on immigration but the fact is, this dude was 33% among publicans in his district according to PPP polls. Plus, he never bothered to show up to campaign. Most in his district wants immigration reform but crackers who oppose it are using it as a threat to scare the other spineless publicans that might want reform.
-VG
Republican Jews Alarmed at the Prospect of a Void in the House and Senate
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Eric Cantor wearing Tefillin at the wailing wall in Israel
by Jason Horowitz | July 11, 2014 |http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/u...spect-of-a-void-in-the-house-and-senate-.html
WASHINGTON — Jewish Republicans know they are not many in number. But at a recent gathering at the St. Regis Hotel in downtown Washington, they pondered the meaning of an especially alarming figure: zilch. As in zip, bupkis, zero.
The stinging defeat last month of Eric Cantor, the House majority leader and the highest-ranking Jewish politician in American history, has created the possibility of Republicans having no Jewish representation in the House or Senate for the first time in more than a half-century.
“Sometimes, a Jewish person just wants to be able to go to Congress and speak with a Jewish person,” Beverly Goldstein, a Republican donor from Beachwood, Ohio, explained in the hotel lobby after a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
“And Chuck Schumer is not it for us,” she added, referring to the Democratic senator from New York.
Bruce Blakeman is one of several candidates rushing to fill the void. Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times
Decades after a Reagan era that was relatively rich in Jewish representation on the Republican side of both the House and the Senate, Republican Jews are grappling with what it means for a party that casts itself as the protector of Israel to potentially not have a single one of its children in Congress. Some Democrats, of course, depict Mr. Cantor’s loss as the removal of a final fig leaf from what has become a homogeneously Christian party with little room for religious and ethnic minorities. Others said the loss of Mr. Cantor, a conservative standard-bearer deemed insufficiently conservative by voters who preferred a Tea Party challenger, revealed the Republicans’ exclusion of moderates of any stripe.
“It is a very right-wing party, more so than in the past,” said Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York. “And by so doing it is alienating most of the Jewish electorate, and becoming an increasingly monochromatic party without minorities of any kind.”
Despite their overwhelmingly Democratic leanings nowadays, Jewish members of Congress have a varied political heritage. Early Jewish representation on Capitol Hill included Whigs and Know-Nothings. Florida sent David Levy Yulee, an inflammatory Whig-Democrat and secessionist known as the “Florida Fire Eater,” to Washington as a territorial delegate in 1841 and then as a Democratic senator in 1845, according to Kurt F. Stone, author of “The Jews of Capitol Hill.”
The same year Yulee came to the Senate, the first Jewish congressmen were elected, including Lewis Charles Levin of Pennsylvania, a member of the Know-Nothing Party, staunch nativist and anti-Catholic. Mr. Levin argued for a limit to the cubic footage of ships from Ireland, accused the pope of plotting to build a tunnel to America under the Atlantic Ocean and died in a mental hospital. His widow converted to Catholicism.
One of the first Jewish giants of Capitol Hill was Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana, elected to the Senate as a Whig in 1853, before becoming a Democrat in 1859. A slave owner, but also a celebrated intellectual, he was reluctant for the Union to split but eventually joined the Confederacy, serving first as its secretary of war and ultimately as secretary of state.
After the Reconstruction era, which largely proved a wilderness for Jews of both parties, New York elected the country’s first Jewish Republican congressman, Edwin Einstein, in 1879. Jewish Republicans consistently served in Congress from then until the World War II period, when the 1941 and 1945 Congresses both lacked a Jewish Republican. In 1947, New York elected Jacob K. Javits, a Republican, to the House. His brief absence in 1955 to serve as the state’s attorney general arguably left the last void for Jewish Republicans — depending on how one categorizes Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who served five terms and whose father was of Jewish descent.
But as the number of Jewish members of Congress climbed to a high point of 47 in 2009, the number of Jewish Republicans had dwindled to two. The defection that year of Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to the Democrats left Mr. Cantor as the last man standing.
Mr. Cantor’s startling fall has, however, been a blessing for a handful of Jewish Republican candidates who are suddenly being showered with attention from donors.
“Jewish Republicans are for better or worse panicking that there is going to be no representation,” said Adam Kwasman, a Jewish Tea Party candidate for Congress who has Leviticus 25:10 tattooed in Hebrew on his right shoulder (“Proclaim liberty throughout the ends of the earth unto all its inhabitants”) and script from the Declaration of Independence on his left. “There has been a priority shift in the heart and soul of Republican Jews across the country,” he said. “They were far more relaxed before Cantor lost.”
Mr. Kwasman, a 31-year-old Arizona state representative, was speaking last month after the donor-rich event at the St. Regis. After schmoozing with high-powered “machers” who are worried about the scarcity of Jewish members and a growing isolationist streak in the Republican Party, he unfolded the Menorah Psalm, with commentary, that his mother had given him to read on the flight to Washington.
“Apparently King David used to have that psalm on his shield,” Mr. Kwasman said. “To give him power and strength.”
The current crop of Republican Jewish candidates need all the strength they can get. Bruce Blakeman, who is running to succeed Representative Carolyn McCarthy in New York’s Nassau County, benefited from being deemed “on the radar” by the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Guns” program, which identifies up-and-coming talent. In liberal Los Angeles, Elan Carr, an Iraq war veteran who lit the Hanukkah menorah in Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad palace and features a picture on his campaign website of his family posing before Jerusalem’s Old City, is hoping to replace Representative Henry A. Waxman, a Jewish Democrat. And in the Democratic-leaning Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., Micah Edmond, an African-American who converted to Judaism as a teenager, is viewed as a long shot to succeed Representative James P. Moran, a Democrat.
Mr. Kwasman, a product of Jewish day school in the Tucson suburbs who says he tries to make Shabbat dinners with his parents whenever possible, is the Jewish candidate most affiliated with the Tea Party, opposing gun control and any form of amnesty on immigration and talking about bringing “Kosher Tea” to Congress. He was endorsed by Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County sheriff who has been the subject of a Justice Department investigation because of his crackdowns on undocumented workers. House analysts consider Mr. Kwasman the underdog against a more moderate Republican in the August primary.
The Jewish Republican candidate that congressional analysts give the best shot at winning is State Senator Lee Zeldin of New York, who is taking on Tim Bishop in Suffolk County, Long Island. On a recent afternoon, Mr. Zeldin, a baby-faced Iraq war veteran, sipped coffee across the street from Fox News’s studios in Manhattan, where he had just finished a brief appearance on television in which he criticized President Obama’s foreign policy. His face rendered even smoother by the television makeup, Mr. Zeldin said he had come to appreciate how vital a bridge Mr. Cantor had been to “Jewish organizations, pro-Israel, philanthropists.” Since the majority leader’s defeat, he said, those organizations were looking for another strong connection to Congress.
“I haven’t spoken to everybody,” said Mr. Zeldin, who met recently with the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “But the people I have spoken to are disappointed, they are very emboldened to want to help us. They are asking themselves if they could have done more to ensure that Cantor didn’t lose in the first place. It’s certainly on the top of everyone’s mind as far as the Jewish community goes.”
While concern for Israel drives much of the eagerness to elect Jewish Republicans, there are intangibles, too. Michael Goldstein, who is married to Ms. Goldstein, the donor from Beachwood, acknowledged at the St. Regis that his viewpoint was well represented by conservatives in Congress. “So why do we need Jews?” he asked. “It makes me feel better. You want your own people there.”
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