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Originally Posted by Hound
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I luv you Bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hound
Appreciated but no need. His ramblings speak for them self.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/20...-accelerating/
The last word on Cantor and the significance of his defeat at the hands of an awakening electorate.
And more from David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving the White House, Stockman had a 20-year career on Wall Street. Here he describes how Cantor's primary loss represents a growing rejection of crony capitalism and its political enablers.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...-ruling-class/
The defeat of Eric Cantor – GOP House majority leader and a leading light of the party’s neoconservative-corporatist wing – has the pundits in an uproar. They are flummoxed: what could have led to one of the biggest upsets in American political history? After all, a party majority leader hasn’t been defeated – let alone in a primary! – since 1877. And who is this guy, Dave Brat, anyway – who raised around $200,000 total, but only spent half of it, while Cantor – the Chamber of Commerce’s best friend – raised and spent millions?
Cantor loss was 2 sidedQuote:
Originally Posted by Cujo0920
1- rejection by his own party
2 - The ability of anyone to vote in the run off. It's clear (from numerous D & progressive web sites) Anyone who felt like it, slanted the vote in favor of his opponent. The D's and progressives hope this will give the D's a win, come november. Between the D's and other tea party opponents, they stand a good chance of pulling it off.
Just as McAullif took the governors house.
Cantor wasn't "rejected by his own party" since he's a standard-bearer for the sleazy, corrupt, crony-capitalist establishment GOP. He was rejected by VOTERS who were fed up with a "representative" who threw them under the bus for the benefit of his oligarch masters. Brat, a political novice, ran a shoestring campaign that toppled this arrogant, out of touch Wall Street douchebag. A growing number of Democrats and "progressives" of my acquaintance are also fed and disillusioned with the corrupt DNC establishment, so one hopes the repudiation of the status quo will similarly reject their own "lesser of two evils" candidates and vote in alternatives more attuned to the concerns of the productive middle and working classes in this country.
Don't cry for Cantor. He will be well rewarded with a plum lobbyist job by the kleptocrats whose interests he worked tirelessly to advance.
Unsurprisingly, POLITICO magazine is bashing Thomas Jefferson and framing Brat's victory as part of a populist rejection of "Big Business" when nothing could be further from the truth - crony capitalism and the Fed's debasement of the currency to enrich Wall Street speculators and cover their gambling debts with taxpayer bailouts (f*** you Tancredo) are not to be confused with Big Business, which is not intrinsically evil or undesirable. Crony capitalism and the Fed's deranged money-printing, on the other hand, are eroding the foundations of our economy and currency, and burdening unborn generations with unpayable trillions in debts and liabilities. This is a grotesque caricature of the kind of free-market system and fiscal rectitude that helped make America a great nation and a great power.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...l#.U5-hMrBOXct
Meanwhile, another crony-capitalist whore, 22-term Democrat Charles Rangel, is being called out by an upstart challenger who hopefully will unseat this corrupt dinosaur (who not surprisingly is anti-Second Amendment).
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/06...rimary-threat/
"In light of the stunning upset Dave Brat just pulled off against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier this week, many are asking the question as to whether or not we are seeing a genuine political shift against the incredibly corrupt status quo. Personally, I think so. Even if I am incorrect on that front, one thing that is abundantly clear is that any candidate with strong ties to Wall Street will be attacked like a piñata. While the mainstream media likes to talk nonsense about how Brat won because of his opposition to immigration reform, it appears the opposite is true. His winning issue was actually crony capitalism and Wall Street theft. As was so fantastically reported on by The Republic Report:"
“'All of the investment banks, up in New York and D.C., they should have gone to jail.'"
"That isn’t a quote from an Occupy Wall Street protester or Senator Elizabeth Warren. That’s a common campaign slogan repeated by Dave Brat, the Virginia college professor who scored one of the biggest political upsets in over a century by defeating Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary last night."
"The national media is buzzing about Brat’s victory, but for all of the wrong reasons."
More on how Brat called out establishment GOP corruption:
http://www.republicreport.org/2014/dave-brat-cantor/
Brat told Internet radio host Flint Engelman that the “number one plank” in his campaign is “free markets.” Brat went on to explain, “Eric Cantor and the Republican leadership do not know what a free market is at all, and the clearest evidence of that is the financial crisis … When I say free markets, I mean no favoritism to K Street lobbyists.” Banks like Goldman Sachs were not fined for their role in the financial crisis — rather, they were rewarded with bailouts, Brat has said.
Brat, who has identified with maverick GOP lawmakers like Representative Justin Amash of Michigan, spent much of the campaign slamming both parties for being in the pocket of “Wall Street crooks” and D.C. insiders. The folks who caused the financial crisis, Brat says, “went onto Obama’s rolodex, the Republican leadership, Eric’s rolodex.”
During several campaign appearances, Brat says what upset him the most about Cantor was his role in gutting the last attempt at congressional ethics reform. “If you want to find out the smoking gun in this campaign,” Brat told Engelman, “just go Google and type the STOCK Act and CNN and Eric Cantor.” (On Twitter, Brat has praised the conservative author Peter Schweizer, whose work on congressional corruption forced lawmakers into action on the STOCK Act.)