Comments on: Eric Cantor: A Republican in dire need of an ass-whipping

By: Mark Thomason

Mark Thomason — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:51:23 +0000

Great headline. Great article. I agree completely.

Welcome back. I missed you.

By: Scott McMillan

Scott McMillan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:38:44 +0000

See, there we go with that violence…

By: blutodog

blutodog — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:37:51 +0000

I’d prefer to smash a pie in his smug face.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:22:00 +0000

I would have thought that would have made him an excellent politician… J.

By: woody188

woody188 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:49:21 +0000

Cantor is a lousy politician. It’s hard to watch his unwavering fawning over and funding of Israeli citizens while simultaneously telling his own constituents to do more with less.

By: John W. Farley

John W. Farley — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:31:54 +0000

The so-called fiscal cliff was nothing of the sort.

If Congress didn’t act until later in January, it would have worked out OK. There wasn’t really a Dec 31 deadline.

OR Congress could simply have repealed the previous bill that enacted the findings of the Simpson-Bowles commission. That would have eliminated the deadline altogether.

The whole idea was wrong – believed mostly by Republicans but also by a disturbing number of Democrats. The whole idea is that b government udget deficits are the main economic problem. That’s not right. The budget deficit is mainly due to the collapse of the economy in 2008.

So they should instead work on reviving the economy.

The Republicans were hoping to cut social security as an alleged solution to this non-crisis. Social security has its own source of revenue, and it is NOT a factor in the government deficit. Back in the 1930′s the Republicans were opposed to creating Social Security in the first place.

All these points are made by economist Dean Baker, who was one of the very few who saw the collapse of the real-estate bubble coming. Most economists didn’t see it coming.

By: ray

ray — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:50:56 +0000

o yeah i completely agree with you … YOU should have jumped off the fiscal cliff but don’t drag the rest of us rational folks down with you

By: Doug Thompson

Doug Thompson — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:38:37 +0000

Oh brother, did people around here give away their sense of humor for Christmas.

Apparently so, so I’ll have to say what should not need to be said.

The column was written as satire, nothing more, nothing less. Does anyone here really think I would punch out a member of Congress? Apparently so, given the responses I see here.

It’s called poking fun at self-indulgent leaders like Eric Boehner, who take themselves — and their off the wall tea party postures — entirely too seriously.

Lighten up folks.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:52:05 +0000

It is my personal position that lawmaking that makes Wall Street happy is actively harmful to the rest of us.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:31:44 +0000

Punching people without proper condemnation in a court of law is not an action of a civilized man.

That the law is so screwed up as to make this a useful solution says more about the law (and who thinks they’re above it).

And on 3)? You’re better than he is. That is a lead I think you should not follow.