Eric Cantor - have you no shame at all? No sense of decency? No awareness of what is right?
Throughout our nation's history, a simple rule has applied when it comes to natural disasters: help your fellow Americans, and do what is needed to help them get back on their feet.
Thus, it's frankly appalling that Representative Eric Cantor is threatening to hold disaster relief funds hostage to his partisan pettiness. He is demanding immediate cuts to offset spending, even though it is spending necessitated by a natural disaster of historic proportions -- a hurricane that is hitting his very own district.
Representative Cantor made no such demand for cuts when he was cheerleading huge tax breaks for the wealthy, or subsidies for oil companies. But for some reason, he has chosen to draw his line in the sand now, at a time when tens of millions of Americans are in danger. He is basically telling them to "drop dead."
Enough is enough. Tell Eric Cantor to back off, to cut the dangerous partisan pettiness, and to let this urgently needed spending move forward.
And spread the word. Maybe with enough shaming, and enough of a backlash, Cantor will do the right thing -- or at least, the politically expedient thing
Eric Cantor - have you no shame at all? No sense of decency? No awareness of what is right?
Throughout our nation's history, a simple rule has applied when it comes to natural disasters: help your fellow Americans, and do what is needed to help them get back on their feet.
Thus, it's frankly appalling that Representative Eric Cantor is threatening to hold disaster relief funds hostage to his partisan pettiness. He is demanding immediate cuts to offset spending, even though it is spending necessitated by a natural disaster of historic proportions -- a hurricane that is hitting his very own district.
Representative Cantor made no such demand for cuts when he was cheerleading huge tax breaks for the wealthy, or subsidies for oil companies. But for some reason, he has chosen to draw his line in the sand now, at a time when tens of millions of Americans are in danger. He is basically telling them to "drop dead."
Enough is enough. Tell Eric Cantor to back off, to cut the dangerous partisan pettiness, and to let this urgently needed spending move forward.
And spread the word. Maybe with enough shaming, and enough of a backlash, Cantor will do the right thing -- or at least, the politically expedient thing