No, he'll turn that dial to 12.

He may be a liar, but there's an equal possibility that he's a coward. I don't mean a little nervous, I mean Martin Sheen at the end of "The Dead Zone". Fortunately for him, he has a bloc of voters in his district who feel a kinship for him.

Cantor recant? Can't.

Sorry, but Eric Cantor is so monumentally stupid, he's incapable of even understanding the meaning of the word "stupid".

Don't hold your breath waiting for any kind of realization to wander within a hundred miles of what passes for his awareness.

Fooling some of the people all of the time is good enough for him. He thinks he has that in the bag.

Does Cantor really believe that a prisoner in custody presents a serious safety risk?

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Cantor is the one who insisted, repeatedly in an appearance on "Hardball," that the Congress had "no constitutional role" in making declarations of war, and that the "commander in chief" is the only one who could make the decision to declare war.

No, seriously. Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsuKXO_McNE

Cantor bloviated/lied on the teevee.

And the MSNBC PrettyFace smiled and came back with: " -which documents the lengthy and impressive record the government has in prosecuting terrorist cases."

Oh, I'm sorry. The Justice department supplied the fact sheet to Steven Benen, but NOT any of the so-called 'news' outlets. . .

TR:

Then there's his other appearance on Hardball where Matthews pressed him on what "appeasement" means, in relation to his own statements about Neville Chamberlain - and he doesn't have the slightest understanding of what he's talking about. He's so completely out of his depth that you almost feel sorry for him, if he wasn't such an insufferable prick.

I cannot fathom how self-contradictory their mentality is (the right-wing that Canton represents, that is). First they argue both that the terrorists hate us for our freedoms and that they are strong warrior-men, yet in everything they say and do they want us to abandon our freedoms like lilly-livered cowards and resort to uncivilized barbarism. How can anyone not see what they are suggesting as craven, cowardly, and inherently unpatriotic?

Then there's his other appearance on Hardball where Matthews pressed him on what "appeasement" means, in relation to his own statements about Neville Chamberlain - and he doesn't have the slightest understanding of what he's talking about.

Actually, that was right-wing radio host Kevin James:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs

CANTOR: "There are so many unanswered questions about bringing these detainees on to U.S. soil. We have no judicial precedents for the conviction of someone like this."

Really ?

President Clinton sent a Special Forces team to pluck the mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack, Ramzi Yousef, out of Pakistan and return him to the U.S. for trial in a New York criminal court. He is serving a 240-year prison term, plus another life sentence just in case, all to be spent in solitary confinement in a Supermax prison. The 5 co-conspirators involved in the bombing were also captured by the Clinton administration, and all are also serving life terms in a Supermax prison.

He's so completely out of his depth that you almost feel sorry for him, if he wasn't such an insufferable prick.
Posted by: DH Walker on June 9, 2009 at 3:21 PM | PERMALINK

You said it! Cantor is an absolute douchebag.

It really does get tiring, in the midst of all the GOP pants-pissing over the big, bad Terrorists, having to continually remind Cantor and his weak-minded ilk that our system of justice and our prisons have successfully dealt with far worse -- and more disturbed and violent -- criminals for decades now and America is still standing. Why are the (as yet unconvicted) Terrorists suddenly more horrible and worse than, say, Charles Manson or Timothy McVeigh?

TR: Actually, that was right-wing radio host Kevin James:

Oh, yeah, that's right. My mistake. He and Cantor were making the same obviously-read-from-the-talking-points "argument" that diplomacy constitutes appeasement, at around the same time, though. But now I can't remember what Cantor's venue was.

Funny how Republicans seem to have forgotten one of the basic tenets of our Constitution, i.e. that a person (even a suspected terrorist) is considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Now while this particluar fellow almost certainly is guilty, let's not forget that there have been quite a few Gitmo detainees released because it turned out that they were not terrorists.

So for Cantor to blindly assume that all Gitmo detainees are de facto terrorists simply because the US government says they are goes against everything our Constitution stands for.

We've also got John Boehner saying, "This is the first step in the Democrats’ plan to import terrorists into America."

Good grief, I wish I was kidding.

"We have no judicial precedents for the conviction of someone like this." Really? What about the four guys already tried, convicted, and imprisoned for the exact same bombings???

Bradford Berenson, a former White House lawyer in the Chimpy administration, was just on the ABC World News claiming that you can't close GITMO and bring the detainees into the country because...

WAIT FOR IT

..."there is a risk of escape".

Is this guy taking STUPID PILLS ?

Cantor wants to keep Gitmo open, he has no faith in the Justice Department, no faith in the Department of Corrections. He constantly seeks solutions that are outside the law, so why does he call himself a lawmaker? Really, if he doesn't think laws work why does he want the job?

These new Republican leaders are not just poorly informed, they are odd.

"Any minute now."

Sure, Steve, rub his nose in it. Picking on Cantor's lack of intellectual ability is like stealing from a blind man. When it gets to the point that he's at, it just isn't nice to pick on him.

But then, if we didn't pick on these intellectually challenged rightwing blowtards because of their handicaps, there wouldn't be anyone to pick on.

Eric Cantor knows full well that we've been prosecuting, and housing, terrorists for years. This is pure, unadulterated, yet bad, political theatre on his part. He knows exactly what he is doing, exactly what he is saying; unfortunately, he thinks everyone is stupid enough to take his word for it.

From the dawn of civilized society to now, in politics and religion, those in power know that the best way to keep the masses in line is to instill paralyzing fear in them. Sadly, many still fall for it.

Another old and tired tactic from the GOP playbook.