Cantor calls for real policies for real Americans

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Cantor calls for real policies for real Americans

By: Neil W. McCabe

2/5/2013 04:18 PM

The House Majority Leader told a packed room at Washington’s American Enterprise Institute Feb. 5 that Republicans in Congress and across the country need to focus on what really matters to Americans: education, health and opportunity.

“During the last several years with the stagnant economy, too many mothers and fathers have had to come home, walk into the kitchen and tell their families they didn’t have a job anymore,” said Rep. Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.), who was introduced for his speech “Make Life Work for More People” by his close friend AEI CEO Arthur C. Brooks. To accompany the speech the leader’s office put out the hashtag: #makinglifework

“How does a family like that save for a rainy day, when it just got tough to even make it through the next month?” the leader asked.

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Eric Cantor’s empty happy talk

By Dana Milbank,

Opinion Writer

Feb 06, 2013 12:32 AM EST

The Washington PostPublished: February 5

Republicans have happened upon a felicitous new strategy for reviving their party from its depressed state: They need only think happy thoughts.

At a retreat for Republican leaders last month, former House speaker Newt Gingrich told them to “learn to be a happy party” and a “cheerful” one, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said they should be a party “that smiles.” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told his fellow Republicans to talk about “just how incredibly bright America’s future can be.”

In other words, Republicans will win elections if only they can stop being so dour, dammit.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took this don’t­worry-be-happy strategy seriously

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-eric-cantors-empty-happy-talk/2013/02/05/a60ceb7c-6fe1-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story.html