Posted on 06/10/2014 8:27:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The defeat of the second-ranking Republican in the House by an ill-funded, little-known tea party-backed candidate ranks as the biggest Congressional upset in modern memory and will immediately generate a series of political and policy-related shockwaves in Washington and the Richmond-area 7th district.
"People don't know how to respond because it's never been contemplated," said one Virginia Republican strategist.
There were several common threads about what it means for politics inside and outside the House:
1. Immigration reform is dead.
2. House legislative activity will cease.
3. The "establishment strike back" storyline will disappear.
4. Tea party challenges will surge.
5. The race to replace John Boehner as Speaker is now wide open.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
House legislative activity was fine through 2012. It’s been nonexistent since while this ball-less leadership put their tail between their legs.
Now, it may do the opposite if our side decides to grow a pair and push good ideas....and take them to the people. It takes new leaders, clearly.
I like #5. I like it a lot.
“The “establishment strike back” storyline will disappear.”
I doubt it. I expect to see GOPe Imperial Walkers out in force tomorrow! I also expect to see the media completely miss the point of this election result, probably on purpose.
We were invited over to friends for dinner, and as we turned on the patriot channel on Sirius (125) we heard this news! JUST WOW! Praise God!
BTTT
Look for the government uni-party to go on the offensive now.
Bingo!!!!
Tomorrow’s headline: After Tea Party members gun down cops in Las Vegas, another Tea Party member kills Eric Cantor in primary shocker.
I like #5. I like it a lot.
Me too…I hope this is a foreshadowing for the old crybaby drunk.
Out of that list, I think #1 is the only sure thing, and clearly the most important. Who holds a House seat isn’t very important...but the changes Cantor would have brought would undermine the very fabric of the nation.
What the media says or even who is Speaker are matters of small consequence alongside our national sovereignty.
Cantor sounds like Al Gore and has the same windbag attitude.
We’ve GOT to find polls as of yesterday, to see how far they were off!
How big of a gallows does an elephant require, I wonder?
Does that mean the money people donated to Dave Brat made Eric Cantor sick?
Like algore said he was going back to TN to “mend fences” and he immediately began his globull warming jihad,
Cantor will probably now go to bat full-time for La Raza, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the service unions.
The Tea Party has long said there’s little difference between the GOP and the dems, and just WITNESS the tone in many of these liberal MSM reports:
They’re either LAMENTING his loss, openly angry about it, or panicked —the loss of a GOP guy..!!!
They’re CONFIRMING the basic, long-held Tea Party feelings that it’s a huge, seamless, unitary ESTABLISHMENT that we’re grappling with.
How about this headline:
Terrorists Assassinate Congressional Leader."
Don't forget the Saudis.
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