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The Top 8 Consequences of Cantor's Defeat
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | June 10, 2014 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 06/10/2014 8:46:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Tuesday night, one of the most stunning upsets in Congressional primary history took place, with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) losing his primary to economics professor Dave Brat. Brat campaigned on the platform that Cantor was a backer of amnesty legislation; heavy conservative media coverage of the thousands of illegal immigrant youths pouring across our inundated southern border contributed to a sense of urgency. So Cantor is out.

And the landscape has radically shifted, both for the Republican Party, and for the 2014 election. Here are the biggest ramifications of Cantor’s defeat.

Boehner Is Likely Done. The writing has been on the wall for Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) ever since a failed House insurgency in the aftermath of a coup attempt against his speakership in January 2013. Boehner had been under fire ever since his sequestration deal with President Obama in 2011; his “fiscal cliff” deal with President Obama at the end of 2012 only drove further pressure. Boehner’s repeated attempts to covertly push amnesty legislation have lost him his base. And the departure of many of his top allies in Congress leaves him vulnerable this year. Cantor’s ties to Boehner may signal that a successful insurgency is on the way. Aides are telling the National Journal, “We’re absolutely stunned. Honestly, we really can’t believe it.”

The “Young Guns” Are Firing Blanks. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Cantor were considered the so-called “young guns” in the House, preparing to take over leadership from Boehner and company whenever he stepped down. Ryan and Cantor have been vocal about their desire for immigration reform legislation this year. Cantor is now gone. And Ryan’s position as a leader is in serious jeopardy.

The Death of the Tea Party Was Greatly Exaggerated....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 113th; boehner; cantor; ericcantor; gop; teaparty; teapartyrebellion; va2014
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1 posted on 06/10/2014 8:46:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Elections have consequences.


2 posted on 06/10/2014 8:47:49 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A whole bunch more RINOs to go and we’ll be set.


3 posted on 06/10/2014 8:50:05 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t catch Potomac Fever. Stay true to the Conservative cause.


4 posted on 06/10/2014 8:50:21 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope he’s right about everything.


5 posted on 06/10/2014 8:51:17 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What sticks in my mind is nominee Brat’s comments I heard on TV today. He said (paraphrasing) that Tea party goals and GOPe goals are not far apart. Both are for free market capitalism, which is actually more humane than socialism.


6 posted on 06/10/2014 8:51:23 PM PDT by entropy12 (Harry Reid has killed more good bills passed by House than all my fingers and toes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It wasn’t just amnesty. It was spending, the unwillingness to stand for Republican principles, Obamacare, and a host of issues on which Eric Cantor has gone over to the dark side. Immigration is in the news and it was likely the tipping point, but it was just one of a host of reasons why Cantor was ousted.


7 posted on 06/10/2014 8:52:33 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: entropy12

What needs to happen is the GOP needs to be for American free market capitalism.

American.

That is the word, which is not emphasised nearly enough.


8 posted on 06/10/2014 8:53:36 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I still say that 95 percent of elected Republicans in Congress either repudiate conservatism or fake it.

Some new fake conservative in the Ryan-McCarthy mold will emerge as Speaker of the House if there is going to be a change.

BOEHNER AND A SMALL GROUP OF GOP HOUSE MEMBERS WILL LIKELY GO WITH THE DEMS TO RAM THROUGH ‘IMMIGRATION REFORM’ AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, THEN BOEHNER WILL MOVE ON AND A NEW FACE WILL BE SPEAKER.


9 posted on 06/10/2014 8:53:55 PM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope this gets momentum for Joe Carr in TN. Our primary isn’t until August. And McDaniel in MS. When is Gramnesty up?


10 posted on 06/10/2014 8:54:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: Fledermaus

Gramnesty won his primary tonight. Six more years of that idiot.


11 posted on 06/10/2014 8:55:41 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The GOP-E Leadership in the US House, (Boehner, Cantor, and Ryan), is always gullible to Obama’s tricks.

Consequently, Boehner, Cantor and Ryan, have all pledged to ram through this unpopular Obama Amnesty Bill due to Obama’s illegal decision to flood the USA with children from Mexico and Central America.

It is time to kick the GOP-E out of Congressional Leadership!


12 posted on 06/10/2014 8:56:12 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Newws media don’t tell me you’re ‘stunned’. I’ve been stunned with all the news about immigrant children crossing the border, EPA shutting down more industries when we’re hurting for jobs, gas prices going up to $4.00 a gallion, the Dems allowing Veterans to die but they want to buy the votes of young people by forgiving their student loans, etc. etc. Stunned voters do stunning things - hip hip hooray.


13 posted on 06/10/2014 8:56:35 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Raúl Labrador (ID-1) has made some vague indication he may try for the speakership, with some Tea Party congressmen favoring him. Would be a million times better than Boehner, and best of all, McConnell would HATE it!


14 posted on 06/10/2014 8:58:29 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: kevao

Good Grief.


15 posted on 06/10/2014 8:59:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: entropy12

From what I’ve heard him say, it sounds like he is making the point many have made. The only difference between the Tea Party and the GOP is that the Tea Party actually follows the stated Republican Party platform. The GOP doesn’t.


16 posted on 06/10/2014 8:59:35 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Viennacon

Labrador: ‘Leave the Bergdahl family alone’
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jun/10/labrador-leave-bergdahl-family-alone/


17 posted on 06/10/2014 9:00:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Fledermaus

Gayham won unfortunately, though by a pathetic margin. He got 58.5%. Worse than Cornyn and McConnell.

But the momentum is there now. We can oust Lamar! if we activate the grassroots voters in TN.


18 posted on 06/10/2014 9:00:54 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: entropy12

What stuck out to me in what Brat said tonight on FNC is that every position that he took in his campaign is the Republican platform position.


19 posted on 06/10/2014 9:01:08 PM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Nextrush
Nope. Cantor won't be able to get folks in the house to talk to him, much less vote for amnesty. He's a dead man walking. They have their own primaries to worry about.

The leadership power structure in the House is effectively broken tonight.

/johnny

20 posted on 06/10/2014 9:02:15 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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