Politico doesn't even quote the full Cantor sentence, just the one word "merit".
I'm sorry, Politico is a hack organization and it's stupid to base any opinion on such nonsense.
Yeah? And YOU didn't even read the article.
Cantor also signaled that earmarks may come back, after a one-year hiatus in which House Republicans set a moratorium on all earmark requests. But should the spending items reappear, they’ll be based on “merit, not muscle,” he said. “If there are earmarks, there will be an earmark process that will ensure we’re doing everything we can to show the people that their dollars are not being wasted on monuments to me, on waste and pork,” Cantor said.
And in any case, the idiot is talking to POLITICO a left wing mouthpiece.
WTF is he doing giving them fodder to work with?
Agreed, but it’s sort of like your mom saying, “don’t even THINK about doing . . . x y z.”
It’s a good opportunity to say the same to Cantor et al.
I noticed that too. What Cantor said was should the spending items reappear, they’ll be based on “merit, not muscle,”
It’s Politico so I expected it.