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examiner.com — for several years now they have been asking Representative Eric Cantor (R - VA) . . . to hold their annual Roundup at a venue which respects gun rights . . . But the Republicans have steadfastly refused . . . Said Gunst to other rally planners, "we consider ourselves a freedom friendly mall, and at this point we have the Roundup surrounded."

President Obama has cut off communication with Republican leaders, going more than four months without hosting the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House to discuss his health care proposal, the No. 2 Republican in the House said Wednesday. Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, told The Washington Times that health care reform has been an "utter disaster" for Mr. Obama and predicted if he pushes through a public option as part of a final bill, Republicans will win back at least one chamber of Congress in the 2010 elections. Mr. Cantor said Mr. Obama initially asked for Republican help...

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor thinks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “is in another world” if she believes raucous anti-health-reform demonstrations could lead to violence — and he says he hasn’t personally witnessed racist comments during a summer of passionate town hall demonstrations. The Virginia Republican, speaking to POLITICO on a day when President Barack Obama was meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York, expressed a dim view of the White House’s Middle East policy, saying Obama doesn’t seem to be a “true friend” of the Jewish state. Cantor, who hasn’t met with senior administration officials for months, also...

Anyone who thought that "values voters" were still licking their wounds after the Republican Party received a drubbing at the polls might have found the atmosphere in Washington's plush Omni Shoreham Hotel rather surprising. An audience of 2,000 Christian conservatives gathered to listen to their political and media icons, condemn the Obama administation's alleged socialist agenda and plot the downfall of the Democrats at the 2010 mid-term elections. The mood was angry and defiant at the annual "Values Voters Summit", which kicked off with a rousing call to arms from Republican Congressman Mike Pence, from Indiana, a man some see...

The House voted Thursday to deny federal money to the community-organizing group Acorn after a video emerged in which employees of the group gave advice to two conservative activists posing as a prostitute and a pimp who said they wanted buy a house in Baltimore and start a brothel. Republicans added the prohibition to a Democratic bill on college lending by a bipartisan vote of 345-75, showing that Acorn, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was increasingly seen by Democrats as a political liability. “Acorn has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that...

During his speech before a joint session of Congress last week, President Obama addressed voter skepticism about his health-care overhaul. The fact remains that tens of millions of Americans are still concerned about his plan and its ultimate impact on the cost, quality and accessibility of health services nationwide. President Obama’s biggest problem is that the widespread concern over his $1 trillion reform plan is real, organic, and legitimate. Now that we’ve had a week to digest the president’s remarks, let’s pull back the facade, open up House bill H.R. 3200, and take a look at five reasons why the...

Here is video of Sean Hannity talking with GOP Rep. Eric Cantor about President Obama's Health Care Speech to a Joint Session of Congress. Cantor said he was "taken aback by the partisan nature of the speech." He said Obama was throwing up a smokescreen with the attacks on opponents of his attempt to bring Government Health Care. He also said Obama overstated the idea that the economy is "back from the brink." Cantor said again he was "aghast" at the "hyperbole" used by Obama in the speech. In contrast to that, Cantor said "we need some adult leadership." ....

Four independent groups are launching more than $1 million in attack ads Tuesday targeting five House Republicans who voted against energy legislation in June, spokespeople for the groups said. The ads from the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, MoveOn and Americans United for Change, will target Reps. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), Denny Rehberg (R- Mont.), Roy Blunt (R- Mo.) and two Virginia Republicans, Frank Wolf and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor. The ad casts the members as siding with “big oil and energy interests” and against “the jobs we really need” because they voted against the legislation that would...

Here is video of GOP Rep. Eric Cantor on CNBC yesterday where he talked about Health Care Reform, and a Job Fair he organized for constituents in the Richmond, Virginia area. Cantor said a return to "confidence" on the part of the private sector will be the real key to recovery. Cantor said it's not the Stimulus dollars flowing from Washington that will lead to recovery. It's the strength of small businesses that will drive recovery. Eric Cantor also said the American People have let their will be known through Town Hall Meetings, and they do not want a Government...

The Democrats just can’t get their talking points right on Eric Cantor (R-VA). It was only last year when Cantor’s name was mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential pick that the Democrats wanted everyone to know he’s a Jew. They didn’t mention the religion of any of the other potential candidates. Now, however, they are accusing Eric Cantor, who is Jewish, of fostering Nazism in the United States. Hari Sevugan of the Democratic National Committee sent out an email earlier today with this: It’s disgusting that rather than condemning this hate filled symbolism and mob activity, the highest echelons of...

JERUSALEM – The Obama administration's policy on Israel is misguided, puts too much emphasis on the issue of settlements and ignores the bigger threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, a U.S. delegation of Republican congressmen visiting Israel said Thursday. Led by minority whip Eric Cantor from Virginia, the only Jewish Republican in Congress, the delegation of 25 Republicans say their weeklong mission to Israel is designed to show solidarity with the Jewish state and promote Mideast peace. A group of Democratic congressmen are expected to visit next week. Cantor said that instead of focusing on issues such as Israeli settlement activity...

Republican House of Representatives Whip Eric Cantor (Virginia) said Thursday that U.S. President Barack Obama should be focusing on the Iranian threat instead of trying to impose a freeze on building for Jews in eastern Jerusalem. “I do not know what is driving the focus on settlements, but one of the messages we are delivering is that “priorities should be focused on the existential threat that Iran” poses to Israel as well as to the United States," he said. "Eastern Jerusalem should not take precedence. I do not support engaging with a terrorist regime [Iran], and the U.S. must do...

As relations between Washington and Jerusalem veer onto unusually rocky terrain, two separate delegations of Congressional Democrats and Republicans will visit Israel in the next couple of weeks bearing a crucial message to the Israeli people: Congress' commitment to the U.S.-Israel relationship remains steadfast. America stands with Israel for both moral and strategic reasons. Israel is not only a democratic ally and our only true friend in the Middle East; it is also a vital pillar of U.S. national security strategy. When it is strong - its borders secure, its people free from the threat of Iran and its terrorist...

A delegation of 25 US congressmen began a six-day trip to Israel on Monday in the largest ever Republican mission to visit the Jewish state, the US embassy said. They held talks with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who told them Israel was willing to immediately resume direct talks with Syria, but ruled out returning the Golan Heights which were captured in 1967 and annexed in 1981. "Whatever the case, the Golan must remain under Israeli control in any agreement with Syria," Lieberman said in a statement. Syria insists that it be given back the strategic plateau. Turkey last year brokered...

Though American Jews make up around 2 percent of the population, they have always enjoyed ample representation in Congress, where they account for around 8 percent of legislators. Only one of them is a Republican, but Rep. Eric Cantor, who will visit Israel this month, says Jews belong in the Republican Party. "I'm a firm believer there is a big place for the American Jewish Community in the Republican Party," says Cantor, 46, a Virginian seen as one of his party's great promises. He says he decided to head the delegation of congressmen to visit Israel this month to counteract...

WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- The woman leading the movement challenging President Barack Obama's U.S. birth says she's made some high-profile Republican friends on her Facebook page. Among those who asked to be her friend? Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia, and Reps. Mary Bono Mack of California and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Politico reported. "I am in total disbelief and greatly honored," Orly Taitz, a Russian-born dentist-lawyer in Orange County, Calif., wrote on her blog Monday after Cantor appeared as one of her Facebook friends. "To me it means that the leadership...

Orly Taitz, the California attorney-dentist leading the charge of the so-called birthers movement, is boasting on her blog that she’s made some high-profile “friends” on Facebook: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor and GOP Reps. Mary Bono Mack and Cynthia Lummis. “I am in total disbelief and greatly honored,” Taitz wrote on her blog today after Cantor appeared as one of her Facebook "friends." “To me it means that the leadership of the Republican party understands the importance of the issues and legal cases I brought forward. I hope more congressmen and senators join and...

The air seemed to go out of the ObamaCare balloon Thursday. He was greeted by scathing reviews of his mediocre press conference the night before. Then the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the third time canceled its mark-up on the health care bill, a sure sign the votes just weren’t there. A Thursday conference with the Republican House leadership suggested renewed confidence on the GOP side. Rep. Roy Blunt, who had been charged with assembling a health care solutions group, proclaimed: “As the president has gotten less specific, we have been more specific.” Minority Leader John Boehner then emphasized...

The American health care model is about choice. At its core, it's about families having the ability to consult with their doctor and choose for themselves the quality health care that best meets their need. This is what dis tinguishes us and makes our system -- however imperfect -- stronger than those of nations such as Canada and Great Britain. American families do not want their health decisions made by someone in the basement of the Health and Human Services building hundreds of miles away from their family member's bedside. They don't want to wait for weeks -- or even...

Joe Biden wants to make a big splash by campaigning in Eric Cantor’s district to rebuild support for Porkulus, despite its utter failure to stop the massive bleeding of jobs in the US. Apparently, Cantor’s Republican reply to Barack Obama’s weekly radio address stung the White House a little more than first thought. However, if the Washington Post has Biden’s speech correct, Obama may want to send him to a state funeral overseas for a while instead: