patrick.net

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/eric-cantor-wayne-powell-debate.php

Cantor said, smiling. “And you can go on your personal attacks all you want but it's not doing anything to create jobs, it's not doing anything to bring down the deficit.”

What he was trying to say is that "No jobs bill will ever be passed while I'm the house Marjory leader"

http://majorityleader.gov/JobsTracker/

Virginia lawyer and retired Army Col. Wayne Powell was on a mission in Monday night’s debate — to fire as many rhetorical shots at Eric Cantor in his longshot bid to unseat the House majority leader. Cantor was defending his seat in a debate for just the second time since being elected to Congress in 2000. The Democratic nominee is running his first political campaign, hoping to represent a heavily Republican district, against the House’s No. 2 lawmaker. Speaking loudly and gesticulating heavily, at times as though he was rallying a crowd, Powell cast himself as a pragmatic problem-solver aiming...

and on cutting deficits

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/58_5/Eric-Cantors-tax-Bill-Splits-the-GOP-216136-1.html

Eric Cantor's Tax Bill Splits the GOP

It's not every day Senate Republicans vote to block a tax cut — especially one championed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor — but 21, including all of the rumored potential vice presidential picks, did just that last week, in what appears to signal a growing unease with record deficits.

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