http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz34OZlsT88

This is amazing how out of touch the GOP leadership is in the House. Just imagine what that drunk Boner does goofing off while his constituents are fighting day to day to make a living. These guys are as bad as Zero and his crew of shiftless layabouts.....


Men who have perfected failure

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He should have been hugging babies and otherwise schmoozing his constituents in his district in a last minute effort to get out the vote.

But seven-term congressman Eric Cantor was so convinced he would come out the victor in his party's primary, the Virginia Republican reportedly spent yesterday morning at a Starbucks in Washington, D.C. powwowing with lobbyists two hours away.

While House leadership staff were 'shocked' to learn of the No. 2 Republican's defeat last night but former Cantor staffers and conservative activists could smell defeat in the air as far back as January, when Cantor's opponent, Dave Brat, entered the race for the conservative congressional district, located just outside of Virginia's capitol city, Richmond.

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'That there is no love lost between Cantor and the House Speaker it is not an especially well-kept secret,' he said.

Cantor's desire to succeed current House Speaker John Boehner was also an open secret on Capitol Hill. Cantor's critics have long argued that the lawmaker spent more time campaigning for Speaker of the House than he did campaigning for his congressional seat - a charge Cantor denied this afternoon at a presser.

'K Street, the den of Washington lobbyists, became his chief constituency,' Erickson said.

'He just wasn't around anymore, not since he took a leadership role in the House,' a Republican party official in Virginia told MailOnline.

'He turned into a jet-setter, when what we needed was a handyman to fix normal stuff that middle-class people care about,' the official said.

'Cantor spent too much time on the road and in the Hamptons,' a Republican who claims to be close to Speaker Boehner told Politco's Mike Allen.

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'Maybe he should have spent less time in Davos and more time in Culpepper,' a Republican strategist told Huffington Post reporter Jennifer Bendry.

Culpepper is a city in Cantor's congressional district. Davos is located in Switzerland near the Swiss Alps. Cantor led a congressional delegation, or codel, there on a taxpayer-funded trip in late January.

The crew was officially there to attend the World Economic Forum but they were slammed at the time by news outlets on the left and the right for ditching work to hang out at a ski resort and network with global elites.

Tax-payer funded codel trips are not uncommon, but Cantor's perceived lavish spending on the international trip sent conservatives the wrong message at the wrong time.

'It’s a big decision to fire your congressman and replace him with somebody else, but I think people are tired of hearing the rhetoric and seeing the opposite of what they’re looking for in a conservative leader,' Larry Nordvig, head of the Richmond Tea Party, told National Review back in January when Brat launched his campaign.

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Nordvig also complained about the generic letters Cantor would send his constituents.

Form letters are a staple item for every member of Congress. If members of Congress sent every constituent who contacted them a unique response, they would never have time to do anything else, including write legislation that positively impacts their district.

Cantor was the 'king of form letters,' however, Nordvig said.

'If you write to him, if you call, you get a form letter back that is obviously not addressing your issue.'

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Damage control fail!

1 He pushed amnesty
2. He pushed the Dream Act.
3. The above resulted in a horrific invasion of horny, sick illegals that was all over the news
4. He openly waged war on the Tea Party/traditional conservative values, mocked and insulted them.

All the disinformation in the damage control piece here is stuff hes been doing for a long time and it did not cost him an election before...