Eric Cantor claims Democrats are overreacting to the economic crisis, and wins GOP Hypocrite of the Week

Eric Cantor

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

The GOP considers Eric Cantor, a Congressman from Virginia and second in the House leadership to John "the Tan Man" Boehner, a rising star. BuzzFlash just considers him an ambitious putz.

Cantor is so tone-deaf that he claimed this week that the Democrats were overreacting to the economic crisis and the growing jobless rate. Of course, the most fundamental hypocrisy here is that Cantor has a government job, government medical care, and a government pension, among other perks. But that didn't stop him from declaring this week that:

"to reporters at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday morning, praised Rush Limbaugh for his 'ideas' and for avoiding the Democratic error of "overreacting, if you will, which this town often does, to crisis. ... Rahm Emanuel said, 'We're not going to miss the opportunity to take advantage of this crisis because we're going to do all the things we couldn't get done before.' He went on to criticize Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's recent statement that the biggest danger was 'doing too little' to deal with the meltdown.

'Doing too much has huge, huge pitfalls as well,' he [Cantor] said.

Politico noted that Cantor's "comments come a day after the GOP released an alternative budget plan that makes permanent Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, freezes non-defense spending and reduces lower-income tax rates."

Cantor wouldn't be a hypocrite if he spent a few months on the unemployment line, lost his house to foreclosure, and couldn't afford to send his kids to college. But because the American taxpayers pay for his employment, he is sitting pretty.

Republicans in Congress such as Cantor have the luxury of dismissing the economic misery of millions of Americans. For that, he is a hypocrite extraordinaire and would be laughable if so many people weren't suffering. 

Remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.

This is the second HOTW Award for Eric Cantor. He also won the award on January 30, 2009. You can see a list of all previous nominees here.

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