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Democrats Arm Members for Message Wars
House Democratic leaders have ramped up their efforts to give their rank-and-file Members plenty of messaging fodder to take home during the August recess.
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Cantor Rakes In Wall Street Donations After Questioning Obama's Commitment To Finance Industry (Huffington Post)
Huffington Post - Back in February 2010, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) made a pitch to the titans of the financial services industry. "I sense a lot of dissatisfaction and a lot of buyer's remorse on Wall Street," the Virginia Republican ...
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Cantor opposes Bachmanns tea party caucus, says the movement should be kept outside of Washington.
Last week, the House approved the creation of Rep. Michele Bachmanns (R-MN) Tea Party Caucus, which aims to promote the movements call for fiscal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution, and limited government within Congress. A number of
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Letter to the Editor: GOP leadership is not a team of rivals
Letter to the editor: Boehner, Cantor, and McCarthy combine to form the perfect storm.
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Democrats Score Big Win on Jobs Bill
House Democrats trumpeted a blowout victory Wednesday on the first item on their revamped jobs agenda not only because they racked up a much-needed accomplishment but also because they drove a wedge between Republican rank-and-file Members and their ...
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Obama Signs Financial Reform -- Including Movie Futures Trading Ban
Appears to finally end any chance for trading of box office receipts
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Website Lets You Vote to Cut Gov't Programs
Now you can castyour vote on what government programs you think should be cut from the budget.
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Bit by Electronic Bit, a Great Cantor Is Restored
Yossele Rosenblatt, known as the Jewish Caruso, died in 1933, but a Brooklyn devotee has made CDs of the cantors 78s without the crackles.
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Fluke rebrands its app performance product range
Visual Network Systems to sell performance management tools Fluke Network Systems has created a new company to better target the application performance market (APM) with what a company exec calls an "enterprise intelligence" strategy. While Fluke ...
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Cantor won't join House Tea Party Caucus
Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, won't be joining the official Tea Party Caucus.
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Time for GOP drape-measuring in the House?
Um ... no , and it doesn't appear they are.
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All politics, all the time
The Democratic Congress may be done with substance for the year.
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GOP's 'Young Guns' Book Trailer (VIDEO)
Hey, have you heard about the Young Guns? Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy are handsome, young(ish) Republicans who want to teach other Republicans how to be handsome and young and "chang[e] the face of the Republican Party and giv[e] ...
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Love of Logic [Science Tattoo] | The Loom
Melissa writes, I have a mathematical tattoo on my left forearm. Its in Freges notation (from Grundgesetze der Arithmetik), which was one of the first modern logical notations. If it were written on a flat surface, it would start with the short
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Francis and the Lights, 'It'll Be Better' (Cantora)
As hip-hop's latest nerdy, white-boy muse, Francis Starlite is a Drake- and Kanye-approved, Eraserheaded ball of overearnestness who can moonwalk like Fred Astaire. Tightly wound to the point of unease, the Brooklyn singer-pianist's third album has its ...
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Espada Faces a Well-Financed Opponent in Primary
The Working Families Party will focus its resources on ousting State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. and electing a little-known candidate, Jose Gustavo Rivera.
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Japan: Put Your Political House in Order
Ahead of the BOJ's policy decision, Uwe Parpart, chief economist and strategist, Asia, Cantor Fitzgerald, speaks to CNBC's Oriel Morrison about what the central bank needs to do to get the economy back on track.
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Congress bans boxoffice futures trading
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved financial reform legislation that includes a ban on treating boxoffice as a commodity which can be the basis of a futures market for investors.
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Blurb Flap!
No, the two words of this headline were not picked at random: they describe a flap over the publisher's blurb describing a book by House Republicans Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy entitled "Young Guns," wherein publisher Simon & Schuster ...
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Minority_Whip_Cantor_Predicts_GOP_Return_to_Power_in_Congress_after_Fall_Electioins
The HIll is reporting House Minority Whip Eric Cantor( R-Va. ) on Monday predicted his party would return to power this fall. I think we retake the House, as Mr. Gibbs suggested yesterday from the White House, Cantor said Monday during an appearance
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Stimulus Critic Cantor To Host THIRD Jobs Fair Filled With Employers With $50 Million In Recovery Funds
But where are the jobs, Neil ?After whipping his caucus into uniformly opposing the stimulus, Cantor has been the lead spokesman decrying the program as a failure. Ignoring evidence that that the stimulus is helping to turn around the economy, ...
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Chutzpah Watch
CHUTZPAH WATCH.... Of all the misguided critics of last year's Recovery Act, arguably none has been quite as aggressive as House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va). As it turns out, of those same critics, arguably none has been exposed...
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Cantor To Host Job Fair With Employers Stimulated By Over $50 Million In Recovery Act Funds
House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been one of the Recovery Acts most vocal critics. After whipping his caucus into uniformly opposing the stimulus, Cantor has been the lead spokesman decrying the program as a failure. Ignoring evidence ...
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Dept. of things that will irritate John Boehner
Amid talk of the tension between Republican leader John Boehner and his ambitious younger colleagues, Jake Sherman has the book announ
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Ad Fodder
Well, we're finally entering the hot zone for campaign 2010...the general election ads will start going up soon and then the terrain may begin to change--since ads grow more and more important with each passing newspaper. The Republicans have gotten a ...
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George Will: Obama Is The Expert On Snake Oil, Not The GOP
President Obama 's assertion at a fundraiser in Las Vegas on Thursday that the Republicans "are peddling that same snake oil that theyve been peddling now for years made the rounds of the Sunday shows this morning, to a less than encouraging ...
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GOP cliques already causing some tensions
GOP CLIQUES ALREADY CAUSING SOME TENSIONS.... How certain are House Republicans that they'll reclaim the majority in the next Congress? There's some evidence that they're moving past the "confidence" phase, and have already adopted the "internal ...
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Financial Reform
Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX.com) laid off the majority of its staff [last] Thursday. The move comes as HSXs parent company Cantor Fitzgeralds long-gestating plans to sell shares of box-office earnings hit a legislative roadblock last week. .
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Clift: The Battle for Control Inside the GOP
The prospect of the November elections becoming a replay of 1994 has Democrats running scared everywhere except, apparently, at the White House, where the famous Obama cool keeps everyones emotions in check. Sure, losses are expected in the first ...
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Bullied ex-Cantor broker joins Tradition
Steven Horkulak has been appointed managing director for Europe at Tradition as the firm seeks to win business from rivals Icap, GFI and Tullett Prebon. He is tasked with improving the firms presence in continental Europe, a role he filled previously ..
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