In his Saturday response to our president, Republican Rep. Eric Cantor sounded the alarm on the job-killing government tax and spend policies of a Democrat Congress and the Obama administration, while our debt is approaching ruinous levels. Video: GOP: Runaway Spending Is Washington's Disease.Last night in remarks to a packed room of the Republican Jewish Coalition he also underscored the peril we face with Iran's development of nuclear weapons and urged Congressional passage of a blanket ban on Iran's petroleum imports. It has bipartisan support and it's one sanction that has teeth. Sen. McCain spoke in favor yesterday, and given the leaked memo on the lack of an Iran policy that surfaced in the NY Times of all places, the it can't happen soon enough.
Cantor and Rep. Peter Roskam were on with WLS Don and Roma this morning and calls came in from people worried about bailouts and the deficit and job-killing regulations on lending that are stopping new small business formation cold--the Bill Gates of the future. Free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea are stalled as well, which Roskam pointed out could create 250,000 jobs here. Colombia is also our ally in the drug war, next door to narco-terrorist (and Iran) supporter Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, yet union bosses are blocking these bills in Congress. A Democrat called in supporting ObamaCare, but Roskam replied of course tort reform is not in the bill, which doesn't lower costs and doesn't fix the failing Medicaid program but pushes more Americans into it. Repeal, and then replace is the answer, with a competitive product that gives Americans more choice, not less, helping the most vulnerable, but not breaking what's working.
Cantor emphasized Illinois congressional races may well be ground zero for firing Nancy Pelosi as Dem majority leader and getting America back on track. Amen to that.
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