Eric Cantor

Greg Sargent has Eric Cantor's response to news that an insane Obama donor threatened in a YouTube video to shoot Cantor and his family:

Eric Cantor has spoken out for the first time about the threat on his life, and he says the incident shows that such threats come from all sides of the political spectrum.

Cantor made the comments to a Virginia TV reporter after a local event.

“No one condones the threats, or the violence, or any kind of racial slurs, or introduction of any of that into political discourse,” Cantor said, when asked about the news that the FBI has arrested an apparently deranged man for threatening to kill him and his family in a YouTube video.

Politico reports:

The second-ranking House Republican blasted the Obama administration as “irresponsible” in its dealings with Israel, accusing the White House of trying to curry favor with the Arab world by deriding America’s closest ally in the Middle East.

Conventional wisdom in Washington has already figured out the winners and losers of next week’s White House health care summit.  The smart money is on President Obama. The silver-tongued orator will wow C-Span viewers, demonstrating his knack for substantive detail and cool debating style.

The mainstream media has the tactical narrative ready to report as well. Mr. Obama either forces Republicans to compromise and pass some version of health reform, or makes the GOP look like obstructionists. 

That was easy.  

The Obama White House is apparently very serious about learning absolutely nothing from Massachusetts or the public's rapidly dwindling faith in Washington to solve any problem.

When Republican leaders Eric Cantor and John Boehner sent a letter looking for assurances that they and their ideas might be considered at Obama's proposed bipartisan health-care forum, they got this response:

Obamacare is in trouble in the House.  Passage of whatever compromise health care bill is agreed on by White House, Senate, and House negotiators had been taken for granted in the House – until now.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself in a precarious position.  She cannot afford to lose a single Democratic defector.  She’s already missing two of the 220 votes for Obamacare in November. Democrat Robert Wexler resigned two weeks ago and Anh (Joseph) Cao, the lone Republican to vote for Obamacare, is expected by Republican leaders to vote no this time.