{"id":339217,"date":"2010-02-19T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77043"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:56:11","slug":"eric-cantor-keeps-it-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339217","title":{"rendered":"Eric Cantor Keeps It Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday morning session at CPAC follows a pattern &#8212; an exciting opening speech to rouse conference attendees out of bed, and a few pro forma speeches until the possible presidential candidates show up. Herman Cain, an African-American conservative radio host from Georgia, was given the fire-up duties, then Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had to bat clean-up. And Cantor&#8217;s speech received the most mild reception I&#8217;d yet seen here. He simply didn&#8217;t try to rev up the crowd: <span id=\"more-77043\"><\/span>The Democrats&#8217; problems don&#8217;t mean &#8220;Republicans have earned the trust&#8221; of voters yet; The party needs to commit to a &#8220;reform agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only flashes of energy came from William Temple, the omnipresent Revolutionary War re-enactor, who stood at the entrance to the ballroom shouting &#8220;Huzzah!&#8221; and waving a bayonet and Gadsden flag for every statement he liked.<\/p>\n<p>It was a typical Cantor performance. He didn&#8217;t spend much time on the appeal to history or one-liners about Obama. If his party prospers, Cantor will become majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>Following Cantor: Mark Mix of National Right to Work, who actually said this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom works and freedom works. At National Right to Work, we&#8217;re interested in the &#8216;freedom works&#8217; part of this equation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday morning session at CPAC follows a pattern &#8212; an exciting opening speech to rouse conference attendees out of bed, and a few pro forma speeches until the possible presidential candidates show up. Herman Cain, an African-American conservative radio host from Georgia, was given the fire-up duties, then Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}