Cantor’s Cant 0
Dick Polman wonders about Eric Cantor’s insistence that disaster aid be offset by budget cuts in other areas.
In particular, why were Republicans so willing to ratify the invasion of Iraq without insisting that the high cost be “offset” by slashing other programs? Cantor never uttered a peep. How come it was OK in 2003 to indulge that neoconservative dream regardless of cost (the Iraq tab approaches $1 trillion), but it’s not OK in 2011 to help Americans recover from a natural disaster regardless of cost?
Gee, I wonder. Perhaps it has something do with who is president today, and who was president in 2003.
The answer is quite simple.
The contemporary Republican Party doesn’t have principles.
It has tactics.