To Cantor, an $8 billion high-speed rail connecting Las Vegas to Disneyland is wasteful “pork-barrel spending.” The Virginia Republican set up the “You Cut” Web site to demonstrate how easy it is to slash government programs. ... Letters obtained by Newsweek show him pressing the Transportation Department to spend nearly $3 billion in stimulus money on a high-speed-rail project—not the one he derided in Nevada, but another in his home state.On one hand this is mis-leading; on the other hand, Cantor has brought it upon himself. Cantor is the representative of approximately 650,000 people - he should be lauded for trying to bring in a project that includes $3 billion in stimulus money. In a normal world, each representative would be doing his best to get his snout in the trough, fighting to get as much money and jobs as possible for the very people that he, you know, represents.
But Cantor has instead set himself up on the national stage, be it using a pretend deficit crisis to bring to a head a reason to shut down the government or speaking at the University of Michigan (why is a Congressman from Virginia speaking at the University of Michigan?), encasing himself in national slogans and "anti-spending!" hysteria. Cantor would do better by actually bringing pork into his district and improving the lives of his constituents as opposed to making himself out to be a hypocrite. If every Congressman was selfish towards the needs of their own districts we'd be better off; it's when they begin to do the dance on a national level and belie all reality that they get their own districts in trouble.
Eric Cantor spends the greater part of every day completely screwing over his 650K constituents in the name of dried up, stupid rhetoric so that the super-rich who have nothing to do with his 650K constituents get more and more money. Ironically, he has become a hypocrite for asking for money for his own district when were it not for people like himself, he'd get it.
