{"id":669570,"date":"2010-02-19T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77043"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:46:45","slug":"eric-cantor-keeps-it-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669570","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":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Obw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771083,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669570\/revisions\/771083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}