The Corruption of Eric Cantor

When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), first assumed federal office he was a rising star in the Republican Party. Often cited by his supporters as a fiscal hawk, and often thought of as a friend to the grassroots, it was not a surprise when in just ten short years Mr. Cantor rose to one of the highest positions in federal government, House Majority Leader. But, as with almost everyone who settles into the inside-the-beltway life, it seems that Mr. Cantor has been afflicted with the ideological cancer that transforms a budding Statesman into another creature of establishment politics, removed from the intimacy of his constituents.
It can be argued that Washington, DC, creates strange and unusual “bedfellows,” where finding solutions to problems facing our country is concerned. If honest men and women were moved to espouse the truth, a consensus would form proving that it is, indeed, those on the Right side of the aisle – along with centrist and independent-leaning Democrats – who do best at finding middle ground in affecting solutions. To wit, it is the Statesman who can not only engage the loyal opposition in an exercise in good government; an exercise that formulates solutions that are fair to all, but balance the inside-the-beltway elitism with fierce loyalty to his or her constituents.

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