House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Calls Wall St. Protests ‘Growing Mobs’
EmailMajority Leader Eric Cantor today described the Occupy Wall Street protesters as “growing mobs,” in some of the sharpest criticism yet from a one of the highest-ranking Republican leaders in the House.
“What is the core of that protest?” Biden asked at the Washington Ideas Forum. “The core is: The bargain has been breached. The core is the American people do not think the system is fair or on the level. That is the core is what you’re seeing with Wall Street.”
At a White House news conference, President Obama said the Wall Street protest “expresses the frustrations that the American people feel.”
“We had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street,” Obama said. “And yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place.”
In the three weeks since the “Occupy” protests began in lower Manhattan, they have spread beyond New York City to cities across the country.
In Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, Texas, and other metro areas, protesters are demanding jobs, the investigation of Wall Street bankers involved in the financial crisis and a roll back of the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court case that allowed corporations to donate unlimited funds to political campaigns.
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LOL…LOL….just how stupid are you Cantor? This is how ‘autoritarians, tyrants and bullies’ act everyone. I hope you are all paying attention as to what the GOP really STANDS FOR AND WHOM THEY SUPPORT.
Posted by: CND FOX | October 7, 2011, 10:46 am 10:46 am
This pencil neck Geek, Cantor, needs to come out fighting. Bring A damn jobs bills
out and put some conviction to it. Worried about some mobs protesting is not getting us anywhere. The riots of the sixty’s show us that angry mobs end up in jail with broken skulls. Obama got his plan out their, so Cantor put the republican plan out their and compromise. We our one nation,people are hurting, so get your scrawny butt to work and put the country back to work. You got to give a little to get something i just do not get these weak kneed politicians.
Posted by: deadwrestler | October 7, 2011, 10:56 am 10:56 am
Washington is not broken. just the legislative branch. the founders envisioned a deliberative body where laws that were for the good of the country were passed. Reason and compromise were required and country came first,not the party or special interests. It seems Congress wants President Obama to do their job. Eric Cantor is a prime example of why Congress doesn’t work.
Congress needs to be reformed before any thing will get done. Congressmen and Senators should be held to the same standards as judges and jurors. If they take any money or favors to influence their vote they should be prosecuted and if convicted sent to jail.
Occupy Wall Street is just a reflection of the American peoples frustration with the graft and influence peddling that goes on by big business to influence Congress.
Posted by: tferretti | October 7, 2011, 11:01 am 11:01 am
Hahahaha Cantor called the Tea Party “an organic, grass-roots movement”. He went on to say “That’s part of the beauty of the tea party movement; it’s organic.”
But any other protests from American citizens who may disagree with Cantor’s views? “Mobs”. What a smug cartoon of a politician.
Cantor has already refused to meet with HIS angry constituents at a Townhall meeting – only those his highness deemed acceptable were allowed. What a twisted notion of Democracy – vote this arrogant politician GONE.
Posted by: green.goddess | October 7, 2011, 11:03 am 11:03 am
Most of the Camping Anarchists are nothing more than Puppet Stooges who do not know why they are there!
Posted by: Common _ Sense | October 7, 2011, 11:04 am 11:04 am
CANTOR, ROMNEY and other GOPERS ARE SCARED. THEY SHOULD BE–because they are a big part of the problem and they are miffed that finally the sleeping masses are waking up to truth of what is really going. Cantor and other GOPers never said the sort of thing they are now saying about the “occupy wall street” movement. YES, IT IS ALREADY A MOVEMENT. ASK THOSE WHO REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE SUBJECT. The Tea Party was never really a “movement.” It is very reactionary and is the cunning invention of Rich backers like the Koch Brothers to protect the rich (the top 1%) and to work against the interest of the people; the Ocuupy Wall Street crowd is a spontaneous people’s movement of the 99%. The Tea Party is very corrupt, corrupted by the rich. They even financed the 2010 elections that got many Tea Party activists into the US House of Congress. The Occupy Wall Street crowd is innocent in its demands and fucuses on the interests of ordinary people–common will. The Tea Party has never drawn the kind of spontaneous crowd we are seeing in New York and all over the country.
Dr. Sam
Posted by: Dr. Sam | October 7, 2011, 11:04 am 11:04 am
“House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Calls Wall St. Protests ‘Growing Mobs’”
Yep! That are coming to see you REAL soon!
Posted by: MyTakeOnThis61 | October 7, 2011, 11:10 am 11:10 am
What is up with the “you post to SLOW error message”????
Posted by: anotherday | October 7, 2011, 11:12 am 11:12 am
Where was Cantor when the Tea Baggers where out their ranting racial remarks and screaming at the man with no legs about not having a job?????? What a frigging CREEP! I hope someone takes this snot a$$ hole down!
Posted by: SinTexas | October 7, 2011, 11:17 am 11:17 am
Can’t believe the hypocrisy coming from “reich” wing. They say that these people have no message, although they have stated repeatedly that they are dissatisfied by the way our law makers take our money and give it away to corporate interests and the top 1%. What did the TEA baggers stand for? “Taxed Enough Already”, even though, our tax rates are at their lowest in 50 years. Sure, it’s OK for people in Egypt and Libya to protest against government corruption but not in America, because it’s Un-American LOL…Fox “News” has dumbed down these knuckle draggers to the point of mental retardation. Got some bad news for you folks….There’s a tsunami coming.
Posted by: madoux | October 7, 2011, 11:53 am 11:53 am
It makes me sick, reading about how proud these people are to be th 1%. Obviously they do not know anything about history. The poor oppressed masses will only take it lying down for so long, then they will rise up and the elite 1% will have to pay the piper! Remember he French and Bolsheviek revolutions. Wake up corporate America, We Have Had Enough! It is no longer a Race issue, it is a Have vs. Have not issue. It is Survival!
Posted by: rhondabee | October 7, 2011, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
OMG really Mr. Cantor? So Americans are tired of this bogus economy and all these rich ass gredy people stealing from the little are called mobs. OMG please get over yourself and look at the big picture.
Posted by: Ebony | October 7, 2011, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
Typical Repuplican response. Poor people protest and a rich, white man in power complains. Wake up Eric Cantor you ignorant rich white man….ps I’m a middle class woman who votes.
Posted by: patti | October 7, 2011, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm
LOL…. Tea Party people get trashed for speaking… Wall Street Protesters get trashed for speaking. Until we get rid of the idiots on the left and the idiots on the right.. we are doomed.
Posted by: anotherday | October 7, 2011, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
Hello. Here is the deal with Cantormobs. It is not “Americans vs. Americans.” Take a broader viewpoint. What is going on? Let me explain. The Wealthy Powerful Elite Continue To Amass More Wealth. That conduct has consequences: a melting planet / nuclear radiation leaks at idiotic water boiling facilities / American citizens killed and maimed on far away battlefields in Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan / a generation of black American men in US prisons / an on and on and on. The cause of all our American difficulties is not politics / liberal thought / free market thinkers / stuff like all that is mere underbrush. Our troubles arise from the Wealthy Elite Continuing To Amass Wealth. Good luck folks. JOHN LONGENECKER
Posted by: JOHN LONGENECKER | October 7, 2011, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
Another puppet of the Aristocracy betrays his complete lack of understanding of what is happening.
15 million homeowners underwater due to criminal bank fraud. If America doesn’t see justice we are going to see a real revolution and possibly lose everything.
Posted by: John | October 7, 2011, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
“Typical Repuplican response. Poor people protest and a rich, white man in power complains. Wake up Eric Cantor you ignorant rich white man….ps I’m a middle class woman who votes.”
And your vote counts!
Posted by: Jeffery Immelt | October 7, 2011, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
“We had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street,” Obama said. “And yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place.”
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Power to the People!
Posted by: Peter Orszag | October 7, 2011, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
Where was Cantor when the Tea Baggers where out their ranting racial remarks and screaming at the man with no legs about not having a job?????? What a frigging CREEP! I hope someone takes this snot a$$ hole down!
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Hysterical. He may get an Apple product thrown at him.. Hey, Hey, Ho Ho, Eric Cantor gets hit by an iPhone!
Posted by: Angry Hipster | October 7, 2011, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
It takes me back to the 60′s.
Posted by: BikernAz12 | October 7, 2011, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm
Eric Cantor recently wrote that President Obama is “fueled by efforts to incite class warfare.”
This coming from a leading voice in the Republican Party – a group of politicians who promote ideas such as eliminating child labor laws, destroying US Post Office jobs, cutting payments for old sick people, and removing environmental protections.
Meanwhile they fight to prevent restrictions on Too Big to Fail Banks, Monopolies, and the Wall Street gambling practices that contributed to our economic disaster. Where is the so-called Tea Party now?
Yeah, Eric, go ahead and sneeringly dismiss other Americans as “mobs”. Show us which side of “class warfare” YOU are fighting for.
Posted by: green.goddess | October 7, 2011, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
You know what’s more ironic than an “occupy” protestor on an iPhone? Eric Cantor placing the blame of pitting Americans against Americans on the Democrats. Hilarious. The entire GOP has a bad case of schizophrenia.
Posted by: Jason | October 7, 2011, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
“This coming from a leading voice in the Republican Party – a group of politicians who promote ideas such as eliminating child labor laws, destroying US Post Office jobs, cutting payments for old sick people, and removing environmental protections.”
Promotions like that work quite well:
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Posted by: Sold | October 7, 2011, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
Class Warfare? Damned right. We’ve been losing for years. It’s about time the middle class began to realize it and fight back.
Posted by: nickindc | October 7, 2011, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
“Class Warfare? Damned right. We’ve been losing for years. It’s about time the middle class began to realize it and fight back.”
Good luck.
Posted by: Jeffrey Immelt | October 7, 2011, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
SOLD | OCTOBER 7, 2011, 2:44 PM 2:44 PM posted: “Obama Halts EPA Regulation On Smog Standards”
Typical Right Wing obfuscation. As if this President the same agenda as Eric Cantor’s House Republicans. WRONG.
Just YESTERDAY, the House voted to force a rewrite of federal air-pollution regulations for cement plants, the latest step in a Republican-led effort to undercut the Environmental Protection Agency; if this law passed, the EPA would be forced to rescind existing rules controlling toxic emissions from cement kilns.
I wonder if Eric Cantor’s family lives next to a cement plant? Probably not since he’s an Ayn Rand “producer” – it’s only her so-called “parasites” who live and work in toxic and dangerous jobs that need government regulation. Today Rand would likely agree with Cantor’s definition of the the Wall Street protests as “mobs”.
Posted by: green.goddess | October 7, 2011, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
To the comment about the Tea Party being racists and yelling racial remarks…I attended one tea party last April. There were no racist remarks. It actually reminded me of a church service. We prayed and asked for God to bring back our country on what it was founded. Please do not make comments that are outright lies. The Tea Party movement is not the same movement that is taking place at Wall Street. Not even close. The Tea Party movement wants less government, not more. Please get your facts straight. God bless.
Posted by: Bre | October 7, 2011, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Posted by: green.goddess | October 7, 2011, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
Like he or she said, those promotions do seem to work quite well. Nice attempt at whining about EPA rules being dumped by Obama though.
Posted by: Jeffrey Immelt | October 7, 2011, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
Cantor does not have a clue what’s wrong with America. So long as he keeps getting paid by corporations to do their bidding he could care less about real Americans. He thinks that people exercising their constitutional right to free assembly are mobs? He should resign.
Posted by: john | October 7, 2011, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
greengoddess says “Most of the Camping Anarchists are nothing more than Puppet Stooges who do not know why they are there!”
No goddess, you don’t know why they’re there. Everyone else knows exactly why they’re there.
Posted by: john | October 7, 2011, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
“Cantor does not have a clue what’s wrong with America. So long as he keeps getting paid by corporations to do their bidding he could care less about real Americans. He thinks that people exercising their constitutional right to free assembly are mobs? He should resign.”
I’ve tried to tell him many times, but he never returns my calls…
Posted by: Jeffrey Immelt | October 7, 2011, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
JEFFREY IMMELT | OCTOBER 7, 2011, 4:07 PM posted : “Nice attempt at whining about EPA rules being dumped by Obama though.” (one of his many incarnations)
Sorry “JEFFREY”, but the standard Right Wing tactic of dismissiveness won’t make the real world “mobs” go away.
As if Solyndra, Immelt, or Geithner make the Obama Administration’s policies EXACTLY the same as the Right Wing’s goal to dismantle the EPA and Department of Education, to privatize the Post Office and Social Security, and to remove child labor laws.
And if the Right Wing is so concerned about Solyndra or GE or Big Bank Bailouts, shouldn’t we ALL be demanding changes to corporate control in our political process and voters’ health? Or do you agree with Citizens United that corporations are “people”?
Posted by: green.goddess | October 7, 2011, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
These idiots protesting on wall st are in the wrong place. They need to march on the white house and ask for resignation of the man that caused this and bailed everyone out even stupid car companies, and also march on fannie mae and freddie mac that are behind this mess. But leave it to the gullible college kids that should be studying and the greedy unions!
Posted by: Jay | October 7, 2011, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
Who is causing the jobless rate…….Obama not wall st.
March on washington!!!!!!
Posted by: Jay | October 7, 2011, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
JAY | OCTOBER 7, 2011, 5:29 PM posted: “…and bailed everyone out even stupid car companies”
Since the government “bailed out”, those “stupid car companies” – the industry has added almost 90,000 manufacturing jobs. I guess in Right Wing world, that’s “stupid”. Instead, Mitt Romney told the nation that we should “let Detroit go bankrupt”. What were you saying about resignation?
Posted by: green.goddess | October 7, 2011, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
Shades of 1789. Eric Cantor is on the wrong side of this debate. Don’t look now Eric, but there may be Robespierre out there with and eye on you and your fellow power elites.
Posted by: Chuck | October 7, 2011, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
The toadies of the rich, the Republicans, will always defend the interests of the rich at the expense of the average American.
Posted by: mark | October 7, 2011, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
It’s funny: politicians will call the uprisings in the streets of Yemen, Egypt, Syria and Libya, “the democratic voice of the people crying out for freedom from corruption.” But when it happens in the streets of New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., they are unruly mobs trying to destroy jobs and the American Way. ROFL!! Frickin’ Hypocrites.
The same people filling the streets of Cairo are the same ones filling the streets of Boston: PEOPLE WHO ARE TIRED OF BEING CRUSHED BY GOVERNMENT GREED AND CORRUPTION!!
Bring that on down here to Dallas. I’m ready to hit the streets!
Posted by: pop | October 7, 2011, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
the ocupay wall street is againts the coorporatins and wall strit they influence and bay of the congres and the dont trast any mor the system hwo the work.
we have seen on tv hwo the republicant opose evrithing from health cear to the jub act.We have seen hw0 senator benhar behave and we know that samthing went wrong(and are the lobyst and coorporatins behind all this manipulations)
Posted by: arian | October 7, 2011, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
government greed got to stop time to tar &feather Republicans congressmen right out of office if the banks got payed from taxpayers money then all the house foreclosed on are owned by taxpayers so move back in to your HOME !!!
Posted by: jim | October 8, 2011, 9:55 am 9:55 am
Eric Cantor… I must admit you know your mob when you see one… your mob on the hill is a shining example of what is dangerours. You would rather see this country go into default instead of paying our bills and creating jobs. All the tax breaks and government deregulation has createde negative jobs and put us into the worst depression since the great depression. All on your watch… what do you think most of the people of the US and the world think of you!!!! i cannot repeat the explitives here but suffice it to say it is much worse than a mob and closer to an IDIOT
Posted by: Charles | October 8, 2011, 11:07 am 11:07 am
Eric Cantor better realize that most people are dissatisfied with congress because they are the ones who right the laws that put the US population in this terrible spot from deregulation, greed and selfishness. All incumbents need to be replaced, period. All members of congress need to live under same rules as the people of the US, same benefits and same social security system no special priviledges including pensions. Congress is going to see the rath of the real Americans soon for there ineptness as Leaders and for there total lack of understanding of the economy. Do nothing Leaders all must go away Eric Cantor included.
Posted by: Jim Reilly | October 8, 2011, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm
have been employed for the last 30 years. I am a military veteran. I am 50 years old and have only collected unemployment benefits for 2 months years ago after i was honorably discharged. I have worked for non-union and union shops (skilled trades and union is better) I definitly support this movement, I am not a freeloader or thug like many on here say. I am and always have been a hard working, tax paying blue collar worker…God bless America
I will end this post Mr Cantor with a quote from one of the most honorable republican presidents ever to serve the United States. Abraham Lincoln I hope you read this.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Mike Horn | October 8, 2011, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
What happened to the reply I just posted?
Posted by: Tim | October 8, 2011, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
Please let me try again. Those bloggers above who support these Occupy mobs are either rude, incoherent, or can’t spell!! The protests are aimless, backed by job-crushing Unions and Liberal shills like Move-on.org! The protesters are lazy and selfish, wanting the Federal Government to do everything for theM!! THey want America to be come a Third World Welfare State!
Posted by: Tim | October 8, 2011, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
Here Obama is talking about his staff – Geitner, Locke, Bernanke etc……..when he says:
“And yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place.”
Take 1000 risky mortgages – put em in a blender till they’re untraceable – sell this juice to the planet as AAA assets – then get assigned to the Executive Branch to bail out your criminal friends who sold this koolaid to the world.
Posted by: NOTOWTO | October 8, 2011, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
Growing Mob!!?? Here, Here!! and may they grow from Border to Border, and Sea to shining Sea!!!!! It’s because of B@#$%^&* like you that the country is in the mess that’s it’s in, you and that Genius that was in office for eight years.
Posted by: Constance | October 8, 2011, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
cantor is a smarmy, fully grown embecile.
Posted by: Steve Egger | October 9, 2011, 2:01 am 2:01 am
Rep Cantor: I don’t how you were raised or who raised you, but as a Jew, I am ashamed of you. You have no heart, no human warmth, no compassion, no empathy. You are a hollow shell of a human being. Your behavior is simply reprehensible. Have you no shame?
Posted by: Bari | October 9, 2011, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm
This is scary. What can we do?
Posted by: Tom Hollingsworth | November 2, 2011, 11:59 am 11:59 am