Cantor is seriously on crack when he says that the Democrats are overreacting to the economic crisis:
The Virginia Republican, speaking to reporters at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday morning, praised Rush Limbaugh for his "ideas" and for avoiding the Democratic error of "overreacting, if you will, which this town often does, to crisis...
He went on to criticize Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's recent statement that the biggest danger was "doing too little" to deal with the meltdown.
"Doing too much has huge, huge pitfalls as well," he said.
His comments come a day after the GOP released an alternative budget plan that makes permanent Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, freezes non-defense spending and reduces lower-income tax rates.
Cantor parted with some in his party by saying the "jury is still out" on Barack Obama's presidency and urged everyone to withhold judgment: "We're only coming up to 100 days."
But he quickly pivoted, saying that Obama's overreach might propel the GOP back to power -- and fast.
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