re: #715 Varek Raith

Cantor: No Disaster Relief Funding For Hurricane Irene Without Budget Cuts

Ransom.

Cantor is under great pressure to deliver the specified budget cuts. His party base does not want to hear a any excuses, they want the promised results. Too often have Republicans promised cuts in the past and then failed to deliver. The attitude of the GOP’s base is “we won’t get fooled again”. It’s like some jobs I’ve held:

“You will meet the metric or you’ll be fired. No excuses.”