Ethics

Cantor: Liberals to Blame for Birthers!

By Ed Brayton

Here's an amusing statement from a spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor of Ohio:

"Mr. Cantor doesn't question the President's citizenship, but he has serious questions about the President's push for government controlled healthcare, taxes on small business job creators, and a huge energy tax on middle class families. He finds it ironic that those most eager to talk about the President's citizenship are in fact some of his biggest cheerleaders-whether it's Chris Matthews or others on MSNBC, the Huffington Post, or camera toting liberal bloggers chasing people through the streets of Washington."

Right. It's their fault, not the fault of the nutcases who are badgering elected officials over it, bombarding conservative talk shows with calls about it, putting up billboards, harassing judges at book signings, holding "tea parties" with sign after sign referring to it, convening "citizen grand juries" to indict Obama for treason over it, and so forth.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).