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Speaking at this weekend’s hate convention in DC, GOP Rep. Eric Cantor characterized the Wall Street protesters as a “mob” that wants to “divide America.” Last year Cantor had nothing to say about Tea Party activists who were literally calling for civil war.

By a 3-2 vote, the leaders of the U.S. House voted today to intervene in the DOMA cases presently in the courts. In a party-line vote of 3-2, the five-member Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group composed of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Democrats House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi …

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said last night that a GOP plan to defend DOMA will be in place by the end of the week. Cantor’s announcement came as the GOP completely ended unemployment and the nation’s budget crisis, as promised. “I stand by [Boehner’s] commitment to make that happen,” Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday afternoon at a press conference, promising …

God, aka Norman Laboon, has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination. Laboon was arrested last week after Rep. Eric Cantor dug up two year old death threats that Laboon had made against him on YouTube. Critics charge that Cantor’s team was desperately looking for any proof that Republicans too have been the subject of threats, as were many Democrats …

After Rep. Eric Cantor went on the cable shows over the weekend to claim it wasn’t just Democratic members of Congress receiving death threats over health care reform, most of us rolled our eyes. But today a man has been arrested for making death threats against Cantor. And it looks like he’s gay and frequents LGBT blogs. Chris Geidner at …

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) who famously texted throughout Obama’s health care speech, knowing the camera was on him, came to the defense of Rep. Joe Wilson as teabaggers screamed their new battle-cry, “Obama lies!” In this clip, “head of the teabaggers” Mark Wilson claims Obama “knows that any ban on federal health benefits for illegal immigrants would never stand up …