Cantor criticizes focus on health care, then focuses on health care

By GottaLaff

Dueling Cantors. Cantor #1:

Cantor criticizes focus on health care

After a GOP caucus meeting today, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor argued that health-care reform was increasingly becoming a roadblock to Congress being able to address other important issues facing the country.

Cantor said, "Health care in this building has made it so that it seems we can't get anything else done. We have burning issues out there in this country. [...]

He continued, "We have serious challenges as far as Afghanistan is concerned, that's being clouded by the rigidity by which this majority hangs on to H.R. 3200 [the House health-care legislation] and the imposition of a public option."

So basically he appears to be saying that if he agreed with the Democrats, it would be okay to deal with vital issues like health care that affect nearly everything else on the agenda.

But instead, he's stomping his foot and tantruming because the public option is BAD, and health care reform is HARD, and he's in the MINORITY party, and he wants to talk about OTHER STUFF!

Except when he doesn't.

Cantor #2:

Cantor Agrees to Meet With Hoyer on Health Care

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Wednesday accepted House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) offer to meet and discuss areas of bipartisan agreement on health care reform.

See, Eric, the quickest, most effective route to resolving an issue is dealing with it, whether it's time-consuming or not, whether you agree with the components or not, or whether you like the outcome or not.

Or maybe you simply have trouble focusing.