more on the repug talking point that Obama is doing too much to help the American people (seriously!)

Further confirmation: Eric Cantor is an idiot

Republicans got used to having a president who could only do one thing at a time -- and was incompetent. Now, we have an intelligent president who is determined to fix the mess left by his predecessor. Republicans on the Hill have been looking for some way, any way, to criticize Obama.

Eric Cantor, who is the second ranking GOP member in the House, thinks he found it: Obama is doing too much. Seriously, that's the best he can do. Cantor obviously has no idea how stupid he looks with this argument. And, it's scary that Cantor doesn't know the role energy and health care play in the economy. But, we shouldn't expect too much from Cantor, who did help Bush get us into the crisis:

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) seized on the opportunity to criticize the president Tuesday for over-reaching in his first 50 days on the job.

Following the GOP's weekly conference meeting, the second-ranking House Republican told reporters that President Obama should be focusing on the "economic crisis," as opposed to holding four-hour meetings on healthcare, as the president did last week. The efforts may be laudable, Cantor said, but the White House should be devoting all resources to fixing the economy and not to "impose these cap-and-trade schemes."

"At the end of the day, we are in an economic emergency. Economists are saying that there's a 30 percent likelihood that we're going to be in a depression," Cantor said. "My goodness, we do have an emergency, and we oughta say, look, priority No. 1 is to create jobs."

My goodness, we do have an emergency, but, Cantor and his GOP colleagues all voted NO to the economic recovery act, which will create millions of jobs. My goodness, we do have an emergency, but Cantor is taking orders from Rush Limbaugh, who wants Obama to fail.

My goodness, we do have an emergency and, wow, Eric Cantor is an idiot.

Obama pretty much blew Cantor's argument out of the water earlier today:

I know there's some who believe we can only handle one challenge at a time. And they forget that Lincoln helped lay down the transcontinental railroad and passed the Homestead Act and created the National Academy of Sciences in the midst of civil war. Likewise, President Roosevelt didn't have the luxury of choosing between ending a depression and fighting a war; he had to do both. President Kennedy didn't have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and sending us to the moon. And we don't have the luxury of choosing between getting our economy moving now and rebuilding it over the long term.

Pretty much sums it up.

(Americablog)