More than Mitch McConnell or John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor from Virginia has become President Obama's chief Republican nemesis in Congress, and was a featured guest on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
Cantor was asked by host Chris Wallace if he wanted to walk back from his provocative comments from earlier this month regarding the Occupy Wall Street movement, and its satellite events (including in Tampa). Cantor had called them "mobs". This was his nuanced response:
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.