“What’s important to take out of these elections is that voters in both states were concerned about the direction of the economy and rejected out of hand the economic policies being pursued by the White House and Speaker Pelosi."

 – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Fox News' "Fox & Friends"
November 4, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQaS-BGO0SQ

On Health Care Reform:

"First of all, I would say to my Democratic friends across the aisle, they ought to take note of these elections. The American people are not going to take to the negative kind of politics they’re trying to practice here. The Republican alternative is very straight forward. We are aiming to lower health care costs, and we will see that the Congressional Budget Office will validate our claims that our plan does just that. And what we are trying to do is trying to fix what’s wrong with the system and trying preserve what’s right, versus what you see in the Pelosi Obama Plan, which is a trillion dollar overhaul of the system. Which will lead us to a single payer health care, nationalize our system and is paid for by taxing businesses and people who have health insurance. It’s paid for on the backs of seniors, which cuts Medicare by over 500 billion dollars and frankly it aggravates the deficit beyond that we can even imagine."

On the Road Ahead:

"No question Brian, we’re very excited here in Virgina, and I think that the victories last night here and in New Jersey indicate that when Republicans stand united we can win, whether it is in a northern state or a southern state, and we can appeal to the independent voters. What’s important to take out of these elections is that voters in both states were very concerned about the direction of the economy and rejected out of hand the economic policies being pursued by the White House and Speaker Pelosi."

On Conservative Solutions:

"…My local paper here, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, said that it was sunny conservatism that won the day, that united people. I think that is a great way of putting it. Bob McDonnell ran a positive, solutions-oriented campaign. That was in stark contrast to the democrat campaign here by Creigh Deeds that was nothing but the politics of personal attack and destruction. The voters of this state rejected that kind of politics and the same thing goes for New Jersey. Chris Christie was about solutions to the high taxes in that state, the fiscal situation, and the job situation there, where as the Corzine Campaign, backed by the Obama White House, was nothing but an attack machine going after Chris Christie personally and trying to malign his reputation and the Republicans."

On Spending and the Deficit:

"…When you see the level of spending that has occurred over the last nine months or ten months in Washington, people are aghast. They cannot imagine the deficit we are incurring and the resulting debt that will be placed on our children and their grandchildren. As people around their kitchen tables are wondering how they get through the month, it is a disconnect to see Washington go through the kind of spending that it is incurring."

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