Virginia's own Rep. Eric Cantor is getting some air time in Rolling Stone!
Of the two leading candidates for the recently vacated House majority leader seat, one (acting leader Roy Blunt) had attempted to slip tobacco-friendly language into a Homeland Security authorization bill while having an extramarital affair with a Phillip Morris lobbyist, while the other (John Boehner) had once been caught handing out checks from tobacco interests to members of Congress on the floor of the House.Elsewhere, the Commerce committee chairman (Joe Barton) had inserted a provision into an energy bill on behalf of a company that had paid $56,000 to a PAC to "get a seat at the table," and the names of the House deputy whip (Eric Cantor), the House conference secretary (John Doolittle) and the House appropriations chair (Jerry Lewis) were all floating around in various sordid Abramoff tales involving golf junkets, Indian tribes and floating casinos. The only Republican names not burning putrid holes in the front pages of The Washington Post were the ones who at that very minute were busy forming alliances and gearing up for a factional challenge to the DeLay/Hastert/Bush-backed congressional leadership.
Rock on!