intention to hold a series of these informal chat and choose spitball fresh ideas sessions all across the country, in order to call new republican perspectives, i have to tell you, that first inside the beltway pizza party was the last thing they ever did. this is actually what s at the website now, which eric cantor set up for his national council for a new america. this website now hosts something called no deposit casino bonus. i do not recommend gambling there. after that rebranding effort fizzled out, there was the young guns. there was also another new rebranding idea, which was called the america speaking out project, because new republicans want to know what america thinks. that website at least still exists and won t rob you blind, but they haven t posted anything there since november 2011. better rebrand again. in 2013, after president obama won re-election, congressman cantor decided to rebrand republicanism again. he invented a new image for the party that he called making
republican policy. eric cantor even as he kept relaunching what it means to be a republican, his own policy positions never moved an inch. and people can tell when you re saying one thing and doing another. and in the end, eric cantor s endless repackaging of the same old stuff, it couldn t be wrapped up in anything that anyone wanted to buy, even in his home district. joining us now, sam stein, political reporter for huffington post. sam, thank you for being here. thank you for saying young guns. young guns! i m worried about your throat. tomorrow i ll sound like a smoker. i did not expect when going back through, i did a sort of historical retrench on eric cantor s record. i didn t expect to find the only consistent through line was this rebranding stuff. he obviously thought that was key to his success and his leadership in the party. what do you think the actual impact of that was. you missed one, you missed the cut and grow rebrand that they did was that you cut
actions of the party. nor did it serve to rebrand eric cantor himself as a man that might be desperate needed in washington. the history of eric cantor s time in republican leadership in washington is basically a marketing history. the one remarkable thing about his legacy, if you look at it with a cold eye, is just how frequently he announced he was defining a new brand for the republican party, while also not changing anything substantiative about what republicans were actually doing in washington. and changing what republicans actually do in washington, that is well within his power as the majority leader. he decides what gets voted on and what doesn t. but under his leadership, despite repeated attempts at looking new and fresh and awesome, what house republicans actually did was fecklessly repeal obamacare several dozen times and vote to restrict abortion rights as often as they could and otherwise lurch from self-made debt ceiling crisis to self-made funding crisis and back again
spitball fresh ideas sessions all across the country, in order to call new republican perspectives, i have to tell you, that first inside the beltway pizza party was the last thing they ever did. this is actually what s at the website now, which eric cantor set up for his national counsci for a new america. this website now hosts something called no deposit casino bonus. i do not recommend gambling there. after that rebranding effort fizzled out, there was the young guns. there was also another new rebranding idea, which was called the america speaking out project, because new republicans want to know what america thinks. that website at least still exists and won t rob you blind, but they haven t posted anything there since november 2011. better rebrand again. in 2013, after president obama won re-election, congressman cantor decided to rebrand republicanism again. he invented a new image for the party that he called making life work. the beltway media nicknamed it