Phony

Mike Lupica agrees w/ us that Eric Cantor is a shitheel.

Now here is Eric Cantor, whose inspiring story involves pulling himself up by his bootstraps and into his father's real estate business before going into politics, at a Values Voters Summit on Friday, wringing his hands about this terrible movement of unwashed and uninformed people that started in downtown Manhattan and somehow keeps growing.

But less than a year ago - as The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart was smart enough to remind everybody - here was Cantor on Don Imus' show making it sound as if the rabble rousers of the Tea Party have been storming the beach at Normandy instead of town hall meetings.

"The Tea Party is an organic movement," Cantor said that day. "This is not some movement that started in Washington. It's about the people."

Well, his people.

Cantor went on to tell Don Imus that "[Those in the Tea Party] represent and reflect the frustration that Americans have what's going on in Washington."

So if you're mad at Washington in general and the Obama administration in particular, that is healthy dissent and democracy in action and God bless America, at least according to young gun Eric Cantor. But if you are angry and loud and broke and yelling about Wall Street and living in a park across from the World Trade Center, yelling about the 1% in this country who have theirs and screw the other 99%, then you are a threat to everything good and decent in America.

Good one, Loopy.