House Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells The Brody File that Republicans have to now “seize the opportunity” to lead Congress after years where they didn’t have a “great record to brag about.”
The Brody File spoke to Cantor in his Capitol Hill office.
Rep. Cantor will be a guest on this week’s edition of The Brody File that will air Monday March 15th on the CBN News Channel.
The video is below along with a full transcription.
David Brody: Do you feel Republicans are ready to step up and lead?
Rep. Eric Cantor: "There’s no question that in ’06 Republicans were fired from the majority. In ’08 the country said we’re not ready for you to re-assume the presidency either. I do think though that the frustration that has now reached a fever’s pitch is focused on the fact that the promise of hope and change has not been delivered upon by the majority in this town, has not been delivered upon by the administration and the country realizes through the stimulus bill, through the proposal of the cap and trade bill, the national energy tax, the healthcare bill and all the other things that have been proposed including the position the administration is taking on the Mexico City Policy and the rest these are not reflective of how we are as America and I do think that Republicans have demonstrated this year that we now understand that there wasn’t a great track record to brag about perhaps in the past but we’ve got to at this point seize the opportunity and rewrite the ship because if we don’t do that I’m very fearful for the future of the American ideal which is to make sure that the next generation has a better life than we do.”