Eric Cantor - Heartless Schmuck

Here's a good one: Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and other GOP leaders are attempting to link Federal disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Irene to budget cuts, arguing that any spending to help victims of the hurricane should be directly offset by cuts to the Federal budget.

After hearing this, I couldn't help but think that it would have been nice if the GOP had this same fiscal opinion during the runup to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan eight years ago. Sadly (and not surprisingly), their approach to solving budgetary problems seems to be as follows:

Start two unfunded wars costing trillions of dollars? No problem.

Provide desperately needed disaster relief to thousands of American citizens whose homes, livelihoods and lives have been devastated by a natural disaster? Sorry, but we're going to have to work out how to pay for that first.

And right there, you've got both the GOP mindset in a nutshell and the definition of heartlessness in one, neat package.

Thanks, Eric. You evil schmuck.