Eye Of The Hurri-Cantor, Part 2

You know those shiny foil emergency blankets that have the thickness of like .01 microns?  Still more resilient to potential damage than Eric Cantor's ego.

Progressive groups organizing a rally at the same Richmond-area hotel where House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was holding an event Wednesday were abruptly kicked out of the hotel and told by hotel management to remain off of its property during Cantor’s event.

Cantor held an Advisory Council gathering, closed to the media but open to constituents who registered ahead of time, at the Holiday Inn Koger Center in Richmond. A coalition of progressive Virginia organizing groups — Progress Virginia, OurDC, and Virginia Organizing — had booked rooms and a separate ballroom in the hotel to hold a “jobs rally” countering Cantor’s event. According to organizers, the groups planned to invite Cantor to attend their rally after his own event, in the hope that he would listen to their concerns regarding job creation and unemployment.

But just hours before the events were set to begin, the Holiday Inn canceled the groups’ ballroom and room reservations and ordered the groups to remain off of hotel property during Cantor’s meeting. According to organizers, hotel management falsely accused them of smoking in their rooms and used that as justification to cancel their reservations. A representative of Holiday Inn who only agreed speak on the condition of anonymity, however, said the hotel was seeking to avoid confrontation between the progressive groups and those attending the Cantor event. He would not comment on whether the hotel had any communications with Cantor or his staff regarding the progressive groups. 

To recap, Eric Cantor cannot be approached by American voters who A) disagree with him respectfully, B) are exercising their right to assemble peacefully, guaranteed by the Constitution, and C) actually want to hear what the Republican jobs plan is.  He has them run off and claims plausible deniability.

People like that get thrown out for daring to question the guy.  Meanwhile, angry Republicans go up to President Obama, and he actually answers their questions.  Not only does he do this because he is President of all America, not just the people who voted for him, but he presented the facts to counter her supposition.

Which one is a real leader in American politics?