Eric Cantor’s latest defense: I didn’t know that the police had concluded the bullet in my (sometimes) office was randomly fired until after my press conference in which I said my office had been targeted.

You know it’s bad when your fallback defense is reckless disregard for the truth.

David Kurtz

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