BREAKING: House GOP Taunts Tea Party with non-crazy Cantor Replacement

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As the national Tea Party exalts over not-conservative-enough carcass of Eric Cantor’s political career, the House GOP prepares to replace him with new Majority Leader who is either identical to Cantor in his politics or slightly less conservative. “Guardians of tea party purity rank McCarthy as about as conservative, or slightly less, than Cantor.”

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