Cantor tells GOP to 'stop whining' about Boehner debt-ceiling plan - TheHill.com

Cantor tells GOP to 'stop whining' about Boehner debt-ceiling plan - TheHill.com

Cantor tells GOP to 'stop whining' about Boehner debt-ceiling plan

By Russell Berman and Erik Wasson - 07/26/11 11:20 AM ET

Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Tuesday bluntly told House Republicans to stop “grumbling and whining” about Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) new proposal for a limited debt-limit increase.
Cantor made the statement in a closed-door conference meeting, a Republican with knowledge of his remarks told The Hill.

Boehner and Cantor are trying to rally restive members of their caucus behind a plan that would authorize up to $1 trillion in new debt in exchange for $1.2 trillion in spending cuts and the promise of more in the future.

Some conservatives have balked at the proposal, however, and Boehner could not guarantee on Tuesday morning that the bill would pass the House, given Democratic opposition.In the closed-door meeting Tuesday, Cantor praised Boehner’s leadership and acknowledged that “the debt-limit vote sucks.” But he told lawmakers they had only three choices: allow the country to default on Aug. 2, pass a Senate bill that Boehner has denounced as “full of gimmicks” and a “blank check” for President Obama or support the GOP leadership and “call the president’s bluff.”