It Was Eric Cantor Who Killed the Debt Ceiling Deal

Mother Jones writes, Everyone and his brother has already blogged about Ryan Lizza's profile of Eric Cantor in the New Yorker this week, but it's only just now that its real meaning has struck me. Maybe I'm just slow. The subject at hand is the debt ceiling talks in July 2011, and before we get to Lizza, here's the basic timeline: July 17: Cantor and John Boehner meet in the White House to talk with Tim Geithner about how a tax reform package could raise $800 billion as part of a "grand bargain" deficit reduction plan. July 19: The Gang of Six in the Senate releases a bipartisan plan that includes over $1 trillion…

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