What's wrong with Eric Cantor?! You're going to compare him to lifers like Stevens, Rangel, Rostenkowski and Delay? Those are the people I am talking about .. people with real power and abused it accordingly.
You sure take to the kool-aid quick.
Eric Cantor is an idiot, is what's wrong with him. Although in the trench warfare that the House has become, pretty much everybody over there (on either side) is an idiot.
As for the idiots who have been there for forever, while I don't like 'em and wouldn't necessarily miss them, at least they're pragmatic in their dealings. Having a whole bunch of fresh faced, dogmatic neophytes running things on either side would lead to a disastrophe of epic proportions pretty quickly, methinks. I find that living under the threat of physical violence inspires a certain, shall we say, levelheadedness in dealings that I fine admirable.
All of this can be taken care of, incidentally, if we accepted my proposal for a new cabinet department- The Department of Common Sense and Quality Control. It would employ people to go around and savagely beat stupid people working for the federal govt. on any level with tire irons. Living under the threat of physical violence for doing stupid things (whether it's having a cow over what amounts to 2% of a bill or being a sleazebucket like Charlie Rangel) would probably curb a lot of those behaviors. And if it didn't (and I'm pretty sure McCain is stupid/stubborn enough not to take the hint) then it would be pretty hilarious to see these idiots on the floor of their respective houses in slings and casts.