Eric Cantor needs some history lessons, as he introduces the latest GOP gimmick – YouCut – crowdsourcing the work that the GOP is unable to do on their own. Under the YouCut plan, you the people can go to Eric Cantor’s Republican Whip House web site to vote on the projects that you think should be cut. Of course, the projects that you are voting on, much like a “well planned” RNC push poll, are those the GOP willingly attacks – like anti-union issues, campaign finance funds, CDBG block grant funds, etc. This new venture in Republican gamesmanship follows the demise of last springs much touted listening sessions launched under the brand National Council for a New America, where Cantor and his GOP cohorts were going to the people to hear their ideas for the future of America. This initiative was so successful that less than a year later, the Minority Whip, Eric Cantor quietly suspended the program according to the Richmond Times Dispatch. I guess Eric Cantor couldn’t sit still, since he followed up his “excellent idea” of 2009 with his new and improved “excellent idea” of 2010 – YouCut. [...]