Will the Republicans Listen to the People After the Victory in November.

In an interview with POLITICO, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said  that their  upon re-taking the House will be on aggressive oversight of the Obama administration, will work to defund the agencies responsible for implementing health care and will push a “zero tolerance” ethics policy. He also said Republicans may roll back their ban on earmarks, as long as the spending items have “merit”.

More importantly, avoiding a few hot-button political issues as he promotes the GOP agenda during the August recess. He wont  be talking about changing the 14th Amendment, he doesn’t think votes will turn on the ground zero mosque controversy and he doesn’t seem eager to embrace the culture war issues that defined the prior Republican congressional majority.

“One thing is we have, in the last 20 months, shown that we’ve gotten serious about spending,” he said in an interview with POLITICO. “We put votes up on the board — we’re serious about these cuts. We’re serious about working toward a balanced budget, reducing the size of the bureaucracy and the spending.

Cantor, 47, is at the forefront of the effort to rebrand Republicans two months before voters decide whether they want to return them to power in the House, Senate and statehouses nationwide. How he positions himself, and Republicans, could loom large for the party for years to come, including whether they’re able to mount a serious challenge to Obama in 2012 and whether Congress is locked in a holding pattern with the White House, should Republicans control the chamber.

Cantor said it’s unlikely that health care overhaul legislation will be repealed with Obama in the White House. But it’s more realistic to simply refuse to appropriate money to fund health care reform. “If you deny agencies monies they need to promulgate [regulations] and do all of that, you certainly can slow a lot of things down and make the case to the public,” he told the group. Cantor said Republicans would use their power of congressional oversight, should Republicans win 39 seats and capture the House.

But in a related editorial Op-Ed, the  conservative Washington Examiner suggest that the Republican ought to have realistic viable plans to instill confidence on American voter if they hope to re-take the White House. As the editorial argues, it is critically important for congressional Republicans to put forward a concrete agenda before the election as an alternative to that of big-spending congressional Democrats  “We’re not the Democrats.” That won’t cut it because, as pollster Scott Rasmussen recently told the Wall Street Journal, the GOP will benefit from voters’ desire to oust the party in power, but “75 percent of Republicans say their representatives in Congress are out of touch with the party base.

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