How many ways can you avoid saying you support high deficits and the Bush tax cuts? Cantor goes for record.

And he's one of the Republican party leaders? In a surprisingly weak performance from Rep. Eric Cantor, the easy Fox News question "do you support keeping all the Bush tax cuts" left him scrambling to find different ways to say "yes." Kinda.

After Cantor proudly defended the idea of saving "small businesses" the pain of losing the Bush tax cut, I conveniently inserted a small piece by Keith Olbermann on what constitutes a "small business." It should put things in perspective.

Still, as clever as I think I am by doing the video clip below, the fun is still seeing Cantor evade outright support extending the Bush tax cut on the wealthy. You can't say Chris Wallace didn't try:

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