Buh-Bye
I will be upset about this…if the Democrats fall one seat short of taking the House. Otherwise, good riddance.
Was Shuler worse as a legislator or quarterback? Tough call…
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Hey, I live here in the 11th of NC. Don’t count out our famous atheist councilman yet. He is extremely liberal but popular, well spoken and not afraid to engage in reasoned discourse. I’m voting for him and I’ll probably even knock on some doors…
Godspeed.
It’s not clear that Shuler would have won re-election, Scott. I think you might want to re-scabbard that sabre.
? The sabre I’d use to chase him out of the House?
The one rattling there.
If you’re rattling a sabre, its already in its scabbard. You thus cannot re-scabbard it.
Seriously. That’s what sabre-rattling means; you haven’t actually drawn it, but you’re rattling it in (few swords fit completely snugly in their scabbards; there’s always a little give so you can draw it easily, so when you shake it it makes a rattling noise) to show that you HAVE a sabre and it would be a damn shame if you had to draw and use it.
If Shuler were the deciding vote in an evenly divided House, he’d be a bigger dick about it than even Joe Lieberman. He can fuck off with extreme prejudice.
Well, Joe did play Dirksen to Bam’s LBJ on DADT…so you shouldn’t give him too much dick. Save that for the likes of Larry Craig.
I had almost forgotten how bad Shuler was in the NFL until I looked at those numbers. Career 49% completion percentage, eh?
He passed like Mickey Shuler.
Heath Shuler, just a little bit better than Ryan Leaf.
At least Ryan Leaf was never a Democratic Congressman . . .
When Shuler first ran for Congress, his record with the Redskins was the stuff of great parody ads.
“The Shuler Record”
And
“A Better Day”
“Today, the Major of D.C. is not Marion Barry!”
I assume that he’ll be taking his talents to K Street.
The only way he could be worse as a quarterback than a politician would be if he spent his career scoring touchdowns agasint his own team. “Wrong Way” Shuler, huh?
Legislator. As a QB, he could only damage one team, and someone else–generally a DB–would benefit. So the only real damage done was that some idiot who has too much money paid him (probably with our tax dollars, true) instead of someone who would have done better.
He was good in Brokeback Mountain though.
Shuler voted for Dodd-Frank, for PPACA, but against the stimulus bill. He was definitely part of the deficit mau mau caucus, and s*** on women’s issues, but being from a relatively conservative district I think on balance that’s not so bad.
So I say he was a worse quarterback.
I’m a big time NFL fan, but for the life of me cannot recall a single moment of Schuler’s career. I well recall his name and the era in which he played, but that’s it. I’d be forced to hit that link and have my memory refreshed if I cared to find out.
But the only harm he ever inflicted way back then was on the fans of whatever teams he played for. Superfluous to note, his congressional votes helped inflict a ton of damage on this nation. The hell of it is, the country may have been spared had he been a better QB. He might have been able to cash in on the ex- jock-as-commentator gravy train. Or, had he possessed an aptitude for the game, invited by the NFL into its coaching ranks. He instead chose a road owned and operated by America’s robber barons to travel on, even as he sucked on the tit of the public treasury. The bastard will probably end up running the NCAA.
His colleague Rep. Kissell looks good only by comparison.
Just wait until You Know Who turns 25.
Meh. He’ll do less damage and provide more entertainment as a backbench Congressman from some wingnut district that would never consider electing a sane person than he does as an NFL “quarterback.”
The Tebow-hating here is hilarious. Yup, there’s sure no entertainment in a last-minute comeback.
not at all:
as a quarterback, he only hurt his team and organization. as a legislator, he had an opportunity to hurt 1,000,000′s of innocent people. there is no comparison.