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Rep. Heath Shuler, one of the Blue Dog Democrats who was able to withstand Tuesday’s GOP tidal wave but remains a top target in 2012, called on Nancy Pelosi to step down from leadership, and reiterated that he would challenge her if nobody else emerged, Roll Call reports.
“If there’s not a viable alternative - like I said all along - I can go recruit moderate Members to run in swing districts,” he said. “In that situation, I could do it better than she could, and that’s what it’s going to take. It’s going to take moderate candidates to win back those seats.”
Even if Pelosi steps down, it would be an uphill battle for any more moderate Democrat to become party leader, because many of the more moderate members were wiped out on Tuesday, meaning that the remaining Democrats are skewed more liberal.
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dc| 11.4.10 @ 3:41PM
As someone said last week about Shuler, he is a worse congressman than he was an NFL QB for the D.C. Snyderskins--and he was awful. Among almost 20 years of horrid QBs (Tony Banks, Patrick Ramsey, and yes, McNabb--who sucks also, just to name a few) Shuler couldn't even survive two full seasons. The rumor was that he was so stupid he couldn't read basic NFL defensive packages (meaning, he couldn't distinguish zone coverages from man coverage, something that most SEC QBs, even the really dumb ones, learn quickly).
So this mental giant graduates to representing a wannabe-Boulder CO commune of mountain hippies in Asheville, NC, who would vote "D" even if it stood for "dog."
And now he's reading his fellow Demons just as astutely as he read NFL defenses--he can't see that among the Left Coast eco-communist and East Coast Kennedy-worshippers, he doesn't even exist. But if he makes Pelosi squirm uncomfortably in her corner of Lucifer's condo complex, he'll (inadvertently, of course) have finally done something useful in D.C. Good luck, moron.
Purple Lips| 11.4.10 @ 4:03PM
Yes, but he must talk a mean game; otherwise, all of those gun-toting hillbillies wouldn't keep voting him in.Rahm Emanual personally recruited him way back in 2005.
dc| 11.4.10 @ 4:25PM
Umm, hard to know where to start with you, PL. First, I suggest getting out of blighted, declining, dirty, one-party cities with beltways more often, you might learn something.
Second, Asheville has fewer hillbillies than most big cities, as I noted, it is a yuppie/hippie paradise, where rich leftists pretend to commune with nature, and eco-communist whores flop about in 1960s clothes because they're oh-so-much-cooler than the rest of the country, especially the surrounding area, which they do dismiss as hillbillies. Rahm recruited Shuler because he was and is an empty vessel, personally inoffensive, and able to lie smoothly to the country folk while winking at the eco-communists that he'll never betray their true interests, which is to ration resources for the rest of us.
Real hillbillies (and many, many other American citizens that you'll never meet) are in fact armed to the teeth and ready to kill assmonkeys like you who desire to be our concentration camp guards. The voters that put Shuler back in office likely have never handled a gun, much less own one (much like you, I'm virtually certain).
Budding totalitarian tools such as yourself should be glad that the Demons lost the House, because it shows Americans are still willing to vote you out rather than kill you. The longer this civil war stays electoral rather than hot, the better your chances for survival. You may not like the government that most Americans want, but you'll stay alive and free under it.
Chalkdust| 11.8.10 @ 4:38PM
dc:
Thanks for your post. A real bubble of sanity which will ward off hairy demoncrats from my anxiety closet for the rest of the day and into the night.
Derek Leaberry| 11.4.10 @ 4:38PM
Isn't this akin to the Third Mate on the Titanic calling for Captain Smith's firing five minutes before the ship sank?
Booger| 11.4.10 @ 4:06PM
Poor Heath, still wishing he was Peyton Manning.
PattyMor| 11.4.10 @ 4:17PM
As a result of the election, the DemoCrats have become more liberal, since many of the moderate recruits were beaten. Good luck trying to "moderate" this bunch of leftist radicals.
Derek Leaberry| 11.4.10 @ 4:25PM
Shuler should get the sack; he fumbles and is intercepted too often. Fortunately, the Republicans won the North Carolina legislature and the legislature does all of the redistricting in the Tar Heel State. We should expect Shuler's district to be carved like a Carolina turkey. Perhaps Asheville can be taken out of North Carolina 11 and placed in Mel Watt's North Carolina 12.
And what can Heath Shuler do when he is retired from the House.? Possibly he could be quarterbacks coach for the lowly Dallas Cowboys. Whenever Shuler quarterbacked at a Dallas Cowboy game in the past, the Cowboys always did well.
slanagat| 11.4.10 @ 5:22PM
Let's think this through.
Of the 54-member Blue Dog caucus, about 22 were sent home. Of the 83 member Progressive caucus, only 4 lost their seats.
Blue Dog approval rating: 32/54 = 59%
Progressive approval rating: 79/83 = 95%
Sod off, Shuler.
Al Adab| 11.4.10 @ 6:04PM
"Progressive" Democrats mostly represent safe, gerrymandered or Socialist districts. The Blue Dogs were from ostensibly Conservative areas. Perhaps that might explain to you why they lost. Ersatz Conservatives replaced in favor of the real thing.
RightKlik | 11.4.10 @ 8:01PM
Shuler represents liberal Asheville, NC. It's San Fran lite over there. I don't know if he would be a real improvement.
BTW, Shuler ran against an extremely weak opponent. He probably would have been toast as well if the Tea Party favorite had survived.