Heath (the Blue Dog Moron) Shuler #1 on Pelosi's shit list

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19481.html

"1. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.). No Democrat has done quite so much in so short a time to arouse Pelosi’s disdain as the failed-Redskins-quarterback-turned-ambitious-North-Carolina-congressman.

The conservative, anti-abortion Shuler would have made the list for voting against both bank bailout bills and the stimulus package, but the way he went about it didn’t help; Shuler told an audience back home that “House leadership and Senate leadership have really failed” on the $787 billion package.

The thing that riles Pelosi most, according to several House aides, is that she believes Shuler’s motives are as much political as they are ideological — and that he’s picking a fight with her to position himself for a run against Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) next year.

Unless Shuler is planning a long House career, picking a fight with Pelosi may indeed have its advantages: His 2006 opponent, incumbent GOP Rep. Charles Taylor, scored points by portraying Shuler as a Pelosi acolyte.

“I don’t know if Shuler is talking without thinking or if he’s just making the calculation that distancing himself from Pelosi is never a bad thing to do,” said a senior House leadership aide."

AHEAD OF RUSH LIMBAUGH

lol this guy is a dumbass

he needs to stay in his district and not run against Burr. I will not vote for him even if he is the Dem nominee.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4161 (scroll down to NC-11)

Of course the numbers will peak at some point, but there are folks like Jason Altmire who live in more conservative districts who are still more Democratic than Shuler.

In the middle of an article by The Politico's Mike Allen regarding last night's GOP presidential debate, one finds this paragraph:

She was escorted out of the hall by Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, and president and CEO of The Politico.

So the President and CEO of The Politico, Frederick Ryan, is also the Board Chairman for the Reagan Library. And that makes sense, because Ryan is a long-time, hard-core Reaganite...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/04/politico_funding/


just sayin' :shrug:

campaign. As a result of his latest votes (banks and stimulus) I won't make those mistakes again. It has been said that he has to vote the way he does to get reelected. Guess I have become too progressive for him. It is good not to have his predecessor, Charles Taylor, to deal with anymore.

and we end up with Shuler..