Schuler Admits He's A Loser

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November 16, 2010

Heath Shuler: Bid for minority leadership role is about principle, not winning

___ Shuler, D-Waynesville, said he expects a fellow Democrat will nominate him for minority leader Wednesday, but he acknowledged he does not have the votes to win.

His fiscally conservative Blue Dog caucus lost 24 of 58 members in the Nov. 2 election.

Pelosi likely will become the minority leader, Shuler said.

The move is simply about pulling the party back to the center, said Shuler, who will begin his third term in January. He said he explained his stance to Pelosi the Thursday after the election.

read: http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20101116/NEWS/311160036

I'm sure the Democratic caucus will be thrilled at the idea of 'moving back' to the policies and positions that almost half of Schuler's splinter group carried into defeat in the midterms. Of course, what Schuler is really talking about is placing our Democratic minority in the House in the position where republicans can easily roll out their agenda with little resistance or initiative from his leadership. Schuler intends to grease the wheels of their squeaky, creaky bandwagon.

Nancy Pelosi is perfect in the minority leader position because the Democrats she'll work to manage will have to assume she has a good shot of riding President Obama's re-election coattails back into the majority. She'll have much the same organizing strengths as she did as Speaker. Moreover, Rep. Pelosi's liberal instincts and politics will compliment the efforts of our Democratic majority in the Senate as they reject the republican agenda and work to promote their own.

[PDJane]

1. Back to the Center????

I suppose it depends on where your idea of the center should be. I think that the center needs to be pulled more to the left.....

[bigtree]

2. we know where Shuler intended to 'pull' the party

. . . as far away from challenging the republican agenda as he could manage.

[Jamastiene]

7. Yup.

I still say that if we framed the debate just right and showcased our strengths, the left could inspire this country to go in the right direction, which is left.

The Republicans need to be fought every time they go back to one of their hair-brained schemes, just as hard as we can fight.

[Ken Burch]

3. Remind me....does Heath Shuler actually DISAGREE with Boehner about anything?

Or at least, about anything that matters?

[Divine Discontent]

5. that is a good question!

[yurbud]

4. Pelosi should publicly bitch slap him and dare him to join the GOP

[Jamastiene]

8. Lol.

I like that idea. :thumbsup:

[quaker bill]

6. A take home lesson

the "majority" we had was never a majority, in a progressive sense. The expectations of many that strong progresive legislation was ever going to come out of that "majority" was a delusion. Love it or not, it took a great deal of skill to get what we got from them.

[bigtree]

10. well said

[LiberalFighter]

9. By my count there are only 26 remaining from the 111th Congress.

Is Shuler inflating his numbers so that it appears they didn't lose as many?

And there are 28 that were either defeated for re-election to their seat or did not run again.

[yurbud]

11. once the rest of the parasites are gone, we might have a more even fight with the GOP

[MrMickeysMom]

12. I'm so tired of losers, aren't you?

Losers, liars, opportunist thinking of a post-congressional career with a perfect health care plan, unwilling to serve the public interest or keep in touch with the the public out there in the hustings.

So many growing numbers continue to disappoint in the duty of the office.

I stayed for a 5 hour budget meeting tonight as part of an official duty on a local municipal council. I have to get up in 6 hrs, but I'm up late thinking... "How can we pull our budget together? The public needs safety in keeping services and keeping their safety net". I don't care for a moment I have no health care or more than a half-time hourly job to go along with this civic duty. That's because after fighting hard to get here, I think it's an honorable thing to do, so I'm encouraged with the experience. It's a patriotic duty I've chosen. It may not be easy, but it's fun. You have to want to do it.

These people don't know what they want, they're so scared. These people have been running on a financial treadmill to the top the moment they finish their first race. Then, when they go to Washington, winning the grand prize, everything rides on it.... getting elected, or being a lobbyist or being part of Reagan's ruling class. It matters SOOOO much until nothing else they do matters AS much as re-election.
Shumer's just admitted that. What an absolute failure.