{"id":188460,"date":"2010-09-22T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/22\/this-isnt-just-because-heath-shuler-has-always-been-an-over-paid-under-performing-punk\/"},"modified":"2010-09-22T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T23:36:00","slug":"this-isnt-just-because-heath-shuler-has-always-been-an-over-paid-under-performing-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/22\/this-isnt-just-because-heath-shuler-has-always-been-an-over-paid-under-performing-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"This Isn&#8217;t Just Because Heath Shuler has Always Been an Over Paid Under-Performing Punk*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img443\/9375\/doublefacepalm9496114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img443\/9375\/doublefacepalm9496114.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"370\" \/><\/a>But I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> want every seat lost by the Dems this election cycle to come from the Blue Dog Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Dogs and other conservative <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/09\/moderates_urge_dem_leaders_no.html\">are trying to prevent a vote on extending the tax breaks for people making less than $\u00bc million a year<\/a> because they pants wetting cowards, and are afraid that Republicans will say something bad about them, and are busy on their knees to their wealthy donors.<\/p>\n<p>They want their tax cuts for the rich, even though it is ruinously bad policy, and even worse politics, because they are hopeless wimps.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">He was a first round draft pick for the Washington Redskins, and turned out to be, according to ESPN, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heath_Shuler\">the 4th biggest NFL Draft bust of all time<\/a>, as well as being the whip for the Blue Dog Caucus in the House of Representations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I really want every seat lost by the Dems this election cycle to come from the Blue Dog Democrats. The Blue Dogs and other conservative are trying to prevent a vote on extending the tax breaks for people making less than $\u00bc million a year because they pants wetting cowards, and are afraid that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,983,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-taxes","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}