{"id":199791,"date":"2007-06-26T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/26\/a-historic-first-heath-shulers-play-calling-doesnt-suck\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:27:00","slug":"a-historic-first-heath-shulers-play-calling-doesnt-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/26\/a-historic-first-heath-shulers-play-calling-doesnt-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"A Historic First: Heath Shuler&#8217;s Play Calling DOESN&#8217;T Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I&#8217;m a Redskins fan, and what a bust he was.  (Yes, I know that this is bad English)<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, he had a cannon for an arm, but he had maracas for his head.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Gus Frerrotte, the league minimum 2nd stringer who outplayed him in every imaginable way,  is still in the NFL<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Rep._slammed_as_chickenshit_thief_for_0625.html\">Rep. slammed as &#8216;chickenshit thief&#8217; for &#8216;borrowing&#8217; Democrat&#8217;s sign<\/a><\/span><br \/>RAW STORY<\/p>\n<p>A Republican House member (pictured) was slammed by a Democratic colleague as a &#8220;chickenshit thief&#8221; after borrowing one of his signs, a Capitol Hill newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Thursday, during House votes, a very angry Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) had some distinctly non-collegial words for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas),&#8221; Emily Heil reports for Roll Call&#8217;s &#8220;Heard on the Hill.&#8221; &#8220;The words &#8216;gutless,&#8217; &#8216;chickens&#8211;t&#8217; and &#8216;thief&#8217; were flung.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports, &#8220;Shuler, a former NFL quarterback, was spotted towering over a seated Gohmert, wagging a finger in his face during the heated session, spies tell HOH.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gohmert\u2019s crime?&#8221; Heil continues. &#8220;Shuler and his gang, the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, say the Texas Republican pulled off a high-stakes heist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heil observes, &#8220;Next time Gohmert gets the urge to steal \u2014 or borrow \u2014 something, HOH humbly suggests he chooses a less physically intimidating target.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I&#8217;m a Redskins fan, and what a bust he was. (Yes, I know that this is bad English) Seriously, he had a cannon for an arm, but he had maracas for his head. I think that Gus Frerrotte, the league minimum 2nd stringer who outplayed him in every imaginable way, is still in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199791"}],"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=199791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}