Apparently emboldened by the triumph of former Philadelphia Eagle Jon ("I Are A Legal Historian") Runyan, alleged Democratic congressman Heath Shuler has decided that the nation is ready for Rule By Historic NFL Mediocrities. This has not been greeted with universal acclaim. Now, far be it from This Blog to suggest anything to the consistently guzzlefuzzed Democratic Party. (The one suggestion This Blog has is both politically unwise and anatomically unfeasible.) But tossing out a woman who led the most productive House of Representatives in a couple of decades -- and one, it must be noted, who presided over two elections that turned her from Minority Leader into the Speaker Of The House -- in favor of a man who has found two careers in which his most remarkable accomplishment is consistently throwing the ball to the wrong team sounds, well, Runyanesque.