CNN: ‘GOP Lawmaker Blasts Kevin McCarthy in New Blistering Statement’

Posted on September 19, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ 'GOP Lawmaker Blasts Kevin McCarthy in New Blistering Statement'Source:CNN– U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Republican, California) I’m very tempted to say Speaker of the Nuthouse, with 100 or MAGA members in the House Republican Conference, where even Representative Marjorie T. Greene is starting to look somewhat sane and responsible (but only in comparison) but I have too much respect for the office that Mr. McCarthy currently holds. Even if it’s just for a very short time.

Source:The New Democrat

“Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) speaks to CNN after issuing a critical statement about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as time is running out to prevent a government shutdown.”

From CNN

If you watch the first 10-20 seconds of this CNN video (that’s linked just above) you’ll hear Representative Mike Lawler (Republican, New York) make my entire point in just 20 seconds and what I’m arguing here.

Representative Mike Lawler: “This is not Conservative Republicanism. This is stupidity. They don’t know how to take yes for an answer. It’s a clown show. If you want a stronger hand, run better candidates and win more elections.You keep running lunatics, you are going to be in this position.”

Last year at this time, then House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy already had 212 Republican seats in the House, because even though President Donald Trump lost reelection in 2020 and Republicans lost the Senate, House Republicans picked up 10 seats in that same election. Why? Because even though President Trump lost 10-15 percent of the Republican Party to either Joe Biden, or Republicans not even bothering to vote for President, those same Republican voters still voted for Congress and voted for Congressional Republicans, both for House and Senate.

Go up 2 years later, now House Republicans just need to pick up 6 seats to win back the House and 1 seat to win back the Senate, in a mid-term election with a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress. House Republicans picked up just over the bare minimum to win back technical control of the House. Yes, we have a Republican House of Representatives right now. But they only have 222-435 seats. Which means Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Majority Leader Steve Scalise can only afford to lose 3 votes out of 435 on anything, assuming every House Democrat votes and doesn’t vote for whatever partisan legislation that House Republicans want to pass by themselves.

In a mid-term election where House Republicans could’ve picked up 30-40 seats in the House, with an unpopular Democratic President in Joe Biden, and an unpopular Democratic Congress, with rising interest rates and high inflation, Republicans only picked up 10 seats in the House in 2022, lost another seat in the Senate, lost two more governorships, lost more state legislatures and state legislative seats.

So what Representative Mike Lawler is saying here, is that if Kevin McCarthy or whoever the Republican Speaker or House Republican Leader wants more power in the House and be able to govern and be able to accomplish great things, they need better candidates and to win more elections. Which means fewer MAGA members and other members of the broader American Far-Right, that’s invaded the modern Republican Party. And get back to the center-right, Conservative Republicanism of Ronald Reagan.

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Forbes Magazine: ‘In One Word: Evil’: Ralph Norman Slams ‘Lawlessness’ Taking Over America’

Posted on September 18, 2023 by kireschneider

Forbes Magazine_ ‘In One Word_ Evil’_ Ralph Norman Slams ‘Lawlessness’ Taking Over America'Source:Forbes Magazine– U.S. Representative Ralph Norman (Republican, South Carolina)

Source:The New Democrat

“During House floor remarks last week, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) spoke about the threats he believes are overtaking America…

From Forbes Magazine

According to Oxford evil is: “a manifestation of profound immorality and wickedness, especially in people’s actions.”

If this wasn’t a slow news day, I doubt I’m writing about anything having to do with Representative Ralph Norman (Republican, South Carolina) especially about a speech that he gave on the House floor 5 days ago. Not that he’s not important or anything, but I’m simply not very familiar with the man.

Representative Norman talked about what’s going on the country today (as he sees it) and described it as evil. Representative Norman mentioned:

take home pay not going up

illegal immigration

the Americans being freed in Iran, in exchange for 4 billion dollars

the national debt

what he called as lawlessness and not giving any real examples of that.

And then Representative Norman gets into if the government is not funded the way he wants it too, it should be shut down. I guess there goes any case that Speaker McCarthy might have to try to blame The White House and Senate Democrats for any potential government shutdown that might happen next month.

Ralph Norman has been in the House of Representatives since 2017. That means he was a member of Congress for most of Donald Trump’s presidency, after winning a special election to the House in June, 2017. But he waits until Joe Biden to become President of the United States, until he starts complaining about the national debt. Unless he’s given speeches about the dangers of a rising national debt while Donald Trump was President, that I’m simply not aware of.

MAGA Republicans talking about the need for fiscal responsibility, is like hearing serial murderers talk about the need for a death penalty, but not for themselves. Or alcoholics talking about the need for sobriety, but just not for themselves, because they’re currently drunk and don’t know any better.

The national debt went up 11 trillion dollars during the Trump presidency, in just 4 years. George W. Bush needed 8 years for the debt to go up 7 trillion and Barack Obama needed 8 years for the debt to go up 9 trillion. I would love to know who MAGA Republicans actually believe they’re fooling. Wait, I got it: they’re voters. Of course!

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Sara Sidner: Ex-Prosecutor Says Donald Trump Just Shot Himself in Both Feet

Posted on September 18, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ 'Ex-Prosecutor Says Donald Trump Just Shot Himself in Both Feet'Source:CNN– President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida) 45th President of the United States (2017-21) the man who personally makes the case for just 1 4yr team as POTUS.

Source:The New Democrat

“Former President Donald Trump said that he received counsel from numerous people shortly after the 2020 election but that it was his decision to push the false claim he won the presidency and try to overturn the results.”

From CNN

I really don’t have much to add to what attorney Gene Rossi told CNN anchor Sara Sidner here. Once again, I’m not a lawyer (and if you think you’ve heard this too many times, I’m getting through) but it’s one thing to listen to and take the bad advice of counsel and then be prosecuted later on for something illegal and then just say you were just listening to your lawyers. But it’s another to ignore your lawyers, especially when they’re telling you the truth (like you just lost the presidential election) and then say that you didn’t care what your lawyers told you. You are going to keep doing what you are doing anyway.

If Donald Trump has a campaign theme for 2024 it’s basically this: you have to elect him President again, so he can get himself and his allies who are being prosecuted, out of legal trouble. That’s the only reason why he’s running for President again, which is to be completely immune from the laws and rules of the United States, that every other American has to follow. And I’m sure he wants the title, the power, and want to personally financially profit over being President again.

Since being indicted in Atlanta last month, Donald Trump’s has had 3 defenses, so far:

he’s entitled to say and do whatever he wants under the First Amendment, including lobbying government officials to overturn free and fair elections that he’s lost, as well as try to intimidate prosecutors, witnesses that would testify against him, and poison the potential jury pool against him. That was Mr. Trump’s first defense.

Mr. Trump’s 2nd defense has been that he’s immune from any legal prosecution because he was not only a Federal official, when his own personal election interference was going on in late 2020 and in January 2021, but that he was President of the United States.

Mr. Trump’s 3rd defense, was that he was just listening to his lawyers. But he just threw that in the trash by admitting on national, broadcast, network television, when he talked NBC Meet The Press anchor Kristen Welker on Sunday and said that he didn’t respect his lawyers when they told him that he lost the 2020 election and still went ahead with his election interference campaign.

Perhaps Donald Trump’s next defense will be that he’s an idiot and simply didn’t know what he was doing at the time. And perhaps he’ll plead not guilty by reason of stupidity. I wouldn’t put it pass him. After all, he’s is the king of reality TV.

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Alan Dershowitz: ‘Should Joe Biden Pardon Donald Trump?’

Posted on September 15, 2023 by kireschneider

Alan Dershowitz_ 'Should Joe Biden Pardon Donald Trump_'Source:Alan Dershowitz– talking about whether President Joe Biden, should pardon former President Donald Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“This is Alan Dershowitz’s video podcast called The Dershow. We discuss politics, law, the constitution and current events.”

From Alan Dershowitz

To personally answer Alan Dershowitz’s question: of course not. It’s a ridiculous question and I’ll explain why.

Keep in mind, none of us at The New Democrat are lawyers. And we don’t pretend to be lawyers, or know as much or more about these issues, as Alan Dershowitz and other accomplished American lawyers. We go off the evidence that we see and what we see in the news.

The reason why President Biden shouldn’t pardon Donald Trump, is I believe very obvious. For the rule of law to mean anything in America, rules and laws have to apply to everyone equally. Not arguing that our justice system is perfect or that it even has to be. Nothing that’s run by humans can be perfect anyway, for obvious reasons.

For the rule of law to mean anything in America, no one can be above the law. And the justice system has to do its best to make sure that everyone whose committed crimes in America, is held accountable for those crimes. That doesn’t mean prison time for everyone, but everyone who commits crimes in America, has to be justifiably held accountable in this country. Otherwise, our beautiful system of checks and balances and the rule of law, gets thrown out in the trash.

Alan Dershowitz argued in this video and referenced President Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon, as a reason for Joe Biden to pardon Donald Trump. And he even said it unified the country and it could unify the country again if the President pardons Mr. Trump. (I’m trying not to laugh as I paraphrase what Alan Dershowitz said here)

First of all, the Nixon case is very different. President Nixon didn’t represent any real threat to our democracy or our system of checks and balances. He resigned the presidency, his political career was over at that point. He even took some responsibility for what he did during Watergate and got emotional about it years after he resigned the presidency.

As far as unifying the country: didn’t happen in 1974, 75, 76, etc. The decision to pardon Richard Nixon was very unpopular in 1974 and 75. And President Ford is almost elected President anyway in 1976. If the decision to pardon Richard Nixon had unified the country, President Ford gets reelected fairly easily, because again, the country is united behind Gerald Ford as President and as Alan Dershowitz said himself in this video, Jimmy Carter was a fairly weak national candidate in 1976, who if it wasn’t for Watergate, probably doesn’t even run for President at all, at least in 1976.

And as far as a potential Biden pardon of Trump today unifying the country: Mr. Dershowitz might want to consider a career in comedy. He’s too smart to actually believe that. Not just the Democratic Party would freak out about that, but now the Biden presidency is essentially over, because he’s lost most of his party on this and now has to worry about not even getting nominated for reelection. And you would probably see 10-20% of the Republican Party, the no so-called never-trumper wing of the party, that’s looking for any Republican whose not Donald Trump, or like Donald Trump, an ally of Donald Trump, a wannabe Donald Trump, to win the Republican nomination for President, oppose President Biden over his Trump pardon. Not going to happen, if anything it would just unite the country against Joe Biden. Not bring the country together.

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CNN: ‘Hear The Trump Statement One Source Told Maggie Haberman Was a “Confession”‘

Posted on September 15, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

The New Democrat_ CNN_ 'Hear The Trump Statement One Source Told Maggie Haberman Was a _Confession_'Source:CNN– New York Times national reporter Maggie Haberman.

Source:The New Democrat

“CNN’s Anderson Cooper speaks with New York Times reporter and CNN senior political analyst Maggie Haberman after former President Donald Trump gave multiple television interviews.”

From CNN

I said back in 2017 (and I just wish I had written this down and made it public) that Donald Trump picked the wrong country to run for President and be its head of state. Why? Because our governmental system that’s built around checks and balances, accountability, the rule of law, is not suited for someone of Donald Trump’s mindset and personality. He believes he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to, that rules and laws that apply to everyone else, don’t apply to him.

I make this point because it’s obvious that just in the first 2 years of the Trump presidency, how about the 1st year, when he didn’t have a Democratic House of Representatives that he had to do deal with, when he had a Republican Congress (House & Senate) that he wanted to use the Federal Government to go after and investigate his political opponents, like Hillary Clinton, as well as the media that reporter negative stories about him.

Within the 1st month of the Trump presidency, he’s already calling for NBC News’s license to be repealed by the Federal Communication Commission, because he didn’t like a story that they reported about his administration and he wanted people in his own White House arrested for leaking negative stories about him as well.

I have no doubt that if Donald J. Trump becomes President of the United States (and our endless, national nightmare reappears) that he’ll want to use the government to go after the people who investigated him, go after anyone who might present to his presidency politically, as well as pardon himself for everything that he’s involved in and currently being prosecuted for, as well as all of his allies that are also being prosecuted.

The question is will Mr. Trump be able to. He wasn’t when he was President the 1st time because the Department of Justice, including his own Attorney General told him that they can’t go after people simply because President Trump doesn’t like them and sees them as threats to him.

I don’t want Donald Trump anywhere near government office ever again, for reasons I’ve already laid out. But I don’t think we know for sure that even if he wanted to use the government to completely clear himself of everything and be able to operate above the law, as well as go after everyone that he sees as political threats to him, people who threaten his own freedom, will he even be able to do that, or will our system of checks and balances and rule of law, once again serve as the check against him. I don’t want to take that risk.

Hopefully a year from now, there’s so much evidence against him in court, that no Independent in their right mind would ever even consider voting for him again, for anything, and every Democrat alive gets out and votes for the Democratic nominee for President, if for no other reason, that they see Donald Trump as the true threat to American democracy and freedom that he represents.

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Forbes Magazine: ‘The Ball’s In Chuck Schumer’s Court’: Tommy Tuberville Blames Block Of Military Promotions On Democrats’

Posted on September 14, 2023 by kireschneider

The New Democrat_ Forbes Magazine_ 'The Ball's In Chuck Schumer's Court'_ Tommy Tuberville Blames Block Of Military Promotions On Democrats' (1)Source:Forbes Magazine– U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (Republican, Mississippi)

Source:The New Democrat

“Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) defended his ongoing block of military promotions by claiming that Democrats could enact the promotions individually.”

From Forbes Magazine

What Senator Tommy Tuberville is really doing here is making the case for Congressional reform, especially in the Senate.

The idea that one senator can hold up executive appointments (in this case the military) because he disapproves with the Department of Defense on abortion and can hold the lives of these appointments and their families, as well as their pay and jobs, their futures, etc, is why the Senate needs to reform it’s rules. This is completely irresponsible on Senator Tuberville’s part to the point that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans like Lindsey Graham, disagree with Senator Tuberville on this.

Elections have consequences. You don’t believe that, you obviously weren’t alive when Donald Trump was President. Or perhaps you were in a long, national coma, (while most of the rest of country were living a nightmare) or perhaps vacationing on Planet Mars. (At least mentally)

If you don’t like the appointments of President Biden, make the case against them and try to convince at least 50 of your colleagues that you are right about those appointments and vote no. But just one U.S. Senator, whose not even in leadership, not even at the committee level, can decide for the rest of the Senate who can be appointed and who can even be voted on, simply because he doesn’t like a policy of the Defense Department, is an abuse of power, and completely un-democratic.

As far as reforming the Senate: I don’t expect Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to be able to do this in this Congress. Especially with a 1 seat majority and with Senator’s Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema in the way, but they need to reform the hold process here and maybe Leader Schumer could work out an agreement that the next Republican Majority Leader could take advantage of as well:

If one senator whose not even in leadership, or a senator whose in leadership, decides to put any hold on an executive or judicial nominee, then the Majority Leader could move to overturn that hold with a simple majority both in committee and on the Senate floor. That would be my proposal here, but I don’t expect that to happen in this Congress.

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CNN: Tierney Sneed & Zachary Cohen: ‘Georgia Judge Shuts Down DA’s Effort To Try Donald Trump & Co-Defendants’

Posted on September 14, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

Georgia judge shuts down DA’s effort to try Trump and co-defendants together (2023) - Google SearchSource:CNN– former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida) and perhaps I should thank God, that’s he’s the former President.

You can also see this post on Blogger.

“A Georgia judge shut down the effort by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to have all 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, to be tried together in October in the Georgia election subversion case.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee announced Thursday that Trump and 16 co-defendants will move forward on their own schedule, with a trial date yet be announced.

The two remaining co-defendants, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, sought speedy trials and are scheduled to begin in October.

Thursday’s order is a victory for Trump and his fellow co-defendants who did not want to go to trial this October. The schedule laid out by the judge only cemented some of the steps in the pre-trial process, setting up the possibility that the trial itself does not happen until well into 2024, or even later. Trump’s legal calendar during the first half of next year is already clogged with plans for trials in the other criminal cases he faces, and he is juggling those proceedings with his 2024 presidential run.

“Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ politically motivated, wrongful attempt to deny President Trump due process of law by arguing that no severances should be granted has been summarily squashed by the court,” a spokesperson for Trump said. “Willis’ unjust rush to judgment in order to please her radical political base has simply failed.”

While McAfee didn’t set a trial date for Trump and 16 of his co-defendants, the timeline he sets out in a court order Thursday means they wouldn’t go on trial before at least December.

The new schedule laid out by the judge signals he wants to start hashing out pretrial disputes with the batch of 17 defendants by the end of the year. The judge is ordering discovery to start by October 6.

However, there is no set timeline yet for the trial for the 17 defendants nor is there one for resolving disputes over what evidence can be presented to the jury. McAfee ordered that other types of pretrial motions be filed by December 1, but he has not scheduled a hearing on those requests.

At the pace McAfee laid out, federal courts will have some time to address the efforts by some defendants in the case to move their prosecutions to federal court.”

From CNN

For any left-wing conspiracy theorists out there (and I know there are at least a few) who think that Judge Scott McAfee is simply trying to do Donald Trump a favor here: keep in mind, this is the same judge who ruled that Mark Meadows won’t be tried in Federal court and ruled against him last Friday.

And once again I’m not a lawyer, (and if you weren’t a lawyer either, you would probably feel the need to keep mentioning that when you were writing about legal issues also) but the Judge’s ruling here is just being realistic. There’s so much evidence against all these defendants, all 16 of them, that the court, as well as the defense lawyers are going to have to go through and prepare for and will have many motions to file, that no way all 16 of them could be tried next month. Probably next spring at the earliest. And this case will probably go after Jack Smith’s case in Washington next year anyway.

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Forbes Magazine: ‘BREAKING NEWS: Matt Gaetz Launches An All-Out Assault On Kevin McCarthy’s Time As Speaker’

Posted on September 12, 2023 by kireschneider

Forbes Magazine_ 'BREAKING NEWS_ Matt Gaetz Launches An All-Out Assault On Kevin McCarthy's Time As Speaker'Source:Forbes Magazine– left to right: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Republican, California) & Representative Matt Gaetz (Republican, Florida)

Source:The New Democrat

“In remarks from the House floor, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) ripped into Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) moments after the latter announced an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Gaetz excoriated the Speaker for not upholding his agreement that won him the chair in a chaotic bid for the speakership.”

From Forbes Magazine

As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote on The New Democrat earlier today:

“Another thing to think about as far as motivations here: Speaker McCarthy is a handful of Republican votes away from losing his job. The Far-Right of the party in the House has a leash on him that’s so tight, that they could probably strangle Godzilla with it.

The Speaker knows that he has to work with not just The White House and Senate Democrats, but House Democrats, to keep the government from shutting down this fall and House Republicans getting blamed for that. And he knows that the Far-Right MAGA Caucus in the House, doesn’t want the Speaker to work with Democrats on anything.”

And if you don’t believe any of that, you didn’t watch the video of Representative Matt Gaetz, which was his speech on the House floor, that was also earlier today.

What Representative Gaetz and his far-right MAGA Caucus are essentially saying, (if not definitely saying) is that either Speaker McCarthy does exactly what they want him to do, which was laid out in the January agreement that he made with the House MAGA Caucus, members of that caucus will call for votes to remove Kevin McCarthy has Speaker of the House.

Any of those resolutions could pass, since House Republicans only have 222-435 votes, one of the smallest majorities in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the House Democrats, have no obligation to save Kevin McCarthy’s job. Plus, out of those 222 House Republican members, 100 of them (give or take) are MAGA Republicans.

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CNN: ‘Hear Kevin McCarthy’s Full Remarks On Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry’

Posted on September 12, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ 'Hear Kevin McCarthy's Full Remarks On Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry'Source:CNN– U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Republican, California)

Source:The New Democrat

“House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he endorsed launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden…

From CNN

The political phrase payback comes to mind when I listen to Speaker Kevin McCarthy here. House Republicans and really Congressional Republicans in general, when you consider the fact that Senator Ted Cruz was talking about impeachment and a criminal trial in the Senate, after Joe Biden was elected President almost three years ago.

Another thing to think about as far as motivations here: Speaker McCarthy is a handful of Republican votes away from losing his job. The Far-Right of the party in the House has a leash on him that’s so tight, that they could probably strangle Godzilla with it.

The Speaker knows that he has to work with not just The White House and Senate Democrats, but House Democrats, to keep the government from shutting down this fall and House Republicans getting blamed for that. And he knows that the Far-Right MAGA Caucus in the House, doesn’t want the Speaker to work with Democrats on anything.

One more thing to think about: Speaker McCarthy has previously said that that House should vote to approve an impeachment inquiry of President Biden, before the House moves to do that. He also knows that probably not a single House Democrat would vote for that. He also knows that there are already a few Republicans talking about how risky it would be and perhaps bad judgment, to try to impeach President Biden now, especially based on the fact that there’s no evidence that the President has done anything illegal here. Maybe House Republicans should try to impeach Joe Biden’s son Hunter instead. Ha, ha.

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Beau Boone: ‘Nightmare Season: The Story of the 1973 San Diego Chargers’

Posted on September 11, 2023 by kireschneider

Nightmare Season_ The Story of the 1973 San Diego ChargersSource:Beau Boone– Johnny Unitas unfortunately deserves to be the cover photo of the 1973 San Diego Chargers.

Source:The New Democrat

“When rebuilding a team, it is normal to face a good deal of challenges. The 1973 Chargers faced perhaps every challenge that they could run into, culminating the season into a nightmare.”

From Beau Boone

If there is anything that’s good about the 1973 San Diego Chargers, it’s that they drafted future Hall of Fame QB Dan Fouts and their 1973 nightmare season, led to the Chargers hiring Tommy Prothro in 1974, who really is responsible for rebuilding the Chargers from the draft.

It’s not Don Coryell who rebuilt the Chargers and turned them into consistent winners and even a Super Bowl contender in the late 1970s and early 1980s. That credit should go to Tommy Prothro. Even though Prothro didn’t have a single winning season in his 4 plus years in San Diego, he rebuilt their defense with draft choices like Woodrow Lowe, Don Goode, Gary Johnson, Louis Kelcher, and Fred Dean. He also drafted WR John Jefferson, who was one of QB Dan Fouts favorite targets in San Diego in the late 1970s.

To give you an idea about bad the 1973 Chargers were: they were 25th in points scored and 26th in points given up. Which should give you a good idea that they were blown out a lot in 1973. Most teams that finished at 2-11, tend to get blown out a lot. They were 19th in total offense, in a 26 team league and 22nd in defense.

The Chargers had a 40 year old QB in Johnny Unitas and a 22 year old QB in Dan Fouts. So their choice at QB, was either a broken down, over the hill 40 year old QB, or a kid who just finished college, no experience in the NFL and now you want him to lead your NFL team. But when you hit bottom, you can’t get any worst and things did get gradually better for the Chargers after 1973.

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