Rep. Cantor Fumbles His Football Analogy

Writing in The Daily Caller today, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) compares President Obama to one of America's most hopelessly futile sports franchises, the Washington Redskins:

These days D.C.-area football fans aren't the only ones sorely let down.

Once again, hyped new personnel were brought into the nation's capital - not just to the NFL's Redskins, but to the White House - on the promise of change you could believe in. Now both Redskins devotees and American citizens everywhere are struggling with disappointment. [...]

Like the Redskins, who had to fire their coach and bring in new leadership, the American people are growing tired of the Democrats and getting closer and closer to firing them by the day.

Aside from the general stupidity of the premise, Cantor really rolled this one down the gutter.

Obama is more like Mike Shanahan -- the celebrated coach who was just hired to turn the team around.  After finishing the season in last place, the Redskins can reasonably expect to get better next year with their new leader in place. Under Cantor's logic, Shanahan should be run out of town if they don't win the Super Bowl. 

But who would make a good doppelganger for the GOP? Perhaps the Oakland Raiders, who have suffered seven consecutive seasons with at least 11 losses since reaching the Super Bowl in 2003, and whose 80 year-old owner, Al Davis, is notorious for drafting the wrong people and seems to be out of ideas for how to succeed.