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Whodathunkit?: WaPo slams Murtha and Pelosi

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Posted by DanNY 2006-11-14 04:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Saved America = Amerika, USSA =USR/SSR, from WW1 + WW2 > will save us from WW3/4.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-14 04:40|| 2006-11-14 04:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass.), a Murtha supporter, said he was not aware of the ethical issues around the lawmaker. but said they will have little impact on Democrats as they gather Thursday to choose the next majority leader.

"The bottom line is, Nancy has decided what team she wants," Capuano said. "What members have to ask themselves is whether they want a unified leadership team or a fractured leadership team. That will make a difference in the next two years."

From a related article at WaPo, here

Posted by Bobby 2006-11-14 05:55|| 2006-11-14 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 said he was not aware of the ethical issues around the lawmaker. but said they will have little impact on Democrats

And there on a nutshell is the Denocratic party.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-11-14 06:18|| 2006-11-14 06:18|| Front Page Top

#4 From the Washington Times. Link

Most notably, Mr. Murtha was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the Abscam scandal of the 1980s when FBI agents posed as emissaries of an Arab sheik and lured several congressmen into a Capitol Hill town house to hand out $50,000 bribes. Mr. Murtha was among those offered money, but he declined.
"I'm not interested. I'm sorry," he said, adding: "You know, we do business for a while, maybe I'll be interested, maybe I won't."
The following year, the ethics panel in the then-Democrat-controlled House declined -- on a "near party-line vote," according to press accounts at the time -- to file ethics charges against the Pennsylvania Democrat.
More recently, according to press reports and a dossier compiled by CREW, Mr. Murtha abused his position as ranking member of the defense appropriations subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to benefit clients of his brother, Robert "Kit" Murtha, who is a registered lobbyist. The $417 billion defense appropriations bill that went through the subcommittee in 2004 benefited at least 10 companies represented by Robert Murtha's firm, which lobbied the congressman directly, according to the group.
"Future House Speaker Pelosi's endorsement of Rep. Murtha, one of the most unethical members of Congress, shows that she may have prioritized ethics reform merely to win votes with no real commitment to changing the culture of corruption," Ms. Sloan said.
Pelosi spokeswoman Jennifer Crider dismissed the concerns and said Mr. Murtha "has addressed these issues."
"Leader Pelosi will show that Democrats will change the way business is done in Washington," Ms. Crider said.
But many Democrats adamantly oppose Mr. Murtha and say Mrs. Pelosi blundered badly by throwing her public support behind a tainted figure just one week after winning so many campaigns that promised to clean up corruption in Washington.
"This is cloakroom conversation," one Democrat said. "This sends a very bad message as the first thing she's gotten involved in. The whole Abscam thing is a problem, and so is the whole wheeler-dealer thing."
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat who now holds the whip position, has said he has the votes needed to win the majority-leader post in this week's elections among Democrats. Hoyer allies say he has the support of 13 of the 19 top Democrats in the House and public statements of support from at least 28 of the 40 new members.

Posted by SwissTex 2006-11-14 07:59|| 2006-11-14 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The Culture of Greater Corruption[tm]

Done by professionals on a closed circuit. Do not attempt this at home.

Posted by Procopius2K 2006-11-14 08:40|| 2006-11-14 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 OK where was all this when Irey was pointing it out? Nice of the WaPo to wait till AFTER the election to finally print all this.

Partisan assholes.

I hope Murtha gets in there - he'll be a shining example of what the PRESS wants in office, and of how the Dems work.

"said he was not aware of the ethical issues around the lawmaker. but said they will have little impact on ~~Republicans~~ Democrats"

Thats exactly how the Republicans went about losing their majority and their conservative mojo - and the American Public's support.

Add in some earmarks and pork, and a tin ear regarding Immigration/Amnesty and the War on Terror, and BINGO, you'll have all the stuff that cause the voters to show the Repubs the door. Major exception is they don't have Dubya's unpopularity to fight against like the Repubs did, but they will instead have Hillary a a burden on the national ticket in 08.

So GO Murtha GO! Murtha for Majority Leader!

Show America how little the Dems care about prok, earmarks and corruption, show them how they voted for Cut-N-Run Jack, and the San Francisco Values.

The funny thing remaining is how the WaPo all of a sudden got religion about Murtha's idiotic "Okinawa" stance and his corrput background and pork budgeting -- when they had been fawning all over him the past couple years. Fekking hypocrites.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-14 08:59|| 2006-11-14 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 combine this with the elevation of Alcee Hastings - an impeached judge, removed for accepting bribes, to the intel committee head, and you have an excellent 30 second ad

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-14 09:01|| 2006-11-14 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Assuming, as anticipated, that Murtha loses, his post election press conference ought to be a doozy.

Posted by mhw 2006-11-14 10:19|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2006-11-14 10:19|| Front Page Top

#9 MSM - they eat their young....

Posted by Glavique Snomolet4823 2006-11-14 14:14|| 2006-11-14 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 wapo was always for Steny Hoyer, a good DLCer. No change. My expectation is Hoyer will win.

After than Harman should go after Hastings.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-11-14 14:36|| 2006-11-14 14:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Steny's a local boy, his district borders DC. His constituents receive their WaPo on the front porch every morning, assuming they still subscribe to any paper.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-11-14 15:29|| 2006-11-14 15:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Pelosi couldn't restrain herself for even one week before tipping her true hand. No poker player she. That's OK. It just means a standoff with nothing being accomplished for two years. This is a great outcome for taxpayers. After two years of commie leadership, voters will be ready to support Pubs again. Hopefully, a real Pub candidate will emerge. Not the two faced ass from Arizona.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-14 18:21|| 2006-11-14 18:21|| Front Page Top

#13 The election's over. That's why it's OK for the WaPo to write this.

Posted by Danking70 2006-11-14 19:12|| 2006-11-14 19:12|| Front Page Top

#14 In 2008 all these issues will disappear. Suddenly Murtha will be just what the House needed. It's OK to tell the truth, but not if it would influence an election.

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