Posted on 05/12/2009 8:24:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – House Democrats on Tuesday stopped a Republican plan to force a campaign finance inquiry that likely would have investigated several influential Democrats. It was the eighth time since late February that the Republican move was halted.
One of the biggest recipients has been the chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania.
The vote was 215-182 to stop consideration of a GOP resolution to initiate a House ethics committee inquiry. It called for an investigation into campaign contributions to House lawmakers by recipients of pet project money and their lobbyists.
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What have we here?
A pattern?
A Failure to investigate
No. just a.. uhh..
A Culture of Corruption. *-o
8th time is a charm, I always say. ;-)
Corruption , like charity, begins at home.. or in the home district.
Culture of democrat corruption.
Transparency bookmark.
One cannot investigate something that doesn’t exist, can they?
So, my question is why they dont band together and investigate them themselves? If Pelosi doesnt have the guts to look at the party she directs, then they should proceed with their own investigation.
Time to take it to them.
I wish they would investigate the Obama campaign finace.
All the fradulent credit cards and foreign contributions and McCain never would speak up.
I just don’t understand....
Corruption bump.
What’s the world coming to when you can’t investigate Democrats for corruption anymore?
Where are the DBM’s crocodile tears about the Dems being “obstructionists” and playing partisan politics??
Oh, wait, the DBM LOVES socialists.
An investigation means someone goes snooping and finds or doesn't find stuff, right?
Am I to believe there's no one that wants to go snoopin' for the sheer fun and excitement of it?
No one feels a burning sense of patriotic right and wrong and desires to really make a difference?
Why does anyone need permission to bust someone?
NIKE ..... Just Do It.
We need some conservatives in there that are not afraid to have their own finances examined.
Go direct to the American people like Reagan did!!!
It’s transparently corrupt!
there is a group who has asked for Murtha to step down until there is a full investigation. I can’t remember it right now. let me look for it. If you look at the past ethics investigation of this group they seem to be mostly republicans. But Murtha is too dirty for them it appears.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/39242
11 May 2009 // Washington, D.C. – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called on Rep. Murtha to step down from his position as chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee pending the outcome of a federal grand jury investigation into the lawmaker’s earmarking practices.
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