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U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Johnstown, was released from a Washington, D.C.-area hospital this morning. Murtha had been admitted to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Sunday evening for treatment of abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with a gallbladder problem, a spokesman has said. Murtha, 77, appeared on the House floor this afternoon during discussion of defense spending for fiscal year 2010.

Quite an explosive leak! I wonder how this will affect things? It is certainly a thuggish and dangerous thing for Obama to play with National Security over this craptacular idea of socialized medicine. Quite a desperate move. According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t fall into line. Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a “naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson’s vote.”...