Posted on 11/17/2006 6:15:48 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Imagine the utter embarrassment and humiliation of Jack Murtha. On November 15, speaking about his bid to become House Majority Leader, he boasted to Chris Matthews on Hardball that "We’re going to win. We got the votes." The very next day that blowhard LOST by a large margin to his rival, Steny Hoyer, in that race. All Murtha got was a spot standing behind Nancy Pelosi and Hoyer as the latter's win was announced. The sour look on Blowhard Murtha's face was priceless since his expression did not hide the fact that he was ENRAGED over his loss. So after making a complete fool of himself in public what does he do? Well, other than hitting the bottle real hard the other option is to Blog like a blowhard on the HUffington Post which Murtha did HERE with a Blog titled, "Let's Get to Work." A more accurate title would be, "Let's Forget I Made An Utter Fool of Myself." So let us now watch Jack Murtha Blog blather along with comments from his fellow HUffies in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, thinking that Murtha's accuracy about Iraq is equally suspect, is in the [brackets]:
Let's Get to Work
[And you can start working on that bottle of Jack Daniels, Jack.]
While the most important thing in Washington, DC over the past few days has been an internal Party struggle, the American people never lost sight, even for a brief moment, of the most important conflict: Iraq. That's clear from the support of bloggers from across the country, phone calls and emails of support to my office and editorials in local papers endorsing our plan for change.
[An internal power struggle that you loudly bragged you would win...the day before you lost.]
I ran for Majority Leader to put the issue of Iraq front and center and to push as hard as I could to change our war strategy. Like you, many of my colleagues understood that this race was about delivering on our promise we made to the American people a little over a week ago.
[How about if we deliver to you a Jim Beam to go with the Jack Daniels?]
I am especially grateful for the support of our next House Speaker, and the first woman to hold the position, Nancy Pelosi. I just can't say enough nice things about her. And I congratulate Steny Hoyer and will work closely with him. While we didn't win, nothing has changed my commitment one bit.
[Thank you, Nancy Pelosi, for making a fool of yourself on my behalf.]
Don't get me wrong, other things matter too, such as ethics reforms and the Democrats' agenda, and I'm going to keep my promise to work hard with Speaker Pelosi and the Leadership to pass those as well.
[You mean like working on a Democrat ethics bill that you referred to as "total crap?"]
But Iraq is the key. Democrats won the election because we spoke up, and the real test of our leadership lies ahead. Thank you for your support, and now let's get to work.
[And now Jack Murtha will redeploy his beet red carcass to an Okinawan tavern as his fellow HUffies chime in...]
You da man, Representative Murtha.
[You da blowhard, Representative Murtha.]
Ethics counted - for most of your colleagues, anyway, if not for you and the speaker. When your party is elected to power on a platform of "no more business as usual", you better be sure that your party's leadership positions are filled by men and women of unimpeachable character and a spotless record on ethics. You failed on both counts, and you deserved to lose.
[But...but I thought all the charges of corruption were nothing but evil Republican swiftboating of our darling angel, Murtha.]
Dems win and you spend the first 4 days trying to stub the guy who helped you succeed in the back... Great work...
[The opening shots of the Democrat Civil War.]
Sorry you were lied to Mr Murtha. We saw it coming. I wished you had stepped aside yesterday and just gave it to Hoyer rather than being lied to and embarrassing yourself and Ms. Pelosi.
[I'm not sorry. It's FUn to watch the Democrats humiliate themselves.]
Looks like AIPAC won again with Hoyer (over Murtha)
[The Protocols of the Elders of Neocon.]
When are you going to apologize to the troops (and America for that matter) for stripping them of their right to innocence until proven guilty?
[Jack Daniels Murtha is too full of himself to ever apologize for anything.]
Looks like AIPAC won again with Hoyer (over Murtha)
[You've already said that twice before my obsessed little HUffie. I sure hope that you don't find out that Murtha once got falling down drunk on a case of Manischewitz sweet Concord.]
You are a American patriot.Your party did not do you justice today or the past few days with cons swift boat routine.We all know politics is a blood sport but you would think the good guys could win at least one.
[Oh, I see. The DEMOCRATS vote down Murtha and it is all the fault of the "cons."]
USA is an EVIL EMPIRE !!!
[Because a corrupt drunken blowhard wasn't voted in as Majority Leader of the House.]
Congressman Murtha thank you for standing up against the Neocons within the Democratic Party, or as I like to say the Ehud Olmert wing of the Democratic Congress, the Bebe Netanyahu wing being on the GOP side. I will make a prediction tonight about the future of your party. If they keep making moves like they did on you today, and Ms. Pelosi, they are going to lose in '08.
[So what's the downside here?]
In all my hours and days and months and years, I never once heard the name Steny Hoyer. Too me, he looks like the kind of guy who would sell his own mother out, and I put him in a class of distrust right there with Lieberman. To me, Hoyer being put over you is a bad sign.
[Which means it must be a good sign.]
Nancy Pelosi, a poltically astute hardball player, knows Murtha does not have the votes and that the House is more moderate and conservative than liberal. She encourages him to run and offers her support. He loses as she knows he will. She sets him up for the fall. She comes out looking good and solely in the forefront of the House leadership with, instead of an anti-war hero overshadowing her leadership, a political hack like Hoyer who she can better control. I don't know if this is the case but Nancy is a brilliant politician.
[WOW! You portray Nancy Pelosi as coming out looking good by describing her as completely devious.]
Jack, you focus on re-deploying the troops out of harms way and I will focus on re-deploying Dick Cheney into a secure federal facility...with bars.
[Much easier to re-deploy Jack straight to the bars.]
Israeli Snipers Killing U.S. Troops in Iraq? At the very beginning of this video clip, you see a rifle with a video camera attached to it. This weapon is made by the Rafael company, an Israeli arms manufacturer, that also makes IEDs. If you watch the video all the way through, it explains how this rifle works. CNN stated that the camera used to film these shootings was not a mounted rifle camera. But as you watch the video, you see that with each shot fired, the camera recoils. That would only happen if it were mounted on the rifle. Why is this significant? Because this kind of rifle-camera is extremely sophisticated and not available to your average Iraqi insurgent. I mean, it's not exactly an easily obtainable Saturday night special! Something this sophisticated points to Mossad.
[This just in: Osama Bin Laden is a Mossad agent. Also Saddam Hussein.]
Murtha deserves something big and he's going to get it I'm sure in due course. Let's just enjoy that we have a women in a position of such power, she won hands-down, and okay kill me for this, but she dresses like a million. Wow! She knows how to get attention through elegance.
[Quite an elegant frozen smile face stretch she has there.]
I was alittle stunned at how badly Hoyer wanted the limelight today and to get in the last word. Murtha was hurt and upset and Pelasi did support the guy who got her where she was.
[Murtha's face didn't hide how hurt and upset he was when he had to stand behind Pelosi and Murtha while facing public humiliation.]
I realize you were swiftboated by the AIPAC Israel Lobby, and that Steny Hoyer was their man. It is hardball in Washington, with bribery and when that dosen't work, threats from the Israel group of thugs, and blackmail either way.
[Do we see a certain obsessive theme here developing among the HUffies?]
If you would please vote to stop giving all money to Israel, since it is a violent apartheid state, this American born Hoosier would be even more pleased by your work in the House of Representatives.
[Obsession, they name is HUffie.]
Actually, PJ, I know a little bit about Hoyer, since I was living in the Maryland district he hails from at the time he was elevated to the House. Ol' Steny did it the old-fashioned way: by stepping on the prone body of a comatose woman, Congresswoman Gladys Noon Spellman. She was felled by a stroke, and before you could say "Jack Murtha's ethics," Steny saw the opportunity for a little poltical promotion, Maryland style.
Spellman's husband had worked closely with Spellman during her political life, and wanted to serve out the remainder of her term, at which time he would run for re-election. Steny pulled some strings in Congress, and less than 3 months after her stroke, House Resolution 80 declared her seat vacant - and guess who was chosen to fill it! Spellman's husband? Haw! Good old Steny! What a guy!
I was a regular imbiber of Knob Creek, but a fellow Freeper suggested Maker's Mark. Enjoyed it very much, and now it has a prominent place on my bourbon shelf...
Try Woodford Reserve, too. Very good.
Stay far away from "Bulliett"; too sweet.
I'd say we're on to something. And I like supporting a fine American industry. I'll also admit to a taste of Jack Daniels occasionally.
I'll have to check it out. But, out here in the boonies there's not much choice on the shelf. I'll have to run in to DeKalb, IL where the wife works and check the stores out there. They have a somewhat better selection.
Jack serves in a pinch. Jim Beam is only good for a "Jim&Ginger" but, when made with Vernor's ginger ale (a one-time Detroit staple!), it is quite good.
My wife bought me a bottle of Baker's for XPmas. Very strong making it a fine "front porch" sipping bourbon. 4 fingers should last you about one hour.
Do you guys do any "at home" experimenting with odd-ball bourbons?
I have purchased some off-brand bourbons to try them and found them to be not good. I have a mixing bottle of these brands at home and occaisionally I'll create a very good blend. I need to start tracking what I'm adding.
"American Eagle" is a good brand to blend with others; by itself, well, that dog don't hunt.
Do I need to create a bourbon ping-list?
I don't enjoy Beam much at all. Some of these other names are new to me being out here in a small town. I'll have to check them out. There's another brand our store has on the shelf but I can't recall the name. Price wise, it's up there with Knob Creek, but I don't take that as gospel. I'll check it out tomorrow.
I think you'd have some takers among the DU crowd; myself included. But I don't imbibe too often so may not have too much to contribute.
You know, you two guys, both being a) in the Chicago area, b) Missouri Synod Lutherans, and c) DUFUing FReepers, ought to get together sometime for some single-malt scotch. And you ought to do it when I'm back up in Chicago, so I can join you!
They're not holding hands although the one on the right looks like he has a hand on Murtha's tush.
Not completely sure since I haven't seen them myself. I just assumed they were fire ants since they are so aggressive.
I had ONE tiny sip of Thunderbird once. NASTY stuff. The FUnnie thing is that you actually do feel like a bum the instant you experience its horrid taste.
I once had a huge bottle of Jack Daniels on like a rotating axel so you just had to swing it forward a bit for a shot. Do they still have those around?
Single malt scotch like Lagavullin (sp?). That stuff is incredible. Glen Fiddich is good too.
I'll drink to that!
I tried that a long time ago, when I was young and broke. As I recall, I never had much luck. My favorite scene involving experimenting is in "Mr. Roberts" when Doc tried making scotch. :-)
That sounds like a plan to me. However, I'll toast you with a straight bourbon instead.
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