This should serve as a reminder to all not to be sloppy in the use of language. Murtha deserves the suit, and deserves to lose. OTT rhetoric, while protected, should be shunned by the public. It is fine to express outrage, but not to use phrases like "murder in cold blood" or even "murder" (which has a legal definition) in expression of outrage over an act which has not been so deemend by a court of law.
Sloppy use of language is for sloppy thinkers, and we don't want sloppy thinkers representing us in Congress. It's bad enough to see them on the web and on the TV.
Well said!