"You like John Murtha and Al Gore......why I otta rip your head off you maggot"!
Posted on 11/12/2006 7:06:18 PM PST by RDTF
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in line to become Speaker in January, is throwing her support to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in the race for Majority Leader, a move that will be an early test of her influence and will weigh heavily on Murtha's contest with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for the post.
Pelosi, in a letter distributed Sunday to newly elected House Democrats, wrote that Murtha's outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq helped change the electoral campaign for the House this fall. Murtha began calling for a U.S. pullout from Iraq a year ago, and his open opposition to the war made him a focus of intense criticism from Republicans and the White House.
Pelosi, though, credited Murtha, one of her closest allies in the House, with changing the national debate on the issue and helping provide Democratic challengers and incumbents with a winning argument for the mid-term elections.
"With respect to Iraq in particular, I salute your courageous leadership that changed the national debate and helped make Iraq the central issue of this historic election," Pelosi wrote in a personal letter to Murtha. "Your leadership gave so many Americans, including respected military leaders, the encouragement to voice their own disapproval at a failed policy that weakens our military and makes stability in that region even more difficult to achieve. The enthusiastic response of Americans all across this nation gave an enormous lift to our Democratic efforts, and your unsurpassed personal solicitations produced millions of dollars which were new to the effort. Those resources made a huge difference and particularly for the candidates on whose behalf you campaigned."
Pelosi added: "Your strong voice for national security, the war on terror and Iraq provides genuine leadership for our party, and I count on you to continue to lead on these vital issues. For this and for all you have done for Democrats in the past and especially this last year, I am pleased to support your candidacy for Majority Leader for the 110th Congress."
1 Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
I thought Pelosi wanted an ethically clean house? Isn't Murtha being sued as we speak?
Looks like they are trying to send Hoyer to Okinawa.
Not to mention ABSCAM. Corruption rains supreme in the Democrat House.
yitbos
I could just throw up.
Murtha? House majority leader? Someone pass me a barf bag.
This sounds like a remake of 'Network' with Pelosi in the Faye Dunaway role and Murtha in the Peter Finch role.
Does the phrase "they killed innocent civilians in cold blood" ring a bell? Visit DogMurtha.com and see it on video.
Personally, I want nothing for Murtha but pain and disappointment all the rest of his days. He's King Rat among the Rats.
Go ahead, do it. Then sit back and watch the defections from the Democrat Party. The newbies have to know they will be one term wonders if they pony up to fat boy's agenda.
I'd love to see Steny Hoyer right now !!! He is a weasel's weasel !!! LOL !!!!
Are they gonna put criminal Alcee Hastings in charge of the House Intel Committee, replacing Hoekstra? The lowest ranking PFC would be bounced. What a disaster. What a circus.
Candidate Votes Percent
MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM) 119,873 60.7%
IREY, DIANA (REP) 77,613 39.3%
Looks like PA 12th congressional district voters are a bunch of traitors. Pretty much a lost cause.
Perhaps this Nancy Pellagraface's first defeat?
yitbos
One think of which we can be assured. A crazy a$$ will be Speaker of the House. I don't think the 37-47 whatever dogs can change this.
Let us hope it's the first of many shattered dreams.
COOL. Her first mistake ... and so soon!!!
Murtha will be an albatross around her neck.
"Despite his Iraq stance, Murtha is pro-life and pro-gun. I wonder what the moonbats think of that?"
They dont care. Like Republicans, the #1 issue is national security, but for moonbats, it's the destruction of same that is #1.
"You like John Murtha and Al Gore......why I otta rip your head off you maggot"!
When I saw this all I could think of is the song "Send in the Clowns" (I think that is the title) can not remember the words.
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