Posted on 11/14/2006 3:07:01 AM PST by W04Man
Pelosi draws fire for backing Murtha
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 14, 2006
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is under fire from fellow Democrats and outside liberals for publicly backing Rep. John P. Murtha's bid to become majority leader, saying that the presumed speaker's acts have cast doubt on her party's promise to clean up the "culture of corruption" in Washington.
"How can Americans believe that the Democrats will return integrity to the House when future Speaker Pelosi has endorsed an ethically challenged member for a leadership position?" said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the liberal group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). "Representative Murtha is the wrong choice for this job."
Most notably, Mr. Murtha was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the Abscam scandal of the 1980s when FBI agents posed as emissaries of an Arab sheik and lured several congressmen into a Capitol Hill town house to hand out $50,000 bribes. Mr. Murtha was among those offered money, but he declined.
"I'm not interested. I'm sorry," he said, adding: "You know, we do business for a while, maybe I'll be interested, maybe I won't." The following year, the ethics panel in the then-Democrat-controlled House declined -- on a "near party-line vote," according to press accounts at the time -- to file ethics charges against the Pennsylvania Democrat.
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THEY LEFT OUT: "at this time"!!!!
Ping!
I don't know, but I'm glad she's there.
She's an asset to us as long as she's in charge. She along with Conyers, Boxer, Levin, et al are our best hope for regaining power in '08.
Personally, I think we should defend her decision to back Murtha. I say we give her and the rest of the Dem leadership absolutely as much rope as they need.
Resign, no apology
Bump! Anybody know if this made the local press in Murtha's district?
Nancy must have a "thing" for the "ethically challenged"...Murtha and Alcee Hastings...now there's a pair.
Watch and wait. Pelosi's backing of Murtha for majority leader is a slap in the face to Steny Hoyer, an old line machine politician from Maryland.
Steny has been in politics as long as I can remember and he knows political machinations cold.
It would not surprise me if he went after Pelosi's job as speaker (they detest each other) and knowing him, he could pull it off.
I just checked the Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown, and not a single article about Pelosi.
Any American with a mind. (I guess that leaves out Americans who voted for Democrats this year) knows that her promise to have an ethical house was an inside joke.
Pelosi starts right off naming unindicted co-conspirators to head up the party. Political Payoffs will rule for a while . The people of PA, had their chance to send an ethical person to washington,( a good looiking one too), but they passed it by for this guy Murtha who takes bribes. That says a lot about Pa, voters.
Good one!
Excellent!
Further, I actually heard a talking head ask if the voters were already having buyer's remorse.
Wonder if they finally realize the civilized world is in grave danger from the likes of Conyers, Leahy, Pelosi, Murtha, etc.
I am hoping Nancy will be the poster girl for why we don't want Hillary as President. Maybe after 2 years of her shrill, screeching voice coupled with her rabid liberal agenda, the voters will get the message.
She's even too far left (and corrupt) for her own party!
"Nancy must have a "thing" for the "ethically challenged"...Murtha and Alcee Hastings...now there's a pair."
I'n vague on the details, but a few months ago there was an item about Pelosi and Murtha in a cozy real-estate deal in California, involving a conflict of interests. She and John have things going under the table.
Anybody have that article at hand?
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