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Unfit for Majority Leader
Washington Post ^ | 15 November 2006 | Ruth Marcus

Posted on 11/15/2006 4:41:17 AM PST by shrinkermd

The videotape is grainy, dark and devastating. The congressman and the FBI undercover agents -- the congressman thinks they represent an Arab sheik willing to pay $50,000 to get immigration papers -- are talking business in the living room of a secretly wired Washington townhouse.

Two other congressmen in on the deal "do expect to be taken care of," the lawmaker says. But for the time being -- and he says repeatedly that he might change his mind and take money down the road -- he'd rather trade his help for investment in his district, maybe a hefty deposit in the bank of a political supporter who's done him favors.

"I'm not interested -- at this point," he says of the dangled bribe. "You know, we do business for a while, maybe I'll be interested, maybe I won't, you know." Indeed, he acknowledges, even though he needs to be careful -- "I expect to be in the [expletive] leadership of the House," he notes -- the money's awfully tempting. "It's hard for me to say, just the hell with it...."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; demcivilwar; murtha; washingtonpost
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The Washington Post wrote dozens of articles smearing Senator Allen over the "Macacca" comment but seemed unable to predict that Murtha intended to be rewarded with political power for his "cut and run" policy.

Now, they are shocked to discover a corrupt, venal and self-serving man is about to be the House Majority Leader.

Their partisan juices and desire to the Bush Administration produced the "Murtha Syndrome" of corruption and venality. Now we have to live with it, but perhaps not for as long as the Washington Post would wish.

1 posted on 11/15/2006 4:41:18 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

That the Post is running this should tell you that Murtha is not going to win this. If he does then Pelosi has already stepped in a huge pile of dog crap and she hasn't even been sworn in yet!!!


2 posted on 11/15/2006 4:45:03 AM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: shrinkermd

well lets hope that the Dems do as good a job of eating their own, as our hopeless flops, the Repubes did.


3 posted on 11/15/2006 4:45:10 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: shrinkermd

It appears that the WaPo has put itself in the position of the decider...who will be in and who will not. Can an organization remain drunk on power from the impeachment of a president forever, I wonder.


4 posted on 11/15/2006 4:45:20 AM PST by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser and Shalit, we are praying for you)
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To: shrinkermd
I hope that Nancy stays the course and gets Murtha elected. He'll be quite entertaining for the next two years.
5 posted on 11/15/2006 4:45:40 AM PST by Thebaddog (Labrador Retrievers are the dog's dog)
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To: shrinkermd
They had this information two weeks ago.

Guess the typesetters were just a little slow.

6 posted on 11/15/2006 4:45:43 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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Too bad the W-P employees didn't learn of this in time for the election. Golly gee whiz.


7 posted on 11/15/2006 4:47:43 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: shrinkermd
Hey this part of the editorial has to be priceless!

"...Murtha is one of 12 Democrats who voted against the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. He's one of four who killed a strong Democratic ethics package earlier this year. He is a one-man earmarking factory whose beneficiaries have included a lobbying firm that employed his brother and another founded by a former top aide.

"...The biggest puzzle, and biggest disappointment, in all this is Pelosi, who was pitch-perfect in her first several days as speaker-elect. Now comes this lose-lose move.

There is always hope for the Washington Post. Maybe Woodward will find someone to rat out a Republican because they were passed over for higher office. Mark Feldt is a long lived example of ethical journalism that was concealed. But Murtha, well, he is hard to conceal.

8 posted on 11/15/2006 4:48:23 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

What a laugh that 60% of voters in exit polls said their main concern was "corruption"...so they voted for known Democrat crooks! Where was the cheerleading msm before the elections? Beating up on Republicans for minor flubs that they blew out of all proportion. The msm needs to be held accountable for their arrogant bias.


9 posted on 11/15/2006 4:49:41 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: shrinkermd
The Washington Post wants Hoyer in.

Hoyer is not for cut and run. The Post probably sees that the early withdrawal strategy from Iraq is not a winning one for the Dems.

The Post is frantically trying to help the Dems from slitting their own throats by electing cut and run Murtha.

10 posted on 11/15/2006 4:58:59 AM PST by what's up
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To: shrinkermd

pelosi said she was going to 'drain the swamp' ..........guess she only means REPUBLICANS because she is a dirty as some of the GOP she's screaming about...as is murtha and harry reid. murtha was given immunity for testifying against other guilty parties, it make him no less guilty of the crime.


11 posted on 11/15/2006 5:00:11 AM PST by GailA (Proud to admit I'm a quilt-a-holic.)
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To: what's up

And who said that having the Dems in power wasn't going to be fun to watch. (just kidding of course, but between the NYT's article this AM against "cut and run" and this WaPo article on Murtha, I think I'm in Bizarro World.)


12 posted on 11/15/2006 5:01:24 AM PST by dawn53
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To: misterrob

"If he does then Pelosi has already stepped in a huge pile of dog crap and she hasn't even been sworn in yet!!!"

From a gamesmanship perspective, the BEST course of action Nancy could take (for us) is to make sure Murtha get's the job. THAT would be a gift that keeps on giving for us.


13 posted on 11/15/2006 5:01:53 AM PST by roaddog727 (BullS##t does not get bridges built)
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To: shrinkermd

Like Michael Steel said........


14 posted on 11/15/2006 5:02:13 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: shrinkermd

Where was all this outrage when Jack Murtha was running for his House seat?


15 posted on 11/15/2006 5:02:32 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Mike Pence for House Minority Leader and John Shadegg for Whip)
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To: dawn53
Yes, the newspaper elites are starting to seem desperate about not having Murtha.

I hope he gets elected. That will ensure the fun you're looking for IMO :)

16 posted on 11/15/2006 5:05:57 AM PST by what's up
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To: kittymyrib
"The msm needs to be held accountable for their arrogant bias."

By whom and how?

Carolyn

17 posted on 11/15/2006 5:06:33 AM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: NeoCaveman

The way I look at it the MSM (NYT, WaPo, etc) carved up a series of dead liberal ideas, re-stitched them together and enabled life with the electricity of Bush hatred. Now they have a political Frankenstein Monster they must either tame or kill.

They richly deserve Murtha. They richly deserve all those generals who wanted Rumsfeld removed and now want more troops and a longer war. All of this they have obtained the old fashioned way--they earned it.


18 posted on 11/15/2006 5:07:30 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: what's up
>>>>The Washington Post wants Hoyer in.

Steny is a MD Congressman who is a favorite amongst Civil Servants in the DC area. The Post's bias in this is easily explained.
19 posted on 11/15/2006 5:11:00 AM PST by .cnI redruM (2008 is another day and another battle.)
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To: shrinkermd
The way I look at it the MSM (NYT, WaPo, etc) carved up a series of dead liberal ideas, re-stitched them together and enabled life with the electricity of Bush hatred. Now they have a political Frankenstein Monster they must either tame or kill.

Great sentence! I wonder when the hit pieces on Pelosi start appearing because the DBM cannot, under any circumstances, permit Ms. America from upstaging Madame DeFarge.

20 posted on 11/15/2006 5:13:05 AM PST by randita
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