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.
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!!!
well lets hope that the Dems do as good a job of eating their own, as our hopeless flops, the Repubes did.
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.
Guess the typesetters were just a little slow.
Too bad the W-P employees didn't learn of this in time for the election. Golly gee whiz.
"...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.
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.
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.
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.
Like Michael Steel said........
Where was all this outrage when Jack Murtha was running for his House seat?
OK, where are our guys screaming "culture of corruption?" If the tables were turned you would have a dozen democrats in front of the TV cameras screaming about the corruption that continues and is about to be promoted. No wonder we lose elections, we never show up! Now is the time to set the pace for 2008 not Nov of 2008.
The dems are like a bunch of high school seniors in the first week of their senior year.
It's interesting to me that the WAcomPost (let's pound on Allen) has 'all of a sudden' found out about Murtha and been running articles against him.
Here's what another source has to say about Murtha's chances - - get the popcorn ready:
Lib Blog: Jack Murtha has the votes (For Majority Leader)
MyDD ^ | November 14, 2006 | Jerome Armstrong
Posted on 11/14/2006 2:36:56 PM PST by RWR8189
I've heard from a couple of different Hill sources that Murtha is ahead; that newly elected Democrats favor Hoyer by a 2:1 margin, but that Murtha is ahead by about 25 votes overall, which has come about from the standing members after Nancy Pelosi's letter. The vote is Thursday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738607/posts
More on Murtha corruption:
Murtha's role in the culture of corruption also implicates Pelosi herself. Roll Call reported last year that Murtha "reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco." Pelosi's nephew, Laurence Pelosi, was an executive of the company that owned the rights to the land. Roll Call also reported that Murtha has been behind millions of dollars worth of earmarks in defense appropriations bills that went to companies owned by the children of his fellow Pennsylvania Democrat, Rep. Paul Kanjorski.
Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his brother’s lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee. KSA directly lobbied Murtha’s office on behalf of seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it should retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times.
Translation: "Please, Please, Please, Oh great Nancy. Please don't further expose the ethics problems in the Democrat caucus."
If the GOP would be contemplating a guy like Murtha for a leadership job, the MSM and the Demo duds would be all over the place abhorring the choice. I guess we say nothing. Oh well,let them. I guess Nancy says the Dems will not disappoint. If you are a Dem, a crook isn't such a bad thing.
It will be Nancy vs the Washington Post
Who will blink
If she dumps Murtha will he blow the whistle on her
If she digs in will the facts on Murtha and his sleazy ties to her come out
So far the WAPO only is focusing on Murtha
Power struggle--WAPO has all the ammo but will they be really be willing to sink Nancy( if she tells them to shove it )and shame the dems
If so they will do it right up front so the voters have 2 years to go back to sleep before 2008
Very interesting
Now, they are shocked to discover a corrupt, venal and self-serving man is about to be the House Majority Leader.
I'm a little confused... Is Murtha only too corrupt, venal and self-serving to be House Majority Leader, but not too corrupt, venal and self-serving to be a Representative from Pennsylvania?