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Murtha calls ethics bill "Total Crap"
Roll Call ^ | November 15, 2006 | Roll Call

Posted on 11/15/2006 11:43:22 AM PST by Dems_R_Losers

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) told a group of Democratic moderates on Tuesday that an ethics and lobbying reform bill being pushed by party leaders was "total crap," but said that he would work to enact the legislation because Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports it.

Murtha and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) are locked in a battle for the House Majority Leader post, and both men made presentations for to the Blue Dog Coalition on Tuesday in a bid for their votes.

"Even though I think it's total crap, I'll vote for it and pass it because that's what Nancy wants," Murtha told the Blue Dogs, according to three sources who were at the meeting...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; craptacularmurtha; cultureofcorruption; cultureofcutandrun; ethics; johnmurtha; murtha; murthaaintnohero; murthaiscrap; murthaknowscrap; murthaonmyshoe; pelosiwhipped; totalcrap; totalmurtha; totalpelosi
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Isn't this funny????? LMAO


61 posted on 11/15/2006 12:08:21 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: Dems_R_Losers
>>>"Even though I think it's total crap, I'll vote for it and pass it because that's what Nancy wants"<<<

Obviously a man of principle and character. [/sarcasm]

sounds wussypipped to me!

62 posted on 11/15/2006 12:13:25 PM PST by HardStarboard (Give Pelosi and Reid Enough Rope to Hang Themselves.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Fighting like Hyenas over a stinking carcass


63 posted on 11/15/2006 12:13:36 PM PST by PogySailor (Media bias? What media bias)
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To: HardStarboard

I read the fine print. LOL!


64 posted on 11/15/2006 12:14:06 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Murtha is kind of right. The corruption bill is a bunch of crap. I was just reading over the gift disclosures, anything over $20 in value has to be reported. It would almost be a full time job reporting the nick knacks that constituents send in daily.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:2:./temp/~c109o1pkXa::


65 posted on 11/15/2006 12:15:12 PM PST by stacytec (Nihilism, its whats for dinner)
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To: USMCWife6869
Way to stick to your principles, Murtha.

In a roundabout way he is sticking to his principles. He is one of the most corrupt Congressmen on the Hill, and he thinks this ethics bill is total crap. He's not looking after the people who sent him there, he's making sure his corruption isn't kiboshed.

66 posted on 11/15/2006 12:16:18 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: All

Question??!! Has an elected majority ever stepped
in a pile of TOTAL CRAP, slipped on their faces,
and lost their majority before they are ever even
swore into office????JJ61


67 posted on 11/15/2006 12:17:25 PM PST by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: old and cranky
Democrats writing an ethics bill... you can lie, lie lie, but when caught, blame it on the person who caught you

You forgot cash in the Jefferson freezer, Junior Kennedy DWI (not), and more to come. Fill in the blanks.

68 posted on 11/15/2006 12:18:03 PM PST by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

"...even though I think it's total crap".

He's so classy.


What a joke!!


69 posted on 11/15/2006 12:19:26 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Screw what the taxpayers and constituents want. I'll vote for Nancy! The Rats are like kids in a candy store at Christmas.
70 posted on 11/15/2006 12:23:24 PM PST by 4yearlurker (I'm surrounded by Union Dems in the 12th district! Alone in the wilderness.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Probably has loopholes you can drive a Mack truck through.


71 posted on 11/15/2006 12:23:34 PM PST by George W. Bush
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To: msnimje
I am beginning to wonder what kind of relationship Murtha and Pelosi REALLY have.

She probably can't stand him, she supports him to playcate her SF liberal constituency, knowing full well that the majority of the Dems can't stand him either. It's a win / win situation for her. Let her fellow democrats provide the hatchet, she's in the clear.
72 posted on 11/15/2006 12:24:44 PM PST by Master of Orion
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To: Brilliant
They weren't thinking then and they are not thinking now. They should just rename Pennsylvania "Unionland" and be done with it.
73 posted on 11/15/2006 12:25:35 PM PST by 4yearlurker (I'm surrounded by Union Dems in the 12th district! Alone in the wilderness.)
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To: jazusamo

Hey...we keep hearing from all of the dems, MSM, and pundits that America has spoken...and wants a whole NEW direction for this country.

I am not sure they meant down the toilet...but that is what they are getting..


74 posted on 11/15/2006 12:26:22 PM PST by Txsleuth
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To: Dems_R_Losers

"that's what Nancy wants," that's what Nancy wants," that's what Nancy wants," I hope he goes to sleep with that drumming through his head, and when he awakes, it's thr first thought he has...


75 posted on 11/15/2006 12:27:19 PM PST by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Nice choice of words.


76 posted on 11/15/2006 12:28:37 PM PST by sarasota
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To: Tokra

Good Lord! He votes because someone wants him to vote that way even tho he thinks it's crap! Great!


77 posted on 11/15/2006 12:29:10 PM PST by LYSandra
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To: WideGlide

I guess I also forgot, if you drive your car into a lake, leave your girlfriend to drown...you have more important things to think about, like a press conference.


78 posted on 11/15/2006 12:29:23 PM PST by old and cranky (You! Out Of The Gene Pool - Now!)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) told a group of Democratic moderates on Tuesday that an ethics and lobbying reform bill being pushed by party leaders was "total crap," but said that he would work to enact the legislation because Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports it.

Some stuff you just cannot make up. If he cannot see the irony of this statement and what he intends to do about it...as an ethics bill no less...than he is convicted by his own words. No real shocker there.

79 posted on 11/15/2006 12:29:25 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be)
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To: Master of Orion

I saw a video clip of Murtha yesterday standing at a microphone with Nancy next to him. He had his arm around her and was squeezing her as he spoke.

You shoulda seen the look on Nancy's face. She looked like she wanted to sneak out, but she just stood there with a smile on her face.


80 posted on 11/15/2006 12:30:01 PM PST by Brilliant
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