Posted on 11/16/2006 8:30:20 AM PST by conservativecorner
BREAKING NEWS:
Conservatives with Attitude! insiders are informing us that Congressman John Murtha will DROP OUT of the running for the number 2 spot in the House as Majority Leader.
Even if he does stay in the race, he will fall short by a few votes.
This will serve as a big blow to Nancy Pelosi.
Michael
"3rd in line for the presidency."
2nd in line, dear. Cheney is first in line. House Speaker second.
Try this:
Pelosi Splits Democrats With Push For Murtha - Speaker-to-Be Accused Of Strong-Arm Tactics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/15/AR2006111501521_pf.html
Well, that certainly looks like a good source.
That makes the situation much more entertaining. If she actually put some serious effort into getting the votes and didn't qite make the grade.
Sorry.... I was thinking that Hillary! would try to cut in line.
Thanks for the coreection.
The fact Pelosi put this joke of a gasbag up for Speaker in the first place ought to tell you how much of a circus things are going to be in the house for the next 2 years.
I have to admit that your knowledge of Murtha is much more detailed than mine. He only came to my attention when he began badmouthing the troops. That being said, your observation is interesting. If Murtha is "blue-dog" and Hoyer is an "anti-Reagan" then it might be more philosophically consistent of the Democrats that they chose Hoyer.
wow, I thought he was a shoe in!
Cant beleive the good people of PA re-elected that creep
Maybe the cut/run events we feared will not fly...
Murtha should have taken the bribe when he had the opportunity.
I really do not agree that Murtha winning would be good for the GOP. As disgusting and repulsive as we find Murtha, the public seems to dig him. He won his race quite handily, so I doubt he will self-destruct, as the MSM has portayed him as a couragous hawk with the courage to oppose an "illegal war".
He needs to start an investigation and determine who "lied" to him about how they would vote.
If just last night he "had the votes" and today he got creamed, clearly there was some lying going on amongst his collegues.
Out of it, I guess.
Republican Red linked the WaPo article. This makes things much more entertaining - if she tried some heavy duty arm twisting and didn't get what she wanted.
The funny thing is that the democrats haven't emerged from voting yet. I wonder if they're recounting? LOL
Murtha is an unindicted co-conspirator from Abscam.. he's a pork barrel guy who gets perpetually re-elected because he brings pork from washington to the Mon Valley.. and there are so many left over steel hunky union mentality fools up there who dream of what it used to be instead of doing something to actually clean the state up that he'll keep getting re-elected from there until he dies.
Are you ok? Family ok? Tornados come near you?
Looks like I was right. Murtha won't go quietly.
Nancy Pelosi is Deeply Disturbed!
That's true too! Keep bringing home the pork and you get to keep going to the market!
Here are the democrats. Must be they finally mnanaged to get a tranquilizer dart into Murtha to bring him down.
"Pelosi's aggressive intervention on behalf of Murtha baffled and angered many Democrats, who said she unnecessarily put her reputation on the line out of misplaced loyalty to a friend and because of a long-standing feud with Hoyer, the minority whip. Pelosi pushed Murtha's candidacy at social events, in private meetings and with incoming freshman Democrats; they were called to her office to discuss committee assignments, only to hear first that she needed Murtha in order to be an effective leader."
Excerpt from the Washington Post article
Ah, they're eating their own and her intimidation tactics are backfiring! Love it!!!
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