[jdm]

In any other context, Murtha would lose his job. If a businessman in the private sector received gifts like this from vendors, his company would kick him to the curb.

[illiac]

Murtha could attach some pork to a bill to send to his other constituents.......in the middle east.....

[aroundabout]

OUTRAGIOUS!! I demand an investigation into this using of public funds to buy votes!! How DARE this creep take our hard earned...huh? He’s a Democrat? Oh well then never mind, move it along, nothing to see here.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Meanwhile, a front page story in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer approvingly trumpets how much pork Bobby Casey has brought back to Pennsylvania in his first year in the Senate. I’ve only lived in PA for 3 years, but apparently people here really think the federal government’s entire purpose is to send them money.

[Para-Ord.45]

Why doesn`t the racketeering statutes (RICO) apply to

Murtha in this case?

[TChris]

[jazusamo]

Ed Morrissey on Murtha, again!

In return for shoveling hundreds of millions of dollars into his district with no opportunity for other companies to compete for the work, he gives a market advantage to his favorites

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