Lot of Murtha’s clout in PA-12 was based on Defense Contractors.
What happens when the Crtiz type backwook guys in the Democrat Party, who rely heavily on bringing home the Defense pork, run into the Congressional Progressive Democrat leadership's ideological need to gut the US Military budget to fund their Utopian Socialist spending habits?
They will just shift to bringing home Utopian Socialist pork. It matters little what kind of pork funds the jobs.