Understand your sentiments.
I didn’t like him either, but your last comment wasn’t necessary.
No need to sink to the low level of the average Daily Kos poster.
This is the FreeRepublic.. and our standards should be higher than that of those lowlifes.
“Ordinary” graft and corruption is one thing, but Murtha hamstrung our National Defense by funneling DoD dollars through the front companies of his cronies on projects that the Pentagon didn’t want or need. Legislators routinely misdirect billions of our taxpayer dollars in exchange for a few hundred thousand bucks worth of campaign donations and special favors.
Because of his close call in ABSCAM, he laid low for a quarter-century, then in autumn ‘05 he decided to leap into the national spotlight by cynically riding the anti-war issue to fame and glory. His lust for the spotlight induced him to throw away any semblance of ethics and he really went over the line when he accused fellow Marines of cold-blooded murder without knowing the evidence, and when they were acquitted, he refused to apologize.
In my book, that puts him beyond the pale.