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RUSH: Can you believe this circus? All of this stuff about Murtha, all of it is being brought out after the election. None of this, of course, none of this scandal is worthy enough to keep him out of the House. But, boy, when you talk about putting him in the leadership, the liberal Drive-By Media and this CREW group and a number of others are going to town on Jack Murtha here today. Ladies and gentlemen, I've been thinking about this, and I actually think that we want Murtha in there. We want the Democrats to be who they...

House members acknowledged on Wednesday that the increasingly bitter contest for majority leader was sullying the image of unity and new direction that Democrats hoped to convey. “It’s four days that we haven’t talked about our message and built on the euphoria,” said Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, a California Democrat who is supporting Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland in the leadership vote on Thursday. “We had such perfect pitch last week.” Downtrodden Republicans were enjoying the spectacle of the split between Representative Nancy Pelosi, the incoming speaker, who is publicly pushing Representative John P. Murtha, her longtime ally, and...