Posted on 12/31/2009 3:04:08 PM PST by Shellybenoit
Congressman John Murtha reminds me of the character Big Julie in the Guys and Dolls, who boasts: “I got a poifect record: thoity-three arrests, no convictions.”
Months ago, the FBI raided the offices of the PMA group. What they found suggested that Murtha and his buddies at the PMA Group operated their own little Earmark Factory.
You have to give Congressman John Murtha points for creativity. Almost every day, Murtha finds a brand new way to disgrace the US Congress he sits in, or the Marine uniform he once wore.
He convicted some of our military heroes in the "court of public opinion" by claiming a"massacre" of which they were later cleared . He hasn't fessed up to his mistake and apologized. Neither has he apologized for being named by the Citizens Against Government Waste for being the biggest government waste Porker in Congress getting almost two thirds of the vote.
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There are two ways to win a Defense contract. The first way is to win a sole source contract. There are no other bidders. So long as your bid is legal and “reasonable”, you win the work. Earmarks fit into this category and is the easiest way to win work.
The second way is to win a competitive bid. Competition for Defense contracts is stiff, and only the strong survive. Many companies that got started with sole source work, don’t survive when they are required to win competitive bids. Its not easy, and if you sit back raking in the money from your sole source work, you are never going to learn how to compete.
Murtha knows this, but he doesn’t care. He gets the publicity, his cronies sock away a couple of million from their earmark, then they close up shop and do it again with another phoney company.
He’s bringing home the bacon so they don’t give a crap. Just like Ted Stevens used to do here in Alaska. The people keep voting these bastards in without regard to what it does to the Country. To be fair, these porkers are merely a symptom of the disease.
I live in the part of Pennsylvania represented by Murtha. In the last three weeks there have been at least four letters to the editor attacking Murtha as corrupt and a disgrace to the uniform. One of the letters is from a Democrat. All have been from members of the local VFW. This may only be anecdotal, but I think the tide is turning against Murtha.
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