"Thought it was so great that he attended a baseball game with the president. Just a few months later that pathetic President Carter was thrown out on his behind. What a joy that was."
This makes Murtha more dangerous in my eyes. Carter hand picked people for the CIA, State, FBI, Justice and in congress to help him weaken America for the gain of the Communists and Islamofascists.
I guess Murtha didn't have quite so much pull after his president, Carter, got tossed out. And in 1995, Murtha had even less clout, thank God.
You are right about the people carter picked for his administration. The damage he and clinton did was devastating. That's why it scares me even more to think creeps like Murtha could be back in the majority next January.
Federal prosecutors designated him an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam investigation 26 years ago.
I was reminded of it after Murtha became a candidate for majority leader, not by a Republican hit man but a Democratic former colleague in the House.
In a long political career, Murtha has made bitter enemies inside his party who are alarmed by his new stature.
In 1980, the FBI named him as one of eight members of Congress videotaped being offered bribes by a phony Arab sheik.
The other seven targets took cash and were convicted in federal court.
The videotape showed Murtha declining to take cash but expressing interest in further negotiations, while bragging about his political influence.
Murtha testified against the popular Rep. Frank Thompson, which created lifelong enemies in the Democratic cloakroom.
The House Ethics Committee exonerated Murtha of misconduct charges by a largely party-line vote, after which the committee's special counsel resigned in protest."
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak22.html
Big BUMP to that!