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Pelosi Puts Weight Behind Murtha in Leader Bid...
Roll Call via Drudge Report ^ | November 12, 2006 | John Bresnahan

Posted on 11/12/2006 7:06:18 PM PST by RDTF

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in line to become Speaker in January, is throwing her support to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in the race for Majority Leader, a move that will be an early test of her influence and will weigh heavily on Murtha's contest with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for the post.

Pelosi, in a letter distributed Sunday to newly elected House Democrats, wrote that Murtha's outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq helped change the electoral campaign for the House this fall. Murtha began calling for a U.S. pullout from Iraq a year ago, and his open opposition to the war made him a focus of intense criticism from Republicans and the White House.

Pelosi, though, credited Murtha, one of her closest allies in the House, with changing the national debate on the issue and helping provide Democratic challengers and incumbents with a winning argument for the mid-term elections.

"With respect to Iraq in particular, I salute your courageous leadership that changed the national debate and helped make Iraq the central issue of this historic election," Pelosi wrote in a personal letter to Murtha. "Your leadership gave so many Americans, including respected military leaders, the encouragement to voice their own disapproval at a failed policy that weakens our military and makes stability in that region even more difficult to achieve. The enthusiastic response of Americans all across this nation gave an enormous lift to our Democratic efforts, and your unsurpassed personal solicitations produced millions of dollars which were new to the effort. Those resources made a huge difference and particularly for the candidates on whose behalf you campaigned."

Pelosi added: "Your strong voice for national security, the war on terror and Iraq provides genuine leadership for our party, and I count on you to continue to lead on these vital issues. For this and for all you have done for Democrats in the past and especially this last year, I am pleased to support your candidacy for Majority Leader for the 110th Congress."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abscam; cutnrunmurtha; hoyer; murtha; okinawa; pelosi
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To: RDTF

1 Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,


21 posted on 11/12/2006 7:44:36 PM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.)
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To: RDTF
Pelosi Puts Weight Behind Murtha in Leader Bid...

Hope she pushes REAL hard. Maybe she'll end up in a dark and stinky "tunnel" where she belongs.
22 posted on 11/12/2006 7:53:45 PM PST by Jackson Brown (Conservatives just killed their racehorses, in order to let their fortunes ride on jackasses)
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To: RDTF

I thought Pelosi wanted an ethically clean house? Isn't Murtha being sued as we speak?


23 posted on 11/12/2006 7:57:36 PM PST by mykpfsu
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To: RDTF

Looks like they are trying to send Hoyer to Okinawa.


24 posted on 11/12/2006 8:02:22 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: mykpfsu

Not to mention ABSCAM. Corruption rains supreme in the Democrat House.


25 posted on 11/12/2006 8:04:37 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Maynerd
From The Hill: Reacting to the letter, Hoyer said her support for Murtha was no surprise. "Nancy told me some time ago that she would personally support Jack. I respect her decision as the two are very close,” Hoyer said in a statement. "I am grateful for the support I have from my colleagues, and have the majority of the caucus supporting me. I look forward to working with Speaker Pelosi as Majority Leader."

yitbos

26 posted on 11/12/2006 8:05:36 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: RDTF

I could just throw up.

Murtha? House majority leader? Someone pass me a barf bag.


27 posted on 11/12/2006 8:07:12 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Tancredo in 2008....Santorum in 2008.....J. D. Hayworth in 2008...Take Your Pick)
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To: RDTF

This sounds like a remake of 'Network' with Pelosi in the Faye Dunaway role and Murtha in the Peter Finch role.


28 posted on 11/12/2006 8:13:29 PM PST by relictele
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To: irishjuggler
Why do so many here care who they make majority leader?

Does the phrase "they killed innocent civilians in cold blood" ring a bell? Visit DogMurtha.com and see it on video.

Personally, I want nothing for Murtha but pain and disappointment all the rest of his days. He's King Rat among the Rats.

29 posted on 11/12/2006 8:18:07 PM PST by RedRover
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Go ahead, do it. Then sit back and watch the defections from the Democrat Party. The newbies have to know they will be one term wonders if they pony up to fat boy's agenda.


30 posted on 11/12/2006 8:21:50 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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To: Senator Goldwater

I'd love to see Steny Hoyer right now !!! He is a weasel's weasel !!! LOL !!!!


31 posted on 11/12/2006 8:22:22 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: RDTF

Are they gonna put criminal Alcee Hastings in charge of the House Intel Committee, replacing Hoekstra? The lowest ranking PFC would be bounced. What a disaster. What a circus.


32 posted on 11/12/2006 8:25:06 PM PST by cookcounty (John Kerry: On both sides of 3 wars. Four if you count the Battle for his Mouth.)
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To: RDTF
12th Congressional District

Candidate Votes Percent
MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM) 119,873 60.7%
IREY, DIANA (REP) 77,613 39.3%

Looks like PA 12th congressional district voters are a bunch of traitors. Pretty much a lost cause.

33 posted on 11/12/2006 8:30:25 PM PST by TheDon (Are you a cut and run conservative?)
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To: RedRover
"Hoyer said in a statement. 'I am grateful for the support I have from my colleagues, and have the majority of the caucus supporting me. I look forward to working with Speaker Pelosi as Majority Leader.' "

Perhaps this Nancy Pellagraface's first defeat?

yitbos

34 posted on 11/12/2006 8:35:30 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: bruinbirdman

One think of which we can be assured. A crazy a$$ will be Speaker of the House. I don't think the 37-47 whatever dogs can change this.


35 posted on 11/12/2006 8:37:38 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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To: bruinbirdman

Let us hope it's the first of many shattered dreams.


36 posted on 11/12/2006 8:41:45 PM PST by RedRover
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To: RDTF

COOL. Her first mistake ... and so soon!!!

Murtha will be an albatross around her neck.


37 posted on 11/12/2006 9:36:07 PM PST by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: Aikonaa

"Despite his Iraq stance, Murtha is pro-life and pro-gun. I wonder what the moonbats think of that?"

They dont care. Like Republicans, the #1 issue is national security, but for moonbats, it's the destruction of same that is #1.


38 posted on 11/12/2006 9:37:34 PM PST by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: RDTF; PhilDragoo


"You like John Murtha and Al Gore......why I otta rip your head off you maggot"!

39 posted on 11/12/2006 9:47:28 PM PST by Parrot_was_devastating
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To: RDTF
Pelosi Puts Weight Behind Murtha in Leader Bid...

When I saw this all I could think of is the song "Send in the Clowns" (I think that is the title) can not remember the words.

40 posted on 11/12/2006 11:16:02 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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