MURTHA TO DROP OUT OF RUNNING [Update- Hoyer Wins!!!-Vote 149-86]

Polipundit ^ | Nov. 16, 2006 | Michael Sparxx

[conservativecorner]

BREAKING NEWS:

Conservatives with Attitude! insiders are informing us that Congressman John Murtha will DROP OUT of the running for the number 2 spot in the House as Majority Leader.

Even if he does stay in the race, he will fall short by a few votes.

This will serve as a big blow to Nancy Pelosi.

Michael

[jazusamo]

Good one. :-)

[kevinm13]

Too bad. Murtha Murtha Murtha would have made a good majority leader (from our perspective). Pelosi will be unhappy about this.

[top 2 toe red]

She stood up and nominated him this morning.

[ModelBreaker]

This will serve as a big blow to Nancy Pelosi.

Nope. I said yesterday here on FR that this was a set-piece show for the moonbats. Nancy and Hillary are smart enough to know that they can't have an ABSCAM Eating Surrender Monkey as the number 2 in the House. But she had to try publically for the moonbats and then throw him under the bus.

[pollyannaish]

Yeah! And happy again.

(Note to self...read the WHOLE thread before responding. Ha!)

[rottndog]

Vote was 149 to 80something.

Real close.

Murtha's a fool.

Too bad for us. He would have been a great target.

[bunches]

I don't mean to be stupid (I guess I am) but does this mean it will be easier or more difficult for Pres. Bush to work with Congress now.

I'll tell you truthfully I am so confused as to where we conservatives stand now that my head is spinning.

Help!

[tiredoflaundry]

Maybe Pelosi will give him a purple heart for that shellackin'

;o)

[gov_bean_ counter]

Don't think that Stretch doesn't know who voted how. She knows and there will be recriminations.

Pass the popcorn. And not that low fat stuff.

[what's up]

I think this may have been another ploy by the media.

They allowed Murtha to be roasted and let him take the scandal spotlight.

Meanwhile, no one was writing about Hoyer's problems.

[Enterprise]

HOYER WINS!

[Republican Red]

"Murtha had the votes!"

So who was lying? Did Murtha lie to Chris Matthews or did the Dem caucus lie to Murtha?

[CharlesWayneCT]

But he does take a lot of money from lobbyists, he does support earmarks, and he does seem to help those who give him money.

Still, he's not as bad as Murtha.

[GOPJ]

For our sake - for us getting back in power - Murtha would have been better - but for the sake of the country, he would have been a disaster. Personally, I'm glad Murtha's out.

[Just A Nobody]

AND ==>> ==>

[Merlinator]

I'm not sure of all the implications, but here's something to make the heart glad, I just took a look over at Dummies Underground, and they are having a melt down. I love it!

[HOTTIEBOY]

I was wondering something:



Alot of FReepers at the beginning of this thread WANTED Murtha to win because he would screw things up and make the Dems look bad.

Freepers wanted a politician to screw up our country so that the Dems would look bad.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the same thing that we have been scolding dems about? NYTimes, etc, wanting a failure to make the Republicans look bad?

I would hope that if Murtha had been picked that he would do a good and decent job. Not mess things up to make my party look good.

[Republican Red]

Don't know much about Hoyer but if DU is upset then it must be good for the country.

[batter]

Too bad for us. He would have been a great target.

Yes, Murtha would've been fun, but this puts the country and WOT in a better position. Ultimately, that's what we want. We still have Nan (and the Senate nuts) for entertainment, anyway.

[milwguy]

They can still pray for Alcee Hastings for Intelligence Cmte. Chair....Oh well, guess we are not re-deploying to Okinawa now..