Posted on 11/16/2006 8:30:20 AM PST by 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
Delicious....now that fat lard traitor Murtha can stew in his own bitter broth over his getting torpedoed by fellow Dim swifties in the congress. ha ha haaaaaa... Happy sour vinegar toasts for your palate you corrupt despicable old geezer.
Nancy looks like a deer in the headlights. Check the smile out for God's sake. ROFLMAO BUMP!
That's funny! Maybe some of the Dems that act as though having a brain would be a hazardous thing, might actually realize intelligence comes in handy most of the time...
Your moniker is recovering democrat, and I'm reminded of an old saying. I don't know if you've heard it, but if so, my apologies. "A 20 year old man who isn't liberal has no heart, and a 40 year old man who isn't a conservative has no brain." It's funny how time has a way of changing one's perspective. In any case, I'm glad you're part of the solution now. :>)!
The unsung hero here is Diana Irey who got hold of the ABSCAM tape and revealed it at a press conference months ago. Her campaign was instrumental in denying Murtha the spoils.
What a nightmare, for sure!
Oh nuts, I was so happy that Murtha wasn't selected, despite enjoying Rush's 'endorsement', I hadn't considered there would be another position for him. House defense appropriations? Ugh. This might even be worse. And I have a feeling that position helps his disappointment at not getting the #2 spot.
I wonder if he was thinking about Diana Irey when that pic was taken. LOL!
The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat asks: Are you disappointed that John Murtha was not chosen House majority leader?
Current results:
1. Yes. 35.90%
2. No. 53.85%
3. I don't care. 10.26%
39 votes counted
Click HERE
Well I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories that we lost now to win in 08... IE let them have it, people will see how much the screw up and hand it back to us...
That tact has been tried before and backfired in american politics.
When you look at the numbers most of the races went just barely to the Dems... with perhaps the exception of Santorum which was a blowout... and frankly, I think there was some fraud in that one... I can see him losing but by around 17 points?? Have a hard time with that one.
Most of the candidates that beat republicans were fairly conservative dems that did win... IE, no Nacy Pelosis unseated any republicans.
These were race by race losses.. the idea it was a national referrendum on the war I think is folly. The only candidate who ran nearly exclusively on the war was Lamont and he got pasted.
Ohio was almost guaranteed a lost cause due to the corruption there.
PA sadly, this states conservatives are great at cutting off their noses to spite their faces.... so that cost us a Senate seat.... Now Casey (calling this guy a stuffed shirt is an insult to stuffed shirts everywhere), but hey we taught that Santorum fellow... how dare he endorce the party candidate last election cycle..... 1 step forward 2 steps back... the way it is in PA sadly.. I thought this state was finally getting past such things... unfortunately I was dead wrong.
I think the slimmest of margins cost most of these seat changes, and with those slim of margins you can say disenfranchisement of the conservatives by actions within washington could indeed have cost at least some of these races.
Now the Dems have won, and now they must governmen.. like Hamas... their rhetoric is great when they aren't in power... after all everything is everyone elses fault.. but now they have the helm, and already they are crashing into the reefs. Reserecting bafoons like McGovern and trying to make one of the most unethical guys in Washington one of their leaders.. etc etc etc...
Now they must govern, and they must govern against a President in war, who whether Congress likes it or not IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, PERIOD. Who doesn't have to face re-election... etc etc etc..
The notion that Bush is done I think is comical. They don't have override numbers, Bush can veto all day and they can't do a thing about it, and when it comes to the execution of the War... The President calls the shots, period.
So, what will happen? I suspect the dems will be infighting a LOT, and it will look like romper room up there on the hill.
I'm sorry he didn't win. Would have been fun to see the dem-o-rats trying to defend him!
If the Blue Dog Dems get them to drop Abortion and close the border I WILL vote Dem in the face of what hasn't been done in 5 years and the appointment of Martinez to the RNC.
Nancee
LOL
Nancee
OMG- Murtha will be chair of the House Defense Appropriations Committee... what a nightmare ..
Abscam Murtha will be holding the biggest check book on planet earth on our behalf. His bribe rates just went from 50,000 to 500 million.
Murtha, you are a skunk and we have the tapes to prove it.
Murtha, we will not rest till you are gone, you fat skunk.
ping
Excellent analysis, HJ. Excellent. I also don't subscribe to the theory that the national republicans purposely decided to "lose small now in order to win big later". What I have been thinking about lately isn't so much that as more like they just didn't try that hard and one of the reasons was that they really want the immigration policy that Bush is pushing and they know the dhimmi's will give it to them. It's not a conspiracy, just a lack of motivation to win. I really detected a lack of motivation on Bush's part, just like in '92, when his father seemed to give up halfway through the campaign.
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