The left supports this kind of behavior...
It’s the Rosie-O attitude. Yet they squeal like pigs they are when faced with the same...
Hypocrite basta_ds....
Posted on 05/23/2007 2:36:44 AM PDT by Princip. Conservative
The Pennsylvania Democrat tarnishes the party's image and nearly receives a reprimand playing 'earmark' politics.
WITH DEMOCRATS like Rep. John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't need Republicans. After Pelosi promised that Democrats would preside over "the most honest, the most open and the most ethical Congress," Murtha, whom Pelosi unsuccessfully pushed for majority leader, described a Democratic lobbying reform proposal as "total crap." (He graciously added, however, that he'd support the legislation because "that's what Nancy wants.")
Murtha's latest gift to Pelosi is a confrontation in which he allegedly told Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who had opposed one of Murtha's pet projects, that "I hope you don't have any earmarks in the defense appropriation bill because they are gone, and you will not get any earmarks now and forever." Rogers, a former FBI agent, asserted that Murtha had turned the House floor into an episode of "The Sopranos," and he filed a resolution accusing his colleague of violating House rules. On Tuesday, the resolution was tabled on a largely party-line vote, but not before Democrats were put excruciatingly on the defensive on what Pelosi has made a signature issue. Expect Republicans to continue making "Sopranos" jokes.
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Unfortunately for Democrats, Murtha's confrontation with Rogers was public, as was the vote by which the complaint against the master appropriator was put on procedural ice.
It doesn't help the Democrats' image that this dispute over Murtha's comments originated in an earmark, a special-interest provision widely seen as part of the "culture of corruption" decried by Democrats in the last election.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
What the liberals forget is that no one can master the art of corruption quite like a Democrat.
I am afraid what will happen is that when some Republican brings it up at election time, it will be “old news” and “everybody does it”.
I think that a key question is, is there anyone at the RNC that has the sense to file and index all these democrat shortcomings for use in the 2008 campaign. I don’t mean that they should be used in the form of a fund raising letter to their mailing list either. There is so much here that should be in paid for television/radio/dinosaur ads—Murtha, the pork laden surrender bill, the amnesty bill, Hairless Reids comments about US having lost in Iraq, the list goes on. I know that the Michigan GOP doesn’t have the sense to use stuff pertinent to our state, I suspect the RNC doesn’t either. I’m getting ready for the wilderness.
You are correct. The way to avoid the ‘old news’ scenario is to play like the Dems - send the Repub version of Chuckie Schumer to the microphones EVERY DAY and hammer away on this issue until the Dems decide Murtha is a liability and has to go.
The left supports this kind of behavior...
It’s the Rosie-O attitude. Yet they squeal like pigs they are when faced with the same...
Hypocrite basta_ds....
John Murtha is a shitstain on the skivvies of the country.
The Democrats / left have always been like this. What is considered normal politiking is deride as corruption and ilegal when Republicans do it, but okay when Democrats do it
I knew when I first read this that the Democrats would find a way to avoid any repercussions for Murtha. So, they tabled it ,huh? Dosnt tabling mean they can bring it up later?? Thats exactly what the republicans should do. Bring it up again the next time old Murtha steps in it,and he will.
Democrats cried about Republican antics, The Republicans were pikers compare to this bunch, and another thing Murtha’s promise will still be carried out Mike Rogers wont be getting any earmarks. The Dems know how to hide these things ,Murtha just let his big stupid mouth run and got caught.
The LA Times is losing circulation share these days at the same rate as a fire hose.
They are probably trying a little "outreach" to everyone who is an ultra liberal in the hopes that someone will read their rag.
Sad! I learned to read from the L.A. Times before I even went to school. Can’t let a child near the rag today!
$hitstains everywhere are incensed ! They don’t wish to be associated with anything as disreputable as Murtha.
If Murtha gets into serious trouble, the Republicans will rally around him and bail him out. It’s what they do.
Especially if he has $100,000 in his freezer and incriminating documents in his House office...
Is it surprising that the LA Times attacked the Democrats in Congress one day after the Democrats caved over the Iraq funding. This article is meant to send a message.
Time to update the symbols. Donkeys and elephants ought to be replaced by coyotes and turkeys. Except a coyote has more shame than a Dem, and a turkey is less self-defeating than a Republican.
This is payback for the Democrats caving on Iraq.
His district doesn’t care. They get paid off every time he goes back for another term.
That is so obvious....but we can take a page from the democrat play-book and drag this example of human debris out everyday until the public is well informed....at some point even the MSM can't ignore the funk of a skunk....
Cleaning, with Nancy
Pelosi was flapping her gums,
While her face hinted she needed Tums.
She longed to clean House,
To squash-dead each louse
Alas! She’s learned Libs are the bums.
Interesting plan...
Yes!! Nancy kept speaking of Republican corruption, too.
I'd truly love to see that traitorous old drunk melt down on the house floor.
The Ballad of “Big Don” John Murtha
Here’s the story of “Big Don” John Murtha
Whose morals were greatly in dearth-a.
As committee’s main host-a
He runs Casa Nostra.
He shouldn’t hold power no furtha.
Good idea. I hope we do that before Democrats make sure that "crazy" becomes the "new normal."
Now we’ll see if the RNC has the stones to do it.
Let's hope some members of the RNC will think unselfishly about our children's future.
Steamin' Rosie O'Donnell, comin' round the bend Rosie's not looking too jolly.
Her face is contorted, by golly!!
Her weird facial movement
Is not an improvement.
I've seen bigger smiles on a collie.
Imagine hanging around the House for 12 years in the minority. Only real losers would do that. Anyone with something going for him would have other options. So is this the change Americans wanted? grouchy old men like Murtha, Rangel, and Waxman?
Yes. In or out of power, the Democrats can always find a way to make a buck.
The LA Times understands General Pelosi and the corrupt John Murtha, along with Dingy Harry Reid, have put the Democrats in a bad light as it relates to the 2008 election cycle.
Works for me.
Too big to disguise
John Murtha piles on the paint
But still can’t hide his trait’rous taint.
His latest ploy
Is “Redeploy
and fight the enemy where they ain’t”
That was the Los Angeles Times that wrote that editorial? Wow!
That's exactly what the Repubs should be doing. Murtha can't help but lose it, and often because of his loss of mental capacity. He's really been slipping mentally in the last year or so.
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