Navy ship-naming by Secretary mired in controversy The USS John Murtha?

Am Thinker ^ | 2/15/12 | Rick Moran

[bestintxas]

The USS Medgar Evers? The USS John Murtha? The USS Cesar Chavez?

Our Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, has this diversity thing down cold. Each one of those ships was in a class that previous names of their sister ships had nothing to do with civil rights, or corrupt Democratic politicians. Ships are usually named after states, cities, even famous explorers and war heroes.

But Mabus has injected partisanship into this tradition, naming another ship for Democrat Gabriel Giffords, who has shown courage in her recovery from an assassination attempt but had expressed little interest in the military during her career on Capitol Hill.

But she was a Democrat, which seemed to fulfill the criteria Mabus has set.

Now it appears that, stung by criticism from Republicans over his choice of ship names, Mabus is going back to more "traditional" naming criteria.

The Washington Times:

Asked whether this was a response to criticism, the official said: "It isn't. I think if you look at these five additional ships, I think you'll see examples that are very traditional." The official said three ships would be named after highly decorated Navy or Marine Corps personnel.

[jettester]

That would have to be a submarine.

[vetvetdoug]

I have a personal letter from Mabus telling me that the CBF in the state flag of Mississippi is not important enough for him to worry with. He refuses to comment about any subjects that have the possibility of racial strife.....(except if it offends blacks, not whites)

[submarinerswife]

We now have the USS Gabby Giffords ship motto:

(she)..had expressed little interest in the military during her career on Capitol Hill

Nice, isn't it?

[jazusamo]

Everyone please sign the No Murtha Ship petition:

No Murtha Ship

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Perhaps the U.S.S. Sammy Davis, Jr.?

[The Shrew]

Ping!

[jazusamo]

Meant to ping you, Smooth.

[SoFloFreeper]

Ray Mabus, former governor of Mississippi, is the Obama buttkisser extraordinaire who is politicizing these activities.

Some more info on Mabus: http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMIX/2009mar00273.html

Mabus at one point was the CEO of a corporation called Foamex. Foamex operates facilities in those environmentally-friendly nations China and Mexico...and by golly, it just HAPPENED to file for bankruptcy a month after Obama seized power...

http://delawarebankruptcy.foxrothschild.com/2009/02/articles/bankruptcy-case-summary/after-foamex-files-for-bankruptcy-its-lenders-object-to-critical-vendor-motion/

But I am certain Mabus and Obama had nothing to do with that....

[smoothsailing]

Check out #1907! :)

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/no-murtha-ship/signatures/page/39

[jazusamo]

That’s great! Thanks for the heads up.

[Old Sarge]

Naw, it’s a new class of vessel. A self-destroyer.

[chatham]

Very very Sadly there are a lot more incompetent Crooked Boobs like Murtha in our Government sucking up the lifeblood of this beautiful Country.
If we could stop the waste ,Fraud, stupidity, Greed and downright Robbery we could pay off the country’s debt in short order. Put all people off welfare who don’t deserve it would also be a plus.