Democrats Swiftboat Jack Murtha
November 14, 2006
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RUSH: Do you see what the Democrats are doing to Jack Murtha? They're swift boating the guy. This is incredible, ladies and gentlemen. Here from the Washington Post: "In Backing Murtha, Pelosi Draws Fire -- Her Ethics Vow Is Questioned. House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi's endorsement of Rep. John P. Murtha's bid for House majority leader set off a furor yesterday on Capitol Hill, with critics charging that she is undercutting her pledge to clean up corruption by backing a veteran lawmaker who they say has repeatedly skirted ethical boundaries." You know, this is the fight between Steny Hoyer who will probably win this thing anyway, and Murtha. But I mean this group CREW that came out, they were involved in all kinds of charges against Republicans during the campaign. Our old buddy Melanie Sloan says, "Pelosi's endorsement suggests to me she was interested in the culture of corruption only as a campaign issue and has no real interest in true reform." CREW is identified here in the Washington Post as a Democrat leaning group. Really?
It's amazing what kind of honesty you can get after the election in all quarters. "'It is shocking to me that someone with [Murtha's] ethics problems could be number two in the House leadership.' ... At issue is Murtha's relationships with two defense lobbyists. Paul Magliocchetti of the PMA Group is a former aide to the lawmaker, and Robert 'Kit' Murtha is his brother and was a senior partner at KSA Consulting from 2002 to 2005." You have all kinds of donations and money changing hands, earmarks for influence and so forth. "As for the Abscam case, Murtha was not indicted and his conduct was cleared by the House ethics committee, but he did meet with FBI agents posing as Arab sheiks and, after refusing bribes on several occasions, appeared to leave open the possibility of doing business later." I guess this is not enough to campaign against the guy as a member of Congress, it's just he can't be a member of the Democrat leadership now. He's not that corrupt.
You can have all these corrupt deals and still get elected to Congress, nobody's going to say anything about this before the election. But, lo and behold, when they talk about making him number two in the House of Representatives on the Democrat side, well, we can't have that. So there's a certain level of corruption the Democrats will accept and tolerate, even promote, but when they try to get too high up in the Democrat administration -- they're swiftboating the guy! Democrats are swiftboating Jack Murtha after the election. Then the Los Angeles Times, Janet Hook: "Power struggles unravel Democrats' unity -- Pelosi may have another problem. As the crop of freshly elected Democrats — including many younger ones who campaigned to the right of the party line — came to Capitol Hill for orientation Monday, they encountered a leadership dominated by mostly liberal, old-school Democrats."
Well, who was it that predicted this was going to happen? "Cardoza, a leader of the conservative coalition in the House known as the Blue Dogs, warned that Democratic cohesion would suffer if the liberals in line to head many of the chamber's key committees don't take party moderates into account. 'We have to try to build a consensus, and it's not going to be an automatic, top-down way, or we'll have conflict on the floor,' Cardoza said." These guys better be careful or they're going to be two-year wonders. But anyway, so now all of a sudden right of center new Democrats getting their first look -- come on, who do they think we are at the Los Angeles Times? Are we to believe that these neophyte conservative Democrat candidates didn't know who was going to end up running the House if the Democrats won it?
The story is written as though these bright-eyed, bushy-tailed eager beaver conservative Democrat freshmen arrived in Washington yesterday in time for their big orientation and all of a sudden discover a bunch of socialists are going to run the place. Now they're out issuing warnings to the socialists, "You guys better accept us, we're the moderates in here and we're going to --" Pelosi's credibility on reform could be damaged with Murtha. That's also in this LA Times story, the same thing as the Washington Post. Come on, you have to have taken her seriously about this in order for her credibility to be damaged. When I hear a Democrat say we're going to have the cleanest, the most ethically pure in the House in the history of the -- come on, you take what these people say and expect the opposite. I mean, for crying out loud, everybody is acting surprised. Who in the world took her seriously? Voters who voted for Robert Menendez, they take her seriously on corruption?
How about voters that voted for Dingy Harry, did they take Nancy Pelosi seriously on corruption? How about the people that voted for Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana)? Did they take her seriously? Then here in the Washington Post: "A Choice for Democrats - Steny Hoyer should be the new House majority leader. They refer to Murtha as, quote, "a force against ethics." So the Washington Post has given up George Allen now in the crosshairs. It's Jack Murtha in the crosshairs. He's qualified to be in Congress with all these sleazy deals. He's qualified to be a congressman from Pennsylvania, and, by the way, he's qualified to be the conscience of the House on the Democrats cut-and-run and deployment strategy. He's good enough and he's clean enough and he's pure enough to get the Democrats on the table as wanting out of Iraq, but when he wants to go into leadership he's too corrupt, and they think they are fooling people with all this.
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Read the Background Material...
(Washington Post: Pelosi's Endorsement of Murtha Draws Criticism)
(LA Times: Power struggles unravel Democrats' unity)
(WT: Pelosi draws fire for backing Murtha)
(American Spectator: Leading Murtha On - The Prowler)
(NewsMax: CREW: Rep. John Murtha 'Most Corrupt')
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