Murtha, Majority Leader?
By Roger Wm. Hughes
Nov. 13, 2006...
The Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are about to create
a worse scenario than when Republicans elected Tom DeLay Majority
Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.
They are coming close to electing Rep. John Murtha Majority Leader.
Abscam Murtha is well known for his earmarking of budget bills and, at
best ,shady deals with friends. There are hospitals and gymnasiums
that bear his and his wife’s name back in Johnstown, PA., because of
Murtha’s robbing the Defense Budget.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have named Murtha
one of the most corrupt individuals in politics today [LINK].
The election of Murtha to Majority Leader would give him unfettered
access to the manipulation of untold sums of taxpayers’ dollars. It
would also send a clear message that the Democrat corruption machine
will go full tilt from the jump start.
Murtha's blatant cronyism in the past has shoveled millions of Defense
dollars to his brother, close friends and colleagues:
$20 million to his brother, Kit Murtha, in 2004 [LINK]
Millions to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's nephew [LINK]
Millions to PA Rep. Paul Kanjorski's kids [LINK]
Maybe, it is because Murtha shuffled millions to Pelosi’s nephew that
Murtha was endorsed by the Speaker of the House designate. It is clear
that electing Murtha to this high position would be a giant windfall
to Republicans.
There may be a silver lining for Democrats in Pelosi’s endorsement
because it did not call on others to join her in voting for Murtha. It
may be her sneaky way of knifing Murtha in the back in his race
against Rep. Steny Hoyer.
The real burden of Murtha’s lies to Democrats is in his protestation
of innocence in the late Abscam scandals. This is sure to be a
constant drag on the profanity-riddled, hot tempered Murtha. There are
no amount of union goons who can get him out of this mess as they have
in the past. Recently, the much hidden FBI sting tape of Murtha has
come to light and is available for all to see -- a greedy, conniving
character negotiating a deal that would leave him with as few
fingerprints as possible to the bribe he was tying to navigate through
intermediary pay offs.
Far worse will be when the Abscam Howard Criden take-down tape is
released featuring Criden directly saying, “Murtha is ready to take
the $50,000 bribe.”
Democrats’ tenure as a majority ruling party will be cut short if
Murtha is in any way involved in a place where he can move money
around.
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