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THE BATTLE OF MURTHA
DrudgeReport.com is headlining the John Murtha corruption
tsunami that’s threatening Congress pending tomorrow’s leadership
vote. The Drudge headline is linked to CNN’s story, ‘ Murtha decries
'swift boat-style' attacks on ethics.’
“… while the GOP took about 8 years to set up a
"culture of corruption", it took the Democrats about 8 minutes. They
aren't even inaugurated yet and they're putting corrupt cronies in
office.”
– John Bambenek/blogcritics.org
Murtha leadership
firestorm rages
WSJ’s John Fund:
John Murtha and Congress's "culture of corruption."
Nov. 15, 2006… The firestorm over incoming Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s endorsement of Rep. John Murtha for Majority Leader continues
to rage. With a final vote set for tomorrow, one of Congress’s most
corrupt politicians is now poised for the No. 2 leadership post.
Columnist
John Fund (WSJ/OpinionJournal)
reports:
House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi's endorsement of Rep. John
Murtha for majority leader, the No. 2 position in the Democratic
leadership, has roiled her caucus. "She will ensure that they [Mr.
Murtha and his allies] win. This is hardball politics," Rep. Jim
Moran, a top Murtha ally, told the Hill, a congressional newspaper.
"We are entering an era where when the speaker instructs you what to
do, you do it."
But several members are privately aghast that Mr. Murtha, a
pork-barreling opponent of most House ethics reforms, could become the
second most visible symbol of the new Democratic rule. "We are
supposed to change business as usual, not put the fox in charge of the
henhouse," one Democratic member told me. "It's not just the Abscam
scandal of the 1980s that he barely dodged, he's a disaster waiting to
happen because of his current behavior," another told me.
As for Abscam, a recent book by George Crile, a producer for CBS's
"60 Minutes," provides damning evidence that Mr. Murtha escaped severe
punishment for his role in the scandal only because then-Speaker Tip
O'Neill arranged for the House Ethics Committee to drop the charges,
over the objections of the committee's outside prosecutor. The
prosecutor quickly resigned in protest.
>>>read entire column
Vets for the Truth sounded this alarm for the past four months. John
Murtha is a corrupt career politician who should never have been
returned to Congress.
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