BREAKING: John Murtha Dead
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Nothing on the web yet, but he was in the hospital due to complications after gall bladder surgery.
Prayers for his family. Didn't like what he said about our troops or his lack of morals, I will thank him for his military service.
Condolences to his family.
That's a shame...
Who will fly in and out of his personal (tax-funded) AIRPORT now?
So it goes.
Perhaps the most overtly crooked member of Congress...will NOT be missed.
Can someone give examples of "crooked" ...while I'm not a fan, was what he did illegal?
Abscam?
Robert, ABSCAM is right up there, although Murtha did not take money, he did leave the door open for future payments. Also look at the continuing PMA investigation. Illegal, ABSCAM no, PMA more likely either way both are a disgrace to the office.
Robert - here's a good place to start: http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/summaries/murtha.php
One of the nice things about writing budget "law" is that what you put in it is, in a manner of speaking, the law of the land.
At one level, legal v. illegal is a distinction without a consequence.
I feel about the same way as I did with Kennedy's passing. Happy!!
I'll take a turn around the floor, doing the old hypocrisy two-step.
John, thanks for your military service. My condolences to your family and friends.
As for your service in Congress, no thanks, and my condolences to your constituents. You consistently put your party above your country and showed no qualms at all when eviscerating your former comrades-in-arms.
I believe Mary Jo has finished escorting Ted to his final destination. If she has the stomach for it, perhaps she can lead you to yours, now that she knows the way. Drop us a postcard, using your franking privileges, of course, and let us know if it's hot enough.
Maybe ther ewill be some good Marines waiting for him!
There again maybe they won't have to greet him.
Good Ridance you UPOS
Its a sad day when people get this excited about a legislative leader for this country dying, have a little respect people! My original question was to point out that there is a big difference between being a "crook" and being "crooked" as one implies having broken the law and the other is defined by how well one can manipulate the law - the latter of which seems to apply to Mr. Murta.
Anyone who knows what Murtha and his henchmen (PMA, etc) did knows that he was an exemplar of the disgusting self-serving patrician phenomenon in our Government. The fact that much of what he did is not "illegal" only indicts the system all the more.
My best goes out to Congressman Murtha's family. He served his country in combat and more often than not advocated a reasonable national security and foreign policy.
That being said, for those unfamiliar with Pennsylvania politics, I thought I'd offer an evaluation of the district. Since I live in PA for about four years while in college, I'm fairly familiar, although I lived in the eastern part of the state. The 12th is a very winnable congressional district for the GOP. In 2008 the 12th, finally tiring of their longtime congressman, gave Bill Russell 42% of the vote - the best the GOP had done in more than a decade. This is even given that the district was constructed specifically for Murtha - they took the most Republican parts of southwestern PA and put them in the 18th (Tim Murphy) and the 9th (Bill Shuster) - Republicans can win here. McCain carried the district in 2008.
I'm not sure about the law in PA regarding vacancies, whether this is close enough to November that they can avoid a special election, but Republicans can pick up the seat under any circumstances. I'd been expecting 4-5 pickups of U.S. House seats out of PA already. Now I expect 4-6, whether '08 nominee Bill Russell runs again or not.
Robert Reed - "Its a sad day when people get this excited about a legislative leader for this country dying, have a little respect people! My original question was to point out that there is a big difference between being a "crook" and being "crooked" as one implies having broken the law and the other is defined by how well one can manipulate the law - the latter of which seems to apply to Mr. Murta."
I cannot respect him for dying. Lots of people die and it isn't hard to do. I respect a person for what they stand for and what they do. This man deserves no respect. He soiled his military service when he turned on his country's military. He soiled his political career by trying to game the system without ethics.
Fix the system - hate the game, not the player! .if a Republican went after pork barreling how many would complain about them and revel in their death?
Robert how many liberals would revel in Rush dying? Heck even Obama laughed when Wanda Sykes made a joke about Rush getting kidney failure. Sympathies to his family and I thank him for his service in uniform. But other than that he embodies what is wrong with our govt.
Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that John Murtha be forgiven for anything he may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to ensure any possible benefit for which he may be eligible after the destruction of his body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure his receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as an unelected intermediary between himself and that which may not be himself, but which may have an interest in the matter of his receiving as much as it is possible for him to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.
That takes care, in a politically correct way, of all the forgiveness that Murtha now requires.
I guess he now needs a corpseman.
Islander...in the words of my mother...."if a liberal jumped off a bridge, would you do the same?". Your answer is nothing more than that of a child pointing fingers and saying but Johnny did it so its okay...how about a little class, instead of us all being brought down to such a low level. Maybe instead of a yippee try a more subtle approach like, "gee it sure will be nice to see someone new in that seat in Congress"
Funny you should put it that Robert, that is almost what I wrote in response to your post about would Republicans revel in a republican death if that republican was a big earmark type. As for class did you read the whole post as well as my previous ones? the ones where I extended sympathies to his family and thanked for his service? I can't help it if he was involved in some FBI investigations, one is still pending. He still embodies what is wrong with Congress. I don't think I said yippee but if you can find my post with yippee Murtha is dead, I will apologize.
Islander, my posts were in response to SEVERAL on here who genuinely seemed pleased that mr. Nurta had died, not you in specifically...in general have we really stooped this low that we can not only travel but cannot even see the higher road?
Robert, for some on both sides, even the President is guilty of demeaning the Tea Party. Tit for Tat will be a new Olympic sport in the future. :)
Michelle Malkin's not a fan.
"We are not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But those whom the deceased viciously smeared and humiliated deserve to be defended. John "Jack" Murtha was an unrepentant smear merchant and corruptocrat to the bitter end."
Its a sad day when people get this excited about a legislative leader for this country dying, have a little respect people!
Respect is something that one earns. God forgive me, but I hope Murtha is getting no rest in hell.
The rationale behind Murtha’s aptly — if appallingly — named Slow Bleed Strategy was that, if the supply chain to our troops in combat could be forced to dry up, enough of America’s warfighters would be killed in action that President Bush would have no choice but to “redeploy” our military men and women out of Iraq and back to America.
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I'll be bigger than others and save my "eulogy" for a later time.
Wonder who will surface to take the seat away from the D's this time.