Murtha decries ‘swift boat-style’ attacks on ethics
Christmas in Cambodia! What’ll those Rethugs complain about next?
Rep. John Murtha, the anti-war congressman who is the likely new House speaker’s pick for majority leader, fended off what he called “swift boat-style attacks” on his ethics record Tuesday.
The Pennsylvania Democrat also blasted his rival for majority leader, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, for siding with President Bush on Iraq.
Pass the popcorn, bro.
In routing the GOP in the November 7 elections, Democrats attacked what they called a Republican “culture of corruption.”
Now a Washington watchdog group is questioning the party’s sincerity, alleging Murtha steered Pentagon contracts to businesses that hired his brother as a lobbyist.
“How can Americans believe that the Democrats will return integrity to the House when future Speaker Pelosi has endorsed an ethically challenged member for a leadership position?” Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, asked in a written statement. “Rep. Murtha is the wrong choice for this job.”
Murtha told ABC in October that his brother “was treated like everybody else.”
Murtha also turned up in the FBI’s Abscam investigation in 1980, when undercover agents offered bribes to several members of Congress. Murtha was videotaped turning down a bribe “at this point,” and he was not charged.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Murtha—who just won an 18th term—blasted critics who raised concerns about ”unfounded allegations that occurred 26 years ago.””
Don’t you hate it how unfounded allegations occur? Hey, what you got in that sampan, John?
“I thought we were above this type of swift-boating attack,” he said, referring to the largely refuted but widely publicized attacks on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s military record in 2004. “This is not how we restore integrity and civility to the United States Congress.”
[Emphases mine]
John Murtha, restoring integrity and civility
A leading Hoyer supporter, Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, said Pelosi’s endorsement appears to have had “very little” effect on the leadership race.
“From what I can see from talking to my colleagues, they greatly respect Ms. Pelosi’s leadership and her judgment,” said Dingell, the House’s longest-serving member. “But most of them made commitments to Hoyer, and most of them are of the view he would be the best choice.”
Dingell said the intramural battle “has a potential to be very hurtful” for the party as it prepares to take control of Congress.
But Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi, who is supporting Murtha, said, “That’s the way democracy is.”
“People are going to say bad things about you one week and ask you for a favor the next,” Taylor said.
He dismissed the questions about Murtha’s ethics. “If anyone felt like there was anything there, he would have been indicted a long time ago,” he said.
Seared into their memory.
“Murtha told ABC in October that his brother “was treated like everybody else.â€Â
– Yeh, we know. that’s what everyone is steamed about.
– Well at least the old
crookfart admits it….It’s going to be a fun two years.
Orange whip, anyone?
The Democrats were in charge of the House for 40 straight years last time, wishbone.
I imagine, after the Republican run (hehe), they’ll be in charge for 40 years this time, too…
Yeah, with squeaky-clean public-minded and selfless civil servants like Harry and John, what could go wrong, huh, monky?
Compare/contrast:
Carl Albert/Sam Rayburn/Tip O’Neill
Nancy Pelosi/Jack Murtha/Charlie Rangel
‘Nuff said, monky.
P.S.: I left out Maxine Waters–that would have been cruel.
referring to the largely refuted but widely publicized attacks
WHAT was refuted? Did Kerry release all his military records to refute ‘em? Did secret film clips show he was indeed in Cambodia on Christmas 1968 and the Nixon really was President then?
I am so tired of MSM tact of dropping these little piles of “accepted wisdom” throughout alledged journalistic endeavors.
Darleen,
The technical term is “making shit up.”
As in “I remember being in Cambodia at Christmas…”
Darleen, I know. But c’mon, it’s funny that despite all that the guy thinks he’s being picked on.
Come on, Darleen,
The swiftboaties attacks against Kerry, were laughably nonsensical.
Hehe, they were just political smears, you weren’t supposed to believe them.
I guess the idea is that they’re willing to throw him under the Swift Boat, so long as they get to keep their meme.
monky
Nonsensical?
Ok. Show me the definitive proof that Kerry was in Cambodia in 1968.
Or give me ONE passage from the book that has been definitively proven false.
Just because you keep repeating it’s “nonsense” doesn’t make it so.
monkyboy,
You, hehe, are a complete, hehe, asshole, hahahaha!
So, explain again why Kerry’s comrades would have sold him down the river. Because they are a bunch of lying idealogues? Because they were mad about the truths that he told about the American troops in Vietnam before the Congressional Committees? Because of that time he threw his medals over the White House fence?
Seared, seared I tell you.
I hate having to repeat myself…
I’ll take nonsense over bald-faced lies any day. For instance, it’s why Monty Python is funny and Ted Kennedy isn’t.
– Might as well get used too it Darleen. The fourth Estate has moved on from 24/7 demonizing Bush/Iraq to Phase II of “taking back France”, by proping up their choices for various power positions. The “puff pieces” will be rolling off the presse’s during the House and Senate fights between the hard Lefties and Moderates, until all the positions are filled.
UnderminingDemocracy, andseditionfreedom of the press in action.Pelosi is backing Murtha because she is playing true to form …
A few facelifts back, Pelosi got her widdle feelings hurt by Hoyer. And no one carries a grudge like the grannie from The Bay Area.
It’s personal for her … and if that is how she is handling the first order of business, it’s going to be a very very interesting two years.
Wow you guys,
You aren’t supposed to eat the wax fruit, it’s for display purposes only.
Like Ted Haggard talking about the the evil gays…
Well, that and standing next to Murtha makes her look younger.
– monkycrap – I hereby challange you to a put up or shut up proposition. 100 bucks says you won’t ever see that form 180, and if you do it will NOT be a full disclosure of Kerry’s service records. Until that happens your sides bullshit deflections are as empty as your head. Put up or shut up. what say you?
Yep…that’s what PW posters are all about, monky–gay-bashing for Jesus.
Read much?
Nice dodging the point, though.
monky
What? You can’t find any proof?
Fancy that.
Dan
Keith Richards standing next to Murtha looks younger ….
…and more sober …
Wait–how, exactly is Ted Haggard talking about gays like wax fruit?
Proof of what, Darleen?
When Bush said before the election that he was sticking with Rummy for the next two years, did you believe that, too?
Do you still believe it?
Hey, Glen! Yeah–come here and stand next to the Speaker…
Sorry–couldn’t resist.
cynn will be here later telling me to quit being mean.
Well, it’ll be interesting to find out, I’m sure, but I’m off to bed. G’night, people. And you, too, monky.
– You’ve just been, what was that bullshit troupe you idiots desperately use to Defend the Ketchup slut’s BoyToy?…. Oh yeh….you’ve just been “largely discredited”… Now slink back to your bowl of wax banana;s and try to keep the hyena “hehe’s” down…..
monky
ADHD?
I said for you to provide some proof of any allegations in the book Unfit for Command that have been refuted.
Even my 4 y/o twins are better at trying to duck the question than you are, numbnutz.
And now–in Gold Medal contention for nonseq at the 2008 Beijing games:
I think event the East German judge gave that a 9.5.
BTW monkeyputz … You must have missed the memo. Lurch is no longer worthy. He’s been branded “used goods” by his esteemed loyal party, and throw in the wood chipper, because under the bus didn’t work for him, he’s too dense. It’s no longer fashionable to defend the “VietNam war hero”. You need to catch up. That swift boat sank a while ago.
– If you’re going to be any good as a troll, you need to stay current.
THIS JUST IN:
“Murtha Redeploys Majority Leader Campaign to Okinawa”
Just checkin’ the delusion level, wishbone.
Is there some alternate universe where Rummy’s firm hand is still guiding our glorious victory in Iraq and Bush giving him the boot is just another MSM hoax?
– Nobody in the continental US has alluded to any such rubish monkygong, so I assume you’re so scorched on the Lurch thing you’re down to random babbling….
Is that the same universe where Democrats were for it before they were against it? Start with Kerry and, say, Henry Waxman and work your way from there. Oops–that’s reality not an alternate universe.
Just checking the honesty level, fucktard.
Or perhaps, Rummy is using the firm hand in the same universe where Kerry was in Cambodia at Christmas of 1968. Or where American forces can rapidly react to events in Iraq from Okinawa.
Random babbling?
Hehe.
You guys are the ones who still believe some two year old campaign stunt.
It’s like coming across some Japanese soldiers hiding in the jungle long after Japan had surrendered…fascinating.
I’ll take my chances with the Swifties over Lurch’s version of things, monky. Makes me sleep better. Otherwise, I take the word of an elitist commie-symp who, for naked political advantage, impugned the honor of his comrades with bald-faced lies.
Yes, it makes me sleep better.
When you can’t refute the bald faced evidence, you have no choice but to resort to disembling. Let me know when you want to wager that C note monky-sphinter.
Did Kerry just totally rip off the Dead Kennedys, or what?
Also:
Murtha was as unindicted coconspirator in ABSCAM.
By this standard, Nixon must be totally rehabbed by now.
“unfounded allegations” = that’s my doppelganger on that tape.
As for Dead Kennedys–Lurch totally ripped off a Dead Heinz. And doesn’t have a good beat and it’s not easy to dance to.
I thought Mothra had been finished off by Godzilla way back. But no, it’s apparently going to take some PT-109’s.
Sez the lower primate who still believes thirty-eight-year-old shopworn lies. Like another, more entertaining animal would say, it is to laugh.
TW = going66, and I’m a little disappointed in that. I mean, it’s two years off from when Waffles had his Christmas adventure seared, seared into his memory.
Which lies are those, Sean?
I believe:
1. John Kerry served in Vietnam.
2. While he was there, he was involved in combat.
That’s it.
I’ve never heard two soldiers who were involved in the same battle agree on every single detail. It’s not like they have the time or the viewpoint to see the complete “truth.”
I looked into the swiftboaties claims after the election.
I ignored the tales of anyone who didn’t actually participate in the same battles that Kerry did…that eliminated almost all the swiftboaties.
Of the few that were actually in the same battles as Kerry, by their own accounts, they were in no position to even see how Kerry acted during those battles, much less pass judgement on his actions.
I imagine their tales are still good enough for the faith-based community to continue to believe in, though…that’s the whole point of belonging to it, isn’t it?
As wishbone was brave enough to admit…he believes in whatever helps him sleep at night…
I guess we agree then monky, because that is about all of his story I believe also.
But you, who weren’t anywhere near where any of them were, can pass judgment on their judgment, eh?
CHICKENJUDGER!
If that were the extent of John Kerry’s claims—and if he had not come back from Vietnam and accused virtually all of his fellow soldiers of being war criminals who killed babies, raped women, cut-off genitals and dismembered innocent civilians—and if he had not confessed to secret contacts with the enemy during time of war—well, things might be different.
What a pathetic, transparent tactic. Change the subject when you cannot produce any evidence to support your claims. I wonder who he thinks he is fooling with this childish evasion?
It helps him sleep better at night.
Aw, he’s just flingin’ poo.
He he, he he… Monkyspank said “firm hand”. He he, he he, he he…
Every time I see murtha fucktard’s face, this one lyric runs through my head: “Die motherfucker, die.” It’s not a good lyric by any means, but somehow it encapsulates my total hatred for that traitorous blowhard. It’s amusing to see this infighting so soon into the glorious reign of the dhimmis. If this is the beginning, the end is going to be a thing of beauty to behold. Just a thought.
Yes we need the kind of civility and integrity that Murtha brings to the House, like calling his fellow Marines cold blooded murderers.
What a whiney bitch he has become. Such a long way from any Marine Colonel I know.
I think monkyboy is one of those bots that just posts random leftwing words randomly strung together. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
TW found68. That was when the Junior Gigilo from MA found his special hat in Cambodia. Seared indeed, like tuna.
Pass the pork rinds please
You Swift Boaties sicken me. I’ll repeat, en toto, Senator Kerry’s testimony regarding his service in VietNam, and his participation in black ops, where he got his famous hat:
That was John Kerry’s Senate testimony proving beyond a shadow of a doubt (see Greenwald’s excellent takedown of everybody who disagrees with Kerry) that he served in Cambodia. Either that, or a raging song. Doesn’t matter, I’m right, you’re wrong.
Sgt Ted
We don’t put on our morality like a suit of clothes. It’s a code that we examine, re-examine and rededicate each and every day.
On the whole, most people I know who have been through the US military are not only better for it, but they carry the values they learn with them for life.
Murtha is an exception … and his being caught on tape shows he lost those values more than a quarter of century ago.
On the other hand, it looks like monky never had any good values to lose.
BTW, if Murtha’s going to be so damn good for us, why does that picture show him sitting in an appropriations hearing making an ATM gesture with his right hand? Last time I checked, my butt crack was not an ATM card reader, in spite of how Congress usually treats my ass.
If Murtha makes it to speaker, I give the guy months to live. He looks seriously ill–never mind his mental facilities.
The new new MSM motto:
Two [clap]
Two [clap]
Two lies in one.
The black-dot drawing of Murtha on the WSJ editorial page today is tremendously flattering. Have you seen it?
I’m thinking of getting a black dot drawing done of myself, and then posting it alongside Eva and Salma. And Murtha.
Hey, who’s flinging crap in here?
…
I’m not cleaning that up, you know. Nuh-uh.
– First He manahes to shoot himself in the ass, not once but twice, with granade launchers, on one occasion fighting a pitched battle with sand bank, and the other with a rice box. Then he gets into a really nasty firefight with a 15 year old caught in the crossfire, whom he bravely shoots in the back as the kid is trying to excape with his life. He does all this in between covert trips to Cambodia, cussing out a President who hasn’t taken office yet, on a swiftboat he’d have to carry on his back to reach his sortie point. On all three occasions He puts in for Truthiness to power medals. Then not wanting to let the MOVIE CAMERA he took with him to Nam go to waste, he gets a local village elder to gather up some of the colorful folk, and help him restage his mighty battle with the teenager for the Camera.
Then he comes back and gets involved with a group, throwing someone elses medals away, lying in front of congress, blackmailing others to give false testimony, and visiting illegally with the enemy leadership in Paris. When it turns out his “gropies” are plotting the assassination of a sitting Senator, he slips out the back door.
– He can’t get his DD recinded, so in between times he gets someone to forge a silver medal award for his records, and unfortunately they don’t know what they’re doing so they mark it with the wrong insignia. Carter gives him a pardon, along with all the other dishonories, but damn it, all records stay intact, so that doesn’t whitewash his records enough. He writes letters over and over, asking the Navy Department to alter his records, and they refuse citing the laws.
– He runs for president, refusing to make his service records public, claiming 236 men, many of them decorated hero’s in their own right, are all liars out to get him.
– He’s challenged endlessly to release his records, even offered 100 thousand to do so. He’s challenged to duke it out in a court of law.
– To date he has produced nothing, except blustering claims, and cries of “everyone” lying to destroy him. It takes one short letter of request, 5 minutes to fill out a form DD-180, plus the cost of a stamp. I recieved copies of my service records in approximately two weeks. Piece of cake, if you’re not a lying piece of shit like LurchKerry.
– So far, that’s been more than he can manage in almost 3 years. Bullshit on a silver platter monkeyfarts.
– That 100 dollar bet is dangling in front of your simian nose. Over to you.
– Coming soon on a FOX cable station near you:
– Confessions of an all American sports Icon killer – O.J. Simpson expose’: “If I did it, here’s how it happened.
– Confessions of an all American Traitor – Senator J.Kerry expose’: “If I had a dishonorable discharge, here’s how it happened”
– Check your local TV listings for times and stations.
i just saw it Maybee, wow! send me a twenty year old picture and i’ll see what i can do. ;D
i read about how they do those, it’s some creative tracing.