{"id":7660,"date":"2006-11-15T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2006-11-15T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T17:15:00","slug":"delta-blues-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7660","title":{"rendered":"Delta Blues [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murtha decries ‘swift boat-style’ attacks on ethics<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nChristmas in Cambodia!  What’ll those Rethugs complain about next?\n<\/p>\n

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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.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Pennsylvania Democrat also blasted his rival for majority leader, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, for siding with President Bush on Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nPass the popcorn, bro.\n<\/p>\n

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In routing the GOP in the November 7 elections, Democrats attacked what they called a Republican “culture of corruption.”\n<\/p>\n

\nNow a Washington watchdog group is questioning the party’s sincerity, alleging Murtha steered Pentagon contracts to businesses that hired his brother as a lobbyist.\n<\/p>\n

\n“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.”\n<\/p>\n

\nMurtha told ABC in October that his brother “was treated like everybody else.”\n<\/p>\n

\nMurtha 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.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a statement issued Tuesday, Murtha—who just won an 18th term—blasted critics who raised concerns about ”unfounded allegations that occurred 26 years ago<\/b>.””<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nDon’t you hate it how unfounded allegations occur<\/i>?  Hey, what you got in that sampan, John?\n<\/p>\n

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“I thought we<\/b> 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<\/b> restore integrity and civility<\/i> to the United States Congress.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[Emphases mine]<\/p>\n

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\nJohn Murtha, restoring integrity and civility<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

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A leading Hoyer supporter, Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, said Pelosi’s endorsement appears to have had “very little” effect on the leadership race.\n<\/p>\n

\n“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.”\n<\/p>\n

\nDingell said the intramural battle “has a potential to be very hurtful” for the party as it prepares to take control of Congress.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi, who is supporting Murtha, said, “That’s the way democracy is.”\n<\/p>\n

\n“People are going to say bad things about you one week and ask you for a favor the next,” Taylor said.\n<\/p>\n

\nHe dismissed the questions about Murtha’s ethics. “If anyone<\/b> felt like there was anything<\/i> there<\/b>, he would have been indicted a long time ago<\/i>,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\n<\/p>\n

\nSeared into their memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n

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