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To: Sully- who wrote (20049)	6/22/2006 1:11:52 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Did you know that smearmeister Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam investigation? Murtha's second act Betsy's Page Robert Novak writes today about how Murtha's performance on Meet The Press stammering through a proposal that U.S. troops in Iraq redeploy to Okinawa. Murtha's blithe assurance that troops could rapidly redeploy from Japan to Iraq was contradicted by a Defense Department official who estimated it would take a month to do so. Democrats in the House weren't happy with Murtha's performance. However, whenever any Republican raises objections to Murtha's pronunciamentos, he immediately pulls out the chickenhawk argument. Apparently, no one who has not served in the military is unable to make any statements about Iraq that don't agree with what Murtha wants. I wonder how he answers John McCain's arguments that we need to stay in Iraq and not name a specific date for withdrawl. Novak reminds us of Murtha's own history of the "culture of corruption." <<< Jack Murtha proves there are second acts in American politics. I had forgotten that federal prosecutors designated him an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam investigation 26 years ago. I was reminded of it after Murtha became a candidate for majority leader, not by a Republican hit man but a Democratic former colleague in the House. In a long political career, Murtha has made bitter enemies inside his party who are alarmed by his new stature. Murtha got into politics in 1968 as a 36-year-old highly decorated Marine and in 1974 became the first Vietnam War veteran elected to Congress. By 1980, Murtha was a lieutenant of Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill and was moving to the top in the House when the FBI named him as one of eight members of Congress videotaped being offered bribes by a phony Arab sheik. The other seven congressional targets took cash and were convicted in federal court. The videotape showed Murtha declining to take cash but expressing interest in further negotiations, while bragging about his political influence. Murtha testified against the popular Rep. Frank Thompson in the Abscam case, which created lifelong enemies in the Democratic cloakroom. The House Ethics Committee exonerated Murtha of misconduct charges by a largely party-line vote, after which the committee's special counsel resigned in protest. >>> Put that story together with the one from yesterday on how he's been steering defense appropriations to companies represented by his brother's lobbying firm (The Astute Blogger has a lot more information on how Murtha has used his position on the military appropriations subcommittee in the House) and Murtha's second act in politics is beginning to be even less impressive than his first act from 1980. betsyspage.blogspot.com townhall.com betsyspage.blogspot.com betsyspage.blogspot.com astuteblogger.blogspot.com

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