This weekend is an unofficial moneybomb for the Republican nominee for John Murtha’s seat (Pa-12). Tim Burns is a Conservative business man, and one of the founders of the Tea Party in Pennsylvania.  http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/02/25/tim-burns-for-pennsylvania/

Why this weekend? This is the last weekend before the vote on ObamaCare. This is our last weekend to send Nancy Pelosi a message.

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The special election is May 18.

John Murtha has died due to complications from gallbaldder surgery.

I was never a fan of his pork spending and sweet deals for local military contractors, but I never wanted him out of office this way. As with Kennedy I wanted them defeated in the war of ideas and not out of our lives forever.

I wish his family the best and will not say anything bad about him today, this is not a time of debate or politics.

RIP Marine Semper Fi

WASHINGTON (AP) - A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 77. He had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery.–Breitbart

From the Wall Street Journal, “House Ethics Office Ends Probe of Murtha, 2 Others” [emphasis from original]:

A key House investigating body has dropped its probe of Rep. John Murtha (D., Pa.) and two other members of the House’s defense-spending committee, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Office of Congressional Ethics has informed aides to Murtha as well as Reps. Norm Dicks (D., Wash.) and Jim Moran (D., Va.) that it is no longer looking into allegations that they traded government funding earmarks for campaign donations.

How unsurprising. Expect any further probe by this Office of Congressional “Ethics” to drop probes of other Democrats, like tax cheat Charles Rangel (D-NY).

The piece does say that Murtha is still being investigated by the DoJ. Considering who runs the Justice Department now, how long before that investigation goes away?

More:

After the development, Melanie Sloan, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said congressional investigators have not been aggressive enough. “Yet again it appears that the congressional ethics committees exist to clear people of wrong doing,” she said.

Ya think? It’s amazing how the leftwing CREW has such a gift of understatement. Yet, CREW unabashedly pro-Democrat.

Just another display of Pelosi’s whitewashing of Democratic wrongdoing…

(Hat tip: Lucianne.com)