Okinawa Jack Murtha
Posted at 6:45pm on Jul. 6, 2008 Okinawa Jack Murtha continues to act in an utterly unsurprising fashion.
I cannot, however, in good conscience endorse what Gateway Pundit called him. It was, in fact, uncalled for.
By Moe Lane
I am completely in favor of the female breast, you see; and so I feel that calling Murtha one utterly slanders what might be a perfectly innocent mammary.
Three comments (in all of which I do agree with Gateway Pundit):
1). Murtha really needs to learn to actually read his briefing materials. Or at least figure out what year it is: his talking points (5 versus 15 of 18).
2). Murtha really needs to apologize to the men that he's slandered in the past before he starts in with new slanders:
Murtha: I think the short term it [the Bush Surge] has reduced incidents. I'm not sure if it's because the Iraqis are just worn out but certainly the way they are doing it today it makes a big difference. It used to be we broke down doors. We went in and we killed people inadvertently. Now they're much more careful about it.
Charming fellow, no?
3). If you wonder why certain people wince at best, and laugh hysterically at worst, when the phrase "Democratic credibility in national security policy" comes up - it's because people like the person capable of 1). & 2). are given as examples of credible Democrats on that issue.
Moe
PS: By all means, Murtha: you just go ahead and support Senator Barack Obama. He almost deserves you.
PPS: I lied:
4). Lt. Colonel William Russell is running in this district.
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Posted at 7:14pm on Apr. 1, 2008 Jack Murtha again violates House rules
"Breakin' the law, he was breakin' the law..."
By Mark Kilmer
Okinawa Jack Murtha is back in the news for the first time since backing Hillary a week-and-a-half ago. From The Hill [story link] via Josh Shultz at the NRCC Blog:
"Rep. John Murtha's (D-Pa.) top aide [John Hugya] spent more than $2,000 of campaign money to buy a rifle and other items for himself at a National Rifle Association (NRA) charity auction, raising questions about whether the transaction violated House ethics rules and campaign finance law."
"House ethics rules prohibit the conversion of campaign funds to personal use except when members or staffers are being reimbursed for 'legitimate and verifiable' expenses or for 'bona fide' political or campaign purposes."
"'Regardless of whatever lawyerly argument was made, I don't think you could argue that this is kosher,' said Meredith McGehee of the Campaign Legal Center.'Campaign funds are not supposed to be used for personal use, and at the end of the day, the chief of staff got a gun of great value.'"
"McGehee also called on the ethics committee to review the Hugya case in order to define the gray area of the law.
"'One would hope the ethics committee would be made aware of this situation and make a finding,' she said."
"...financial disclosure report for 2006 lists $2,151 in 'items purchased from NRA at a charitable event' as a gift it received that year from the Murtha's campaign committee. The Murtha campaign listed the $2,151 as payment to Friends of the NRA for 'advertising.'"
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Posted at 8:51pm on Feb. 23, 2008 Two Republicans try to ensure that Murtha runs unopposed
"Republicans" petition to have Bill Russell thrown of the Republican primary ballot.
By Mark Kilmer
Jack Murtha is invincible. He's survived ABSCAM [Hannity and Colmes vid] and waltzed through recklessly slandering our troops in Iraq. And he seeks to walk to his 18th term, with the help of two "Republicans."
Bill Russell [campaign site] is a 44-year-old Army veteran who wanted to challenge Democrat Murtha as a Republican, but he might not be included on the Republican ballot in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District because of two people referring to themselves as "Republicans": former Johnstown Mayor Don Zucco and Johnstown attorney Jeanne McKelvey. Those two have petitioned the Commonwealth Court to keep Russell's name off the April 22nd ballot because, they insist, he did not collect the requisite 1,000 voters' signatures.
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