Jack Murtha: A “Corrupt Bully”
Paul Mirengoff calls Democratic Representative John Murtha a “corrupt bully” —as evidenced in this Washington Post piece:
During a series of House votes Thursday, Murtha walked to the chamber’s Republican side to confront Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a 43-year-old former FBI agent. Earlier this month, Rogers had tried unsuccessfully to strike a Murtha earmark from an intelligence spending bill. The item would restore $23 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center, a facility in Murtha’s Pennsylvania district that some Republicans say is unneeded.
According to Rogers’ account, which Murtha did not dispute, the Democrat angrily told Rogers he should never seek earmarks of his own because “you’re not going to get any, now or forever.”
“This was clearly designed to try to intimidate me,” Rogers said in an interview Friday. “He said it loud enough for other people to hear.”
House rules prohibit lawmakers from placing conditions on earmarks or targeted tax benefits that are based on another member’s votes.
Murtha’s an asshole, too, but Democrats have chosen to reward him with some prominence in return for his participating in their opposition to the War for Iraq —just because he is a veteran of the Viet Nam War. This, as has been demonstrated to them before, is neither a qualification for moral superiority, nor a self-immunizing rebuke of “chickenhawkery” or whatever the fuck else the dhimmis wish to throw out there instead of ideas. But that’s what that is. Deep cynicism.
By the way, the NDIC is total fucking pork for Murtha’s constituents. That’s indisputable. But it’s also a Pentagon-funded Federal agency managed by the Department of Justice —which exists as some superfluous finger in the pie set aside for the Just Say No element in our Government. Lots of [counterintelligence] on the habits of marihuana growers and smokers. For instance. Is that really something you liberals are all queer about?
Why keep giving Murtha a pass? He’s not principled about anything. He just wants the lucre.
