May 23, 2007
The Most Ethical Congress Ever
Meet the new boss, yadda, yadda, yadda:
A bitter legislative quarrel in the House, played out in the parliamentary vocabulary of reprimands and motions to table, raged on yesterday as the Democrats pushed back a Republican attempt to officially chastise Rep. John Murtha, the combative Pennsylvanian whom Speaker Nancy Pelosi unsuccessfully backed for majority leader after the Democrats won control of the House in November.
Murtha had threatened Mike Rogers of Michigan for attempting to kill one of Murtha's pork barrel projects for a failing government agency in his district in front of a group of Republican representatives. Even thought Murtha was caught dead to rights in front of multiple witnesses, Democrats voted along party lines to table to motion, effectively killing the reprimand.
Nancy Pelosi supported Murtha, a fact too hard to swallow even for reliably left wing sites such as Capitol Hill Blue, who described Murtha in its headline as a "bully" while attacking his "unethical" past.
For his part, Murtha sat in a darkened corner of the House floor with cronies, laughing as the reprimand was defeated along party lines.
This is somehow surprising to you? Why would the current congress be any different than the last congress? Oh wait, I forgot, there wasn't a single scandal in the last congress, and now that democrats are doing what politicians do they take heat for it?
Posted by: JW NC at May 23, 2007 08:38 PMDoing what politicians do? nice.
"I hope you don't have any earmarks in the defense appropriations bill, because they are gone and you will not get any earmarks now and forever." -Murtha
roger that.
Posted by: brando at May 23, 2007 09:19 PMThats politics. I am pretty sure Tom "The Hammer" Delay was just as bad. You just don't like it because he is throwing his political weight around.
Posted by: JW NC at May 23, 2007 10:32 PMI am pretty sure Tom "The Hammer" Delay was just as bad.
Maybe, maybe not. Some supporting quotes would help your case greatly.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at May 24, 2007 04:48 AMPosted by JW NC at May 23, 2007 10:32 PM
That single statement isn't just throwing his weight around, it is abusing his position and authority. As a leader, everyone should have the same rights to put an earmark in for a vote.
On the earmark subject, I personally think all of them should be illegal.
A bill should stand on its own, if it can't make it, Earmarks (aka BRIBES) shouldn't be offered in for a vote.
Posted by: Retired Navy at May 24, 2007 05:17 AM
