Meanwhile, in other corrupt Pennsylvania politician news...
Meanwhile, in other corrupt Pennsylvania politician news...
Will the feds be able to get Jack Murtha behind bars before Vince Fumo's wrist-slap sentence is over?
Is the noose tightening around John Murtha?
For months now, the Pennsylvania Democratic power-broker's name has been popping up in connection to a wide-ranging FBI investigation of defense contractors and lobbyists to whom he has ties. And yesterday brought more bad news...
Mark O'Hair, a former Air Force employee pleaded guilty (sub. req.) Monday in connection to getting a kickback from a defense contract that Murtha, who chairs the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, had provided.
If I were Murtha, I would plead guilty quickly, so he can get Ed Rendell to write a letter seeking leniency from the judge while Rendell is still the sitting governor. Speaking of Rendell, can you believe the nerve of that guy in trying to push Joe Sestak out of a 2010 Senate primary against Arlen Specter? I think Rendell and the Democrats' machine tactics may have met their match with this incredibly stubborn admiral -- these kind of guys aren't big on taking orders.
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Will, how can you back corrupt liberals like Murtha, Fumo, and Obama?— Dr. Michael- Come on, give Murtha a break. Yeah, he's corrupt, but he's a Democrat - he means well.— fafafooey
- Here's something you won't see reported by Will The Shill: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/21/maloney-apologizes-for-using-n-word-2/ - a Democrat in Congress using the N-word - and no resignation calls from the Democrat-Media Complex! Just an apology and it goes away...— fafafooey
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"...and no resignation calls from the Democrat-Media Complex!" . . . . . . Yet you have to post a "Democrat-Media Complex" blog address to reference the story. I guess that's why they call you fafafooey.- Murtha's days as the MICs broker in Congress can't last forever. How nicely this story coincides with the Senate's stripping out the F-22 funding today.
- Sestak is absolutely relentless, honest, intelligent, stands for something.— citizenkane
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- I will vote for Sestak if he can run in the 8th against Patrick Murphy. votes partyline sometimes, might show up and ... contribution issues. Time to vote the cheaters out.— Fisher
Murtha is a crook. So was Duke Cunnigham (r-Ca.)Difference is Duke was a real hero. Murtha is a hero to his donors only. Where has the press been on Murtha for the last 25 years. Murtha barely squirmed out of ABSCAM. The press should have been watching him since then,but he is a demorat. As for Sestak-he hadn't lived in the district for 30+ years. Didn't even know the town I live in was in his district. A carpet bagger I will change registration for to vote for him against Bebecit Arlen. Maybe we can get rid of both.— georgel
poor poor republicans - I guess when they're out of power they sit around and blog all day instead of defending their now defeated incompentent bosses.- and if Murtha goes, does Brady go with him? Brady says he always listens to Murtha, so would he be lonely without the big man? At least he can go visit Murtha and Mariano together.— PaulDeon
- and if Murtha goes, does Brady go with him? Brady says he always listens to Murtha, so would he be lonely without the big man? At least he can go visit Murtha and Mariano together.— PaulDeon
- Posted by bryanc 05:33 PM, 07/21/2009 Will, how can you continue to support such a racist, corrupt party? Hmmm. Let's start at the Tea Pot Dome Scandal. Then Prohibition and the rise of organized crime, especially in Repub-controlled Philly. Then anot-Social Security. Then McCarthy and HUAC hearings. Then anti-civil and voting rights. Then Watergate. Then Iran-Contra. Then the WMD lies and illegal wiretapping. Then no-bid contracts to Haliburton-KBR for billions for shoddy or no work and electrocuted soldiers. Then, after the last election, calls for secession, calls for the president to fail, calls for congress not to fix healthcare, but to break the president. Gee, bryanc, how can YOU continue to support a corrupt and racist party?— mike l
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- It's about time they snared that old fake.— Just a Joe
- "Difference is Duke was a real hero." . . . . By that "logic", Hitler wasn't such a bad guy either.
- Brady is an idiot and he'll go down soon.— The-Roof-Is-On-Fire
- What, nothing about Palin? I was sure you would jump at that... oh, wait, not enough articles to cut and paste yet...— AngryWhiteMale
- Palin who?
- "The press should have been watching him since then,but he is a demorat." . . . . . . Obviously you have the same reading list as Palin.
- And yet,knowing what a fat slob crook he IS, the dumb Democrats of his district re-elected him. I thought Democrats were more principled than that.— WriteWinger
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- I hear the Valley Swim Club is hiring NY Rep. Carolyn Maloney as a camp counselor. They are clever.— WriteWinger
- Between Boxer, Durbin and now Maloney, these Democrats could start thier own Ku Klux Klan chapter. Calling Robert Byrd........— WriteWinger
- Wake up people! Democrat or Republican doesn't matter; they're all scoundrels after a while. Forget term limits. Do you homework, get off your butts, and vote OUT all incumbents. Now there's CHANGE I can believe in!— Mark Glaeser
- "Do you homework, get off your butts, and vote OUT all incumbents." Amen, this would end career politicianism, and should muck up gov enough that they get little accomplished. Cause no harm.— RG
- "these Democrats could start thier own Ku Klux Klan chapter." . . . And rob the GOP of what's left of its base? How cruel.
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- "...the dumb Democrats of his district re-elected him. I thought Democrats were more principled than that." . . . Are you kidding? No one brings home the bacon like Murtha. Also keep in mind that McCain edged out Obama in his district. Murtha infamously called them racists last year when he endorsed Hillary, later changing his description to 'rednecks'. It was probably the only honest thing he ever said.
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- mike l, how can you continue to support such a racist, corrupt Democrat party? Democrats: fought to expand slavery, passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery, passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery. Democrats have a current senator (Byrd) who was a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan, and personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage. Democrat FDR's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan (Hugo Black). Democrat Harry Truman joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922. Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Democrat Bull Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant. Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever. Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools. Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act. Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI. Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Now, let's look at Democrat Fumo, Democrat Murtha, Democrat Jefferson (with his freezer full of cash bribes), John Edwards with his payoffs to hide his love child from his cancer-stricken wife. Gee, how can YOU continue to support that party?— fafafooey
I know I'm going to regret this gphilly but I'll bite. I agree the birth certificate issue is settled in my book too but how does it make people who may believe it is not racist??— bird11- Comment removed.
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- More broken transparency promises: Obama administration officials have rejected a watchdog group's request for a list of healthcare industry executives who've been meeting secretly in the White House with Obama staffers to discuss pending healthcare changes being drafted there and in CongressCongress.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/obama-bush-policies.html— RG
- ""these Democrats could start thier own Ku Klux Klan chapter." . . . And rob the GOP of what's left of its base? How cruel." The GOP's base, MSL? I thought swim-clubbing Philly was a Democratic-leaning town.— Vandy
- "The GOP's base, MSL? I thought swim-clubbing Philly was a Democratic-leaning town." . . . . Tru dat. Huntingdon Valley? Not so much.
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- ---}}} More broken transparency promises {{{--- --snip-- PhRMA, which represents the nation's drug companies, said it had taken part in two meetings with senior White House officials in the Roosevelt Room. Participants, according to Tauzin, included White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, along with the CEOs of some major drug companies. Both meetings were closed to the public. --snip-- Yup, that Obama sure is a socialist/Marxist - bound and determined to bring our capitalist system to its knees.— Talking point sleuth
- "Huntingdon Valley? Not so much." Are you sure about that, MSL? http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/finance/states/pa/cities/huntingdon-valley/ -- My recollection is that Montgomery County, of which Huntington Valley is a part, voted for Obama 60%-39% last fall.— Vandy
- Ya' just gotta love some Republicans. DeMint said that his "Obama's Waterloo" comment "wasn't personal." Pass the popcorn.— Talking point sleuth
- "Do you think these same people would be hooting about McCain if he was President since there was some question early on as to where he was born?" No, it would be different people hooting...it would be Democrats. The birth certificate issue is one of partisanship, not racism. To reiterate bird's question, where do you see racism in this issue?— legatus
- I'll have some of that popcorn, TPS, because the Democrats have a propensity to say some strange things, too: (1) "White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told The New York Times Obama intends to use the news conference as a "six-month report card," to talk about "how we rescued the economy from the worst recession" and the legislative agenda moving forward, including health care and energy legislation." -- (2) "He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” -- (3) "Take for instance Biden’s sit-down with Yushchenko today, which just so happened to occur in a bar. (The two were allegedly drinking Cokes, according to the Veep’s office. Uh huh.) According to the pool report, the press was taken in to witness the two leaders in the middle of their conversation. One reporter overheard Yushchenko talking about Ukrainian churches. A few moments later, Biden was overheard complementing Yushchenko on his country’s, um, population."I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something and didn't say he discovered the most beautiful women in the world. That's my observation,” Biden declared." http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/21/biden-those-ukrainian-women-are-just-gorgeous.aspx— Vandy
- gphilly - the same people - no. Different people - yes. Besides it really doesn't matter where McCain was born because BOTH of his parents are U.S. citizens. Title 8 U.S. Code states that "Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S." - that settles the issue for McCain.— bird11
- gphilly - you still didn't answer why they are "racist" - if you want to say partisan I'll agree 100% but racist IMHO you need to explain.— bird11
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- "My recollection is that Montgomery County, of which Huntington Valley is a part, voted for Obama 60%-39% last fall." . . . . . . My bad. I forgot the Obama effect. http://www.mcdems.org/release_details.asp?id=1
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- gphilly the fact that both of McCain's parents are U.S. citizens make the place of his birth a moot point. Obama's father was not a U.S. citizen so the place of his birth does matter - I already said I accept he was born in the U.S. therefore qualified to be President - now would you please stop avoiding the simpling friggin' question - how are those who question this RACIST?????? You said it back it up.— bird11
- gphilly, I thought so.<<
>>>. gphilly you do realize that by constantly crying RACIST whenever someone questions a person of color you undermine those who point out truly racist activities. (Bunch please give a summer reading assignment to gphilly - may I suggest "The Boy Who Cried Wolf") — bird11 - Comment removed.
- gphilly - YOU ARE A RACIST!!! I mean I can't prove that but you can't disprove it...I mean I just think you are so you are....proof isn't really important when you call someone a racist...mmm mmm I mean mm mm hey look over there see what Bush did— bird11
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