Posts Tagged ‘jack-murtha’

Eric Holder

November 20th, 2009 | No Comments

  I try to come up with witty post titles to show how clever I am.  However, in Eric Holder’s case this week, he’s got me.  There are so many choices to pick from I get a brain freeze simply trying to pick one, or two, or three. Now, I’m not stupid, and most people [...]

Franken and Specter

April 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Arlen Specter switched loyalties today.  A move that surprised me only in the fact it proves he’s not completely daft.  Some people are reading a lot into this: How much more can the Republicans take? Demoralized, shrinking and seemingly lacking an agenda beyond the word “no,” Republicans today saw their ranks further thinned with the [...]

If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district.

April 1st, 2009 | No Comments

“If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district.”  – Jack Murtha The corruption charge will possibly come from the FBI investigation into PMA Group.  Or, it may be flashbacks to ABSCAM.  Either way, ABSCAM involved faux Arab sheiks, PMA Group involving lobbyists in Washington, DC.  Jack Murtha represents rural Pennsylvania.  These are Arabs [...]

The Dems just don’t seem to like country folk

October 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Earlier this year, a pretty good flap was made over Barack Obama trying to understand country life.  He basically came to the conclusion that in order to live in places where people aren’t walking on top of each other, you had to be kind of bitter, and cling to things that aren’t made of concrete [...]

Jack Murtha and the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure

July 18th, 2007 | No Comments

Jack Murtha pushed through one of those earmarks everyone loves to pick on. This one is for a paltry $1,000,000 to go to a company called Concurrent Technologies to manage something called the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure. Representative Jeff Flake couldn’t figure out if the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure even existed, so he [...]

Shooting the Messenger: WMD’s in Iraq

June 22nd, 2006 | 4 Comments

This document is too important to trust people to go look for it and read it. So, here it is in its entirety: Now, this memo was requested by Rick Santorum. However, the members of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence could have had access to this information at any time since it’s been de-classified. [...]