Posts Tagged ‘jack-murtha’
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: absolute power, Al-Franken, arlen specter, blue dog democrat, corruption, democrat, Ethics, filibuster, harry reid, jack-murtha, majority, nancy pelosi, republican, roland burris
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“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 [...]
Tags: ABSCAM, culture of corruption, jack-murtha, nancy pelosi, Pennsylvania, PMA Group, redneck
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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 [...]
Tags: abortion, barack obama, bible, bitter, country folk, democrat, gun rights, guns, intrusive federal government, jack-murtha, john-kerry, Racism, racists, redneck, rural, special forces, states rights
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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 [...]
Tags: Center-for-Instrumented-Critical-Infrastructure, concurrent-technologies, Ethics, jack-murtha, jeff-flake, nancy pelosi
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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. [...]
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