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By: The Anchoress » New blog, old blueprints, Victory & other tales - UPDATED

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:26:53 +0000

[...] The Democrats first moves don’t seem to be impressing anyone except their adoring cheerleaders in the media. Instapundit’s round-up includes looking at the corruption of John Murtha. I’m even more concerned about Pelosi’s bat-brained idea of putting Alcee Hastings in charge of the intel committee. But hey, it’s not like we weren’t warned. Although you might be very interested in reading this in-depth look at Nancy Pelosi and her “loyalty factor” which may explain a few things. Instapundit could not be more correct when he says that neither the Democrats nor the GOP seem to have taken the message of the last election to heart. It’s just more and more and more of the same. [...]

By: Wake up America

Wake up America — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:26:17 +0000

The Murtha Meltdown…

Now… I have to say, I am laughing while writing this, because this is what the Democrats and those on the left and the independents that wanted to “make a statement” in the elections, asked for…well now they got it!!!!…

By: TC@LeatherPenguin

TC@LeatherPenguin — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:15:10 +0000

Arlo? If the WaPo and a couple of other MSM sources had played it straight previous to the election, and told the populace that doesn’t really play “inside baseball” when it comes to politics, I think the whole “throw the bums out” thing would have came down to “which brand of bums?”

Now that the Dems have a leadership position, all these stories (like Barack’s real estate deal; and Pelosi’s Presidio/Treasure Island finagling, and Reid’s Nevada chicanery) will suddenly bubble up, and turn everything into a morass that I think will just turn most of the country off to everything and anything tagged as “political” that doesn not strike them directly.

By: Arlo

Arlo — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:40:55 +0000

The Washington Post has a lot of responsibility for getting our country into this Iraq disaster. Physician heal thyself. It’d be hard for the Washington Post to get me to care about Abscam!

There is an interesting corruption story that might be worth a post here since Barack Obama is in the news so much. If it had blown national before the election, I think the Republicans would have held the Senate and probably lost a few less House seats. From reading Obama’s answers to the questions, you can see he’s not comfortable about this and theres a guy under indictment now who might be able to use Obama in a plea deal. Several interesting links in this:

blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/11/obamas_house_de.html

By: TC@LeatherPenguin

TC@LeatherPenguin — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:46:45 +0000

I love all the Abscam nostalgia Murtha’s generating. It was Abscam that turned Staten Island into the lone Republican stronghold in NYC, when John “Travelin’ Jack” Murphy (who earned that nickname for all his lobbyist-paid junketteering) was sent up the river, leading to Republican Guy Molinari gaining his Congressional seat, then building a machine that annihilated everything in its path.

Today, the Dems are allowed to control a couple of local positions that the Republicans don’t really care about (they never run a credible candidate on the Island’s North Shore), but have an absolute stranglehold on that Congressional seat, even though the Dems have a 4-1 edge in registered voters.

Electing Murtha as Majority Leader is dropping a steak in front of every pork fighting organization in the country and saying “dig in.” He’ll be a huge distraction for Pelosi if she’s serious about cleaning up the kind of corruption someone of Murtha’s background could be considered “Exhibit A.”