The Dems First Big F***up?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General PoliticsPelosi endorsing Murtha as majority leader = dumb.
Why? Well, if Pelosi is really talking about kicking corruption out of the Congress…Murtha doesn’t deserve to be majority leader. Sure, he’s a decorated Marine and he spoke out about the war when few other politicians would, but his hands have been dirtied over the years in all sorts of ways. Hell, even one of George Soros’s groups says it doesn’t want Murtha in there because of his special way of politicking.
Here’s more about how Pelosi’s tactics took Dems by surprise…
Even so, many Democrats thought she would stay out of the race. “We had a great deal of unity last week and encouraging Murtha to run against Hoyer really threatens to fray that unity at a time when we want to project an image of being strong and together,” said one Democratic aide. “It doesn’t bode well for our first 100 hours. To be a majority party, you have to bring disparate groups together, and she’s been given credit for being very good at that. If she departs from that record or that approach, it’s harder to stay a majority.”
The story goes on to say that Pelosi is going with Murtha because she wants some of his moderate mojo to rub off on her.
Ain’t gonna happen Nancy. And my guess is that Murtha won’t get the leadership position.
We shall see…
UPDATE:
It looks like the Republicans are having headaches of their own regarding party leadership.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next best thing (by a little) to making Kevin Phillips the new RNC Chair: Bonehead Martinez. Yes, that’s right, Bonehead, who with a five-point Bush win in trending-Red Florida at his back, barely managed to beat one of the more anodyne, bland Democrats to run for the Senate outside of Massachusetts; Bonehead, who managed to take a dicey political situation in the Terri Schiavo affair and make himself into a Google search result; Bonehead, who if asked to eat eggs over easy and shave at the same time, would end up with shiny whites and yolk smeared in fork-tine streaks across his face; Bonehead is going to be the RNC Chair.And if gets better! He’s going to multitask!
He’s talking of course about Mel Martinez…an odd choice for the Repubs since he’s going to keep his Senate seat and run the RNC at the same time…huh?
Michelle Malkin is equally pleased with this decision.
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November 13th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Moderate mojo? His moderation seems to be born of political expedience and insider influence peddling. Steny Hoyer isn’t exactly a shining beacon of anti-corruption, but he’s less stained than Murtha.
If they’re going to kick Hoyer down, they could at least replace him with someone who’s less “part of the system.”
November 13th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Don’t worry, there will be many more. I would suggest that the choice of Martinez has everything do with his last name. The gop has a legitimate thang for the our brown brothers to the South and I’m all for it. Michelle Malken can put her immigration handwringing in a burrito and eat it. The Mexicans are hard workers and good family people, they tend to vote Republican if given a chance. They tend not to obsess on the penumbra of rights associated with cornholing. I’ve yet to see **anybody** produce legitimate economic studies that show illegals are bad for the economy. Martinez may be as dump as a box of rocks — if its an overture to la gente, I’m all for it.
November 14th, 2006 at 9:24 am
“Michelle Malken can put her immigration handwringing in a burrito and eat it. ”
That made me laugh out loud.
November 14th, 2006 at 9:34 am
I’m rooting for Hoyer because he seems to have more of a Centrist sensibility.
November 14th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Welcome to the Big Game everyone. In which no one is happy and little gets done. Murtha is what Murtha is. The simple fact is NO ONE should be in power for that long.
Even Jesus F#%*&^!! Christ would begin to get some dirt on his hands after that long in politics with that many people offering easy money.
November 14th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Lets Get Ready to Rummmmmmbbble
So…. she has left her party with two options… either she gets her way in her first decision as house speaker and puts a crook in the position, OR she loses her first battle with her own party, which is more than just a possibility. Nice start huh…
November 14th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Where did my earlier comment go?
November 14th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Murtha deserves some credit for speaking out against the war, is impeccably qualified to do so and gave the Dems a spine-transplant on the issue. Pelosi publicly gave Murtha no cover, saying “Murtha speaks for himself,” though she had helped convince him to come forward and helped orchestrate the timing. The Dems, far from being as hapless as they were portrayed, successfully dodged the GOP’s efforts to make them counter-offer on Social Security, skewered the Bushies on the Dubai ports deal, and forced the GOP to start an investigation on pre-war intelligence. For more on how well this team did at derailing the Bush juggernaut, see “Not as Lame as You Think” here: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0605.sullivan1.html
Maybe neither Murtha nor Hoyer are the ideal candidates, but whichever is chosen, I will support them and expect them to be paragons of virtue. Can Murtha keep it clean as Speaker? Can Hoyer? They better ! But for now, I’m not going to be making divisive noises about our need for politicians with squeaky clean pasts (are there any?) to run the House or Senate.
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