Murtha dies at age 77

[Lemon law]

I am posting this as news more than anything else.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_go_co/us_obit_murtha

But it will allow the dems to field a candidate to retain his seat while the R's
can't play on his faults. In terms of the congressional power balance, it will have no effect.

 

[Patranus]

Google "Abscam/John Murtha".

 

[Skitzer]

Didn't like him at all ....... but may he RIP.

 

[nick1985]

Is this the same guy that was judge and jury with soldiers and it turned out they were aquitted?

I could be wrong. /shrug


*edit*

rip

 

[JDub02]

Is this the same guy that was judge and jury with soldiers and it turned out they were aquitted?

I could be wrong. /shrug

Same guy. He dishonored the Corps that he served in.

I used to live in his district. I figured he'd have to die before we got rid of that corrupt SOB. Although I had a good feeling that Bill Russell would have beat him this November. Looks like it's a given now.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

I had no idea he was ill.

 

[OutHouse]

gall bladder surgery is pretty routine. i wonder what happened.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Corrupt politician that falsely accused our troops of “killing innocent civilians in cold blood.” Not exactly a great legacy IMO...but may he RIP.

 

[highland145]

But he did get an airport named after him

 

[HumblePie]

But he did get an airport named after him

That's what counts in life.

 

[highland145]

That's what counts in life.

Charlie Rangal was/is/maybe getting a library too.

 

[Patranus]

But he did get an airport named after him

The one that costs the taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars that only he uses (used)?

 

[Lemon law]

I don't think its hard to find many things not to like about Mirtha, but still, he had, IMHO, a redeeming role in being the first really pro military congressman to question the prudence of the Iraq war.

And good, bad , or indifferent, death claims all politicians and non politicians in the end.

 

[highland145]

The one that costs the taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars that only he uses (used)?

That would be the one. Maybe we can stop funding it now.

 

[MotF Bane]

Murtha was a perennial target of critics of so-called pay-to-play politics. He routinely drew the attention of ethical watchdogs with off-the-floor activities, from his entanglement in the Abscam corruption probe three decades ago to the more recent scrutiny of the connection between special-interest spending known as earmarks and the raising of cash for campaigns.

Murtha defended the practice of earmarking. The money, he said, benefited his constituents.

Sounds like a scumbag. RIP anyways.

 

[cubeless]

he was the kind of senile, old school piece of shit that gives us senile, old school pieces of shit a bad name... maybe he got a surgeon referral from mj... rip...

 

[CPA]

I don't think its hard to find many things not to like about Mirtha, but still, he had, IMHO, a redeeming role in being the first really pro military congressman to question the prudence of the Iraq war.

And good, bad , or indifferent, death claims all politicians and non politicians in the end.

Yeah, he was one of those "I'm for it, until I'm against it" politicians.

 

[her209]

Wow. Didn't know he was sick.

RIP.

 

[Jaskalas]

Just goes to show we have a bunch of old men in Congress.

I may oppose what he stood for, but may he rest in peace.

 

[soccerballtux]

never heard of him, because he doesn't matter.
War critiq, blah blah, position of stability in the middle east is win for all of us for at least the next 50 years.

Have you been to Iraq? I have, the women there are all like "praise boosh, boosh is our king, thank you boosh" for their freedoms and the lives they now live in peace. Their husbands do not come home missing an arm because S.H. got bloodthirsty.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Rip

 

[OutHouse]

never heard of him, because he doesn't matter.

actually he did matter a lot but not in a good way. he was a politician with quite a bit of power and influence.

 

[blackangst1]

Didn't like him at all ....... but may he RIP.

Same. RIP.

 

[palehorse]

Didn't like him at all ....... but may he RIP.

this.

 

[Taejin]

i hope he doesn't RIP. sounded like a bad apple through and through.