The Hill Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the House’s senior defense appropriator, led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Afghanistan and the Middle East region earlier this week. Murtha, the chairman of the Appropriations Defense subcommittee, met with the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. Murtha told The Hill recently that...
(Jim Simpson) - First we had Congressman John Murtha accusing US Marines of atrocities in Haditha, Iraq -- a blatant lie based on false information supplied by the enemy. Those Marines had to face an arduous multi-year trial despite the obvious fabrication of evidence, and it is still not over for some...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sees unrest among House Democrats over the war in Afghanistan, specifically its cost, The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim reports . "There is unrest in our caucus about: can we afford this war?" Pelosi said on a conference call with financial reporters and bloggers. Prominent Democrats David Obey (WI), who chairs the Appropriations Committee, and John Murtha (PA), a...
OUR GOVERNMENT DUMBER BY THE SECOND I found journalist Tim McGirk disgusting when he conspired with his editor to publish a false story accusing U. S. Marines perpetrating a massacre in Haditha. Worse, after the McGirk story hit the street in a once-respected news magazine, the most corrupt Representative in the House, John Murtha of Pennsylvania demanded the Marines charged with war crimes and murder....
Last week, Congressman David Obey and other top Dems introduced legislation that would impose a surtax to help pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stated aim of the “Share the Sacrifice Act,” according to a press release, is to "end the practice of paying for the war in Afghanistan with borrowed money": The only people who’ve paid any price for our military involvement...
President Obama’s agenda this year has involved a number of big-ticket items: the stimulus, some of the bailouts, healthcare and cap-and-trade. And though some -- or arguably, all -- of these will actually increase federal revenue in the long term, they clearly give the impression of the government handling a lot of money, which can sound an awful lot like “the government is blowing through...
Yes, even Republicans deserve to be impeached and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, facing 37 ethics charges should go quickly. We said in our posting of Thursday, June 25, 2009, Our Last Word on Sanford that Sanford should resign. We still believe this and we're not sure how he has the effrontery to stay in office, but then we have lots of scoundrels who have no ethics such as Charlie Rangel,...
Good Monday morning. Anyone still in town after the long Senate weekend and before the short Thanksgiving week? The players we'll be watching, Hotline OnCall's Starting Lineup: REP. DENNIS MOORE: The KS Dem, serving his 6th term, will become the first member of Congress to retire without seeking another public office when he announces later today that he will not run for another term, the Kansas City...
Actually, it isn't just Carl Levin who is standing up and saying that if Obama wants to escalate the war in Afghanistan he's going to have to figure out how to pay for it without charging our great, great grandchildren, Bush and Cheney having already bankrupt our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Keep in mind that each additional soldier in Afghanistan costs around $1 million, which...
Glenn Beck (Fox News) went after John Murtha (D) for corruption. It is not as if he does not have a lot of material to work with. Video embedded below .
Via Raw Story (emphasis added): Influential US lawmakers on Thursday called for levying a new income tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan, warning its costs pose a mortal threat to efforts like a sweeping health care overhaul. …The group included House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey; Representative John Murtha, who chairs that panel’s defense subcommittee; [...]
This AP story at HuffPo uses the wrong lede: WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any new U.S. forces President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan could move into the country swiftly, despite logistical hassles that force almost all major deliveries of troops and supplies to go by air. His wording suggested that, as expected, Obama will soon approve an increase in the already record...
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey and Representative John Murtha want a War Tax tacked on to our income tax to pay for the Afghan war, starting in 2011. “Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be [...]
The Hill A trio of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would impose a surtax to pay for the war in Afghanistan. Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Dave Obey (Wis.), Defense Appropriations Subcommittee John Murtha (Pa.), and Democratic Caucus chairman John Larsen (Conn.) say that the bill would end the practice of paying for the war with [...]
Why do you keep electing that slimeball, John Murtha? I saw this on Glenn Beck last night: Republican William Russell couldn’t even come within 15 points of Murtha in the 2008 congressional election. Sheesh. Western Pennsylvania…are you stupid, apathetic, or just bought off? Russell is gearing up for another run at Murtha in 2010. [...]
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