| Times Online | 0 | |
| Fox Boston | 0 | |
| Merc. News | 0 | |
| Big Govt | Obama’s Shock Troops: SEIU and Political Intimidation in St. Louis |
0 |
| NYT | 0 |
Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
VIDEO: Murtha’s bumbling ABSCAM explanation (FLASHBACK: MURTHA’S TROOP REDUCTION PREDICTION FROM LAST YEAR)
Do you buy this (scroll down for video)?
I gotta hand it to Chris Matthews: he really gave Murtha a grilling, and Murtha looked like he was caught off guard (Murtha’s probably not used to tough questioning from the press, since he carries the Absolute Moral Authority card). Make sure to watch it all, as Matthews asks him about his comment that an ethics and lobbying reform bill being pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “total crap.” (Here’s the transcript)
As I wrote at Hot Air in the comments section, if the D’s elect this guy to be their Majority Leader, the R’s are going to have a field day with him.
Update/Flashback: Frank Warner provides this timely reminder of Rep. Murtha’s prediction about when the troops should be out of Iraq. First, on Nov. 17, 2005 he said “six months“, then he extended it a little further. Here’s the prediction he made November 20, 2005:
Tim Russert: You think we’ll be out of Iraq by the end of 2006?
Murtha: I think we’ll be out of there; if not completely out of there, we’ll be very close to being out of there. I think we could be out — yeah, I predict we’ll be out of there – it’ll be 2006.
Russert: By Election Day 2006?
Murtha: You have hit it on the head.
And he may be our new House Majority Leader …
Prior:
- WaPo: Murtha is the wrong choice for House Majority leader
- Dems want to identify pork sponsors
- Pelosi backs Murtha for House Majority Leader
- Murtha wants to be House Majority leader
- Murtha slimes our troops: “…it looks like it’s the policy of our troops to do something like this.”
- Does Rep. John Murtha know something we don’t?
- Rep. John Murtha: a fountain of misinformation
- Rep. John Murtha: 9 lies in 90 seconds
- Message to Rep. Murtha: listen to this man
- Is Rep. Murtha really a “hawk” as the media has been claiming?
- Rep House calls Dem House’s bluff (MINI-LIVEBLOGGING)
- Dem House Representative calls for immediate troop withdrawal
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Trackbacks
7 Responses to “VIDEO: Murtha’s bumbling ABSCAM explanation (FLASHBACK: MURTHA’S TROOP REDUCTION PREDICTION FROM LAST YEAR)”
Comments
Blogads
Disclaimer: The views expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of ST's advertisers, nor do their opinions necessarily reflect ST's. Stats
- Just to make sure they’re on the same page Mutha Murtha shows his support OPENLY for Pelosi’s lobbying bill. Sort of one a** wiping another you might say, partucularly the way he decribes it….
- Doh’….missed that link in your post ST….. My bad….
You mean to tell me spittin chrissy matthews was tough on a dem, he must be supporting steny.
Wonder if murtha will go on olbermann’s suck face of a show?
Spittin’ Chrissy got his orders from on high, and Bill is going to make it hell for anyone who doesn’t take orders or who isn’t pure as the wind driven snow. The prize is the 2008 elections. Bill and Hill want their house back. Murtha is wonderful to trot out and claim the morale authority card with, but him in leadership is right out. Steny must be Bill and Hill’s man, or who they believe will help them get back into the White House. – Lorica
There is seriously wrong when it is accepted practice among the news agencies to have known politcal pundits masquerading as journalists.
Chris Matthews was a pundit for Tip O’Neil and jimmy Carter. George Stephanopolos was a Clintonite, a I am sure everyone knows.
But I saw it, and he wasn’t too bad.
- As I said earlier, what’s interesting about the hearings is the points that everyone aggrees on at this juncture, The Dems, the Reps, The Pres., and the Generals, everybody apparently.
- The stalemate is unacceptable. We’re getting picked off like flies, even if it’s at a 30, or 50, or even 100 to 1 ratio, because even if it’s only for some ultimately limited length of time, nothing is changing.
- Removing troops, imprudently just opens the floodgates for the worst possible senario.
- Staying there emboldens the enemies. Leaving the wrong way emboldens, and worse, empowers the enemies even more.
- It’s looking like increased troop deployment, albeit mainly in troop training of the Iraqi’s, is the concensous, at least as of now.
- Imagine that, Increasing troop levels. I cant help wondering how the Left is taking that news. You do realize if that’s what happens, Bush will have gotten his way, and it will be on the Left’s dime and approval.
- Rove – you brilliant bast**d.
- Bang