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What An Endorsement!

He dismissed the questions about Murtha’s ethics. “If anyone felt like there was anything there, he would have been indicted a long time ago,” he said. ~CNN Hey, at least nobody’s indicted him!  That makes him better than that DeLay guy.  What a ringing endorsement of the ethics of the man who would lead the Democratic majority into […]

He dismissed the questions about Murtha’s ethics. “If anyone felt like there was anything there, he would have been indicted a long time ago,” he said. ~CNN

Hey, at least nobody’s indicted him!  That makes him better than that DeLay guy.  What a ringing endorsement of the ethics of the man who would lead the Democratic majority into an era of clean and responsible government! 

What a fun spectacle these people are going to be.  I had forgotten what kind of low comedy national Democratic governance brought with it.  Consider the Majority Leader contest: the Establishmentarian, as a Washington Monthly article designated Hoyer, and the Unindicted Co-Conspirator.  Lobbyists everywhere must be thanking their household gods for the future windfalls that will be coming their way.  Who said K Street had to go begging just because of a few disgruntled voters? 

One other point: it isn’t “swift-boating” someone to point to his rather shabby ethics record.  Swift-boating would be to deny a veteran credit for being a veteran or to claim that a decorated officer was really a big fraud or to say that no real veteran could oppose a given war.  Some people did try to say that about Murtha when he called for “redeployment” from Iraq, and they were wrong to do so.  But whatever credit Murtha gets for having become a war opponent (it only took him two and a half years, but who’s counting?), he doesn’t get some kind of cloak of invulnerability when people come after him for other things in his record.  Especially when the people coming after him are other Democrats! 

When someone points out that Murtha is, as CREW puts it, “ethically challenged,” the logical and appropriate response would not be, for example, “Stop questioning my patriotism!” or “I served my country with honour in Vietnam!”  The proper response would be, “I have done nothing wrong.”  It would be even better if that claim were true.

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