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...but I'll post it anyway. The Hill is reporting John Murtha has won re-election. So many, including some sane political pundits thought Murtha was vulnerable after repeated controversies in this year's campaign. Murtha got 58% of the vote today. I think we can say safely Murtha is in Congress till he either dies or decides to retire.
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Comments (9)
Unbelievable. The American ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | November 4, 2008 10:56 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Unbelievable. The American people have lost all sense of discernment and propriety. It is truly sad.
1. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | November 4, 2008 10:56 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 4, 2008 22:56
2. Posted by captaindawg | November 4, 2008 11:03 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Apparently those racist rednecks are even dumber than the racist rednecks in my neck of the woods. And that is saying something.
pathetic.
I am becoming John Galt.
2. Posted by captaindawg | November 4, 2008 11:03 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 4, 2008 23:03
3. Posted by A President Obama will find it difficult four years no matter how much Congressional support he inhe | November 4, 2008 11:07 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
What the voters are singing to Murtha "hit me with your best shot"
3. Posted by A President Obama will find it difficult four years no matter how much Congressional support he inhe | November 4, 2008 11:07 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on November 4, 2008 23:07
4. Posted by Rollcast | November 4, 2008 11:17 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Pork talks.
4. Posted by Rollcast | November 4, 2008 11:17 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on November 4, 2008 23:17
5. Posted by Imhotep | November 4, 2008 11:25 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Gotta hand it to Murtha, he knows his constituancy......stupid, white trash!
Penn. deserves what they get.
5. Posted by Imhotep | November 4, 2008 11:25 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 4, 2008 23:25
6. Posted by Synova | November 4, 2008 11:52 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
I can deal with an Obama win because I can understand the motivation of those who voted for him.
Murtha?
Murtha winning is despair. He's quite obviously not going to retire. So we wait for his death... and hope at least one of the civil suits against him for defamation manages to clean his bank accounts before that happens.
6. Posted by Synova | November 4, 2008 11:52 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 4, 2008 23:52
7. Posted by syn | November 5, 2008 6:00 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
What a sad commentary on residents of PA; they're like the beaten bloodly wife who cannot help but return for more beatings in the hope that somehow things will be different this time around.
Once, twice maybe however after the third time of going back for more pain indicates someone who wants the beating becasue it makes them feel alive.
Sad people in PA.
7. Posted by syn | November 5, 2008 6:00 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 5, 2008 06:00
8. Posted by Oyster | November 5, 2008 7:29 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
What's sad is that Murtha actually disparaged some Pennsylvanians in a bid to pit people against people and those who voted for him either agreed or felt his pork projects were more important than that.
Murtha, an old man himself, broad-brushed older people as afraid or unwilling to change, broad-brushed the western portion of the state as racist and used offensive language about the prospect of another winning his seat and called him a carpetbagger.
He's a foul man in every sense of the word with a past littered with corruption and Pennsylvanians voted him back into office.
Way to go Pennsylvania.
8. Posted by Oyster | November 5, 2008 7:29 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 5, 2008 07:29
9. Posted by Jason
| November 5, 2008 3:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Murtha won only because he and his supporters got his district redrawn as to exclude almost all areas in which he doesn't poll well.
9. Posted by Jason
| November 5, 2008 3:59 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on November 5, 2008 15:59