This baby can go from “Retreat” to “Stay the Course” in 2.5 days.

Like our lowly Vols thinking there wasn’t enough time left on the clock for Vanderbilt to come back , House Rep. and alleged chest-thumping, Super Redhawk on Iraq Jack Murtha sprung his November Surprise with too many ticks left on the scoreboard.

Next time, put your politically-motivated and media coordinated attacks on Junior out on the Friday right before Holiday Recess.

Given the increasingly heated rhetoric about immediate withdrawal of Troops from Iraq, most vehemently from Jack Murtha who will be on Meet The Press this morning, what better way to stand up for what you believe in by Voting in favor of what you say it is you want. In a rare display of stones, the House GOP didn’t let the tail wag the dog. While some have derided the atmosphere created by this obviously and politically brilliant stunt, we have been handed the ammunition to blast the nuts in the House in the 2006 Mid-Terms. Again, I say brilliant.

And we really have to thank the Looney Left on this one. We couldn’t have done it without you browbeating your reps into thinking most Americans are for an immediate withdrawal because you finally got a negative opinion poll to go your way.

The transparent use of an On The Record Anti-Iraq member of Congress like Murtha and promoting him as a “hawk” to shield Democrats from their inflammatory statements on being misled to war is nothing more than the same wornout, sheepskinned, rhetorical rubber that has rotted in their political wallet for a solid two years now. And that rubber wasn’t even out of the wrapper yet when Murtha launched Operation: Premature Evacuation this week. Amateurs.

I do not ever want to piss off whoever it is that runs sweetness-light. After reaching in the memory hole to cull Murtha’s involvement in ABSCAM, we’re treated to a provocative insinuation:

Serving in the military, even being wounded in combat, doesn’t afford you a lifetime pass. (Cf. John Kerry.)

I thank and honor Mr. Murtha for his past military service. Just as he should thank and honor our current troops, rather than stab them in the back by giving our enemy the hope we will surrender even after we have won.
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You have to wonder which Arab Sheik crossed Murtha’s palm with silver this time?

Now, the more diplomatic among us might say that is a cheap shot and that Murtha doesn’t deserve it. And I might think that as well if I hadn’t heard that Murtha was a big supporter of a shady scheme to snag some quid pro quo Iraq-related government contracts that would directly benefit friends and family and Nancy Pelosi’s family specifically last year. From Roll Call (link requires an addiction to politics I haven’t reached yet) (by way of The Corner):

Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his brother’s lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee…

According to a June 13 article in The Los Angeles Times, the fiscal 2005 defense appropriations bill included more than $20 million in funding for at least 10 companies for whom KSA lobbied. Carmen Scialabba, a longtime Murtha aide, works at KSA as well.

KSA directly lobbied Murtha’s office on behalf of seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it should retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times.

In early 2004, Murtha reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. A company called Lennar Inc. had right to the land, and Laurence Pelosi, nephew to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was an executive with the firm at that time.

My conscience, my poor conscience! Nothing a little back-scratchin’ can’t fix. Nancy probably could’ve gotten facelifts from now until she met her Great Taxidermist In The Sky with Howlin’ Mad Murtha’s assist. Instead, we’ll have to wait for that ear-to-ear grin to split in disgust having to get by on a cheaper Bond-O and sneering at yet another failure as House Minority Leader.

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