Jack Murtha Is on the Run Back Home
On Friday, September 29, two congressional scandals went public. One of them instantly became front-page news in every newspaper in the country, and led the broadcast networks’ evening and morning news shows for the next 10 days; the other one went virtually unnoticed, and seemed to drop into a news black hole.
The first featured despicable behavior by a member of Congress against several underage congressional pages; the second one featured despicable behavior by a member of Congress against more than half a million residents of his congressional district, and against every one of his fellow members of Congress, to whom he had been lying for more than a quarter century.
The result of the saturation coverage of the first scandal was to force the resignation of a sitting member of Congress, putting his seat in danger, driving down the poll numbers of the congressman’s fellow party members all over the country, and demoralizing the base voters of his party just as the country was entering the closing weeks of the campaign season; the result of the non-coverage of the second scandal was : nothing at all.
The first featured at its center a mid-level, 12-year veteran Republican member of Congress; the second featured a 32-year senior Democrat campaigning to become House majority leader.
October 24, 2006 - 08:25 AM on October 24th, 2006
I PRAY Murtha is retired from Congress by the voters and that he finds something useful to do, like criticizing the Democrat party for a change.
October 24, 2006 - 09:44 AM on October 24th, 2006
I think “In Cold Blood” Murtha has sold his soul to the devil and has sealed his political fate by jumping on the Nancy Pelosi wacko bandwagon. I’d love to be running the political campaign of his next opponent.