blogs.tnr.com - 10/27/2008
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It takes terrible luck or astonishing talent for a congressional Democrat to be endangered this year. Still, there are a half-dozen Democrats who really could lose their seats a week from tomorrow.
On the bad-luck end, there's Nick Lampson, the Texan who replaced Tom DeLay in 2006 and ...
vetsforfreedom.com - 10/29/2008
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vetsforfreedom.com —
Dear Representative John Murtha, In November 2005, you
accused a group of United States Marines of killing...
“innocent civilians in cold blood”. You made these allegations during an ongoing investigation. In fact, a Marine Corps spokesman said that you ...
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Vets for Freedom
vetsforfreedom.org - 10/29/2008
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vetsforfreedom.org —
Dear Representative John Murtha, In November 2005, you
accused a group of United States Marines of killing...
“innocent civilians in cold blood”. You made these allegations during an ongoing investigation. In fact, a Marine Corps spokesman said that you ...
(more)
Vets for Freedom
thehill.com - 10/27/2008
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thehill.com —
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House
Appropriations defense panel, has secured the most earmarked dollars...
in the 2008 military spending bill, followed closely by the panel s ranking member Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.). Even though Young secured ...
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Murtha nabs $150M pork
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Not Now John, We've Gotta Get On With the Show
Hit & Run —
TNR House race guru Eve Fairbanks assesses the self-inflicted political damage of John Murtha, asks whether he will win re-election, then asks a better question: Who cares? Let 'im drown. ...
Nancy Pelosi and Chris Van Hollen's DCCC DCCC makes $84,000 ad buy in attempt to save Murtha from himself
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... in a Susquehanna poll.
Further, the amazingly still-publishing lefty magazine The New
Republic featured a
blog post entitled, "If John Murtha Loses, Do We Care?," in
which writer Eve Fairbanks said Murtha's corruption and verbal
diarrhea no longer outweighed his "courage on Iraq," which has
consisted, in a nutshell, of toeing his party's line in opposition
to the postwar effort there, his accusing American Marines of
cold-blooded murder of civilians, and his ...
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Murtha seeks campaign cash
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