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John Murtha

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RIP.

As I was taught, if you don’t have anything good to say…

[Update a few minutes later]

I assume that there will be a special election. I’ll bet that a Republican will have a good shot at taking the seat.

[Update a couple minutes l later]

Yup, a special election on primary day, May 18th, and it’s the only district in the country that voted for both John Kerry and John McCain. The only thing, really, that kept getting him reelected was the pork. Looks like a likely Republican pickup to me.

[Late afternoon update]

An obit from Rick Moran. With the good, the bad and the ugly.

9 thoughts on “John Murtha”

  2. As Clarence Darrow said, “I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure”

  3. So is this how we get new people elected to congress? We have to get the old ones to die off? The founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

  4. It’s kind of sad the way he apparently died: I saw a rumor the doctors botched his gall bladder operation by slicing his intestine, with subsequent lethal peritonitis.

  5. > As Clarence Darrow said, “I never wanted to see anybody die, but there
    > are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure”

    Oh, I am so there.

  6. I saw a rumor the doctors botched his gall bladder operation by slicing his intestine, with subsequent lethal peritonitis.

    If only he’d had ObamaCare…

    Actually, I’m not happy to see him dead. I’d have much preferred to see him lose an election, and perhaps jailed for corruption.

  7. Given the President’s ability at “picking” and “supporting” winners, I’m sure PA Dems are hoping that he stays away between now and May 18th.

    And considering what Mr. Murtha had to say about his own constituents before the last election, and the furor over Obamacare, and Porkulus at PA Town Hall meetings since then, this should be a fun one to watch. It will probably be more raucous than was the fight over “the Kennedy seat”.

  9. So is this how we get new people elected to congress? We have to get the old ones to die off? The founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

    Q: How do you know there’s a vacant seat in Congress?
    A: They fly the flag at half-mast.

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