Pelosi Picks Bribe-Takers to Run Defense and Intelligence in the House
The mind just boggles.
by Rod D. Martin
November 16, 2006
Isn't it interesting that Democrats -- who also just elected Congress' first Muslim, who immediately snubbed President Bush -- have run for almost four years on a constant platform of surrendering to the Arabs, and then once in power, immediately hand the House committees overseeing Defense Appropriations and Intelligence to two men most noted for having previously taken bribes, one explicitly from men he thought to be Arabs?
John Murtha -- whom San Francisco Nancy favored over Steny Hoyer for Majority Leader only to be defeated today 149-86 -- was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in ABSCAM, the FBI's effort in 1979-1980 to trap Congressmen willing to be bribed by Arab sheiks. Pelosi handpicked him over one of the most respected Democrats in the House -- and despite the near-certainty of defeat -- because of his constant vocal calls for withdrawal and surrend…