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Murtha shows appetite for pork - Why does he waste taxpayer money?

Is this what we are looking for in our leaders? Critics say Mr. Murtha, 75, is squandering taxpayer money, giving away federal dollars to handpicked businesses and projects without competitive bids or independent oversight. Are you dems complaining about Haliburten getting contracts without bids? Funny how you pick up on that but ignore one of your leaders that do it every day. What a bunch of hypocrites! http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070905/NATION/109040070/1001 Pink Angel - Did you not read the article? Murtha has given no bid contracts to people. How is that any different than Halliburton? Dollar value does not matter, it should have been a competitive bid. Halliburton is very specialized in what it does in the middle east and no other company provides the service. Therefore they get a no bid contract.

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What you should be wondering is how did seven billion (with a B) dollars in CASH just vanish in Iraq and no one was fired over this?
Because the kick backs help fund his massive weight.
oh you mean like this graph shows?
Congressmembers are elected by the people in their district. One of the best ways to get reelected is to bring federal dollars back home. Every congressmember who can does it. The best thing we can do is make sure they are all public so at least they can be debated instead of slipped in secretly.
http://www.freepress.net/news/17420 lets talk aboout waste. Alaskas REPUBLICAN senator is the master of waste.
Right back at you...the Republican Congress had plenty of pork too...didn't see you complaining then.
Business as usual. Until the American voters get tired enough of this to vote these people out of office, it will not change. People who will not vote have no right to complain about anything that happens politically.
Power Corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The People need to get him out of office. That is the only way to turn the trend of corruption. And Pork is corruption. to al Cracka: Actually yes, Conservatives did complain, Pork and spending was the main reason Conservatives stayed ways from the election last year. We thought punishing the Republicans, unfortunately it failed seeing as the Democrats are worse and the media misintepreted our reasoning.
Murtha is simply abiding by rule #1 in the Democrat playbook. Pork is by far the most effective way of getting votes. The perfect example of this being the primary politcal strategy of the left is the lengthy career of the king of bringing home the bacon, Sen Byrd.
What senator does NOT have a appetitie for pork. Can't we get something else to pin on an individual? Every politician wrangles for pork for their districts. There are degrees of this though.... is Murtha giving away "taxpayer money" as you say to "handpicked" businesses than it is as big as Cheney favors Halliburton (a company that he has stock in)? And who is profitting from these schemes? And how much? Personally, I would go after the big guys before I went after the little guys. But yes, I agree with you that they are all greedy; Democrat and Republicans alike.
This is not a political party problem. This is a person problem. Usually a corrupt person problem. What Murtha is doing is no more "right' than the congress persons or the administration giving "no bid contracts". There is NO difference in your elected lawmakers. Replace all of them in the next election. This name calling war between dems & reps gets you,us, nowhere. In fact, those in control of our government love the petty sniping of the populus. it provides an aversion for their agenda.
John Murtha is a war hero and patriot. This is a bunch of propaganda. I'm not a Democrat but I have a big problem with Halliburton getting $41 BILLION worth of NO BID military contracts in the middle east. When that gets straightened out, then we'll go after the war hero. You know, the guy that REALLY went to Vietnam, unlike our Great Leader?
we are TRILLIONS of dollars more in debt thanks to GOP pork and a bungled war and you have the UNMITIGATED TEMERITY to say DEMOCRATS are wasteful??
The group Taxpayers for Common Sense (they were cited in your article) has said the following about the current congress: "First, let’s give credit where credit is due: no Congress has ever provided the volume of information on earmarks that the House provided this year. The past four years, TCS had to dig through bills, committee reports, the Congressional record, and press releases to put together earmark databases. This year, however, we had an earmark analysis up before the final vote on almost every bill, aided by the charts and lists Congress provided under the new transparency rules." This groups web site goes into detail about which members of congress, Democrat AND Republican are attempting to have money spent in their districts. I invite everyone to take a look at it.