Demlicans, Republicrats, earmarks and ethics

[elprincipe]

Thought the folks who naively believed that the Democrats would somehow be different than the Republicans in power would like to read this article by Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, a liberal colunist for a liberal paper:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201394.html

According to Rogers's account -- which Murtha has not disputed -- the Pennsylvanian approached his colleague on the House floor last Thursday and said, in a loud voice: "I hope you don't have any earmarks in the defense appropriation bill, because they are gone and you will not get any earmarks now and forever."

"This is not the way we do things here," the naive man from Michigan responded. "And is that supposed to make me afraid of you?"

Murtha raised his voice further, pointed his finger and told Rogers: "That's the way I do it."

Of course, this is not an isolated incident:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-22-2007/0004594122&EDATE=

 

[bmulligan]

Go Mike Rodgers !!

He's my Congressman in MI.

Murtha is an expert at back scratching and trading "favors". Just ask his abscam buddies, especially the ones who went to prison, about his impeccable reputation as a legislator.

 

[mykevermin]

Ah, earmarks...just like term limits, two things that our democracy needs to enact (through elimination and addition, respectively), but will never happen.

 

[Scobie]

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

So, yeah, quit voting for either of this rotten parties, unless you're down with Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich, neither of whom will ever make it through the primaries even though they have courageous, honest, and appealing messages.