John Fund in his piece "Meet the Boss" in the Wall St. Journal riffs on the uproar that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's letter of recommendation that Rep. John Murtha be elected Majority Leader provoked.
Fund also notes that in a book by George Crile, there are details about Rep. Murtha allegedly escaping punishment for involvement in the Abscam scandal was arranged by then Speaker Tip O'Neil who arranged to have the House Ethics Committee drop the charges - which prompted the prosecutor to resign in protest.
Not a good way to initiate a clean up of that culture of corruption in Congress...
Michelle Malkin weighs in on "How The Democrats Clean House"
Murtha may be innocent or he may have gotten away with something, I don't know, but Pelosi would be smarter, politically, to go with someone else and not leave her party open to the charges that are being made---that she's not changing the culture of corruption.
Posted by: Larry | November 16, 2006 at 04:51 AM