Here’s the press release from his office: Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. At his bedside was his family. Murtha, 77, was Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in February of […]
No big surprise here: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national-security team early next week that includes Gates at the Pentagon and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as secretary of state, officials said. Retired Marine Gen. James […]
I love how everyone always refers to McCain as a “maverick”. Is aligning himself with the GOP on a majority of issues a maverick? Today’s Washington Post gives us the answer, by the family the term Maverick was branded for: Arizona Sen. John McCain happily donned the “maverick” mantle in 2000 as he climbed aboard […]
The Marines have picked an interesting route in the case of anti-war activist Adam Kokesh: A military panel recommended that an Iraq war veteran who wore his uniform during an anti-war protest should lose his honorable discharge status, brushing away his claims that he was exercising his right to free speech. Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh, […]
It is good to see a politician with such honesty: President Bush has pledged to work with the new Democratic majorities in Congress, but he has already gotten off on the wrong foot with Jim Webb, whose surprise victory over Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) tipped the Senate to the Democrats. Webb, a decorated former Marine […]
Since John Murtha became outspoken against the Iraq War last fall, conservatives could not wait to “swift boat” him. Now we are finding out one of the examples he used as a problem in Iraq is in fact true: US lawmaker and former Marine colonel accused US Marines of killing innocent Iraqi civilians after a […]
The former head of US Central Command had some great things to tell Tim Russert this morning. Now if anyone will listen it will be a first: (Video and transcript available at Think Progress) Zinni, who headed the US Central Command from 1997 to 2000, was asked if anyone should lose their job over how […]
The swift boating of John Murtha is now going full force as we learn in today’s Washington Post: Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), the former Marine who is an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, has become the latest Democrat to have his Vietnam War decorations questioned. In a tactic reminiscent of the Swift […]
The Republicans are pulling a strictly political stunt tonight in order to try and insult the Democrats. At approximately 7:00 tonight, they will be holding a vote on a plan to pull troops out of Iraq. The full resolution, which can be viewed at Raw Story, is very simple compared to that offered by Rep. […]