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 […]
Here is something that is a silent buzz on the internet right now. I think in part because many people do not know how to really react to it: Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.), one of the Democrats’ leading antiwar voices, startled his political colleagues yesterday by announcing he would seek a senior leadership position […]
Via the Washington Post: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.); Gen. George W. Casey Jr. ; and Mark B. McClellan , administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.); authors Michael Gordon , Christopher Hitchens […]
From the Washington Post Sunday, March 5, 2006; A04 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: Gen. Peter Pace , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. David Johnson , director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and former Federal Emergency Management Agency director […]
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 […]