“I hope you don’t have any earmarks in the defense appropriations bills because they are gone and you will not get any earmarks now and forever. … That’s the way I do it!” - Rep. Jack Murtha, in response to Rep. Mike Rodgers’(R-MI) motion to carve Murtha’s pork from the Intelligence Authorization Act.
Perhaps I’ve been wrong all along about Jack Murtha. Perhaps he does have a conscience; a soul. Could it be that he actually apologized for something hurtful he said? Nah, more than likely his mouth was just running on a bit of Dutch courage from his Congressional three-Martini lunch.
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