Jack Murtha

Source: www.noquarterusa.net --- 12 days ago
From the blog for the syndicated nightly John Batchelor Show .   With Republican Support.   Salena Zito , Pittsburgh Tribune-Review tells me that during her conversation with Jack Murtha in late January, the day before Murtha went into the hospital, that Murtha told her the healthcare bill would not work as constructed. That it was necessary to start over and build a much smaller bill. Murtha said that the only way to do healthcare was to fashion a much smaller bill with Republican support.  Murtha said the way to work together was to follow the model practiced by Speaker Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan thirty years ago. The ghost of Jack Murtha did not believe in his own leadership or in the path that the Obama administration has chose for reform.   Reconciliation. The reconciliation manipulation between the House and the Senate begins immediately and will play out over the next four weeks, until the Easter break.   John Avlon says that the independent voters will hate this game and turn very negative in the polling. The panels were mixed as to the question if the GOP will tie up the Senate and do no business in protest.  Avlon thinks it unwise. We all wondered if the Jim Bunning temper tantrum last week was a warning shot or a maverick maneuver by a retiring veteran. Reconciliation is so arduous, arcane (the rule was written by Robert Byrd in order to suit much smaller pieces of legislation in the budget process) and unpredictable a ...

Source: iraqiwarvideos.magnify.net --- 22 days ago
smoviepart3 wrote: Until his public break with the Bush administration over the war in Iraq on Nov. 17, 2005, Rep.... ...