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p> There have been pieces on the Internet that Murtha and his brother have steered defense contracts to Minority Leader Pelosi and her relatives and cronies and that Reps. Murtha and Pelosi cooked up the "Withdraw Our Troops" in order to turn attention away from the graft and allow them to say they were being attacked because of their position on the war. This is a huge story! Many know of it. You have a green light to run with it. br> -- Howard Lohmuller br> Seabrook, Texas /p>

Let me see if I understand this article. Congressman Murtha has ethics problems involving his lobbyist brother and defense industry contracts. Congressman Murtha is a Democrat. The MSM is pointedly ignoring this information while screaming from the housetop about Abramoff and Tom DeLay and other Republicans. Do I have that right?

p>Perhaps you could tell me how this is suddenly newsworthy, as opposed to being the standard practice of the MSM over the last 25 years or longer. br> -- Ken Shreve /p>

Every morning I sit down with my bagel and coffee to peruse the Internet to see what is going on in the world. TAS used to be my very first stop. Honest, insightful articles that seem to give a good inside look at politics in Washington. It is a pity that TAS has turned into a shill for the GOP and has little to offer but article after article denigrating the Democrats (like they need any help) or rants from rich, out of touch, former actors that need a "day off." The impression that is left after ready TAS regularly is that the GOP has nothing left in the way of substantive public policy proposals to offer the American people so you guys are left with blasting the powerless Democrats along with all the other conservative media shills. So what if Murtha's brother is a crooked lobbyist (redundant). That doesn't make Abramoff or DeLay any less guilty. I feel like we are living in the United States of the 7th grade... yeah, we're feckless, but the Democrats started it!

p>It has taken a mere 12 years of being in power for the GOP to reach the levels of corruption and insouciance that it took the Democrats 40 years to achieve. Nobody expected more from the Democrats, but we sure did expect more from the "party of values." The conservative movement needs to stop whining like a minority party and start leading like a majority party. br> -- Ben Berry br> Silver Spring, Maryland

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