Mad Murtha’s Reasons
By PoliPundit ~ December 13th, 2005 @ 7:46 am
Mickey Kaus, on Mad Murtha’s motives:
kf Essay Question: Rep. John Murtha is quoted in this week’s Newsweek saying that if Bush II had invited him to the White House and let him air his views the way Bush I did, his high-profile call for rapid redeployment in Iraq could have been avoided.
“If they’d talked to me, it wouldn’t have happened.”In 1995, Newt Gingrich publicly suggested he wouldn’t have provoked a government shutdown if he hadn’t been made to use the rear door of President Clinton’s plane. Gingrich was widely denounced as a petty crybaby. How is what Murtha told Newsweek any different? Murtha says he thinks the nation is on a disastrous course in the Iraq War. Would he really not have spoken out if he’d been “talked to” and buttered up with access? (Murtha explicitly notes that Bush I didn’t necessarily take the advice of his White House guests. He was just courteous enough to invite them and “listen to” them.”)
Is Murtha a dissenter or just dissed? Discuss.
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