Friday, June 09, 2006

Mikey, The Ethics Czar

(note: republishing from yesterday in an effort to fix some site issues...)

More tons of communication issues, including the fact that Blogger has been an absolute mess over the last few days (hence no photo here and messed-up spacing, though I know you know what Fitzpatrick looks like – hopefully, the communication stuff is getting addressed)…

The Bucks County Courier Times ran this article yesterday in which our 8th District U.S. House Representative from PA said that the FBI raid on the office of Dem Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana was OK after all, in spite of the fact that, as mentioned by Patrick Murphy, Fitzpatrick “favored weakening House ethics rules to protect Tom DeLay.”

OK, now let’s consider all the ways that Patrick Murphy has been beaten up in the C-T over the last few days, OK? Criticism for calling Fitzpatrick’s “MySpace” bill for the fraud that it is, criticism for taking money that came indirectly from clients of Jack Abramoff (said clients being completely innocent of any wrongdoing, by the way), criticism for supposedly not supporting Israel by calling for troop draw-downs in Iraq (yes, I’m serious…somebody in Newtown, PA went off about that on Tuesday), and even criticism because the entire Murphy campaign staff signed the paper’s “honesty pledge” a week or so ago as opposed to only Fitzpatrick (no, I couldn’t believe my eyes either when I read it either).

So what criticism of Murphy appears in the newspaper today? Well, unbelievably, I can’t find anything – I’m truly shocked.

You’re slacking off, people!

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