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Andrew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review.A vote for ethics: Rejecting Murtha
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Friday, Nov. 17, 2006
U.S. House Democrats averted a disastrous beginning to their majority status when they overwhelmingly rejected (149-86) Rep. John Murtha, U.S. House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi's choice, as majority leader yesterday.
Democrats won Congress in part because of Republican ethics scandals. That Pelosi would choose the famously unethical Murtha as her No. 2 in command demonstrated an amazing tone-deafness for the woman who promised this week to preside over the most ethical House in history.
How unethical is Murtha? When undercover FBI agents tried to bribe him with $50,000 back in 1980, Murtha said "I'm not interested.
Murtha didn't take the money, but the video reveals that he was concerned about getting busted, not about taking a payment in exchange for a political favor. This week he called a proposed ethics reform bill "crap." And he tried to get one House member's vote for majority leader by urging the member to secretly renege on his written pledge to vote for the other candidate.
House Democrats showed real guts, and wisdom, in giving their leader a public rebuke and rejecting Murtha. Unfortunately, Pelosi starts off tainted by her support for a man widely known to be an unscrupulous deal-maker.
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