Change I Can Believe In

To the editorial board here at the Iowa Blog Cabin, there are few low-life politicians that compare to John Murtha. He's the scum bag Democrat from Pennsylvania, who a year or so back, declared our Marines murdered innocent civilians in Iraq - right before they were acquited of the charges.

Anyway, from today's Pittsburg Tribune, "Murtha's Hold on House Seat Slips"... Delicious.

Democratic Rep. John Murtha leads retired Army Lt. Col. William Russell by a little more than 4 percentage points, within the Susquehanna Poll's 4.9-point margin of error. The poll of 400 likely voters was conducted for the Tribune-Review on Tuesday, amid uproar over Murtha's statement that some of his constituents are racist.

The article went on, "Trying to add context to his remarks, Murtha later said many in Western Pennsylvania were "rednecks" several years ago."

I've never ran for public office, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably not a good idea to call your constituents racist rednecks right before you ask them to vote for you.

Let's not forget, these are the same people Obama was referring to as "bitter clingers" earlier this year...

"You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

These Democrats are really great people...they really understand "the little guy." Oh how I wish I lived in western Pennsylvania right now. Not only would I have the Pittsburgh Steelers close at hand, I could also vote against that big wind-bag, John Murtha. Now, THAT would be change I could believe in.