So the system isn’t corrupt because of dishonest and unethical miscreants like Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) — instead, Murtha would have you believe that it’s just an inherently dishonest system, and that he’s just taking care of his constituents by taking advantage of that system…
This has to be one of the most you’ve-got-to-be-fucking-kidding-me quotes of the year:
No one has tallied the amount Mr. Murtha has steered into his district, which sprawls well beyond the Conemaugh Valley and reaches the West Virginia border. Conservative estimates are in the billions of dollars, most of it lobbied from federal agencies or won through open bidding or, more controversially, steered home directly during his 35-year career…
“If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district,” Mr. Murtha said. “My job as a member of Congress is to make sure that we take care of what we see is necessary. Not the bureaucrats who are unelected over there in whatever White House, whether it’s Republican or Democrat. Those bureaucrats would like to control everything. Every president would like to have all the power and not have Congress change anything. But we’re closest to the people.”…
AllahPundit at Hot Air: “The “if” here operates in roughly the same way as it did in the title of that O.J. book, I gather.”
Every dollar he steals comes from somewhere. Every time he ‘takes care of his district’ he steals from someone else, somewhere else. There is no other way to put it.
Of course, anything can be justified with rhetoric, even being a lying sack of shit, that steals from the private sector, and makes public accusations against our Marines, and refuses to apologize publicly when he is wrong.
His rhetoric is as worthless as he is.