Reply #83: Yes! Thanks for the reminder. [View All]

[MGKrebs]

Pelosi/Murtha- strange bedfellows, so to speak.
I choose to believe that Pelosi has found a way to leverage real reform.

Apparently Murtha's main fault is that he is very good at taking advantage of the (completely legal) earmark/pork process. If Pelosi wants to reform this process, bringing in the manipulators is probably a better strategy than excluding them.

I don't know what motivates Murtha; perhaps it is just taking the best care of his district that he can, or it's a self-esteem issue, or maybe he has further ambitions. Any or all of those can be accommodated with a leadership position and committee assignments- the payback being pork reform.