Jack Murtha for Majority Leader...and "Person of the Year"
by Arianna Huffington
Huffington Post
Nov 13, 2006"Election Day 2006 is over, but there are still a couple of races yet to be decided. And Jack Murtha is a contender in both of them. One is mostly fun: the contest to see who will be chosen as TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year". The other is incredibly significant: the battle to see who House Democrats will choose as their new Majority Leader.
I'm pulling for Jack Murtha in both contests.
When Rick Stengel, TIME's new editor, asked me to take part in a panel in New York this Tuesday to discuss who should be the "Person of the Year", my mind immediately turned to Murtha. Why? Because, contrary to what Karl Rove would like you to believe, this election wasn't about corruption, it wasn't about a few formerly closeted homophobes, and it wasn't about spending. As I've said before, it was about three things: Iraq, Iraq, and Iraq (Click here for backup). And Murtha was a key reason the election was a referendum on Iraq.
As CNN's Bill Schneider put it this week: Murtha is "the guy who stood up first and is still standing up...
has the message that won the glorious victory of '06."
.............SNIP"
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