Posted
3:00 PM
by Gene
Rep. John Murtha, one of Congress's leading disbursers of pork, unindicted ABSCAM co-conspirator, and a man nonpareil in saluting his own immortality through public works like
his heavily-traveled airport, has died. RIP.
Needless to say the ASSPRESS salutes the man whose real name was once "
RESPECTED X. MARINE" for his PRINCIPLED, NOBLE, HONORABLE OPPOSITION to an UNJUST WAR -- so long as we don't have to mention
THAT AIRPORT.
And
PETE is even more helpful: nine grafs on Respected's courage and wit, and we save the minor parts for the end. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD (POLITICAL FLUNKY DIVISION) TO PETE!