The thing about Democrats, they always bring their own rope

A transcript of the conversation between FBI agents posing as Arab sheiks wanting to bribe members of Congress and Rep. John Murtha show a side the MSM seem to want to help him hide.

From WorldNetDaily...

"I want to deal with you guys awhile before I make any transactions at all, period," Murtha explained. "After we've done some business, well, then I might change my mind. ... I'm going to tell you this. If anybody can do it – I'm not B.S.-ing you fellows – I can get it done my way. There's no question about it." 

Murtha went from boasting about his ability to get things done in Congress to explaining his hesitation about taking money. 

"All at once, some dumb [expletive deleted] would go start talking eight years from now about this whole thing and say [expletive deleted], this happened," Murtha says, according to the transcript. "Then in order to get immunity so he doesn't go to jail, he starts talking and fingering people. So the [S.O.B.] falls apart." 

The FBI undercover officer then suggests: "You give us the banks where you want the money deposited." 

"All right," agreed Murtha. "How much money we talking about?" 

"Well, you tell me," says the FBI undercover operative. 

"Well, let me find out what is a reasonable figure that will get their attention," said Murtha, "because there are a couple of banks that have really done me some favors in the past, and I'd like to put some money in." 

Here's what Murtha says after the public video cuts off: "…You know, we do business together for a while. Maybe I'll be interested and maybe I won't. ... Right now, I'm not interested in those other things. Now, I won't say that some day, you know, I, if you made an offer, it may be I would change my mind some day." 

They have nothing on Delay, but harassed him out of office, and Murtha is being endorsed for leadership in Congress? Maybe that's the best they can do.

Posted by Danny Carlton at November 14, 2006 5:32 AM