The Murtha money trail

NY Times Editorial:

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The Murtha money trail is far from fully explored but already features a second tangent of Congressional appropriations staff members’ exiting through the golden door to defense lobbying and scoring big contracts from their old bosses. Taxpayers should press the question of what all this has to do with Mr. Murtha (who has also used his gavel to create a luxury supermart of defense contractors in his Pennsylvania district).

Beyond the criminal investigation, a full-scale ethics inquiry should be pressed by House Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If not, the Murtha money trail could lead them back to the minority.

Pelosi is not pushing an ethics investigation because she fears the results of the investigation will led Democrats back to the minority. Having won the majority by campaigning against a "culture of corruption" she and the other Democrat leaders are determined to cover and hide their own corruption.