Stop the Murtha-megalomania
He’s already got a boondoggle airport in his name. Philadelphia wants to name a shipyard after him. The University of Pittsburgh just named a new “Center for Public Service” in his memory. And now the Navy is moving ahead with plans to name a vessel after him.
We don’t need anything else named after this troop-smearing corruptocrat.
Enough already.
The Washington Times weighs in:
The late Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, has achieved his highest undeserved honor. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has decided to name the Navy’s newest San Antonio Class amphibious transport-dock LPD 26 the USS John P. Murtha. This is a slap in the face to every service member who bridled when Murtha publicly accused Marines in Iraq of intentionally killing women and children in cold blood.
Murtha made his views known after details emerged about a firefight in Haditha in November 2005 in which 24 Iraqis were killed. Murtha accused the Marines of engaging in premeditated murder and agreed with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that this was “exactly” like the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Charges later were brought against eight Marines but have since been dropped against all but one. However, Murtha’s theatrical rush to judgment still rankles Americans in uniform, whose views on the congressman range from disappointment to the belief that he gave aid and comfort to the enemy.
“This dishonors every Marine who will serve aboard that ship,” a Navy officer told The Washington Times. “And it sends a poor message to the acquisition community that politicians can have ships named after them just for sending pork back to their districts.” Milblogger “CDR Salamander,” who served in the Navy for 21 years, told us this was “a naked political move” and “nothing about this man will be inspiring to the crew assigned to the ship.”
A better idea from Sgt. Tim Sumner: Name the LPN 26 the USS Michael A. Monsoor.
Ha: Commenter RedDog suggests: “USS Abscam.”
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USS Abscam
All the guns are pointed inwards.
I really don’t want to say anything, because if I say what I really think, I’ll be immediately banned for life. However, this is nothing more than a political decision by an unpopular administration and an unworthy Secretary of the Navy to bestow an undeserved honor upon an undeserved recipient(whew – made it this far without screwing up). Better it should be named “USS Zippy the Pinhead”
Can’t we just re-name some puny who-cares Arab Gulf state “Abscam” in his memory?
LOL, Reddog beat me to the punchline!
We have a stinking dump right outside of town that could be aptly named after him. “John Murtha Stinking Dump” Sounds good, doesn’t it? Or maybe they should just give him a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. After all, he did the world a big favor by leaving it. That brought peace to a lot of our military.
Instead of ships, shipyards and airports they should wait for something more in keeping with Murtha’s service. Perhaps the sewage treatment plant at the next Federal Prison would be more appropriate.
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This might interest you. UVA awarded Janet Napolitano the Jefferson Award for Law. I don’t think law means what they think it means.
http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2010_spr/tj_medal.htm
I like it! One more reason for citizens across the board not to vote for any Dem for any office!
Does this have to get approval from congress for this ship or does the brass just do it? My gosh naming this after murtha would almost be like naming a ship after the traitor jane! This is horrible for our military to even think about doing this.
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Or just refer to any brand of Satellite-type toilet as a “Murtha”.
The Navy should name a latrine after him….. though this could be an insult to the latrine in question.
If they ever ever name anything after Obama it should be a lake. He’d like that because water equally distributes itself, soaks into everything it can and constantly tries to undermine everything it touches.
They should name the next STD pandemic after Murtha.
Or better yet, ban the name Murtha from ever being spoken again on a Marine or Navy base, ship etc.
You missed the obvious, Flyman – “and it’s all wet”.
Wow… this is disappointing news.
What’s next?
The “USS Poop-Shoot” for Bawney Fwank?
DOH!
Isn’t there a garbage scow that needs a new name? Then again, “Garbage Scow Murtha” would be a bit redundant.
Michelle, is there a link to use for expressing our outrage to the DoD?
What is the relationship between Ray Mabus and the late J.P. Murtha? Inquiring minds would like to know.
LOL. But not really funny. What a POS.
“she challenged graduating students to make sense of the transformative nature of technology, international law and the rule of law. “
Germany’s Volkscourts were transformative too. I imagine that UVA adeministrators and Nappy think they are good people: they are wrong.
What galls me is it’s the Jefferson award.
Contact the Department of Defense
Department of the Navy
But then they did name an aircraft carrier after President Bush 1 who half won a war. Half the ship would have been more appropriate.
Not to worry, they won’t be allotted any ammo.
LOL. Reminds me of the movie “The Green Berets” where a soldier’s dying wish was to have the base latrine named after him as it was the most visited site on the base, so his name would always be remembered:)
It would be too good for Murtha.
This could be the first naval vessel to be sunk by “friendly” fire.
The only naval vessel that should carry the Murtha name is a garbage scow.
Does the Navy have a ship designed for carrying pork and bribe money? That would be appropriate.
All the leftists do is heap honors and awards on one another in an attempt to give themselves credability.
It reminds me of the bloated, out of touch, Soviet Politburo looking down from the balcony of the Kremilim while wearing seemingly every possible medal one could have.
The masses in the square look up at these “leaders” and all they see is a priviliged, elite oligarchy that has done nothing for them other than supressing their liberty, while they grow richer and more powerful while living lavish lifestyles using the people’s money.
Dang! walterc beat me to it.
and lest the looney left like olberdork gets all wee-weed up over the right calling this clown a sleazeball, remember San Fran Nan’s hometown put up Bush latrines and named a sewage plant after him. GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS FINE FOR THE GANDER.
Besides, it sings!! Provost’s Privvy.
On the other hand if “a Murtha” were to become standard military slang for #2, that would probably discourage much of anything from being named after him.
“Oh no, not ‘Murtha On A Shingle’ again? We just had that last week.”
I hadn’t seen this before.
It’s a little scary. I wonder what Wonder-Boy is up to?
I have a friend who actually enjoys SOS. It would give him fits if he had to utter Murtha’s name instead. And it still would give Murtha more recognition than he deserves.
The Navy calls a bathroom a “head.” We could change “head” to “John,” thus incorporating civilian lingo into the military. John Murtha would then appropriately be memorialized.
Example: “I feel sick to my stomach, I gotta go to the John really quick!”
Lots of boats that deserve the name John Murtha more than any USS:
http://failblog.org/?s=failboat
Getting ready to meet the crisis of the growing Tea Party Movement head on? Which is bound to get even stronger when Amnesty, Cap and Trade and who knows what else comes up by this summer.
It’s going to get uglier.
I know of an existing ship that could simply be renamed for John Murtha.
The USS Indianapolis.
Ever see the end of the movie “Robin Hood, Men in Tights?”
King Richard: Brother, you have surrounded your given name with a foul stench!
King Richard [to the crowd]: From this day forth, all the toilets in the kingdom shall be known as… johns!
Crowd: [cheers]
I’ve got to go to the John and take a Murtha.
Yeah, I suppose. And I like it too, so I could sympathize. Funny – I didn’t know it as “chipped beef” for many years, growing up at home our Mom always called it SOS.
I wrote the following to both Texas Senators…
Let me invite you all to do likewise.
As I’ve said whenever the Dems have pulled the veteran card for guys like Murtha: past military heroism is no guarantee against bad behavior or yes, even treason. Benedict Arnold was a great war hero before he became a great traitor.
USS Benedict, anyone?
On April 15th, 2010 at 11:22 am, Surveyor said:
Wow… this is disappointing news.
What’s next?
The “USS Poop-Shoot” for Bawney Fwank?
Hey! I’m tryina eat my lunch heah!
I served on the first Navy ship named for a living man. A fellow Georgia Democrat when Carter was President. Extreme segregationist. Thankfully, he had the grace to die a couple of years after the carrier was commissioned. To name a Nimitz class carrier for an obscure, race baiting Congressman was a disgrace.
Now carriers have been named for one term and half term Presidents, and Mississippi Senators. Ford died, but he could have had a ship while still alive.
During Clinton’s term, the greatest failure of the 20th century had a submarine named for him.
In principle, naming a frigate or supply ship after a distinguished member of Congress, I’d be ok with. Murtha was corrupt, and he declared US Marines guilty of murder without knowing the facts.
If Obama doesn’t punish Virginia and Newport News by shutting down carrier production (they did elect a Republican governor, and Obama wants to cripple the military), the next carrier will probably be named for Bill Clinton.
There should be a law. No ships named for living people, no ships named for corrupt members of Congress. No ships named for utter failures.
Barney Frank has been honored in the Navy for decades.
All the bathrooms on Navy ships are known as “heads”.
Since Carter was a naval officer, a nuclear engineer, and served under Admiral Rickover, I can see the rationale in naming the USS Carter. His politics and failures aside, I never had a problem with it.
Even though, a cruiser and an AEGIS destroyer were named after him, I think it would be totally appropriate to name an attack carrier after Bull Halsey, whose carriers were the greatest floating fighting force in history. Who, more than Halsey, deserves that honor?
Surely there has to be some old, de-commissioned navy vessel slated for disposal as a target ship that could be re-named for Murtha.
Carl Vinson was, I believe, the main proponent of the “Two-Ocean Navy Act” of 1940 — for which, despite his other shortcomings, I am grateful for. Most of the major warships that joined the fleet in 1942 and early 1943 were laid down in 1940; without Vinson’s far-sightedness, we’d have had a much tougher time against the Japanese in the early phase of World War II.
As for Carter, Ford and Bush the Elder, it was their Navy service in WWII that was the main reason for the carriers named after them, not for what they did as presidents.
I doubt that Clinton will ever have a ship named after him. The Navy does not name ships in honor of battles that we lost, or for presidents who disgraced themselves in office (which is why there’s on “USS Richard M. Nixon” in the fleet, either).
Long overdue.
Correction to last post: should’ve paid more attention to note that Carter didn’t get a carrier named after him. Coffee time…
http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/2010/04/burn-americans-yeah-obamas-socialist.html
OT, but I thought you guys would be interested to know that a NYT (!!) poll says over half the general public sees Obama moving the country in a socialist direction.
I imagine there are quite a number of naval officers who were nuclear engineers and served under Admiral Rickover. Should all of them get ships named after them?
Anyway, if a ship has to be named after Carter, it shouldn’t be while he’s still alive. I like Ed Mahmoud‘s idea: no ships named after living persons. I would add no ships named after deceased persons either until a minimum of 10 years have elapsed since their deaths. Then we can get a better perspective of how “great” they were, once the dust has fully settled from all the obligatory emotional funereal outpouring that immediately follows a man’s death.
one word….disgusting
naming anything after this POS other than a cess pool is wrong, does give you an idea of how liberal and political the military has become over the years. Good example is Gates, he is with who ever is signing his check.
Thank God we have the soldiers with guns on our side.
Carter interviewed with Rickover, as all officers going into nuclear power do, but then petioned to be released from his remaining Naval obligation after his father died. I guess Billy couldn’t be trusted to run the family peanut farm.
Carter never stood a watch on a nuclear sub, was a disaster as President, and after losing an election to a B list Hollywood actor, decided Americans were stupid, and developed a bitter hatred for Americans, and for some reason, Israel.
Carter also attended a segregated church until he decided to run for President, at which time he started attending the predominantly Black Baptist church in Plains.
You know the future USS John Murtha could end up being one of those proverbial “Jonah” or bad luck ships that no one wants to serve on. The captain and crew would abandon her one day and she would be a Flying Dutchman floating aroud scaring the crap out of everyone who came across her before disappearing into the fog.
Naw…
Some enterprising Chinaman would scrap her, and make a kibillion yen.
Poetic justice.
LBJ got himself a John Kerry style Silver Star for riding as an observer on a plane that turned back due to mechanical problems. Only person on the plane so honored. He was already in the US House from Texas. I guess he decided a medal would help him when he ran for Senate.
Chinese person is more PC, and their currency, I think, is the yuan.
Back in the day, a RoK 100 won coin, worth less than a US quarter, would work on shipboard Coke machines. Don’t ask me how I know this.
Rather have one, especially one associated with amphibious warfare, the USS Lewis B Puller. I suspect, though, that Chesty would have turned down the honor.
On April 15th, 2010 at 12:08 pm, babiesgrandma said:
Referring to the bathroom as a john reminded me of a story from the 70s; a record store identified their two bathrooms using two famous recording artists at the time; the men’s bathroom was known as the Elton John, and the women’s restroom was known as the Olivia Newton John.
If it can’t be stopped, it should be ‘owned’. The Marine contingent stationed on the USS Murtha should be formally known as the “Cold Blooded Killers”.
I like “Murtha’s Murderers”. It has a nice double-entendre quality.
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John Murtha reminds me of Benedict Arnold. Both served our country well during the first part of their lives. Both hurt our country later in their careers.
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Could we rename the Pueblo the John Murtha? It won’t bother the North Korean sailors that take care of it now.
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John Bibb
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They should – he was full of it. Oh wait – Ship-yard, my bad…
On April 15th, 2010 at 2:26 pm, AlohaGuy said:
Ba-boom-chig…!!!
Semi-OT
Demonrat Congressman parks his yacht across the river to dodge taxes
Member of the party of taxes and class warfare. But the nomenklatura are allowed their dachas and yachts, because of their service to the Soviet workers.
The messdecks will probably serve squarehog 3 times a day.
I think it would be appropriate to name something in Murtha’s name: a port-a-potty.
I would add that ships be only named after our states and appropriately decorated veterans of our Armed Forces who continued to honor their fellow service men and women.
This is the make-up of a new Task Force/ Battle Group headquartered in San Francisco:
USS John Murtha LPD 26
USS Jimmy Carter SSN 23
USS Jesse Jackson CVN 80
USS Nancy Pelosi CG 74
USS Adam Clayton Powell FFG 99
USS Ward Churchill FF 1098
All of which list to the left.
This is the socialist obama administration spiting in the face of the military and any American with a sense of decency. This ship is jinxed before it puts out of port and sailors who serve on “It” will probably be bottom of the barrel folks because nobody who expects to rise up the chain of command will want the taint on their service record.
Hopefully, a return to a a more sane America will get this quietly stopped. My goodness, what is next, a ship named in honor of Fonda?
I guess if our fake president can be awarded a Nobel prize, then Murtha can have a ship named in his memory. Both awards are unearned, unconscionable, and infuriating to this military mom.
Jane, Peter, Henry, or Bridget?
Name a ship after Murtha? They might as well name it “The Good Ship Lollipork”.
If Democrats were even half way serious about reducing deficit spending, they would have defunded Murtha Airport by now. The next time your congressional representative tries to claim they have cut spending to the bone and there’s nothing non-essential left to cut, ask him why John Murtha Airport is still open.
Do the nitwits in the Navy making this decision not know the Marines are a part of their force?
What Marine would want to serve on that tub named for one who so blatantly smeared Marines as murderers?
My little love note to Secretary Mabus at:
http://www.navy.mil/submit/contacts.asp
Secretary Mabus,
Are you just f958375g stupid or do you work at it?
What the hell are you thinking that Murtha needs a ship named after him after he smeared Marines, particularly after most of them were acquitted?
That old jackass should not even have a garbage skow named after him for what he did, not to mention his corruption.
Ever hear of ABSCAM?
C&%%^t I hope they don’t let you near something that might go bang.
Wake the hell up!
Given that jackasses comments about the Marines, all the guns are pointed at friendlies.
It would be the cleanest latrine in the Navy. No self-respecting Sailor or Marine would honor it by depositing anything in it that would be more honorable than Murtha.
There have been certain individuals in the Navy that have supported Murtha over the years, particularly after he grabbed money for some redundant science center in his district.
Still haven’t figured out the connection to who in the Navy has pitched their honor.
On April 15th, 2010 at 9:36 pm, Hangfire said:
Henry Fonda served as a QuarterMaster 3rd Class on the USS Satterlee during WWII and later after being commissioned as an Air Intelligence Officer. So a USS Henry Fonda might not be too far off the mark. As to Jane, perhaps a target drone could be named after her?
No. You are seriously mistaken. Read the history of what happened and you will see it as such. Those were honorable men doing their duty who died that day, and to say otherwise is a disgrace to their memory.
You have certainly answered the question why that POS Murtha should NOT have a ship named after him.
…and the USS Bill Ayers which blows itself up every 3 months.
Who do these elitist pols think they are? NO, NO, NO…naming anything after themselves. Bad enough we have Byrd naming everything in his state after himself! This is disgusting on too many levels for me, a 20-year vet. I am gagging as I type this.
As long as they’re at it, why doesn’t the US Navy name ships after the 10 Democrats convicted in ABSCAM and be done with it?