Having examined the evidence available on the intertoobz in the form of blog comments, innuendo and accusations, I have concluded that the reason Nancy Pelosi backed the old school crook Murtha for House Majority Leader is because she told him she would back when he first came out vocally against dubya's adventure in Iraq. It was payback for having the guts to step up on the House floor and start turning the ship of public opinion in the other direction, absolutely knowing the right wing was gonna go fucking nuts coming up with creative ways to call him a coward. That's where the cut and run meme came from. He didn't back down though, and other lawmakers soon followed him in questioning the war. He did a damn good thing for America there, but he should have known better than to go for majority leader. Talk about skeletons in your closet. If it hadn't been for the fact that he was one of Tip O'Neill's go-to guys back when the Dems owned Congress and Tip ran it like the mafia, he would probably have spent a little time behind bars.