{"id":1899,"date":"2006-06-20T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/murtha-on-rove-%e2%80%98he%e2%80%99s-sitting-in-his-air-conditioned-office-on-his-big-fat-backside-saying-stay-the-course%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T14:45:08","slug":"murtha-on-rove-%e2%80%98he%e2%80%99s-sitting-in-his-air-conditioned-office-on-his-big-fat-backside-saying-stay-the-course%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/murtha-on-rove-%e2%80%98he%e2%80%99s-sitting-in-his-air-conditioned-office-on-his-big-fat-backside-saying-stay-the-course%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Murtha on Rove: \u2018He\u2019s Sitting in His Air-Conditioned Office on His Big, Fat Backside, Saying Stay the Course\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/06\/18\/murtha-rove\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Murtha on Rove: \u2018He\u2019s Sitting in His Air-Conditioned Office on His Big, Fat Backside, Saying Stay the Course\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ROVE: Like too many Democrats, it strikes me they are ready to give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough and when it gets difficult, they fall back on <strong>that party\u2019s <em>old pattern<\/em> of cutting and running<\/strong>. They may be with you at the first shots, but they are not going to be there for the last, tough battles. They are wrong and profoundly wrong in their approach. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Karl Rove attacked Rep. John Murtha during a speech last week in New Hampshire. Rove described Murtha\u2019s Iraq plan as \u201ccutting and running,\u201d and suggested that the 37-year Marine combat veteran would \u201cbe with you at the first shots\u201d but not \u201cfor the last, tough battles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murtha defended himself this morning on Meet the Press:<\/p>\n<p>    MURTHA: He\u2019s in New Hampshire. He\u2019s making a political speech. He\u2019s sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside, saying stay the course. That\u2019s not a plan. \u2026 We\u2019ve got to change direction. You can\u2019t sit there in the air-conditioned office and tell troops carrying 70 pounds on their backs, inside these armored vessels hit with IEDs every day, seeing their friends blown up, their buddies blown up \u2014 and he says stay the course? Easy to say that from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress \u00bb Murtha on Rove: \u2018He\u2019s Sitting in His Air-Conditioned Office on His Big, Fat Backside, Saying Stay the Course\u2019 ROVE: Like too many Democrats, it strikes me they are ready to give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough and when it gets difficult, they fall back on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/murtha-on-rove-%e2%80%98he%e2%80%99s-sitting-in-his-air-conditioned-office-on-his-big-fat-backside-saying-stay-the-course%e2%80%99\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murtha on Rove: \u2018He\u2019s Sitting in His Air-Conditioned Office on His Big, Fat Backside, Saying Stay the Course\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya","category-other-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}