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Pelosi backs Jack “Cut n’ Run” Murtha for House Majority Leader.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in line to become speaker of the House, stepped into a postelection power struggle among fellow Democrats on Sunday with a letter of support for Rep. Jack Murtha in the race to pick a majority leader.

“Your presence in the leadership of our party would add a knowledgeable and respected voice to our Democratic team,” Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote Murtha. The Pennsylvania lawmaker is widely viewed as an underdog in a two-man race with Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer in this week’s leadership elections.

Oops — are we seeing some in-fighting?

Read the next paragraph with Def Leppard’s “Poor Some Sugar on Me” playing in your head.

In her letter, Pelosi began by noting that Murtha had requested her support. Noting his opposition to the war, she added, “Your leadership gave so many Americans, including respected military leaders, the encouragement to voice their own disapproval at a failed policy that weakens our military and makes stability in that region even more difficult to achieve.”

You can just see the sugar dripping out of her mouth as she’s gushing over Murtha like a teen-age girl writing a note to the football team captain?! 

Good thing the SGM has an approved retirement date, because if you think this is all they’re going to do with the military — think Clinton era military and shudder for your security.

Remember Somalia? We Cut N’ Run from there too.

Wonder how our troops feel?

Linked at: Outside the Beltway