John Murtha just appeared on Fox News to talk about Iraq, long-term military readiness, and overall national security. He's phenomenal, I love it. He speaks Progressive every time he opens his mouth. I know everyone says he's a moderate, and it would probably be hard to call him a Progressive across the board. But Progressivism is about progress, and I'd like to think that no color on the left-right spectrum has a monopoly over progress.
That being said, Conservative and Progressive are at least as antonymous as Conservative and Liberal, so we need to take special care that the things we call Progressive are not just Liberal, or new-and-Liberal. Well Murtha's stance on the war isn't your typical Liberal line, so the independently Progressive aspects of it float to the top for ease of examination. In short, he looks back, he looks forward, he bridges the parties.
I'll tell you how he did it on the flip.
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