Murtha: Ethics reform is total crap

A principled position from one of the ABSCAM crowd:

Congressman John Murtha reportedly called a Democratic bill on lobbying and ethics reform "total crap" two days before the House Majority Leader election, during a vote-bidding presentation before the Blue Dog Coalition.

"Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) told a group of Democratic moderates on Tuesday that an ethics and lobbying reform bill being pushed by party leaders was 'total crap,' but said that he would work to enact the legislation because Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports it," John Bresnahan reports for Roll Call.

"Even though I think it’s total crap, I’ll vote for it and pass it because that’s what Nancy wants," Murtha said, three sources at the meeting told the Capitol Hill newspaper.