Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) died due to complications from Gallbladder surgery recently.  Murtha will be buried in a cemetery he secured $25 million for via the $862 billion "stimulus."  The funds were secured to improve the "organic nature" of the soil and ensure enough worms were present to push up enough daisies to push up Murtha's casket.  The funds resulted in three saved/created jobs. Mostly sustainable corpse experts and a single lawn mower.  Murtha's death is a great tragedy to his family, but a non-event to us who knew him best.  A Pork Barrel political hack who libeled our Marines in Haditha.  How this ex-Marine can live with himself is anyone's guess.  Don't forget the numerous scandals.  The biggest tragedy here is that Murtha escaped investigation via death and will instead garner a bit more "praise" as opposed to "justice."

Update 02/14/2010: More here on the father of pork.