Congressman John Murtha seems a little worried that John McCain will become the next President of the United States.

So Murtha decided to attack McCain’s age, although Murtha is four years older. He told a crowd of union members today that McCain is too old to be President. By the way, Murtha is a Clinton supporter.

But, there’s really another reason Murtha does not want McCain to become President: Pork.

Murtha knows his pork projects will disappear. The Citizens Against Government Waste gave Murtha the Porker of the Year award for 2007. Murtha is the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. McCain has always been against wasteful spending and Murtha knows that President McCain will veto his pork projects

By the way, Murtha has taken some of Montana’s defense dollars, too. Montana lost millions in defense funding the last couple of years since we lost a senate seat on the defense appropriations subcommittee. Those dollars found a nice cozy home in Rep. Murtha’s district in western Pennsylvania.

Since Murtha has been on and in charge of that subcommittee, billons of dollars have been funneled into his district. In fact, Murtha brought home 72 pork projects worth $159.1 million just in fiscal year 2008, which is more than Montana received as a whole state ($92 million).