Dealer correspondent Tina Fey reports on Schmidt's backtracking. Click to play!

WASHINGTON, DC - Just 3 months after winning Ohio District 2 by a paltry 3.5% margin of victory, U.S. House Rep. Jean Schmidt made national headlines on Friday, after personally attacking retired Marine Corps colonel and fellow House Rep. John Murtha for his motion to set a timetable for pulling troops out of Iraq.

In relating a phone call she received from Ohio state Rep. Danny R. Bubp of West Union, a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, she lectured that "...cowards cut and run, Marines never do."

After Schmidt's comments were drowned out by boos and yelling, prompting a 10-minute recess, she returned to the podium to backpeddle, asking for "unanimous consent that my words be withdrawn."

Tri-staters who supported Schmidt's campaign argued that she had been wrongfully intimidated into withdrawing her remark, which was not a personal attack because she was simply relaying an opinion from a constituent in her district.

After learning of this "personal attack loophole," Ohio District 10 Rep. Dennis Kucinich opened Monday's session by reading an email received from Josh Fernsler, a Sociology Major and pot-head from the University of Toledo, who stated that Schmidt was "nothing but a 2-bit whore."

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