No doubt, Mel Martinez is an embarrassment to the State of Florida, as well as to the United States Senate and the GOP. So how do Floridians follow up on having one out of two Senators screw things up serially, including being the source of the now infamous Schiavo memo, that they become the Senate's class buffoon? Why, we consider adding another, in the person of Cruella de Ville herself, Katherine Harris.
Cheers to FloridaPolitics blog for the links. And check out Martinez' fascinating explanation of just how the highly elucidating memorandum ended up in the hands of Democrat Tom Harkin (having gotten there by way of Marintez's hands and coat pocket):
He said it somehow ended up in his pocket, and he handed it to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, weeks ago, thinking it was a summary of the Schiavo legislation. When Harkin read it, he saw instead a strategy outlining how Republicans could appeal to their conservative base by taking up the Schiavo bill and using it against Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., next year at election time.
Listen, Florida, we only have TWO Senators. Two shots at getting it right, or at least not humiliating ourselves. Please keep Nelson in his Senate seat, if only to avoid the inevitable "Bo and Daisy Duke Take the Senate" jokes...
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