Dems see a pattern in Martinez blaming staff

The party of passing the buck.

Either he's a lying sack of shit, or he's a completely incompetent sack of shit who is being used as a place holder in the Senate by an ambitious staff.

Neither should qualify that man for a second term. I would sincerely hope that if the party manages to get its own house in order, they target him specifically for defeat.

Keeping such a creature in the Senate does a massive disservice to the people he's supposed to represent as well as to the country as a whole.

:shrug:

Imagine getting a decision from this hack. If he isn't a poster boy for what's wrong with the Repugnicans and what allowing this horde to pack the judiciary, here he is.

Sadly, there's no Democratic echo chamber to hammer home the hypocrisy and make this memo stick like it would if this happened to a Democrat and right wing and christian hate radio chew it to bits (Rathergate).

computers? I think it was Rockefeller's? Hatch blamed the staffer and claimed to know NOTHING about it and the staffer was SUPPOSEDLY fired. They know EVERYTHING going on in their offices. I call BULLSHIT on their idiotic excuses. They need to come up with some new ones. These have worn thin.

Get a load of this Freewheeling aides POS.


How many aides can you axe and still get the "benefit of the doubt"?



Freewheeling aides have shamed Martinez before

By Brian DeBose
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


The revelation that a staffer for Sen. Mel Martinez added a political strategy point to a memo on the merits of a bill to save Terri Schiavo's life is not the first time that the Florida Republican has been embarrassed by freelancing aides.

Mr. Martinez, who said he was "disappointed" by the actions of staff lawyer Brian Darling, faced a similar situation during his Republican senatorial primary last year.

The Martinez campaign sent out a support mailer calling opponent Bill McCollum "the new darling of the homosexual extremists" because of his support for the 2000 federal hate-crimes bill, which included protection for homosexuals.


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A source familiar with the 2004 campaign said that both the campaign-mailer incident and the Schiavo memo speak more to Mr. Martinez's easygoing management style than an attempt to use the case of Mrs. Schiavo, who died last week 13 days after her feeding tube was removed, for his party's political gain.

"Mel never gets the whole truth," the source said.



Poor, poor, poor Mel! :eyes: And now it's time for the WashTimes sooperdooper survey.



The Washington Times conducted a survey of all 100 Senate offices in which only Mr. Harkin admitted to seeing the memo being passed around on the Senate floor, while all 55 Republicans — including Mr. Martinez — denied having any knowledge of it.





more....

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050407-114826-4606r.htm

The Reps and Senators take their marching orders from their aides...I guess their job function is:

(1) Rubber stamp whatever Bush tells them to.
(2) Fundraise
(3) Shakedown Lobbyists
(4) Be sanctimonious hypocrites