Calling Paul Hackett!!! Your job is waiting for you!!!

[Dr.Phool]

To hell with the Senate race. This seat has your name written all over it. It pays the same, and will be a lot easier race.



(November 23, 2005 -- 12:53 AM EST // link)

Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) just keeps getting better and better advancing an unintentional humor agenda for sane people around the United States.

Schmidt, of course, is the freshman representative from Ohio who reaped almost universal derision on Friday when she went on the House floor and said "A few minutes ago, I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do."

Today she told the Post: "There's no way that I remotely tried to impugn his character." She's portraying herself as a victim of unscrupulous attacks. In a press release she laments that "ince that moment I have been attacked from across the country by the left."

From the Post ...

Noting that criticism has poured in via phone calls, e-mails and TV reports, she said in her statement: "I am quite willing to suffer those attacks if in the end that policy I so strongly oppose is exposed as unsound. First and foremost, I support the troops. They dodge bullets and bombs while I duck only hateful words."

Now she even seems to be a spat with the wingnut who she was allegedly quoting when she attacked Murtha.

From the Post ...

Bubp, a GOP state legislator and Marine Corps Reserve officer, had campaigned for Schmidt. He put out his own statement yesterday: "The comments and concerns I shared with Congresswoman Schmidt were never meant as a personal reference to Mr. Murtha. . . . We never discussed anyone by name and there was no intent to ever disparage the congressman or his distinguished record of service for our nation." Bubp, through a spokeswoman, declined an interview request.

Schmidt recalls their Friday phone conversation somewhat differently. "I wrote down what he was saying," she said in the interview. "He did ask me to send a message to Congress, and he also said send a message to 'that congressman.' He did not know that congressman's name, but I did. Neither one of us knew he was a Marine."

It just gets better and better, doesn't it?

Late Update: Actually, wait! I was wrong. It gets better still. According to the Dayton Daily News, Schmidt is now saying that "she has been made a scapegoat by a media disappointed that Congress didn't vote to withdraw troops from Iraq." Local Republicans seem not to agree, judging by the fact that two challengers from the GOP primary in her race are now saying they may run against her again.
-- Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[Hissyspit]

1. That's what I was thinking. Ohio voters have lots of voter indigestion

...course they coulda not voted her in in the first place.

[wakeme2008]

2. Right she had a lot of help from the

SOEs and vote counting machines. :grr:

[Tesla]

3. Exactly!!

I heard Hackett was winning up until 4 am when the electricity went out in the Warren County precinct, and when the lights came back on, she had won!!