Reply #4: Senator Mel Martinez [View All]

[MrBenchley]

was passing it out on the Senate floor, and inadvertantly handed one to Democrat Tom Harkin with the words "Here are some great talking points to use" (or damn close to that).

By the way, Martinez has got caught and fobbed the blame off on staffers before. And he isn't just a freshman senator...he was also in Chimpy's cabinet as Secretary of HUD.

And the guy who wrote it wasn't just any aide...he was Brian Darling, chief legal counsel....and before joining Martinez he worked for the gun lobby, the pharmaceutical lobby, the nuclear power lobby, Enron and Tom Delay. The only way he could be any more in the mainstream of the GOP is if he'd blown up a women's health clinic or beat up a gay person.