Did the wrong person resign?

[shereads]

Author Of Schiavo Memo Steps Forward
Sen. Martinez's Counsel Cited Upside for GOP

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 7, 2005; Page A01


The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.

Brian Darling, a former lobbyist for the Alexander Strategy Group on gun rights and other issues, offered his resignation and it was immediately accepted, Martinez said.

Martinez said he earlier had been assured by aides that his office had nothing to do with producing the memo. "I never did an investigation, as such," he said. "I just took it for granted that we wouldn't be that stupid.* It was never my intention to in any way politicize this issue."

Martinez, a freshman who was secretary of housing and urban development for most of President Bush's first term, said he had not read the one-page memo. He said he inadvertently passed it to Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who had worked with him on the issue. After that, other Senate aides gave the memo to reporters for ABC News and The Washington Post.



*Unsafe assumption

 

[snooper]

Did the wrong person resign?

Usually.

 

[rgraham666]

That's the way it is in the modern world.

You get authourity. You take credit. You avoid responsibility.

Human beings do that. The society they serve never lasts long once that form of behaviour becomes endemic.

But we keep on doing it. It's one of the reasons the name we've given our species makes me laugh.

 

[shereads]

That's the way it is in the modern world.

You get authourity. You take credit. You avoid responsibility.

Human beings do that. The society they serve never lasts long once that form of behaviour becomes endemic.

But we keep on doing it. It's one of the reasons the name we've given our species makes me laugh.

It's a beautiful little fable, isn't it?

Martinez passes out the memo on the house floor. (He claims he hadn't read it; I can't decide if he's a bigger idiot that way or if he had read it and didn't foresee a problem.)

He lets a week go by during which Democrats are accused of having invented the memo.

When the author is identified as his own assistant, Martinez courageously fires the culprit who wrote the memo that he, Martinez, distributed.

There are two morals to this story. I can't figure out what the firing teaches us, but the other moral is, "It's not what you do that makes you stupid; it's having the poor taste to write it down."

Btw, Tom DeLay's wife and daughter were paid more than $500,000 out of Republican campaign funds. His response, "My wife and daughter have a right to earn a living. This is just people trying to make me look sleazy."

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . "I never did an investigation, as such," he said. "I just took it for granted that we wouldn't be that stupid.* . . .

* One can’t help wondering what the basis of Martinez’s assumption that they “wouldn’t be that stupid” was?




Alternately, one also can't help wondering what basis of Martinez's assumption that we would believe him, is?


Of course, belief isn't actually necessary. As long as they can keep the press from hounding them, they can act as though they are righteous.

And, nearly all the mainstream media are egg suckers.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

the real question becomes, Is he that sleezy of a political opportunist or just that effing stupid?

I'm not sure he isn't both.

 

[CharleyH]

oops see next post

 

[CharleyH]

the real question becomes, Is he that sleezy of a political opportunist or just that effing stupid?

I'm not sure he isn't both.

He is a Bush press agent!!! OH. NO! HE IS BUSH ... In ... is it hallowe'en? Nah, that's every day in the great US of A.