[doc30]

Any comments on the Junior Senator from FL? Don't mean to open the Schaivo story, but Martinez working with Nelson on the oil drilling ban really bothers me. Seems Martinez may be a new member of the RINO club. Please tell me I'm wrong on that.

[kittymyrib]

Florida Repubicans could have done MUCH better than Mel Martinez for senator. He and Nelson are two peas in a pod.

[bonfire]

You just HAD to post this, didn't you? :)

[son of caesar]

comments? sure. let us murder you, so then we can apologize to your corpse. what a clown this rino is.

[darkwing104]

Martinez working with Nelson on the oil drilling ban really bothers me. Seems Martinez may be a new member of the RINO club. Please tell me I'm wrong on that.

He's caught my attention also, not in a good way...

[b4its2late]

Must be worried about re-election. That's one of the best indicators when they flip flop. They are in it for their own benefit, no one elses......ever.

[G.Mason]

I have little to say about Señor Senator Martinez other than he must have a terrible staff, as the delay from writing him and the eventual standard reply, is long in coming.

It would appear that he is on schedule to be a one term senator.

[Jonathon Spectre]

He is on course to be a one-term Senator in large part because people in Florida were furious that he believed the federal government should be making life-and-death decisions for individuals rather than their families.

Man, you "conservatives" sure have made your peace with exercising unlimited governmental power, eh? You know what they say about power. And there's no better proof than to look at the Republican party of 1984 or 1994 and the cesspool it is today.

[Señor Zorro]

This is probably the only matter in history which the liberals think should have been decided by the states...

[BigBobber]

Martinez said supporters of the bill wanted "one last measure of review. That's what the debate was about in the Senate. If I had to take one lesson away it's perhaps decisions of this nature really belong in state courts, not federal courts."

Condemned prisoners get federal judicial review on top of their state review. The governor of the state also has the power to grant clemency.

This is all that was asked when a person's blood relatives disagree with the spouse's decision to end a life. We're going to err on the side of keeping people alive when the correct course is uncertain.

Not exactly an earth shattering concept. But apparently beyond the intellectual capacity of Sen. Martinez.

[AmericanChef]

-The effort to keep her alive proved unsuccessful and enormously unpopular with the public.-

That should be "unpopular with the uninformed public", and they were uninformed because the media misinformed them with the use of the term "vegetable".

[floriduh voter]

Mel Martinez had the support of the Bushes and they are good at political game playing.

It's a complex puzzle. The Bushes fraternize with the Clintons and it's one big happy oligarchy.

[Saundra Duffy]

This RIGHT HERE is why I quit the Republican Party!!!

[billbears]

"Perhaps this was not in the realm of federal concern. It may have been better left to state courts to deal with it," Martinez said in a taped interview for Political Connections that airs today on Bay News 9.

Absolutely amazing. A US Senator rediscovers the ideal of federalism. Unfortunately for the citizens of the respective states, it won't spread.