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Second, nobody’s saying it’s unreasonable to have a Hispanic senator as the public face of the party, so stop putting words in people’ mouths. The problem is that that the case for Martinez is basically, “he’s a Hispanic senator.” If his name was John Smith, he would be just another senator from an important state in the Electoral College. I don’t think there are too many conservative bloggers who dislike the guy, it’s that he’s been in the Senate for two years and is perhaps best known for giving a memo about the political impact of the Schiavo controversy to Democratic Senator Tom Harkin. He was a perfectly fine Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. But in terms of filling a high-profile position to make the case for Republican policies, would he be on many people’s lists of the top ten candidates? Top twenty? Fifty?
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Of course, our friends on the other side of the aisle may be about to elect House Majority Leader Murtha (Fund's article is a must-read) and House Select Intelligence Committee Chair Alcee Hastings, who was impeached as a judge and convicted for bribery. So our great nation is getting the worst of both worlds.
The cranky, turning-the-guns-on-my-allies edition
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To understand the impact this dialogue can have, one need only think back to the case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman at the center of a legal battle between her husband and her family over her future medical care. Had she made her feelings known to her husband, parents and brother, the entire tragic episode might have been avoided.
Planning care is new holiday tradition
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How could Hastings ever hope to get a security clearance? He is for sale. That's the last thing you can tolerate in the intelligence business. He'll sell out the country.