Stupid Is As Stupid Does

[struggle4progress]

You only need to spend a few seconds with Mel Martinez to realize the Florida Republican Senator is a few beers short of a six pack, but his lame-brained excuse for how a memo outlining the GOP’s plan to turn the Terri Schiavo tragedy into a political opportunity fell into Democratic hands sends political intelligence to subterranean levels.

Martinez claims he gave the memo to Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin because he thought they were only “talking points” and says he never read the document before turning it over to the opposition.

“Unbeknownst to me, instead of my one page on the bill, I had given him a copy of the now infamous memo that at some point along the way came into my possession,” Martinez claims in a statement.

The memo that “at some point along the way came into my possession” was written by the Senator’s staff legal counsel, Brian H. Darling, a 39-year-old former lobbyist for the for the ultra-right-wing Alexander Strategy Group started by scandal-scarred House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s former chief of staff. <snip>

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5710

[whistle]

1. Holy shit, I've always known that Mel Martinez could never make

...an independent decision on his own, but this takes the cake! What a total dumb numb bumbling nincompoop!:dunce:

[ElectricIron Sweeney]

2. Stupid people

Should be elected if it will keep them out of traffic.

[kliljedahl]

3. Earlier thread on this

It's not the first time he's used this line:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1712434


http://www.kliljedahl.net