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The Blog for Saturday, June 11, 2005

The Best He Could Do

    Really now ... is this the best our Mel can do?
    U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez said Friday that the Bush administration should consider Sen. Joseph Biden's suggestion to shut down the U.S. military's prison camp on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    He also criticized the administration and Congress for paying little attention to growing Latin American problems and lamented the slow progress in Iraq.
    "Martinez joins call for examination of Gitmo". Considering his audience - the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors/Florida Press Association - Cellophane Man is obviously attempting to portray himself as something other than a Bush family retainer.

    Mel's exceedingly timid concession, that the administration actually go so far as to "consider" Biden's "suggestion" about Gitmo, was no doubt very difficult for Mel, but hardly demonsrates that Mel has changed the perception (which in this case is reality) that he is little more than a shill for the Bush family. The same is true for his tepid remarks about Latin America and Iraq.

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