Day: September 3, 2006

A Cuban’s As Good as a Nod to a Blind Idiot

Trish

The always fun In The Hoop blog at Indianz.com caught the Current Occupant exhibiting his colossal dunderheadedness again.

Oh they all look alike…

One is a Democrat from New Jersey. The other is a Republican from Florida. Both are Cuban. And both serve in the Senate. AND they have similar last names. Easy to mix them up, si? But what if one of them used to serve in your administration?

Well, that won’t help you tell them apart. Just ask President Bush, Al Kamen of The Washington Post reports in his In The Loop column. At a recent White House event, el gobernor anterior de Tejas went up to Sen. Robert Menendez (the one from Jersey) and told him, “Senator Martinez, you’ve been very quiet.”

Menendez was quiet no longer. “That’s Martinez,” he told the president, pointing to Sen. Mel Martinez (the one from Florida), who served in Bush’s Cabinet no less.

“Bush turned bright red, we’re told. Señor Mayor?” Kamen writes. The White House wouldn’t confirm.

Hillary for Senate Majority Leader!

Jon Ponder

I have always doubted that Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2008 but, quite honestly, I have never had the cajones to go on record with a prediction. Six years ago, I’d had similar doubts she’d run for the Senate and you see where that got me.

Her run for the presidency will move the Clinton scandals in the 1990s onto the front pages again. Relitigating Monicagate, travelgate, socks-the-cat-gate and the rest could suck up all the air. A more latural fit for the First Lady would be as first female Senate majority leader. Talk about stature:

Friends of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate.

The former first lady longs to return to the White House with husband Bill as consort. Only last week she told television viewers America would be led by a woman one day. “Stay tuned,” she said.

First, however, she has to win the election. Some Democratic party elders — the American equivalent of the Tories’ “men in grey suits” — say Clinton may back out of the race of her own volition.

“I would not be surprised if she were to decide that the best contribution she can make to her country is to forget about being president and become a consensus-maker in the Senate,” said a leading Democratic party insider. “She believes there is no trust between the two political sides and that we can’t function as a democracy without it.”