Passing Notes Always Gets You In Trouble

More on the revelation that some clown working for Republican freshman Senator Mel Martinez wrote the Schiavo "GOP talking points" memo:

The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.

Brian H. Darling, 39, a former lobbyist for the Alexander Strategy Group on gun rights and other issues, offered his resignation and it was immediately accepted, Martinez said.

Martinez, the GOP's Senate point man on the issue, said he earlier had been assured by aides that his office had nothing to do with producing the memo. "I never did an investigation, as such," he said. "I just took it for granted that we wouldn't be that stupid. It was never my intention to in any way politicize this issue."

A couple of points:

1. Speculation that the Democrats wrote the memo was clearly off the mark. I believed this speculation and was clearly in the wrong. The Senate GOP has a long tradition of abject stupidity which this incident clearly extends.

2. It appears that Democrat Senator Tom Harkin was the person who obtained this memo and gave it to The Washington Post. That isn't a dirty trick in my book---if somebody's dumb enough to write it, dumb enough to hand it out, and even dumb enough to give it to somebody who'd be dumb enough to give it to a scuzzy little partisan weasel like Harkin, then they deserve what they get---period. The GOP deserved this black eye.

3. The Washington Post is awfully cozy with the Democrat senators.

Thanks to Word Girl for breaking this on the site while I was unavoidably detained by the people who pay my salary who expect that I, well, work for it.