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There is more to this than just a possible dirty trick.

Senator Lautenberg is asking Trent Lott (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration) to conduct an investigation into this.    

an investigation. that's priceless.

Of admitting guilt -- you call for an investigation on the assumption that by calling for an investigation you will appear not guilty.

It works much the same way as a flatulent person complains of the smell in hopes of escaping blame.

So call Lautenberg bluff and have an investigation into this.  

If the Democrats are dumb enough to do something like this they deserve to be called out on it.

have an investigation to prove you're innocent. Thanks, but I think we'll pass on that generous offer.

....it's not just a so-so Claymation caricature.  

In addition to possibly exonerating a person or group an investigation also attempts to determine which person or group is guilty.

The Republicans will initiate and control the investigation so they have no one to blame if they choose not to pursue this matter further.  

Someone has possibly been passing out a anonymous, forged memo on the Senate floor, if that isn't worthy of an invstigation I don't know what is.  

First, the memo isn't a forgery even if it is fake. It is notable by having neither letterhead, signature, nor distribution list. So the question is whether it is legitimate or a "dirty trick."

Second, if it is a "dirty trick" I'm not sure it even rises to a Cheech and Chong moment of "Bailiff, whack his whatever" so why would anyone waste money investigating it?

Third, if there was an investigation do you really think the Democrats would allow the Republicans to control it? Hardly.

So thanks for worrying about us, but we'll let this slide.

Get the message out that the memo is a fake, politely decline Lautenberg's

Giant Wooden Horse, and move on.

I am not worrying about you.

In my mind 'letting it slide' means not paying attention to it.

If no one had posted a story about this matter on the front page of the website or the founder of the website hadn't updated the story you may have more ammo to argue that those on Redstate are 'letting it slide'.

If someone wants to pass out anonymous, fake memos about Republican talking points in the parking lot of a Diary Queen in Cranston, I say more power to him.  If someone does the same thing on the floor of the US Senate, I say the Senate should find out how it happened and take steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.

At its core, this issue isn't a Republican or Democratic issue.  I would guess most Americans don't approve of dirty tricks no matter who benefits from them.

Our Senators work for us not their political parties.  I think ALL of them forget that at times.

up that misunderstanding.

Apparently, New Jersey Democrats were reluctant to allow an actual corpse--say, Jimmy Hoffa's remains, retrieved from beneath the end zone at the Meadowlands--to be the beneficiary of the NJSC ignoring state law and allowing Torricelli to be replaced on the ballot after the deadline in 2002--so they settled for someone who was still respirating.  Shame about the missed opportunity--I'm sure that Jimmy Hoffa dead would be more eloquent than Frank Lautenberg alive, though the Senate probably would have had to kick up their budget for Airwick.

The lib rags are already over this one guys, the memo is real and it came from Sen. Martinez's office.  from rawstory

...silence from the RedState regulars.

(1) It sounds just boneheaded enough for Martinez.

(2) Which is why Castor should be ashamed that she lost to him.

(3) Relatedly, it sounds like some genius he employed did it.

(4) Which means he didn't.

(5) But, in a surprising turn of events for a former ambulance chaser, he took responsibility for it.

(6) So, in a nutshell: Bad, dumb staffer; bad, dumb Martinez; good for Martinez for stepping up and solving the problem; Castor should commit suicide in shame.

Well said...  Agree completely.

What do you think is the political fallout?

since he took responsibility for it and fired his inept staffer.  

As tragic as Terry Schiavo's situation was, it will be old news soon.  

I just don't think that this will vanish guys.  From what I surmise is the "gameplan" in Washington, the strategy was to get the public riled over the power of judges and use that outrage as fuel for the constitutional option in the Senate.  I don't think that the Republicans in the Senate will be able to muster the guts to do it if the justification for the action (at least in the short term) is actually seen to be a crass political ploy.

You're German facade is looking a bit thin...




But other than that you're still wrong.  A lot of people have been upset over activist judges since at least the seventies.  A stupid staffer or senator isn't going to dampen their disdain for oligarchists masquerading as learned judges.

Although there is no clear analogue in German politics to this I think that one example which applies was how the Bundestag in late '04 passed a law which made German farmers liable for any GM contamination.  Prior to that the CDP was working to protect farmers from lawsuits in certain instances involved in GM contamination, however, when certain party documents went public, the mood of the country moved and legislation was passed in almost direct opposition to the original intent.