Martinez "Cleared," Dean Still At Large

Boy, that ASSociated Press has a way with words:

The U.S. Senate Rules Committee has decided to take no action against Florida freshman Senator Mel Martinez for an aide's politically embarrassing memo in the
Terri Schiavo case.

The first-term Orlando Republican has acknowledged his office produced the memo without his knowledge, and Martinez's legal counsel Brian Darling quit over the memo.

"Take no action"? Floating a stategy memo is now an ethics issue?

Only if a Republican does it, I guess. Maybe the Democrats were crying "gimmick infringement!" and planning to sue.

Meanwhile, Chairman How has openly promised to drag Terri Schiavo's corpse around the country for the next four years like Charlie McCarthy, and we can't even get an APB put out on him.

The "P," BTW, doesn't stand for what you probably think it does.

More, I shan't elaborate....