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January 05, 2005

First Day Follies

Two of the three new Florida members of the House and Senate have some fascinating plans:

Senator Mel Martinez:
As a new member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he will travel to Israel this week to look for ways to jump-start the Middle East peace process.

I find myself doubting that a freshman Senator from Florida, who has never had an original political thought, and simply does whatever Bush and Rove tell him to do, can fix thousands of years of strife in the Middle East.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston:
Already she is girding for the battle to come over the president's proposed changes to Social Security, which would allow younger workers to invest some of their taxes in the stock market.

A battle to do WHAT to the president's plan? That just sounds messy. Somebody get Debbie some tissue.