You know with friends like John Boys who needs an enemy. It seems they either can't remember what they said when or when to keep their mouths shut on policy. Personally they can keep it up until November.
Today Rep. Florida Senator Mel Martinez (R) blasted Obama on a McCain press conference call for sabotaging comprehensive immigration reform.
"He was AWOL, he was working against us," Martinez said
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Now it seems that ole Mel forgot the letter he sent to Obama back in June of '07, which read
"While it failed, your backing of this important legislation meant a lot to me personally," Martinez wrote. "I know that standing firm in the face of extreme pressure has not been easy, and again, I thank you."
The letter was written well after Obama had supported an amendment — to sunset the bill's temporary worker program — that McCain has described as a "poison pill," a phrase Martinez repeated today.
"Let me tell you, here is the crux of the issue when it counted, when the chips were down, when Senator Kennedy, Senator McCain and I were desperate to round up votes, kept the coalition intact, Senator Obama was destroying it by offering an amendment that was a poison pill that would have killed it.," Martinez said today, contradicting his earlier letter.
From Politico