Sen. Mel Martinez apparently wants to lose his reelection campaign badly. From Sunday's Meet the Press:

MR. BROKAW: Would a massive overhaul of the American healthcare system, can that get done in the first two years of this administration, or even in the first term, given the state of the economy?

REP. CLYBURN: But the...

SEN. MARTINEZ: Well, it, it just can't be. I mean, this is precisely what we should not be doing. SCHIP was one of the most divisive issues of the last Congress, where there was no consensus, there was no common ground. To bring that back up now would be to restart the fights of the past, and we need to move past that. We cannot deal with health care in the current crisis mode that we're in.

We're talking about health insurance for kids, for cryin' out loud. Besides, Martinez saying that "SCHIP was one of the most divisive issues of the last Congress" is total bull. When the House of Representatives voted to try and override President Bush's veto, 42 Republicans joined 218 Democrats in the vote.

If Martinez wants to make attacking kids health insurance, not to mention entirely ignoring the health care crisis a central part of his reelection campaign, I welcome it. A progressive will be more than happy to take his seat and get some real results for the people of Florida, rather than regurgitate more right wing hot air.