August 4, 2006

Hey, they all look alike

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), at the White House this spring for a meeting with other senators to discuss immigration with President Bush, was surprised when Bush approached him as the meeting broke up and observed: “Senator Martinez, you’ve been very quiet.”

“That’s Martinez,” Menendez said, pointing to Mel Martinez, Florida’s junior senator and Bush’s former secretary of housing and urban development.

“I’m Menendez.”

Bush turned bright red.
He had wanted to give him a nickname, but 'Brownie' was already taken...

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