Meet Pamela the PTO Mom. If more media covered state politics with the same passion and obsession as national politics and more people cared, she’d be Florida’s anti-Joe the Plumber. Pamela Hennan, a St. Augustine Realtor and dedicated school volunteer drove all night to address the House Finance and Tax…
When Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate, America responded with a resounding, “oh, ok.” He’s an experience, competent guy, don’t get us wrong. And by all accounts he made some serious contributions to getting the cabinet together, but it seems that Mr. Biden has returned the Vice…
Rush Limbaugh, as you know, has been busy running the Republican party from his West Palm Beach radio studio. Too bad he can’t seem to even get the support of another prominent, conservative talking head from the Sunshine state.If anyone didn’t believe Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough’s denial that he…
The proposed debate between Matt Damon and eminent conservative windbag Bill Kristol never went down, but that hasn’t stemmed the hopes that Damon may be up for a public political showdown. Seems Mark Weaver over at the Florida Progressive Coalition Blog (as pointed out by our juicy brethren) thinks Matt…
So maybe this took about as much insight as it would to predict that Rosie O’Donnell wouldn’t win Ms. America, but it still feel good to be right. Friday we had this to say of Ol’ Charles Crist’s chances in the CPAC straw poll: “If Crist comes in anywhere else…
The Conservative Political Action Conference is taking place in Washington, DC this week and has already been dubbed the “the comedy festival of the year!” Noted public intellectuals (and more than a few 2012 hopefuls) like Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, Newt Gingrich, and the Anti-Crist himself, Bobby Jindal will or…
More interesting Senate ’10 internet developments have unfolded since we posted our “Battle of the Net Roots All-Stars” (or whatever we end up calling it). Kendrick Meek has relaunched his outdated, old website as KendrickMeek.com. The whole thing isn’t live yet, but it’s being developed by Blue State Digital, the…
Poor Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal can not catch a break. Everyone from freebase-Twitter addict Rick Sanchez to semi-Conservative Columnist David Brooks is criticizing his speech on Tuesday night, in which he tried to channel Ronald Reagan, but ended up coming off more like Kenneth the Page. Now Miami Mayor Manny…
I think MSNBC takes a sick delight in putting the most ridiculous Republicans on their programs just to let them sprout all sorts of nonsense. So naturally, Tom DeLay, the disgraced former Republican house majority leader, stopped by Hardball with Chris Matthew last night to face off against former Democratic…
Completely embarrassed by the state of the national party it seems that the Republican Governors Association are engineering a takeover of the Bland Ol’ Party. They have a nice new website asking for your money called The GOP Comeback with lots of pretty glamour shots of your favorite Republican Guv All-Stars. There’s Palin in all…
It’s been said so many times the economic problem is as much psychological as monetary that it must be true. Conveniently, we’ve just elected a president in part on the basis of how much he’s inspired us and given us hope. Last night, in his biggest speech since the inauguration,…
Oh, we know, we know, it’s so early in the campaign, but with State Senator and US Senate Candidate Dan Gelber’s announcement today that he’ll Twitter his way through the 60 day legislative session up in Tallahassee, we decided to role out a feature we’ve been toying with for a…
Possible Republican Senate Candidate Rep. Vern Buchanan took his speaking spot at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Manatee County this weekend to rile up the base, declaring, “We need to make English the official language of America.” It’s apparently nothing new for him, but we’re thinking his Senate campaign might…
Tomorrow on newsstands, we tell the story of Omar Khadr, who is the youngest detainee at Guantanamo, the only Westerner, and a symbol of sorts. To some, he is exhibit A for all that is wrong with America’s War on Terror. For others, he’s an example of why the camp…
Charlie Crist made some GOP eyes roll on Meet The Press this weekend when he declined to identify a national leader of the Republican Party. Instead he said that the people should lead the party, and that Obama is our only national leader. He’s right. We wish some other Republicans…
Charlie Crist, our new official Republican Boyfriend, was on Meet The Press this weekend carrying on his love affair with the stimulus package. Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, also known as 1/3 of Ronald Reagan’s soul-equivalent (Reagan, as most historians agrees, was indeed soulless) reincarnated in the body of a…
With a field for the 2010 Senate Race filled with a bunch of long shot candidates, everyone has to have a gimmick, because, hey, it worked for Walkin’ Lawton Chiles and Bob “Work Days” Graham. Dan Gelber promises to complete 100 days of public service and buy up a million…
The National Center of Poverty Law put out their annual Poverty Scorecard, and while scrolling through it we started seeing a pattern. Democrats were all getting As and A+s, while Republicans were all getting Cs, Ds and Fs. Take our Senators for example: Democrat Bill Nelson got an A+, Republican…
Last time President Obama had a surprise opening for Commerce Secretary The League of United Latin American Citizens sent a him a list of ten possible candidates including Mayor Manny Diaz. Well, here we are again with another opening for Commerce, and LULAC again sent their list. Missing this time? Manny…
Here is one of our local state House members, Republican J.C. Planas, belting out “Walking in Memphis” at Disney’s new American Idol attraction, as first seen on Naked Politics about a week ago. So far it only has 898 views. Which by YouTube standards is paltry, but by politician standards…
The economic stimulus is likely to be one of the defining actions of President Obama’s first term. If it’s perceived to be successful by November 2012, we’re more than likely looking at four more years. But if, even as Obama himself admitted last week in Fort Myers, it’s not, we…
So, last month, during one of those long, drawn-out, often-surreal meetings that local political bodies tend to have, Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said something that could be construed as anti-Colombian: ”The drug dealers have a lot of money too.They’re from Colombia; they’re making all the money. They can come…
