Krispy Kreme, being the genial purveyor of glazed goodness that it is, decided to get in on the Obama inauguration craze and is offering one free doughnut to every costumer on January 20, Inauguration day, and released this seemingly innocuous press release: “Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring…
Up until yesterday, it seemed the full picture for the Senate election in 2010 would come into focus soon, when rumored candidates including Republicans Bill McCullom and Marco Rubio as well as Democrat Alex Sink made their intentions clear. Well, now with The Hill reporting that National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman…
Keeping up the grand tradition of politicians making friendly wagers on sports games, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson made a bet with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn over the BCS Championship. Instead of a traditional bet, the two decided the loser would have to sing for the winner. Nelson of course won,…
After running a race for Congress this past fall that included claiming opponent Alcee Hastings threatened to kill him, Dr. Marion Thorpe only managed to get 18% of the vote in district-23. Now he’s decided to fail on an even larger stage. He just become the first announced Republican to…
Remember that hullabaloo over Barack Obama inviting not-so-gay-friendly Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration? Riptide helpfully stepped in and offered suggestions for less controversial, more gay-friendly religious folks whom Obama should have invited, including Reverend Lovejoy, Reverend Run, Blackface Jesus, and openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson. Well, la-di-da,…
Nicolle Wallace is a Republican operative whose resumé includes working for the Bush White House and handling the early media strategy for Sarah Palin’s VP run. She’s the lady who decided those Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric interviews were a good idea. There is basically no reason whatsoever to take any…
It’s not that people don’t want to watch Mario Diaz-Balart videos on YouTube. This video of him experiencing some sort of Sarah Palin-induced seizuregasm at a John McCain rally has more than 35,000 views (although over half of those were from me). It’s just that people don’t want to watch…
Miami boy Kendrick Meek became the first official announced candidate for the 2010 Senate race, sure to be one of the most dramatic in the nation. As expected, he announced it this morning, and used much of the same “This is about Florida” rhetoric we commented about earlier. He’s not…
Political math god Nate Silver put together a handy pie chart showing that the career stop for a majority of current U.S. senators is a U.S. House seat. Good news for Kendrick Meek, Connie Mack IV, and the handful of other representatives who might be angling for the seat, but…
All the other potential Democrats with wet dreams of Senate subcommittee hearings are waiting until the mighty Alex Sink (mighty because she is one of two Dems who can get elected in this state) decides if she’s going to run for governor or senator or Florida’s first galactic empress. Not…
Charlie Crist took a pretty public drubbing for his summer jaunt to Europe that ended up costing taxpayers $430,000. You’d think he’d have learned his lesson. Crist will be heading to D.C. to attend the Obama’s inauguration and hasn’t yet decided if taxpayers will be footing the bill. Meanwhile, our Democratic…
Today our departing president held his last press conference, and it was classic Dubya: hokey jokes, strange grins, and a prickly defensiveness. The highlight: Bush admitted, for the first time, to making several mistakes during his presidency. Apparently he was the last to find out. “Clearly, putting a ‘mission accomplished’…
Not a day goes by when I drive through Miami that I don’t think to myself: You know what this place really needs? Some friggin’ dirt-bike trails! Hell yeah! Apparently, Manny Diaz thinks so too. He was up in D.C. yesterday along with a host of other mayors asking for handouts…
The Washington Post is the only media outlet claiming Manny Diaz is “in the mix,” as some tend to say, to run for Senate, and earlier this week, the paper sat down with Diaz for a video. That subject wasn’t addressed; the interview was mainly about “leadership.” It doesn’t show anything…
This wicked, evil lady-thing who goes by the Earth name of “Nancy Pelosi,” but is actually known as Empress Bugeyes from the 5th dimension planet Stalintopia, does not understand the earthly pleasure of football. Because she does not posses human emotion she will never experience the thrill of rooting for teams vaguely connected to…
Ah, the life of an ex-president. When the wife isn’t unleashing you like an aging attack froodle on this or that Junior Senator in pursuit of her master plan, it’s actually pretty serene. Flying to and fro in private jets; staying in the world’s finest hotels in every locale; getting…
Friendly bets on sporting games by officeholders is a hallowed tradition in which headline-hungry politicians make cheap bids for soft coverage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently got a nice batch of stone crab claws from Miami Mayor Manny Diaz when the Hurricanes lost the Emerald Bowl to Cal. Which…
Absent from the list of possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for either governor or senator in 2010 are Latinos. It’s nothing new. The Democrats have never run a Latino for governor or the Senate, and they’ve never elected one to the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, one would…
During the last part of 2008, it seemed like Jeb Bush had already won the 2010 Senate race, but this afternoon he announced he won’t be running. “While the opportunity to serve my state and country during these turbulent and dynamic times is compelling, now is not the right time to…
Florida’s capitol has been completely controlled by Republicans for the past ten years, and with that regime has come tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. Jeb Bush cut taxes by $12.2 billion during his terms, with half of those savings going toward the wealthiest 4.5 percent. Charlie Crist…
We’re not sure whether the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza is pulling this out of his ass or if he’s heard things we haven’t (quite possible), but toward the end of a blog post about Jeb Bush’s forthcoming Senate decision, he includes Manny Diaz as a possible Democratic contender for the…
USA Today reports that the incoming Congress will be the oldest on record for both houses. The average representative is 57, while the average senator is 63. New Times has the same high-tech tool as USA Today — a calculator — and decided to probe further. Since Florida has the oldest average population of…
