So, um, yeah, a movement to draft Jeb Bush to again run for governor in 2010 is actually happening. As many as 34 Floridians support the move, as evidenced by the above photograph — 22 of whom are actually voting age. But why are almost all the adults wearing dark sunglasses? Is…
Yesterday, Marco Rubio unveiled the first attack ad on his Republican primary opponent, Charlie Crist. The imagery is a slow, trippy reveal of a picture of Crist with President Obama, while an ominous narrator straight out of a dark fairy-tale movie paints the stimulus package that Crist supported in strokes…
Why is it that the middle-aged have embraced Twitter faster and more enthusiastically than most social networks that came before it? Maybe it’s because it’s so simple. Maybe it’s because it requires so little time to update and touch base with contacts. Maybe it’s because it syncs seamlessly with the…
Big, big news! Charlie Crist has joined Twitter! Well, he also announced his intention to run for Florida’s open Senate seat in 2010, but everyone has known that for months. But as of 9:12 this morning, it’s official. Crist made the announcement through a press release and a Twitter update,…
In the past month the idea that Charlie Crist would run for Senate has gone from hot political rumor to almost foregone conclusion, and news broke this weekend that it is indeed fact. Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer told the Pensacola News Journal last night that Crist will announce…
State Senator Frederica Wilson has Practical hats. She has dramatical hats. She also has pragmatical hats, fanatical hats, oratorical hats, delphioracle hats, skeptical hats, dispeptical hats, romantical hats, pedantical hats, critical hats, parasitical hats, and so on and so forth.Herald/Times Tallahassee bureau just put up a 731 word article on her hats! Which…
One of the most common complaints about universal health care is that it will turn doctors’ offices into overcrowded, beaurecratic nightmares resembling the DMV. These snide dismissals might be a bit overdramatic, but they aren’t totally out of touch as the number of primary care physicians continues to dwindle. But…
Our corporate cousins out in Lala-land ran their review of Outrage, a new documentary that explores the culture of closeted homosexual politicians and gives special attention to our own Governor Charlie Crist, and made it their cover story this week. Gee, one of the cover boys certainly looks familiar. I…
The Buzz reports that Larry Cretul, the Republican speaker of the state house, will apparently now be humming the Beatles’ “Come Together” all day. He found it on the Internet radio app Pandora. “It’s a Beatles song and it’s called ‘Come Together.’ If you hear me humming it from the podium…
Lt. Gov. Steve Kottkamp has made such a joke out of his job that some people are seriously wondering if we really need a lieutenant governor. Even though he “works” in Tallahassee, he lives in Fort Myers — and billed taxpayers for his transportation between the two places. He ended…
The Republican Party is doing such a good job painting itself as a party slowly collapsing in on itself that Democrats really don’t have to do anything but highlight that fact once in a while. The Republicans are clearly not here to make friends like so many reality show contestants before them,…
So, former Speaker of the House Marco Rubio has decided to officially enter the Senate race, whether or not Charlie Crist runs. He announced his candidacy on YouTube (how charmingly 2005), and if it wasn’t already clear, he’s painting himself as the conservative underdog. He talks about how “famous”…
Here’s a prediction by national Republican political operative Roger Stone via PoHo via the St. Pete Times’ Adam Smith’s Twitter: Roger Stone predicts; Mel Martinez resigns soon; Crist appoints caretaker – Jim Smith – and announces his candidacy for Sen.A prediction by one guy posted on another guy’s Twitter picked up from…
Let’s have a big ol’ laugh at a congressman saying “naughty” words on the House floor. That’s what NBCMiami.com and the Sun-Sentinel did. Hahaha… ha. NBC even called it “worthy of late-night talk show television.”In Fort Lauderale Rep. Alcee Hastings’ comments, he listed a number of words such as “asphyxiphilia,” “zoophilia,” and “toucherism.”…
David Souter was appointed to the Supreme Court by President George Bush Sr in 1990. NOW and the NAACP protested this choice. Making these interest groups that are oft at odds with the Republican party come together was just about the only good thing Souter did for Conservatives. Then a…
Yesterday, the state Senate unanimously voted to make bestiality an official crime in Florida. So, off to the house the bill went, where the Buzz is reporting that it might not make its way out of committee. It’s not that, publicly anyway, anyone opposes making bestiality a crime. It’s just…
Riptide doesn’t take to kindly to someone piggy backing on an important issue by issuing a press release to pimp your wares. In this case the wares in question are the political skills of Republican senate candidate Dr. Marion Thorpe. Thorpe is a real MD and previously served as the…
I kind of hate when I touch on some point in a throw away joke in a blog entry, and then a little bit later someone with the gift of time, experience and editors makes the same point in a really intriguing, well thought out way. Yesterday, while commenting on…
After a string of embarrassing setbacks in his life, Jeb “Elwood” Bush reconnected with his old friend John “Jack” McCain and is set to undertake “a mission from God” to save their childhood home, the GOP, from foreclosure by getting the old band back together. Never mind that Jeb and…
The Democrats are ready to paint Charlie Crist as a political escape artist, even before he officially announces whether he will run for Senate. This ad will begin running in the state capital tomorrow. “The DSCC obviously knows they’re in trouble in Florida, because this reeks of desperation. Too bad…
The state has important issues to deal with. Yet the legislature is spending lots of time grappling with the pressing problem of license plate aesthetics and appropriateness. Jesus plate-gate will apparently soon come to an end, though. Sen. Gary Siplin (D-Orlando) has basically said the plate featuring Christ on a…
Woah, Washington DC! Big news! Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is switching parties to the Democrats. Once Minnesota gets it together, and they seat Al Franken the Democrats will have their 60 seat super majority, and the Republican party will officially be irrelevant on the national stage. Well, as irrelevant…
