As Barack Obama momentarily studied his massive audience before launching into his poetic and bold inaugural speech, an unrestrainable middle-age man next to Riptide on the Capitol lawn seating area yelled out, “This is the moment!”That summed it up pretty well. This weekend in D.C. has been a raucous runup…
Connie Mack IV represents Florida’s 14th congressional district in Southwest Florida. He recently celebrated his first year of wedded bliss to California congresswoman Mary Bono (Sonny’s non-Cher wife), but the two don’t really split their time between Florida and California, instead raising their family primarily from their house in northern…
When Bush first took office way back in 2001, the Dow Jones was at 10,587.59 (Clinton, by the by, took office with the Dow at 3,241.95). Today at noon, during the final moment of Dubya’s presidency, the Dow was at 8,128.14, marking the first time since Carter that a president…
Our very own Gus Garcia-Roberts is in Washington, D.C., and once he escapes the tens of thousands of Obamaniacs in the Mall, he’ll be filing something from the very epicenter of the most historic thing ever to happen. Meanwhile, here’s the take from inside a conference room at the Picasso…
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We know today isn’t a national holiday, but it sure feels like one. So just in case you are stuck at work, rather than freezing your ass off in Washington D.C., Hulu is streaming the presidential inauguration live. So sit back, relax and press play. Just make sure to turn…
For weeks now, I’ve been toying with the idea of posting all of the achievements of George W. Bush on his last full day in office. Of course this was going to be satirical in nature. Noting things like how we haven’t had a terrorist attack on our soil since…
“Let us realize that history has thrust upon us an indescribably important destiny –to complete a process of democratization which our nation has developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect.” This might have come from Barack Obama’s Tuesday inaugural address. It didn’t. America’s second…
Alex Sink’s decision not to enter the Senate fray was big news, but not all that shocking. We wrote yesterday it seemed she was much more keen on staying in Tallahassee, possibly running for governor in either 2010 or 2014. What is shocking is that now both sides of the field…
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…
