When Rep. Ron Klein isn’t twiddling his thumbs wondering if he should enter the Senate race, he’s already looking toward the likely redistricting ruckus set to take place after the 2010 census. “Mario Diaz-Balart has already told me he and Lincoln will be all over the state legislature to make…
With 22 months left before the election, there are still plenty of surprises left in this Senate race. The latest of which is that Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio told the Tampa Bay Tribune she’s considering running in the Democratic primary:”It was not something I was considering when there was a possibility…
About a year ago noted communist party tool The New York Times needed to fill one of the token conservative slots in it’s op-ed page and chose Wingnut Laureate Bill Kristol. Liberals were angered that the Times chose a conservative’s idea of what a conservative should be, instead of a…
Karl Rove used to have this gig scaring people into voting Republican and running whatever parts of the government Dick Cheney didn’t. Now he’s reduced to Twittering and arguing with college students.
One has to wonder what was going through Sen. Mel Martinez’s mind when President Bush’s helicopter took off from Washington this past Tuesday. Before Bush chose Martinez to be his first HUD secretary, he was a little-known Florida fixture who had run an unsuccessful lieutenant governor campaign with some wingnut from…
In his inaugural speech yesterday, Barack Obama declared that “we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals”- a statement Riptide felt spoke directly to the future of Guantanamo Bay, a place where due process and human rights laws have been kicked aside in the name of…
It’s not often that Republican reps Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts must be happy about announcements of new Democratic leadership, but the buzz today that congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be elected vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee must have them smiling. As co-chair of the Democratic Party’s Red to Blue congressional campaign…
Charlie Crist is still enjoying a quite enviable approval rating, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, with 65 percent of Floridians approving of his job performance. That’s about the percentage President Obama is getting in nationwide polls. Meanwhile, of all the names being thrown around for the 2010 Senate election, only…
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,…
