We’ve been criticizing ol’ Jebby Bush for positioning his possible run for Senate as an end to the problems of the GOP, and not the end to the problems of America and Florida. Well, along comes Broward Congressman Kendrick Meek, who told the AP that indeed he is considering running…
We imagine running the GOP looks exactly like this anyway: wearing a wizard’s hat while leading a bunch of racially insensitive white people with children’s brains. The Republican Party has become more or less a parody of itself. Chip Saltsman is running to chair that sinking ship, and as part…
The years coinciding with George W. Bush’s Presidency were sort of like a 1-15 season for America. We got our asses handed to us repeatedly by teams like the Wall Street Crashers, the Saudi Oilers, the Heartland Morality Police, the Gulf Coast Hurricanes, the Main Street Mortgage Meltdowns, the Detroit…
This full rotation around the sun that we have designated as 2008 was a very busy political year. And while we may be soon saying so long to our dear President George W. Bush, thus ending a golden age of dumb political quotes, there are plenty of other blow hards…
The holiday break brought us so many cheerful tidings: The Dolphins are heading the playoffs, gas prices are at a four year low, we get an iPhone, and the new Animal Collective leaked. So of course there has to be some sort of proverbial coal in the stocking: Jeb Bush…
Oh for the love of a secular female iteration of an Earth power God, it is Christmas Eve. Can we please keep the partisan bickering to arguing with your Republican uncle after copious amounts of egg nog? No, sir. The conservative blogosphere is nonstop. While this particular strained metaphor doesn’t match the stupidity of yesterday’s…
Florida Dems, let us share a bit of well-known advice that helped your national party unseat a seemingly unbeatable Republican incumbent back in ’92: It’s the economy, stupid. After re-electing party chairwoman Karen Thurman this weekend, the state Democrats vowed to continue their crusade against “Empty Chair Charlie.” “We know that we hit a nerve…
Sorry, Annette Taddeo, you’re not going to Washington either, apparently. This afternoon Obama tapped venture capitalist Karen Mills as head of the Small Business Administration. There was some buzz earlier in the week that Taddeo, who ran for Congress against Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, might get the nod because she’s also the…
Here is Calle Ocho’s favorite protest group Code Pink throwing shoes at a guy in a Bush mask outside of the White House, because these very mature actions will end the Iraq War tomorrow. The Washington Post has decided to be a very wry version of The Daily Show, and…
America, meet your new Transportation Secretary (reportedly)! It is Republican Congressman Ray LaHood. Miraculously LaHood did not serve in the Clinton Administration or run against Obama in the primaries like every other member of the Cabinet, but he is a white guy and from Illinois (oops, he’s of Lebanese decent…
Congratulations to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who moved her Washington, D.C. offices this weekend, and as is her custom, she sent out a release about it, with lots and lots of exclamation marks!Starting today Monday, December 15, 2008, this will be our new home away from home. If you have recently sent…
President-elect Obama’s choice of Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Department of the Interior was met with praise by those hoping to see another Latino in the cabinet, but is being met with concern by some environmentalists. “The Department of the Interior desperately needs a strong, forward-looking, reform-minded secretary…
Sorry, Gerardo Puisseaux, but the Fuaxbama market continues to get more crowded. Famed drag queen RuPaul is the latest entrant, with an economical two-for-one Obama impersonation, tackling both Michelle and Barack and eerily nailing both. This pic is from Ru’s Christmas card, which doubles as an ad for an upcoming reality…
So the brain trust up in Tallahassee has found itself with a $2 billion hole in the budget (yeah, yeah, financial crisis; more like yeah, yeah overzealous tax cuts), and one of the areas they’re looking to make cuts in is Medicaid, which provides healthcare to the state’s poorest citizens,…
So on November 4, 281,899 Miami-Dade voters wanted Gwen Margolis as property appraiser, but that didn’t count because it was less than 50 percent of the 670,395 total ballots cast. So we had to have a runoff election, and only 96,870 voters showed up. Of those, only 39,669 voted for…
Not only did Barack Obama pass over Manny Diaz as secretary of HUD, but also he is widely expected to name Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion as head of his newly created Office of Urban Policy, another position Diaz was considered in the running for. But with the nasty habit…
The St. Pete Times’ Lucy Morgan was the only reporter invited to Charlie Crist’s fairy-tale wedding, and here she is on Sayfie Reveiw’s Power Play Internet teevee show talking about the ceremony. We get exciting new details such as the fact that Charlie did not end up with creamy white frosting on…
The folks at Fla Politics, the site that proudly boasts it’s the only Florida blog on the Daily Kos blogroll, have come up with their dream Democratic candidates they’d like to see comically lose run for statewide office in 2010. We think if the state Democrats pull it together, they…
After weeks of throwing a cabinet seat at any former Clinton administration official with a heartbeat, Prez-to-be Obama today finally got around to appointing a Hispanic to his top circle of advisers.Riptide knows a lot of you have been lying awake at night, feverishly imagining the nightmare scenario that Miami might lose…
Tomorrow is the day we have been waiting for all year: the runoff election for the county property appraiser! Seriously, though, the Electoral College has made Obama’s victory official, and we still have not picked our property appraiser. See, this past November, Gwen Margolis got 72,000 votes more than the…
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from listening to social conservative talking points over the past few years, it’s that sexual orientation is just a matter of choice. So let’s all celebrate our governor’s choice to be straight with his official commitment to Carole Rome. Tragically, Bruce Jordan did not…
Barack Obama continued his pattern of naming just about everyone from the Clinton administration to his cabinet, while simultaneously leaving Latinos out in the cold by picking Shaun Donovan as his secretary of housing and urban development. But hey, that was our Mayor Manny Diaz’s fantasy position! Obama, you tease,…
