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…
It is probably for the best that respected newspapers such as USA Today (at this point respected not because of journalistic integrity but because it’s not on the total brink of bankruptcy and collapse) don’t yet allow their journalists to inject snark into stories, but sometimes you can tell they want…
Tucked away in the RedState.com post we linked to earlier is this delicious little nugget: “Charlie Crist has been on a roll lately undermining conservatives. Behind the scenes, he is trying to drum up opposition to Jeb Bush’s Senate run, not because he doesn’t want another Bush, but because he wants…
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew from his commerce secretary appointment over the weekend owing to allegations that a company which donated to his presidential run was unfairly awarded a hefty state contract. Damn you, Rod Blagojevich, you’ve gone and made everyone extrasensitive about political taint. Richardson was Obama’s highest-profile Hispanic cabinet pick,…
If anyone had any doubts that Jeb Bush’s possible run for Senate would be more about personal ambition and trying to save the GOP, look no further than George Bush Sr., who went on Fox News this weekend and said he’d like to see President Jeb one day. “I’d like to see…
Last month we did some caffiene-fueled theorizing about Gov. Charlie Crist’s third Supreme Court appointment and wondered “Will Crist be able to satisfy both his seeming need for diversity and his record for pleasing the right wing in one candidate? … Or will Charlie have to settle for a minority…
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…
