Bud Chiles Is A Selfish Bastard...

That is going to turn purple Florida into a right-wing paradise...

With Scott as the GOP nominee – and his nearly $30 million ad blitz has vaulted him into the lead in the Republican primary – he gets 29 percent, Sink 27 percent and independent Bud Chiles 14 percent.

With McCollum as the Republican nominee, McCollum gets 27 percent, Sink 26 percent and Chiles 14 percent. Scott leads McCollum by 11 percent in the GOP primary

Rick Scott is a bona-fide criminal, and is (of course) backed by the extreme right-wing teabaggers. With a right-wing corrupt teabagger at the helm, there will be NOTHING to stop our gerrymandered, far right legislature from making purple Florida into a wingnut paradise.

Arizona's anti-brown people law (which has ruined their economy) will be brought here, as will coastal drilling, as will the forced rape bill that was narrowly defeated, as will the anti-teacher law.

Because Bud Chiles, who is only running on his father's name and has 0% chance of winning, is siphoning off votes from Alex Sink. This allows Rick Scott, who has TONS of money from DEFRAUDING Medicare patients, to spring over the top and wreck our state.

If he truly cared about Florida and its citizens, he would back out and save us from the certain devastation that a Glenn Beck run government would bring us. But that would be putting people and principles ahead of ego...and that is something bad politicians don't know how to do. That is why I know Sarah Palin, who should know she has no business running a fruit stand much less a government, is going to run in 2012. Because some people want to BE something, not DO something.

Bud sees the numbers. Bud knows, and doesn't care. He is a failed politician who desperately wants to BE somebody, but will only be a GOP stooge that will bring the failed policies of the past to our vulnerable state along with a radical right-wing social agenda.

The only thing that can help us is an informed voter. Here in Florida.

GOD help us all.

GOP Steps On Unemployed to Fight for Super-Rich

Deficit hawks?

The spend-crazy GOP that spent like drunken sailors under Bush for bridges to nowhere and tax cuts for the wealthy decided to make a stand... they will FIGHT tooth and nail to prevent the unemployed (or "funemployed", as teabaggers call them) from getting payments.

Costs too much, really. And these people don't really want to work, as some GOP Congressmen argued that it would be a "disincentive" to find work. (The fact that these people have been unemployed for over 12 months and in dire straits never enters their radar screen).

No, a few million added to the deficit so families with kids can feed their children and keep their homes is crazy. Even though, I might add, it is money that comes right back into our economy since they need to spend it all just to survive.

No, we have to fight that because the GOP ARE DEFICIT HAWKS now.

Except...when it comes to the super-rich.

That's right. The GOP is ready to fight to permanently keep in place tax cuts for the richest of the rich. These cuts for the super-rich add HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to our national debt. Hundreds of billions that do not go back to our economy (there aren't that many billionaires, and there is only so much discretionary spending a multi-billionare can do for Gods' sakes). Hundreds of billions that go to the people who need it least, and are not asking for it. Hundreds of billions that kill jobs, not create them.

Obama is asking that we keeps the tax cuts for those who make less than $250,000 a year, but let the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich expire. That means Bill Gates' 50 billion will have to pay 39% as opposed to 35%. I think he'll be okay. They all will.

Where is your soul, GOP? How can you fight against the unemployed middle-class who are struggling in one breath and fight for the richest of the rich, in the words of Republican Mike Pence, "with everything we've got?"

For all your Bible-thumping, I guess you really don't believe in an afterlife, do you?

Jobs? Economy? NO! GOP Candidates Only Focus on AZ Immigration Law

From the Miami Herald:

More than 1 million people in Florida are out of work. The oil spill is wreaking environmental and economic havoc. The state is one hurricane away from catastrophe.

But anyone listening to Republican gubernatorial candidates Rick Scott and Bill McCollum would think that one of the most pressing concerns in this non-border state is illegal immigrants scaling palm trees and jumping over hibiscus bushes.

The article gives the numbers and shows how illegal immigration has dropped by hundreds of thousands here in Florida. This is not as a result of any fence or strong immigration policy, but mostly because there is little point in sneaking over here since we have no jobs. This is a factor you might think would give McCollum and Scott more to talk about: Neither one has a plan for the economy, how will stop our 6 billion deficit, or ideas for job creation.

Arizona's law is misguided, but at the very least they can point to problems of Mexican cartels smuggling drugs into the US--which, by the way, is not a primary issue here in Florida since they tend to use the border states. Florida doesn't even have a large Mexican population. Primarily, Florida's hispanics are overwhelmingly Cuban, who become legal if they make it here, and Puerto Ricans-who happen to be US citizens. Even Haitians have an easy time applying for temporary legal status given the earthquake. In fact, the majority of immigrants here are South Americans who have overstayed their visas.

Can we can the "scary brown people" meme and focus on the real issues affecting Florida?

Presidential Scholars Rank Obama 15th Greatest Prez!

From Politico:

A new poll of leading presidential scholars ranks Barack Obama as the 15th best president of the United States, just below Bill Clinton but ahead of Ronald Reagan.


The Siena College poll, which surveyed 238 presidential scholars at U.S. colleges and universities, asked scholars to rate the nation’s 43 chief executives on 20 attributes ranging from legislative accomplishments to integrity and imagination.

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Ahead of Reagan... which will really explode a teabagger's head. Given that Obama has gotten things done with unified GOP opposition on everything, I'd say that's pretty amazing.

P.S.: No surprise... W. is ranked as one of the worst.

Drill BABY Drill!!!

Notice the GOP doesn't have their minions chanting this anymore...

Brutally Honest Ad: Clint Webb for Senate

Why can't all politicians be this honest...

Iconic Ironic Photo Taken at BP Gas Station

Certain policians, like GOP Minority Leader John Boehner, are suggesting that taxpayers help foot the bill for the oil spill. Sure. Gulf residents struggling to pay their bills after this disaster should certainly pull their weight instead of picking on the giant, multi-billion dollar foreign oil company that actually caused the damage.

Teabagger logic: YOU are responsible for spills.

Nice sentiment....

Teabaggers Rush in to Defend BP

I was reading through the comments in my last post and couldn't resist. A teabagger agrees that the big bad Obama is shaking down poor helpless BP by getting them to pay for their mess. Teabaggers are quite content letting the poor saps on the Gulf fight for decades in Court like the Exxon Valdez victims. What really got me going was his claim about restitution funds being unConstitutional (despite it being done in previous administrations, including the last one). I would like to address this joker myself.

Mr. Teabagger...Nobody but NOBODY thinks your klan are defenders of the Constitution except other teabaggers. If you were really "defenders", there would have been a peep out of you when the Bush administration spied on literally millions of people without warrants.

From 2006:

The Bush administration doesn't deny it has been spying on Americans - they brag about it. They're listening to our phone calls, reading our emails, and looking at our bank transactions. They're gathering databases about our medical records, what we charge on our credit cards, and where we travel.

When Democrats point out that this is illegal without a court order, Rove simply floods the airwaves with Republicans who say, "We're doing it to protect you!"

I got into an argument in late 2006 with local radio gadfly Bud Hedinger, a Beck wannabe wingnut who now fancies himself a teabagger, who told me that I shouldn't care if someone listens in on my phonecall "to Aunt Tilly". The teabaggers haven't actually read the Constitution, so let me tell them: Due Process, Free Speech, and Protections from Unlawful Search and Seizure are all in there.

Now these some people, who thought these actual violations were all okay under Bush, are outraged over Obama...a Constiutional law scholar who actually respects the document. But hey, Bush was a GOPer, not a scary, competent Black Man.


By the way, if you teabaggers were really sincere, you would be fighting for Wall Street reform.

Wall Street is the only place in America where SOCIALISM exists. When they make bad decisions, they got a massive bailout from Bush paid for by working class stiffs.

If you recall, the Tea Parties were originally formed to protest the bailouts.

So, no doubt you will take this opportunity of course to launch your own protest of the socialist TARP money, the easy credit, the lack of regulation, the wild risk taking and the excessive bonuses paid with taxpayer money?

Righhht... You aren't going to do anything.

Honestly, I feel sorry for you. You are a dupe. You think you are fiercely independent when in fact you are part of the most easily manipulated movement in history. All that anger toward the power establishment and what happened? YOU WERE USED by that same establishment to fight against health care reform and to try to protect the health insurance companies.

Sucker.

Now, when it's time to fight the financial companies, where are the teabaggers??

Nowhere to be found. Why? Because FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity didn't organize any bus rides to Wall Street. They didn't manufacture the outrage they did in protecting the health care companies. They used the Tea Party protestors for their own purposes and then left them on the side of the road, only to be picked up again when they are needed in November.


You are never, ever going to protest Wall Street because you guys are ignorant dupes being led by the nose by your corporate overlords.

And now you are fighting tooth and nail for BP because Rush and other of your handlers told you to.

Your handlers protect, deregulate, and allow corporations to move jobs out of the country and avoid taxes. It’s not surprising to see teabaggers following orders and rushing in to defend BP and absolve them of all liability. It is difficult to sit and watch oil pollute beaches and cook animals alive while ‘sorry’ Republicans defend BP, but Boehner and your hero, Joe Barton, have received millions from Big Oil, so you do as your told.

Wake up. Your whole movement is a sad joke being played on its own members.

Yes They Did! GOP APOLOGIZES...TO BP!

Because if you think about it, they really are the victim in all of this...

GOP Pushing Criminal to be Florida's Next Governor!

How corrupt and dumb is the GOP in Florida? Well, the head of the Florida GOP was just arrested, but not seeing the irony in that, this happened:

McCollum and Scott Deadlocked for GOP Nomination

An internal poll in Florida for Bill McCollum (R) shows him in a dead heat with Rick Scott (R) for the Republican gubernatorial nomination...

A Quinnipiac poll released last week found Scott leading by 13 points.

Woah...
Rick Scott is a criminal. Yes, a freaking, bona-fide criminal. Racheal Maddow did a segment on him. He was forced to resign as the head of a company that pled guilty to MASSIVE amounts of systematic fraud, including 14 felonies, leading to a historic $1.7 billion fine--the largest government fraud settlement in US history!

He barely escaped imprisonmnet.

The kicker... he is running as a "reformer"!

Seriously, how screwed up does your party have to be to look at a known criminal and say "THAT's OUR GUY"?

I guess as screwed up as a party who thinks someone voted the worst legislator every year would make a good Senator, along with somoene who was voted one of the worst CEOs of ALL TIME.


Rick Scott made millions with a company that defrauded the government and the American people for profit.

He should be a national embarrassment. But here in Florida, he is a contender.

The money he stole he spent running ads against Health Care Reform as a precurser to a run for Guber. He is now spending millions on ads blanketing the airwaves on his campaign.

Yet this REAL criminal is running on a platform to go after MADE UP criminals... his almost sole issue is to copy Arizona's wacky immigration law. If you live here, you know that Florida has a ton of problems right now... the largest deficit in our state's history, insurance companies leaving, a foreclosure crisis only behind Cali's and Michigan's, schools bleeding money and teachers, our tourist-based economy faltering, and so on.

One problem that we REALLY don't have is immigration. Cubans are legal if they reach the shore, and the GOP doesn't mind because many for some reason vote for them. The brown people they love to hate are Mexicans. Yes, there are illegal Mexicans here...but most are brought in by companies to work the fields for cheap labor. They aren't the problem.

Scott is running a campaign almost completely focused on this non-existant threat. Besides being immoral, it's stupid. Florida's economy is largely based on tourism. Arizona lost over 90 million so far in tourism AND THEY HAVEN'T EVEN IMPLEMENTED THE LAW YET!!

WTF does he think is going to happen if WE enact that law?

Brilliant.

More wingnuttery, like McCollum, Scott has no plan on what to do for the four million Floridians with no insurance if healthcare reform is somehow repealed. It's just not important.

Speaking of "government intruding on healthcare": what is most frightening is how Scott jumped on Crist for vetoing the right-wing legislature's bill that would REQUIRE a woman to get an unnecessary and extremely intrusive vaginal ultrasound---then get a LECTURE on abortion--and THEN PAY FOR IT.

Do you what it's called when a woman is forced to be penetrated against her will? Rape. I don't use that word lightly. But that is EXACTLY what the hell it is. If she wants a legal procedure, she has to consent to being violated, humiliated, lectured, and then pay for it all. Sick. Sick Sick.

Florida has more Dems than GOPers, but because of Gerrymandering, the right-wing is firmly entrenched. Do NOT look to the FL legislature to stop this nut...they are more extreme than he is.

If this teabagger is elected, he will HAVE NO TROUBLE enacting the following:

- Arizona's Breathing While Brown law

- Allow drilling on our coasts (and probably Mica's idea for drilling the Everglades)

- Forced Rape to Prevent Abortion bill

- The Anti-teacher law that punishes teachers working with difficult children (Crist vetoed even before he switched)

I don't know what's worse, his teabagging right-wing extremism or the fact that he is an unrepentant criminal with no morals.

I do know that if elected, he will do real damage to my state.

PS--Support AMENDMENTS 5 AND 6 this November for Fair Districts. Out of the past 400 legislative races, only THREE incumbents have lost. That is the result of the worst gerrymandering in the US. That is why we have extremist, right-wing legislators who can't be gotten rid of--they pick the voters instead of the voters picking them.

That is why Scott can't be our next governor. Florida would be a teabagging paradise.

(BY the way, millions signed the petition for 5 and 6. So our underhanded legislature put AMENDMENT 7 on the ballot to "clarify" Amendments 5 and 6 and nullify them---so OPPOSE AMENDMENT 7!!)

Governor Crist VETOES Forced Rape Bill

Finally, some sense from this guy.

As I already explained in an earlier post, and in seeing the responses from those who have had it, it is rape. Pure and simple. The bill would have FORCED a woman to be violated with an object, against her will, in order to get a legal medical procedure. It is not just harrassment, it was rape to intimidate. Period.

On top of that, the woman would have been subjected to a demeaning lecture, and, to top it off, she would be forced to PAY for it! How governmentally intrusive can you POSSIBLY be!!

Now that Crist vetoed this insanity, he may be eligible for my vote. I still support Kendrick Meek hands down, but if his poll numbers do not improve, I will pull the lever for Crist. No more wingnuts.........

PS..STRONGLY support Alex Sink for governor! If McCollum or Medicare fraudster Scott become our governor next November, this horrible bill will rear its ugly head again.

GOP Leader Boehner Demands Apology for Slur

When I read the headline about Minority Leader John Boehner being angry about a slur, I had assumed it was the utterly offensive sentiment expressed from a GOP official who called OUR president and a GOP Gubernatorial contender "RAGHEADS".

But no, what got Boehner even more orange than usual was a joke from a freakin' Beattle.

And he wants an apology...NOW!

House Minority Leader John Boehner is demanding an apology from music legend Paul McCartney after the Beatle took a slap at President Bush during a recent White House ceremony....

Upon receiving the award, McCartney deadpanned, "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is."

Boehner said that showed a "lack of grace and respect".

No doubt, the lies and toxicity that Rush, Palin, and Beck spew on Obama can't be considered "a lack of grace and respect".

In the meantime, this "honorable" GOP offical decided to express his grace and respect:

Republican state senator Jake Knotts went on a local politics chatshow on Thursday night and called Haley a "raghead", and at least once "a f#!king raghead," according to one local newspaper report.

"We got a raghead in Washington; we don't need one in South Carolina," Knotts said more than once.

So where is the call for his apology, John?

CALL CRIST NOW! Tell him to VETO Abortion Bill!!!!

FL Gov. Crist is being inundated with calls by the Forced Birth crowd to endorse HB 1143---the bill that FORCES woman to get an unnecessary medical procedure that also happens to be one of the most INTRUSIVE: a vaginal ultrasound.

It is not for any medical reason, but pure HARRASSMENT. They want to violate and harrass women who want to exercise their right to terminate a pregnancy.

These are the same teabagging SOBs who were screaming about government intrusion of health care. There is nothing more intrusive than a forced violation for the sole reason of ideology!!

Palm Beach Post editorial:

By passing HB 1143, the same legislators who claim to oppose government forcing its will upon the citizens and government interfering in the doctor-patient relationship have approved legislation to do just that. During what passed for debate on the ultrasound amendment, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, tried to dismiss any comparison by saying that abortion is "elective." Tell that to a woman whose life or health is threatened by a pregnancy.

HB 1143 is about politics, not health care. If there's no good policy reason for Gov. Crist to sign HB 1143, there's also no good political reason. Voters who most support HB 1143 favored Marco Rubio long before Gov. Crist quit the GOP. Having failed to get the endorsement of the AFL-CIO and having received only a partial endorsement from the Florida Teachers Association in his pitch for Democratic support, there's only upside for the governor in a veto. Indeed, he might also get support from Republicans who worry that their party is placing ideology so far above policy.

NOW here is the scoop! The bill is being delayed until the LAST POSSIBLE SECOND to allow the Forced Birth forces to inundate the gov. with calls demanding he SIGN THE BILL.

AND they are winnning! Over 20000 calls tonight for compared with a little over 12000 against.

The GOP legislature will be sending the bill ANY MOMENT tonight, 5/28/10!!

Charlie is weak and always goes the way the wind blows...so if he thinks the majority of Floridians want this, he will sign it.

SO CALL HIM OR EMAIL HIM NOW!!!!!! Tell him this is wrong wrong WRONG!!

Take a minute and do it now! Thank you!

GOV Switchboard: (850) 488-4441

EMAIL: Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com


UPDATED: several of the women who have had this procedure tell how painful and frightening it is...and call this RAPE, pure and simple, because it FORCES a woman to undergo the following, from a comment from prgsvmama26:

its a vaginal probe that looks like a straight dildo and is covered with a condom. Trust me, I had one. It is invasive when you have consented to it. I only had one with my first pregnancy and refused them for every other one.

From Annie R:

I had it done too, with my permission and still cringe to this day. And it was definitely vaginal. It felt like an assault. I cried during and after. I just wrote Crist and explained it from start to finish, trying to appeal to his "humanity."

OHH..and if I didn't mention it already, after the woman is raped...she is lectured and then forced to PAY FOR IT!!!

McCollum wants to turn Florida into Arizona

AZ Anti-Mexican Law:

$90 million lost in tourism in AZ already...

Not one illegal stopped...

In addition to the "Breathing while Mexican" law, they banned all ethnic studies in the schools, and are on their way to passing a law banning teachers with accents.

THIS is what you get when teabaggers run a state.

McCollum was against the idea of bringing AZ wingnuttery here, as was Rubio, until Teabag candidate Rick Scott said he was for it. Now McCollum and Rubio want a carbon copy of the awful AZ immigration law here in Florida.

If Sink and Rubio's opponents don't know how to win with this, they deserve to lose.

This state has a large hispanic population that doesn't take kindly to cops demanding their papers. The campaign ad for this writes itself.

It is bad economically, morally, and doesn't do a damn thing to stop illegal immigration. It is a colossal fail in every way.

But it is the type of law that will pass if we elect a right-wing governor, because we already have a right-wing state legislature thanks to colossal gerrymandering.

If McCollum's Rent-a-Boy scandal wasn't enough to vote for the alternative, hopefully this will.

Glenn Beck Hates Nazis...Except When He Doesn't

Hillarious...

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Why Congressman John Mica Still Says Drill Baby Drill

Even though the pristine waters off the Gulf Coast are becoming black sludge, John is fighting for offshore drilling off our coastline.

Oil is thicker than water, but Blood is thicker than both.

His brother is an oil lobbyist.

His overly-influential daughter represents the Consumers Alliance for Affordable Natural Gas and the Citizens Alliance for Energy Security in support of increased access to offshore oil & natural gas.

His son works for a questionable trade association that lobbies energy regulatory issues.

But what’s thicker than Blood? Money.

John Mica has accepted over $60,000.00 in Oil Money


Not that they needed to pay soo much. Mica in 2005: "I voted to drill in the Everglades in the 1970s…and I'd do it again."

Heather Beaven is up against Mica. She has a formidable battle because of gerrymandering (something else we can fix this upcoming election), but she can win with you help.

GOP Allows Terrorists to Buy Explosives and AK-47s

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police commissioner went to Washington personally to plead for a bill that keeps people on the FBI terrorist watch list from buying guns and explosives. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, said that goes “too far”. Republican Senator Susan Collins also disagreed with the bill.

If there are people on the watch list in error, there is an appeal process. No law-abiding citizen would be denied their right to bear arms. But a future terror attack may be prevented.

In the meantime 1,119 on the watch list have purchased weapons, and one of them bought 50 pounds of military grade explosives. I only hope that guy doesn’t have a grudge against Orlando.

Arizona Anti-Mexican Law Written By White Supremacist!

The person who sponsored the law, Republican Russell Pierce, is a white supremacist—he sent out an email to his supporters attacking equality in races, and denying the holocaust and degrading Mexican - Americans.

He is also a supporter of neo-nazis!

The person who wrote the law is Kris Kobach, part of a white supremacist group known as FAIR.

Article 8 in the Anti-Mexican law is a statement that courts will grant FAIR a cut of the money won in cases for this new law.

Don't tell me this isn't about race...and don't try to bring this crap to Florida!

New Ad on Wall St. Reform..EVERY GOPer Voted NO!

Excellent Question! Where ARE the teabagger protests for Wall Street Reform?

Excellent Question that was asked today.

Soo where are the signs of GOP leader Mitch McConnell with a Hitler mustache trying to thwart an END to taxpayer bailouts??

Where are the signs demanding the GOP fights to end the OUTRAGEOUS multi-million dollar bonuses to incompetent and corrupt executives using TAXPAYER monies???

Nowhere. Because the teabaggers are nothing but usable shills who have no corporate backing, and no free bus rides to help fight save the profits of a big industry. They will fall by the wayside and sit on their hands while BIG GOVERNMENT continues to give taxpayer subsidies to these failures. If there is any example of socialism in this country, it's Wall Street!

If they succeed, they keep their monies. If they fail, WE bail them out snd subsidize their lifestyle that they have grown acccustomed to. That, my friends, is the worst kind of socialism. (Whereas if we fail, it's capitalism so don't ask for a handout buddy!!)

Where are all you costumed freaks with your misspelled agitated signs??

thought so...