As soft-spoken former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is in South Florida today to court GOP voters for his 2012 presidential run, he got some Twitter love this morning from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.”I admire truth telling and t-paw sure did it to open his campaign,” Bush Tweets, including a…
The K.C. Wright Building in downtown Fort Lauderdale will play home to a lot of angry teachers tonight.Broward Teachers Union communications director John Ristow tells New Times that tonight’s protest — geared toward teacher layoffs and alleged budget mismanagement by the Broward School Board — could be one of the…
Marco Rubio loves foreign policy! I can’t think of a single frosh senator who’s so jubilantly committed to speaking out about, and screwing around with, the international community. First he came down like a gazillion-pound freedom hammer on the Ba’athist cretin Bashar al-Assad (which did little good, but oh well);…
We’re not sure who asked Gov. Rick Scott today if he plans on running for president in the 2012 election, but he made it fairly clear he’s not.Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush also says he’s not running for the commander-in-chief spot — which may or may not be true.Despite Bush…
Allen West’s opposition to Barack Obama’s “draft executive order” continued in his Weekly Wrapup, in which he wrote this:However, an issue surfaced which could undermine the very fabric of who we are in this constitutional republic.This week a “draft” Executive Order was leaked that would force any entity competing for…
Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin’s reign at the top of the county’s judiciary has been filled with conflicts, from barbs he traded with the court clerk to fighting the public’s distaste for a new courthouse. Now he’s leaving, and the firm he picked as his next successor likely won’t make…
If you’re like most people and you don’t watch a lot of local TV news, then you probably missed Carmel Cafiero’s fine report on Channel 7 last week about a corruption investigation into BSO’s fire rescue division. And it’s a shame that most of us didn’t watch this report, because…
It’s not often that the Pulp mentions Broward politics with a reference to an ethical decision. It’s even rarer when mentioning the county mayor’s office, which has seemed like a magnet for corruption the past couple of terms. Add Sue Gunzburger’s name to that mix and, yeah, we’re talking a…
What is it with with our Republican froshes? Can’t they agree with the White House on anything?Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio made an ass of himself by using his weekly newsletter to oppose Barack Obama’s “draft executive order” — an order demanding that agencies bidding on government contracts disclose their…
A brief update to this story, posted last night in anticipation of Mike Huckabee’s announcement re: his presidential candidacy:There will be no presidential candidacy. As Huck explains in the below video, he was practically a shoe-in for the presidency. All the objective evidence told him to run. He thought his…
Mike Huckabee’s gonna go on air in exactly 50 minutes and make an important announcement re: his presidential candidacy. The smart money says he’s not running, and until a few days ago, I hoped the smart money was wrong. No way should Huck be president, but he’s a fun campaigner…
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the DNC, has two big PR problems. The first is that she speaks almost exclusively in what sounds like focus-group-tested sound bites. The second is that she’s no good at it, either because she lacks a certain common touch or because her sound bites…
When Marco Rubio talks foreign policy, it’s hard not to get a little misty. The guy so obviously believes what he says and what he says are such good, noble, red-blooded and freedom-loving things that they could have been lifted from a fireside chat with Franklin D. Roosevelt.Which is a…
Our friends in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and California are now benefiting from the questionable fiscal decisions of Florida’s Tea Party governor. They’re receiving a large portion of the $2.4 billion in federal funds for a high-speed train that would have connected Tampa and Orlando. Rick Scott rejected the money…
One week ago, for a split second, almost everyone in the world was united in relief and happiness. Now, a Delta pilot has refused to fly his plane with two Muslim clerics aboard.Early Saturday, the plane was nearing the runway at Memphis International when the pilot objected to the imams’…
“We need to find out how this information was gathered,” said Marco Rubio to the Tampa Tribune, referring to the intelligence on Osama Bin Laden’s courier that led to last Sunday’s raid. “Again, this is not for the purposes of saying we were right and you were wrong. It’s for…
Although it seems like Gov. Rick Scott will make the bold and progressive move of banning bestiality, he still plans to screw voters. The election overhaul bill, which many see as backdoor disenfranchisement, cruised through the Legislature and now awaits the governor’s signature. Throughout the legislative session, Scott not only…
Allen West, writing to the chairwoman of the subcommittee on state, foreign operations, and related programs, CC’ing Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Hesarling, Rogers, Ros-Lehtinen, and McKeon:Dear Chairwoman:…It is not unreasonable for the American people to question. If Osama bin Laden was living on government-controlled land, next to a military academy, and…
So, our tireless lawmakers finally came to an agreement on the state’s budget yesterday. More than anything, it serves as a validation that Gov. Rick Scott is completely clueless. Sen. Mike Fasano actually called Scott clueless a few weeks ago, but he was talking about the governor’s plans to eliminate…
An editorial by the lovely Mary Sanchez of Kansas City appeared this week beneath the Tribune Co.’s various mastheads, including that of our own Sun-Sentinel. It was a well-intentioned editorial but a sloppy one, and the way in which it was sloppy was symptomatic of the general muzziness surrounding the…
Osama Bin Laden has been dead for less than 48 hours, and already the victory has gone to U.S. Rep. Allen West’s head. As a retired Army lieutenant colonel who built much of his hard-right political career on his military record, he made a very odd, liberal-sounding suggestion in this…
His most devout fans insist it’s sarcasm, but it’s not: Palm Beach’s loudest gazillionaire began his Monday radio broadcast with breathless, effusive, totally over-the-top, and completely sincere praise of President Obama. (See the video after the jump.)Said Limbaugh:Ladies and gentlemen, we need to open the program today by congratulating President…
