http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:04 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:04 [link:www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/pension-vote-puts-some-house-republicans-in-awkward-position/2121684|More thievery] from Florida's GOP-ruled legislature...


Tia Mitchell at the [i]Tampa Bay Times[/i] reports:


May 17, 2013


[div class="excerpt"]TALLAHASSEE — Florida Hous... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5422 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:09:10 [link:journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/4738|Gawd, I miss that guy.]

Speaking of Carl Hiaasen, [link:www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/11/3391542/scandal-of-the-hospital-billing.html|here's] his latest column.



Hat tip to Mark Twain, or whoever the brilliant observer was who noted this tr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5421 Wed, 15 May 2013 12:40:26 Gary Stein at the [i]South Florida Sun-Sentinel[/i] alerts us to [link:www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/todaysbuzz/sfl-would-you-like-to-see-allen-west-named-lieutenant-governor-20130514,0,44039.story|this], this morning:


May 15, 2013


[div class="excerpt"]Gov. Rick Scott can’t be serious.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5420 Wed, 15 May 2013 09:21:19 This, in the face of denying 1 million poor Floridians [link:www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-the-legislatures-51-billion-failure/2119144|$51 billion dollars] in fully federally funded Medicaid funds. Gleefully, the House GOP then patted themselves on the back, clinked glasses and clos... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5419 Tue, 14 May 2013 11:33:02 Florida's Republican government. Shot through with self-serving thieves since 1998.


[b][link:www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/senate-president-don-gaetzs-former-company-sued-for-medicaid-fraud/2120026|Lawsuit accuses Senate President Don Gaetz's former company of Medicaid fraud][/b]
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5418 Thu, 09 May 2013 22:50:36 It still just amazes me, [link:www.motherjones.com/politics/1992/09/bush-family-value|after all of these years], what [link:journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/234|a terrible a judge of character] Jeb "The Reformer" Bush is...


Maybe authorities ought to take a closer look at the 'consulta... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5417 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:01:34 Good Lord, deliver us.


[div class="excerpt"]“Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.” -----Jeb Bush, [link:www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/us/politics/conservatives-take-up-question-of-change-at-retreat.html?_r=0|at CPAC], March 1... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5416 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:45:52 (Hat tip to [link:bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com/|Bob Sikes] for the heads up to this riveting, excellent analysis)


From the [i]Missouri Education Watchdog[/i] blog:


[b][link:www.missourieducationwatchdog.com/2013/03/database-in-common-core-explained.html|Database in Common Core ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5415 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:08:26 [b][link:www.ocala.com/article/20130314/WIRE/130319805/1002/NEWS?Title=Gulf-spill-trial-Contractor-finds-cement-samples|Gulf spill trial: Contractor finds cement samples][/b]

[i]AP[/i]
March 14, 2013


[div class="excerpt"]NEW ORLEANS — BP's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon rig has ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5414 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:13:11 Just a cunning, peevish, cobra-tongued, self-serving, blood-sucking, self-entitled Bush. Just like the rest of them.


[b]Manufactured myths[/b], pounded into people's faces for years, of [i]'the smart one'[/i]; [i]'highly popular'[/i] ex-Governor of Florida; [i]'moderate'[/i] Republican, and th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5413 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:37:51 It is the perfect word for the garbage we heard from Jeb Bush today. Hats off to whomever introduced it.


On CBS' [i]Face the Nation[/i]:

[b][link:www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/10/jeb-bush-obama-won-reelection-by-dividing-the-country/|Jeb Bush: Obama won reelection by ‘divi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5412 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:58:35 Now he's on [link:www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/10/Jeb-Bush-Does-the-Full-Ginsburg|all the Sunday shows], lurching from one network to the next, ripping his critics and denying that he has 'baggage' that would torpedo his chances of taking the presidency.


http://media.npr.org/assets/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5411 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:08:28 ... is that with so [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2490377|frustratingly many] of his decisions, regardless that Obama is buoyed by massive public support for solving our problems in very logical and straightforward ways, he continues to surround hims... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5410 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:22:20 [link:www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/dean-baker/47506/paul-krugman-for-treasury-secretary|But, that would not please Wall Street].


Dean Baker writes astutely:


[div class="excerpt"].....

The major reason that Krugman is not on anyone's short list is that he has been right about most of the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5409 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:26:46 [b][link:www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/opinion/a-tepid-agreement-on-the-fiscal-cliff.html?hp|Happy. New. Year.][/b]


[i]NY Times[/i]

January 1, 2013



[div class="excerpt"]For the first time since President George W. Bush began the country’s long slide into debt by cutting taxes in 2001, an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5408 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:45:08 [b][link:thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/22/1373121/connecticut-school-officials-blast-nras-reaction-to-newtown/?mobile=nc|Connecticut School Officials Blast NRA’s Reaction To Newtown][/b], December 22, 2012


Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president. The face of soulless evil.



His... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5407 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:58:30 I KNEW this was going to happen.


[b][link:www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/outgoing-indiana-superintendent-tapped-as-floridas-new-education/1265783|Former Indiana superintendent is Florida's new education commissioner][/b], December 13, 2012


Just as surely as the partisan U. S. Supreme ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5406 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:30:22 Source: [b]Tampa Bay Times[/b]

It was just a matter of time. Charlie Crist is becoming a Democrat. ..... He did so during a Christmas reception at the White House, where President Barack Obama greeted the news with a fist bump for the man who had a higher profile campaigning for Obama's re-election... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5405 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:45:03 One of our iconic Florida writers, [link:www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/03/3079879_p2/florida-voters-wont-be-fooled.html|Carl Hiaasen], in the [i]Miami Herald[/i] on November 3, 2012, on the eleven deceptive constitutional amendments loading up the Florida ballot, put there by the GOP-controlled Legisl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5404 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:45:13 All of these lengthy and purposely deceiving amendments [link:journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5384|were crafted by the GOP-controlled Legislature] to confuse voters into voting against their best interests, and to further clog voting lines and hours spent in line to vote.


Then, [link... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5403 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:13:46 Mary Ellen Klas [link:www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/crist-slams-scotts-early-voting-decision-unconscionable|reports] at the [i]Tampa Bay Times[/i]:


November 4, 2012


[div class="excerpt"]Before former Gov. Charlie Crist rallied the crowd at President Barack Obama’... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5402 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:58:46 Only in Florida, LOL! "In-person [i]absentee[/i]" voting!!


OK, here are the details, and they are very important.


[b][link:www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/another-way-vote-early-and-avoid-pesky-lines|In-person absentee voting at county elections offices to be avai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5401 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:58:46 [b][link:www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/31/1153279/--I-ve-instituted-a-15-minute-rule
|Daily Kos][/b], October 31, 2012:

[div class="excerpt"]“We’re not going to tolerate red tape. We’re not going to tolerate bureaucracy, and I’ve instituted a 15-minute rule, essentially, on my staff. You return... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5400 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:22:24 [link:www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/28/mitt-romney-fema_n_2036198.html|Covering] for his pal Mitt again, who wants to 'get rid of FEMA'.


Justin Sink [link:thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/265083-jeb-bush-suggests-federal-government-not-crucial-to-storm-recovery|reports] at [i]The Hill... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5399 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:57:11 October 31, 2012:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6jgjY8CcAAs4GX.jpg
[link:twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/263707476787097601/photo/1|Link]

Flying around Florida today with Mitt Romney on the Halloween Horror Tour are Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Connie Mack.


This is what they're saying abo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/5398 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:15:04