Score one for the good guys: The Florida Supreme Court this morning unanimously rejected a lawsuit by state Sen. Thad Altman, R-Viera, who sought to make Gov. Rick Scott accept $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money for a high-speed rail route through Central Florida. [...]
Alternate Headline: Maryland Volunteers To Walk Away From Fiscal Sanity The Maryland General Assembly has scheduled a March 9 public hearing on a bill that would take a far more aggressive approach toward health reform in the state than passed at the federal level last year. The bill, SB388, would create a single-payer system to administer all health insurance coverage in Maryland. The public hearing | Read More »
(Via The Daily Caller) So much for the post-racial president: [H]e told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent “Tea Party” movement that was then surging across the country. [...]
What is the difference between Mike Haridopolos and his book? One is overrated and the other is over priced: Finally, a few years and $152,000 [in taxpayer money] in the making, Senate President Mike Haridopolos controversial book Florida Legislative History and Processes, is available in e-print. Brevard Community College has put the book online for sale at Amazon.com for $9.99.
The part you need to watch before reading this, starts at 2:30:
Let’s give the Huckabuck the double facepalm for these dumb comments: Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said on Monday that he would “love to know more” about where President Obama was born and claimed – falsely – that Mr. Obama was raised in Kenya.
The board crisis at St. Joe, has ended: Fairholme Capital Management founder Bruce Berkowitz’s bid to replace the board of directors of Florida landowner St. Joe Co. ended Monday with the ouster of the company’s CEO and three other directors.
It would seem that the Obama Administration is taking a page out of Bill Clinton’s playbook when he wanted to play existential semantics with tense. “It depends on what the meaning of the words ‘is’ is.” –Bill Clinton Now the Obama Administration is also playing existential semantics with U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson’s unconstitutional ruling on ObamaCare:
You heard right, Iraq. While everyone has their collected eyes on Libya, the powder keg in Iraq is ready to go off: One day after thousands of Iraqis took to the streets in a “day of rage” to protest food and water shortages, protesters gathered in the northern regions of the country to call attention to poor basic services. Around 2,000 protesters gathered in Sulaymaniyah | Read More »
I knew there was a reason I liked Representative Dennis Ross (R-FL-12): Before I was honored by you, my fellow citizens, to serve in Congress, I spent the past 20 years owning and operating a small law firm in Lakeland. I met a payroll, provided health insurance and knew that every dollar of waste was a dollar too much.
Hernando County REC Chairman has gone wild, with Government Gone Wild! In the following video, he tells us how reckless government forcasts is just one reason why we are in the mess we are in:
(Via Ace Of Spades) If you have ever watch South Park, you pretty much hate everything Cartman is about… Except for his hatred of Hippies. On that subject, we see eye-to-eye with Cartman. Hippies are pests and they trash everything they touch. Never is this more apparent than the protests at Madison, Wisconsin, where some hippies have desecrated a Vietnam War Memorial:
I was all content to move on. I wanted to get back to Florida Politics. I have these great videos of Daniel Webster (R-FL-08) and Mike McCalister (CAN-R-FL-SEN) in my video cam ready to download to YouTube. I still may do that later today. Keep an eye out on my YouTube Channel. However when I got home, I opened my email and one had a | Read More »
(Via Hot Air) First, Governor Mitch Daniels has some clarifying thoughts. Which is double-speak for “ops, I’m in deep crap now with my base and I need to walk back comments I made”:
(Via AoSHQ & The Other McCain) You know how awesome Herman Cain is? This awesome. Herman Cain is so bloody awesome, that Mitch Daniels completely shoots himself in the foot and ends any hope of a presidential run:
I know what I wrote on my last SunRail post and I mean it. I was on my way out the door and I didn’t have time to clarify myself. Some people, like those who commented on Practical State, don’t understand that with the death of High Speed Rail, SunRail is as good as dead: It was supposed to be a done deal. The first | Read More »
YES!! WE DID IT!! SUNRAIL IS DEAD!! TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Fla. Gov. Rick Scott scraps Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail plan, rejects $2.8 billion from feds.
BOHICA. It means: “Bend Over Here It Comes Again” I have no idea what it means in this context, I just always wanted to say it here on RedState.
(Via Hot Air) Ops, looks like that safe seat in Florida isn’t so safe after-all:
(Via Hot Air) Andrew Sullivan is coming to understand what we already know about the empty suit and so he has some strong words about the big disappointment:
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