Update on Mel Martinez Resignation: Jim Smith, Come on Down!

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 7th at 04:38 PM  | 

Word on the street in Tallahassee is that Governor Crist intends to appoint Jim Smith as Mel Martinez’s replacement. Smith, a former Attorney General, is now a lobbyist. He’s also the Chairman of FSU. How fitting. He could save everyone a lot of trouble and money by just going on and putting Marco Rubio in the Senate and let him establish some seniority before he | Read More »

BREAKING: Mel Martinez intends to resign

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 7th at 10:39 AM  | 

Mel Martinez is going to resign from the United States Senate. Charlie Crist will get to pick Martinez’s replacement. What will Crist do to screw Rubio? Wouldn’t put anything past him.

Remember “Senator Anonymous”?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 3rd at 10:17 PM  | 

Mark Kilmer wrote about him here. Mark noted: Unnamed Senator talks to Roger Simon of Politico.com: “I don’t think we have learned much from the election in terms of what people want to see,” he says. “We have the same gridlock.” By the “same gridlock,” he means that party hard-liners, both Democrats and Republicans, will remain in control of the machinery of Congress. And that | Read More »