Florida Democrats are having that deja vu all over again feeling some more. But while being disenfranchised feels very familiar, having our own party do it to us is brand new.
Florida Democrats are over this whole, “Your vote doesn’t count but maybe next time,” thing.
Buck explained that the DNC is considering yanking our delegates if […]

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has run into a brick wall in its investigation into former Republican Rep. Mark Foley’s sicko come-ons to congressional pages. He won’t let the FDLE have access to his D.C. computer. And the House of Representatives is backing up the pedophile (hebephile, see comment 2), saying his computer is […]

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive. When exercised for the seizure of territory or suppression of liberties, it cannot be said to add to the welfare or happiness or improve the quality of life of those it rules, nor bring content to the […]

The only good thing I can say about the fact that Florida Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman will be in Washington tomorrow lobbying the national Democratic Party to not punish Florida Dems because the Republican-controlled Florida legislature moved the presidential primary to Jan. 29 is that she won’t be at the Barak Obama fundraiser in […]

Via Pam’s House Blend, Coy Privette, the 74-year-old rightwing Christian nationalist politician, former Baptist preacher and member of the Baptist State Convention, who was fired as the president of the Christian Action League after he was arrested June 19 for aiding and abetting prostitution, has pleaded guilty to those charges.
When we first reported this story, […]

The Romney Boys in Iowa: “Craig got the strawberry rhubarb, Josh and I got the cherry.”
From the Five Brothers blog: “Craig, Josh and I had about as much fun as allowed on a campaign last weekend in Iowa. Road trips and bike rides are very low key ways to get out and stump for the […]

Jesus Cries When Christians Lie
A new version of the hate crimes law being debated in Congress would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of currently covered conditions, including race, color, religion, national origin, gender or disability.
If hateful speech and thoughts about blacks were illegal, 99 percent of the Republican Party would be […]

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American poet, Unitarian minister, philosopher

BONUS AUDIO CLIPBush: “Perhaps the most important lesson that I learned in Vietnam is that you cannot fight a guerrilla war with conventional forces.”

Today, George Bush lectured the country about the dangers of deploying out of Iraq by comparing leaving Iraq to the end of the Vietnam war. On “Countdown” tonight, MSNBC played a snippet […]