Note from the editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]
If you thought abortion couldn’t possibly find its way into a debate about extending rights to disabled people, especially after the clobbering Republicans took from women last month, you would be wrong. Yesterday 38 GOP senators, including Fla. Senator Marco Rubio, further betrayed themselves as part of a dying tribe of obtuse goons by voting down ratification [...]
There were hundreds of lies, large and small, told on the stage at the Republican National Convention. The lies listed below were uncommonly pernicious. They were told again and again in voice after voice, by speakers of differing ideological backgrounds and different political proclivities, suggesting that these are the lies with which Republicans hope to [...]
Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]
Big Slick has returned from the political wilderness, as we all knew he would. Charlie Crist was too good a politician to stay out of the game. In an op-ed published in the Tampa Bay Times Sunday, the day the Republican National Convention was set to begin in that newspaper’s city, the former Republican governor [...]
Not sure how many of you have kept up with the trials and tribulations of former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer, but boy howdy! The Jim Greer Show is turning into one bomb after another. First, some background: Jim Greer served as chairman of the Florida GOP from 2006 until 2010. Greer stepped [...]
The political world is abuzz with Marco Rubio updates, rumors, speculations. Will the Republican Senator from Florida be on Mitt Romney’s ticket? Will he help Republicans win back the Hispanic vote? From the psycho-right wing: Is he eligible to run? People outside junkie circles of punditry have also started to pay attention to the Cuban-American mentee [...]
The Tea Party’s favorite senator, Florida’s own Marco Rubio, made news over the weekend by demonstrating just why the Obama-is-a-commie-Kenyan-Antichrist crowd loves him. At a fundraising event (Understandably, as at this time in the election cycle, our elected representatives make few appearances other than at fundraising events.), Rubio said of the president, “We have not [...]
Now that Mitt Romney has secured the Republican nomination — or rather that the media are forced to give up the horserace narrative they’ve perpetuated to make this primary season something other than a big snooze fest — the next overblown mystery du jour shall be Romney’s VP pick. Of course, speculation has been going [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
