Finally a suitable reaction to the nonsense from Florida's (and Washington's) Queen of Exaggeration, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

The Miami Democrat is so, so sad. It's the way those heartless, stubborn Republicans and sequestration are letting her staff starve.

HB 155, the bill banning electronic games at Internet cafes, passed the Florida House 108-7 as anticipated, with no eleventh hour theatrics.

"I think they were all talked out on the issue," Daytona arcade owner Scranton Phillips said of House members. "I knew we were history the day Lieutenant Governor (Jennifer) Carroll resigned."

Even though an overwhelming number of Florida voters support universal background checks (a 91-8 percent margin) and stricter laws on guns generally, more of them still say the National Rifle Association better reflects their views on gun control than President Obama does -- even if it's only by 45-44 percent.

Florida voters support 5144 percent stricter statewide gun-control laws, with gun owners opposed 6133 percent.

Can Rick Scott win re-election when two-thirds of Florida voters are against him? No, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute. But Brown cautioned that at this time during the 2010 cycle, the poll numbers were just as stacked against Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate race, showing then-Gov. Charlie Crist running away with it.

If it's a Monday -- or Tuesday through Sunday, for that matter -- then there's something out there to blame on Big Sugar ... even if it has absolutely nothing to do with them.

It's almost funny, it's so absurd. But that's how The Palm Beach Post and the Everglades Foundation think.

Following a string of testimony from cafe and adult arcade owners, and from others for and against keeping Internet cafes in business, the Senate Gaming Committee unanimously advanced SB 1030 Monday, a bill that changes its version of a moratorium on Internet cafes to an out-and-out ban.

Ed Moore, Ph.D., president of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, says he liked our story speculating on Jennifer Carroll's replacement as lieutenant governor.

With little discussion and no drama, the Florida House took up and rolled to a third reading HB 7059, the bill that repeals an international driving permit requirement put into Florida law in 2012 and aimed to make it easier for police to interpret foreign drivers' licenses.

Sen. Joe Negron's bill to guarantee Floridians the right to speak before a public board before the board takes any action moved forward on the Senate floor Tuesday morning. It will be placed on the calendar for a third reading.

"We only have three rights we guarantee in our Constitution," the Republican senator from Stuart said. "The right to a trial by jury, the right to vote and the right to speak.

School officials in Broward and Miami-Dade counties heaved a sigh of relief Tuesday morning when HB 189, the bill that revises the method for calculating the penalty for failure to comply with the state constitutional class size requirements, moved forward.

The bill calls for calculating at the school average instead of the classroom level.