After the Florida Legislature gets through this session, and does whatever it must to fill a $3 billion budget gap, what then?
Lawmakers may congratulate themselves on not raising taxes, but several big initiatives will be left undone or unrealized.
The political commentariat doesn't know what to make of those thousands of Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town hall meetings to oppose the big government programs of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders.
[Friday] night I sat amongst 1,300 dedicated Republicans and listened to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin address the Orange County Republicans' Lincoln Day Dinner.
Questions on port issues, employment and taxes dominated Gov. Charlie Crists town hall meeting Friday at Florida State College at Jacksonvilles South Campus.
Though the governor came to Jacksonville to talk about legislation, he also faced questions about his U.S. Senate campaign.
Im not concerned with the polls, Crist said, when asked about recent polls released by Public Policy Polling and Insider Advantage/Florida Times Union showing him losing to former House Speaker Marco Rubio by more than 30 percentage points.
Though Bush 41 and Bush 43 often disagreed, one issue did unite them both with Bill Clinton: protectionism.
Globalists all, they rejected any federal measure to protect America's industrial base, economic independence or the wages of U.S. workers.
Together they rammed through NAFTA, brought America under the World Trade Organization, abolished tariffs and granted Chinese-made goods unrestricted access to the immense U.S. market.
Black-owned communications firms sued Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday to block a white-led company from landing a lucrative U.S. Census contract aimed at black Floridians.
N-Tersections Communications Group and Steele Communications Group, both from the Tallahassee-area, said the states decision to award what they said is a $420,000 contract to Moore/Ketchum Partnership reflects lingering aspects of discrimination.
Charlie Crist isn't helping a cynical America trust its politicians.
Certainly, he's not helping me.
Ilearnednine years ago, when he was education commissioner, when he stood in front of a roomful of teachers and promised them they would be making "six-figure salaries" by the end of the decade, that the man will say or do anything to win the moment.
