After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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George W. Bush is sitting on a hotel sofa in front of a south-facing window on a sunny November morning. His presidential memoir, "Decision Points," is No. 1 on amazon.com and is expected to be No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. "I've got a very comfortable life," he says.
The first of the two-legged, two-staged, lame-duck session of Congress begins Monday, and it consists of mostly wounded ducks. These winged fowl would love nothing more than to duck the huge legislative agenda that awaits them.
WASHINGTON -- As he promised it would be, Barack Obama's presidency has been transformative, but not as he intended. Whether it lasts two or six more years, it is an exhausted volcano because its biggest consequence may already have happened: It has resuscitated the right, making 2010 conservatism's best year in 30 years -- since the election of Ronald Reagan.
Liberal Democrats show no signs of reading their washout at the polls as a reason to shift to the center. President Obama told "60 Minutes" his only mistake was he passed some major legislation, but he didn't focus enough on the messy "how" -- as in "how it's risky to pass an Obamacare bill that a majority says it doesn't want."
For political junkies of a certain age, it was a given that the House of Representatives would always be controlled by Democrats. They won the chamber in 1954 and held on for 40 years -- more than twice as long as any party in American history had before.
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Former Congressman Allen West is turning up the rhetoric as he continues to remain in the spotlight despite his loss to Democrat Patrick Murphy in November.
West took to Facebook on Wednesday and hinted that Attorney General Eric Holder, who is drawing fire for his role in targeting members of the press for investigation, is more dangerous than the leader of al-Qaida.
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From her perch as chairwoman of the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., ripped the Obama administrations handling of the crisis in Syria.
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Most political observers and pundits believe U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Rubios support of Republicans across the nation only adds to that perception.
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With less than three weeks to go until voters in Massachusetts vote to replace John Kerry, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is urging conservatives to help Gabriel Gomezs Senate bid.
From his Reclaim America PAC, Rubio, who is widely expected to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, sent out an email to supporters praising Gomez and warning that Democrats will go all out to help U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., keep the seat in their column.
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Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw insisted on Wednesday that the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (MILCON) Appropriations Bill (HR 2216) will benefit the First Coast. Crenshaw, who serves on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, joined 420 other congressmen in passing the bill on Tuesday.
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Former Congressman Allen West set off a wave of speculation on Tuesday when he appeared on Sean Hannitys radio show -- and said he was open to running for president in 2016. The Corner over at National Review has the details.
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With Tuesday marking the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacres, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen took aim at communist China.
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With buzz growing that former CFO Alex Sink, who lost out to Rick Scott back in 2010 in the closest gubernatorial election in Floridas history, wants a rematch in 2014, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) is taking aim at her and linking her to a possible Democratic rival. On Wednesday, the RPOF launched an attack trashing the economy when Gov. Charlie Crist and Sink served in Tallahassee.
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is now hinting that he will vote against the immigration reform bill that he was backing. Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show on Tuesday, Rubio called for changes to the bill that he was championing, namely more commitment to boarder security. Byron York over at Washington Examiner has the details.
York highlights Rubios dilemma:
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Yet another former inmate of the infamousArthur G. Dozier School for Boys (Florida's now-closed reform-school-from-hell) has come forward to tell Sunshine State News he, too, witnessed the existence of an additional cemetery on the campus grounds, back when he attended the school in 1969.
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