Category 2016 Presidential
NeoCons poised to abandon GOP for Clinton?
Here in Florida we have many Republicans whose foreign policy views would fit into the “neoconservative” camp. While this state has some traditional conservatives, the neocons unique blend of a free-market driven economic ideology combined with an interventionist foreign policy (which mirrors that of the neoliberals in many ways) is completely contrary to the highly-regulated, […]
Coronation interrupted: Hillary’s problem with working class voters
Former White House counselor the President Clinton, Bill Curry, has a must-read piece in Salon today. In it he discusses how “thinking only tactically makes you a bad tactician,” and shows how this has caused deep damage to the Clinton campaign. I’ve scratched my head since 2008, wondering why Team Clinton insists on leading her messaging […]
Cocky Democrats Might Be Humbled in November with Clinton as Nominee
With the Republican freak show at the presidential level, a growing confidence bordering on cockiness has begun to sweep the ranks of institutional Democrats about the 2016 election. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will almost certainly be the Democratic nominee and as a defined and perhaps fatally flawed candidate, the risk of losses for the party […]
January 2019 – Marco Rubio’s America: A war and propaganda machine
Prior to the midterms where President Rubio’s party seemed destined to take a “whacking” to quote former President George W. Bush. However using fear and demagoguery and engaging his media and corporate allies, the adroit operator was able to change the trajectory of history. With ISIS on the offensive having recruited well in the west […]
January 2018 – Marco Rubio’s America
Having served one year in the White House, the Rubio agenda is now clear. Lower taxes and less regulations to serve his corporate donors and an aggressive neo-conservative foreign policy. Rubio has been saber-rattling toward ISIS for a year and has intensified air strikers against them. But ISIS is unmoved by Rubio’s bombastic approach and […]
January 2017 – Marco Rubio’s America
Editor’s note: We’ll be running a series this week looking at the state of America each January during the potential Rubio Presidency Florida’s major daily newspapers appear united in saying Marco Rubio is the best choice for the GOP nomination for President. This sort of parochialism would be logical if Rubio had actually done something […]
President Obama, Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton walk into a bar fight
It’s a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party — are you ready to rumble?! Scott Arceneaux needs to brush up on his platitudes, because clearly, to “disagree without being disagreeable” doesn’t mean what he thinks it means. In a statement circulated to political media, Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Arceneaux said he was […]
Flashback Friday: The Trump Shuttle
Before the Acela train and Amtrak Metroliner, the Eastern Air Shuttle was the way to travel quickly and efficiently in the Northeast. Beginning in 1961 the Eastern Shuttle provided hourly service between New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Boston as well as Washington National. For a period of time flights from Newark to both Boston and […]
Marco Rubio’s entitlement has yielded a bitterness toward Donald Trump: The failed dated approach of the GOP “Messiah”
At 44-years-old and having served a single US Senate term after a career spawned by the corrupt world of Miami politics and the low-caliber realm of the Florida Legislature, Marco Rubio wants to be President. Not only wants to be President but is acting like he is simply entitled to it. Marco Rubio has never […]
Should Democrats be worried about enthusiasm and turnout?
The narrative is clear on the cable news channels. Donald Trump is polarizing and unelectable and thus the Democrats have this election in the bag. This view is reinforced by the plethora of Democratic operatives that are paid to come onto cable news shows and spout the party line. We’ve discussed previously on this site […]
The Florida Squeeze 