Tag: Florida
Another Tired Tea Party Teleprompter Joke Delivered Via Teleprompter
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (Tea/GOP) misplaced his sense of irony at a recent appearance, according to TPM. Speaking to those gathered in Orlando for Presidency 5 (I don’t know why it’s called that but those at the event — who selected Herman Cain as their straw poll winner — inexplicably think the meeting important), Scott gazed deeply into his teleprompters so he wouldn’t flub the punch line on this joke about the president. Obama, like all presidents and other major public speakers since Herbert Hoover, often uses a teleprompter.
Good afternoon, and welcome to Presidency 5!
“I have to admit, I was a little nervous when I looked out here. I saw all the TV cameras and a teleprompter. I figured President Obama must be here – giving another speech about raising taxes!“[emphasis in the original]
Seriously, though, it’s great to see you all today.
Is that funny or what? Man, he had me at Pres. Obama being there, but then to go on to mention raising taxes – whooey, that is good stuff! I’m just glad he used the teleprompter so he could deliver it verbatim, word for word, just as the mad jokester who wrote it intended, and not lose a single shred of the funny.
It could have been worse, I guess. At least the governor didn’t read off any jokes about Obama’s birth certificate or the first lady’s fight against childhood obesity or any of the other hot button issues surrounding the Obamas of concern to tea partiers today.
Perry Loses, Bachmann Rebuked in Republican Party of Florida Straw Poll
If the final tally in the Republican Party of Florida’s straw poll yesterday is an indicator, it appears the GOP base won’t be forgiving Rick Perry any time soon for describing their opposition to educating undocumented children as “heartless.”
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Rick Perry is forced out of the race because the GOP-tea party base couldn’t handle it when, for once, he told them the truth.
The day after Perry made the “heartless” comment at the Fox News debate in Orlando, he gave a rousing speech at a CPAC-Florida event that his campaign hoped would quell the unrest on the extreme right.
For good measure, Perry — like his principal rival, Mitt Romney — chose not to apologize for the ingratitude they and all the other Republican presidential candidates displayed to an active duty soldier who asked a question during the debate Thursday night about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But even their compounded rudeness to a gay soldier could not cut it with the Republicans’ gay-hating base.
Instead a huge majority of voters in the poll essentially opted out by choosing “none of the above,” a.k.a. the ultimately unelectable Herman Cain:
Florida: Third in Health Care, First in Stupid
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Percentage of Floridians who do not have health insurance, ranking Florida third nationwide for uninsured residents. The state, under former Attorney General Bill McCollum (R) led the lawsuit now headed to the Supreme Court challenging the Affordable Care Act.
Who’s Worse, Rick Perry or Rick Scott? You Decide
Vote early and often.
What Was in Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s Conveniently Deleted Emails?
From the moment Floridians heard that the penalties for Gov. Rick Scott (Tea/GOP) “losing” emails sent to and from his transition team ranged from a $500 fine to IMPEACHMENT (yeah, baby!), the story grabbed our attention in the way a big, juicy, limping mouse claims the attention of a cat on a diet.
Now Florida Democrats are starting to have fun with that mouse, launching the Rick Scott Email Recovery Fund to help track down the missing missives.
Here’s what happened. Scott, as is his wont, privatized communication handling during the two months after he bought the election and before he was inaugurated. During this time, he was assembling his cabinet and staff, and determining his administration’s agenda. Almost of these emails concerning the public’s business were deleted in mid-January, immediately after Scott took office.
That’s the short version. The long version has us smelling a rat.
GOP Florida Sen. Rubio: Social Security ‘Weakened Us As a People’
Part of the series, Assault on Florida.Via Digby:
RUBIO: These programs actually weakened us as a people. You see, almost forever, it was institutions in society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. If someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. If a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. You saved for your retirement and your future because you had to. We took these things upon ourselves in our communities, our families, and our homes, and our churches and our synagogues. But all that changed when the government began to assume those responsibilities. All of a sudden, for an increasing number of people in our nation, it was no longer necessary to worry about saving for security because that was the government’s job.
Isn’t that nice? If only we could go back to the days of Ward and June Cleaver when everyone took care of each other and didn’t need things like money or health insurance when they got old and sick and couldn’t work. Back in the good old days everyone took care of the poor and there was no suffering or pain. It was one big happy family. Except, of course, that’s just crap.
Think Progress reports:
[P]rior to Medicare’s enactment in 1965, “about one-half of America’s seniors did not have hospital insurance,” “more than one in four elderly were estimated to go without medical care due to cost concerns,” and one in three seniors were living in poverty. Today, nearly all seniors have access to affordable health care and only about 14 percent of seniors are below the poverty line.
Two Ricks, Both Slick, Both Thick as Bricks
I’m pretty sure he has a man-crush on Rick Perry.
Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel columnist, about Florida Gov. Rick Scott (Tea/GOP). Scott submitted to an editorial board interview with the paper as part of his “Reinventing Rick” tour, brought on by recognition that his poll approval numbers are, according to Maxwell, “just below head lice.”
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Unveils New, Faux Human Looking Image
Florida residents could hardly be blamed for gazing at the photo shown on the left and exclaiming, “Hey, I like that guy! He looks a little familiar. Wonder who he is?”
Gone is the gleam of crazy in his eyes. Added is black eyebrow pencil to give the humanoid a less reptilian look.
At least that’s the reaction that Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (Tea/GOP) handlers must have been aiming for when they unveiled the new official portrait of Florida’s chief executive. Scott continues to have the lowest approval numbers of any governor but continues to claim — as do all elected officials with low poll numbers — that he ignores polls and just does what he thinks is right. At the same time, he has launched a massive public campaign that includes enlisting members of the Republican Party of Florida to sign their names to canned letters to the editor about what a great job Scott is doing. He also blitzed voters with robocalls on the same theme and even released a video on YouTube of his mother telling people how proud of him she is.
But apparently Scott was just getting started.
