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2010: The Year of the Indignant Independent

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The Pew Center for People and the Press finds that Americans have specific complaints about their government: it has the wrong priorities. It doesn’t do enough for Main Street. It is growing too fast without caring about saddling future generations with debt. It isn’t getting the job done. These are reasonable concerns that flow naturally from the course of events over the past year. Republicans have created a feedback loop: every Obama accomplishment is shunted to the “Socialism” box, and…

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WaPo’s Dana Milbank decries ‘Crucifixion of Crist,’ calls Marco Rubio ‘far right’

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Washington Post reporter/columnist Dana Milbank came out explicitly Sunday in favor of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as his Senate campaign collapses. Just as he earlier called surging conservative Marco Rubio the “anti-Crist,” on Sunday he wrote “The crucifixion of Crist by Republican leaders says less about him than it does about the party.” He wrote “the Crist crisis is a whole new level of Jacobin excess; in the case of [Joe] Lieberman, Democrats at least waited until he lost the primary to…

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WaPo’s Dana Milbank decries ‘Crucifixion of Crist,’ calls Marco Rubio ‘far right’

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Washington Post reporter/columnist Dana Milbank came out explicitly Sunday in favor of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as his Senate campaign collapses. Just as he earlier called surging conservative Marco Rubio the “anti-Crist,” on Sunday he wrote “The crucifixion of Crist by Republican leaders says less about him than it does about the party.” He wrote “the Crist crisis is a whole new level of Jacobin excess; in the case of [Joe] Lieberman, Democrats at least waited until he lost the primary to…

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Must read from Washington Post: Florida governor Charlie Crist goes from GOP leading light to party pariah

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If you’re Charlie Crist, this is what a political freefall feels like. One day it is 2008, and you’re a popular governor whose Republican admirers are talking you up for the veep spot on your party’s national ticket. Then, suddenly, you’ve infuriated party conservatives, what you’re being fitted for is a political coffin, and you’re deciding whether to leave the GOP and run as an independent. According to polls, Crist was once ahead by about 30 points in a primary…

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The case against Jeb Bush, the force behind SB 6

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While the future of the state’s education system hangs in the balance, let’s take a closer look at the real force behind the Florida Senate’s drive to pass SB 6, Jeb Bush (“I talked to Jeb this morning,” Thrasher said Thursday, still celebrating passage of the tenure bill, albeit on a close 21-17 vote. “He was very pleased with what we did. Very pleased.”) The chattering class – typified in this case by one Scott Maxwell – continue to propagate…

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Washington Post: For Charlie Crist, dark days in the Sunshine State primary

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It was precisely the sort of event that Gov. Charlie Crist loves: a nonpartisan, non-ideological chance to boost Florida, its people and its weather. Yet it was also a moment rooted in partisanship: a news conference on Tuesday capping an effort by leaders from around Tampa Bay to persuade Republicans to bring their national convention here in 2012. With Crist in a tough Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat, this would have been the perfect occasion for tossing some…

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Washington Post: Can Kendrick Meek win the Florida Senate race?

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The nationally televised debate between Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio on Sunday made clear that the Republican Senate primary is going to be a knockdown, drag-out brawl between now and, gulp, August 24. The almost-certain political bloodbath on the Republican side stands in stark contrast to the quiet race for the Democratic nomination — where Rep. Kendrick Meek seems to be on cruise control to become the party’s nominee. And yet, despite the body…

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