You should start your web-day with the Florida Progressive Coalition. If you want it, we've got today's "FloBama". Our digest of Florida's political news and punditry follows. Check out "South Florida Lawyers", the award winning Florida legal blog; good stuff. "Given a choice, they'l...

By Debbie Schlussel SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE I don't get it. It's "Son of Dubai Ports," only waaaay worse. Dubai and the rest of the United Arab Emirates helped the 9/11 hijackers, and their money laundering-friendly laws make it the bank location of choice for all Islamic terrorists. They also refuse...

Essentials --» A Latino inaugural ball? -there’s an effort to have an official Latino ball at a presidential Inauguration for the first time. Latino groups are excited about the prospect — but say they wish the inaugural committee would hurry up and decide. :: from www.politico.com The New ...

Start your web-day with the Florida Progressive Coalition. If you want it, we've got today's "FloBama". Our digest and commentary on today's (and yesterday's) Florida political news and punditry follows. Run, Jeb!, Run! ... ... so Floridians can drive a stake into your political hear...

Did You Hear the One about Obama? A true story in one part, by Linda Thieman On Wednesday of this week, Florida congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen picked up her phone and found herself on the line with President-elect Barack Obama.  Well, that’s who he claimed to be, at any rate. The Republica...

Poor Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The senior Republican Congresswoman from Florida (Miami!) received a call from President-elect Barack Obama yesterday and hung up on him. Twice! Ros-Lehtinen thought it was a prank call. She told Barack on the phone the first time, “I’m sorry. But I think this is a joke...

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R.-Fl.) hung up twice on President-elect Barack Obama, believing the calls were a radio station prank. "I said, 'Oh, no, I won't be punked,'" explained Ros-Lehtinen....

Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) hung up on Barack Obama twice yesterday, believing him to be a radio station prankster. When a man sounding remarkably like President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman Wednesday, she assumed it was a crank call. So Republican Rep. Ileana ...

Did you hear the one about the Republigoat Congresswoman who got a telephone call from the President-Elect and was so incredulous that it was him that she hung up on him? TWICE? This was Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who by the way is actually an interesting politician. The Sally Jessy Raphael doppelgänger ...

Good for her! You can't just call people and say you're Barack Obama, even if you're Barack Obama. It was only a few weeks ago that everyone was laughing at Sarah Palin for talking to a Nicholas Sarkozy impersonator -- and here's that Slate "Explainer" piece -- a propos of the Palin humiliation -- e...