Um … Rick Scott uses Holocaust quote to defend Bain Capital … seriously

January 26, 2012 · Posted in Florida, Gollum is Governor, Mitt Romney, Rick Scott · Comment 

Rick Scott defends Bain Capital. You're welcome, Mitt.

Dude. Read more

Rick Perry to confab with Glenn Beck’s faux historian

Glenn Beck's faux "historian" is now Rick Perry's BFF?

Rick Perry will spend Saturday meeting with one of his top donors, and a pseudo-historian who took part in 2010′s “Texas schoolbook massacre.” Good times. Read more

Take that, little people: Rick Scott enjoys his cheap, taxpayer subsidized healthcare

August 14, 2011 · Posted in Florida, Gollum is Governor, Healthcare, People, Rick Scott · 1 Comment 

Cheap, subsidized healthcare for me, not for thee.

When it comes to getting cheap health coverage for your family, it’s good to be the governor. Read more

(Video) ICYMI: Rick Scott gets the business (and the pink slips) at the donut shop

August 5, 2011 · Posted in Florida, Gollum is Governor, People, Rick Scott · 1 Comment 

In case you’ve not been paying attention, Florida governor Rick Scott is not popular. Watch as a group of protesters hand him pink slips while he pretends to work like one of the little people, as part of his image rehabilitation tour (he’s even “talking” to the press!):

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Florida follies: Rick Scott’s default fail, A.G. fires attorneys who went after bad banks, second coming of Crist?

Hey Rick Scott: I'll bet Lord Voldemort knows what "government shutdown" means...

Rick Scott, the deeply unpopular Florida governor, takes a “what, me worry?” approach to the debt ceiling crisis in Washington … Read more

Today’s Herald column: Gov. Rick Scott’s plutocratic Florida (with bonus David Brooks)

July 7, 2011 · Posted in Opinion, People, Republicans, Rick Scott · 2 Comments 

The past is prologue: the robber barons

Why did Rick Scott want to be governor? Clearly, not for the public service, and unless he’s a really bad businessman, not necessarily to make a personal profit (at least not while in office.) So what does this guy want? For clues: ask the Koch brothers… Read more

Friday clicks: the fictional debt crisis, Rick Scott’s rail ride to hypocrisy

If you’re the country’s most unpopular governor, who along with his party has helped make his state a worse place to live, and politicians would rather be caught in a compromising picture with a farm animal than in a photo-op with you; and you’ve made a big deal about killing high speed rail, cuz, um, it’s “Obamarail,” and then another rail project, much wanted by your party comes up for a veto or a signature, what do you do? What … do … you … do? Read more

Rick Scott jets off to Colorado for a little Koch (meeting)

When you’re the governor of the tea party, you’ve got to give a little face time to the Koch brothers, every once in a while. Read more

**UPDATED** Poll: Rick Scott a liability to GOP presidential candidates in Florida; low poll numbers helping Obama

June 24, 2011 · Posted in 2012, Florida, Gollum is Governor, People, Politics, Rick Scott · 1 Comment 

President Obama's secret weapon for winning Florida in 2012 might be Republican governor Rick Scott.

There’s a reason why Republican presidential hopefuls are smart to avoid being seen with Florida governor Rick Scott. Read more

Florida follies: Rick Scott’s in-your-face budget signing, cooked polls & angry cops

Cartoon from the Miami Herald's Jim Morin.

Shorter Rick Scott at the South Florida Water Management District headquarters, where he showed up unannounced to tout the bill he signed that overhauls the state’s water and Everglades management (most environmentalists say, for the worse): “Hi, I’m the governor, and I’m here to cut your job.” Read more

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