Maurice Ferré, former Mayor of Miami and nephew of legendary Puerto Rico Governor Don A. Luis, could be the surprise winner of the 2010 Florida Democratic U.S. Senate Primary and the first Puerto Rican Senator if the extensive Hispanic voter registration plans of three non-profit voter registration foundations are successfully executed by August of 2010.
Democracia [...]

A day before his formal rebuke by the House, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) continued to raise funds off of his blatant display of disrespect during President Obama’s address to Congress.
“My outburst during the president’s speech was poor timing, and for that I have personally apologized to the president himself,” Wilson wrote in a Sept. 14 [...]

After appearing to back down from its support of a public healthcare option, the White House is signaling that the public option is not dead:
An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option “is not an essential [...]

In case anyone has forgotten, President Bush is still responsible for the sorry state of the economy.
Bruce Bartlett, a former Republican economist who was influential in the development of supply-side economics and ultimately fled the GOP as it grew more insane, has penned a thorough take-down of the conservative activists who are blaming our current [...]

The Wall Street Journal reviews the findings of its latest WSJ/NBC poll and concludes: “Support Slips for Health Plan.”
The poll shows cause for alarm for the White House: 46 percent of people now disapprove of Obama’s handling of health care reform, compared to only 41 percent who approve. But the poll does not actually indicate [...]

Maurice Ferre, the first Hispanic elected Mayor of Miami, slammed Gov. Charlie Crist for his belated decision to oppose Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination in a hard-hitting op-ed printed in the Miami Herald today.
Ferre attributes Crist’s delayed reaction to Sotomayor’s nomination to the Governor’s desire to please both primary and general election voters. He writes [...]

The White House sent a bill to Congress today that would finally require that hedge funds are regulated - to an extent. And now Reuters reports that hedge funds, which have forever resisted any form of meaningful regulation, really want to be regulated.
Now we know why the industry contributed nearly four times as much money [...]

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said yesterday that the Senate’s healthcare bill must cost less than $1 trillion in order for it to win bipartisan support, even though Grassley himself is “under immense pressure from Republican colleagues not to deal at all.”
“It has to be there or under, I think, in order to get a bipartisan [...]

After a long weekend, it’s time for some catching up.
President Obama meets with Kremlin leadership today in Moscow to discuss nuclear arms control. Can he break through the news cycle?
Vice President Biden reaffirms Israel’s sovereignty, says they have the right to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
As you know by now, Sarah Palin announced she intends to [...]

Rumors of a Republican comeback, quashed:
Apologizing profusely to his staff, family and friends for disappearing unexpectedly, a teary-eyed South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said he had been “unfaithful” and admitted affair with a woman in Argentina.
Win.