Rick Scott was giving us signals of his style before he was elected

Came across this one in my research. His meeting with CNN’s Kiran Chetry he was on point and on message back in September.

Here's the link from YouTube. You should try to catch this if you can.

Chetry: “Why would you want the job of CEO of Florida?”

Scott: “I lived the American dream.  I started out in public housing…My father was a truck driver and  back then truck drivers got laid off a lot.  I know what it’s like to be unemployed, having parents unemployed, and I’ve lived the American Dream.

“I want that same dream for my daughters, my son in law and everybody in Florida,” he said.[i]

Sometimes people can’t help but to answer honestly. This rare glimpse into the subconscious mind used to be called a “Freudian slip.”

His dream apparently is to stick it to everyone: so that every kid coming up now, can experience the spine-strengthening joy of having parents mostly unemployed, while the family is crammed together in low-income housing.

Oh the bliss of renting rather than owning, and living hand-to-mouth, while being shuffled along with the economic currents like a gypsy, by the whims of the wealthy and the powerful.

Such joy to provide such a childhood, for everybody else!

Ricky’s world is reminiscent of a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The peasantry is seen groveling in the mud as they self narrate happily, ”grovel, grovel, grovel; all day long.”

Why certainly it’s a plutocrat’s wet dream that we should all so happily grovel.

Yeah. Okay? Sounds like a dream alright, as wished upon us by the Chinese government bent on punishing us for our evil capitalist ways, that is.

Thanks but no thanks, Governor Rick. Or should we say GOVERNOR MAO!?

During the interview he was again asked about Columbia/HCA and Medicare Fraud.

Chetry, exhibiting the muted, corporate FOXLite kindness that is endearing itself ever-so, to the likes of Job Stewart, actually called Rick’s red-headed step child, Columbia/HCA “a little bit of baggage there.”

“A little bit of baggage”? Yeah? A “little?” Maybe you could get Uncle Ricky a pair of slippers and some warm cocoa too? Wouldn’t that be nice?

But he had obviously learned a valuable lesson from watching NFL: running out the clock.

It doesn’t matter that you don’t answer: just burn out the clock.

He has a canned response that lasts almost a full minute ready to go and all of us are now familiar with it. He now uses it everywhere.

Here’s why it works on television: In a morning show like this one, where news is pancaked between the Priceline adverts and the car commercials, Chetry has just six minutes to get these questions in.

So, Ricky runs out the clock. Nearly 20 percent of the interview, we listened to something that sounded like this:

 “Well, you know what I tell people is, when you’re the CEO of a company you have to take responsibility for everything that happens. That company made mistakes and so, I take responsibility. That’s the difference between a business person and a politician. A business person takes responsibility when things go poorly. You know you have to show up and fix things.”

It’s pure, brilliant gibberish. It means nothing. It certainly doesn’t mean “I take responsibility.” What he’s really saying is, “someone else did this.”

He’s doing the thing many masters of corporate-speak do, he’s “taking ownership,” (wink) otherwise known as “soft-owning” massive mistakes; that can cover fraud, tanking the economy, pollution, wrongful death, oil spills, you name it. It’s all the rage. CEOs everywhere are doing it these days, they are soft-owning it, paying the tab, nodding, and winking to congress, kicking the dog, leaving the light on, and walking away, buddy. Elvis has left the building.

Much the way BP’s CEO Tony Hayward “took ownership” of the BP oil spill. Remember?

“It’s not our accident but we take full responsibility. We will clean the spill,” he said back in May 2010.[ii]

Garbage. It also turned out to be a lie.

Rick’s learned from the best. And watching NFL on the weekends obviously taught him how to run out the clock.

Even though he ran his canned one-minute response covering Columbia/HCA, and said the one-second word “jobs” no less than 21 times in a six minute interview -  sometimes stringing the “jobs” together like a tail-gunner, as in “jobs, jobs, jobs…I build private sector jobs” - Chetry still had time for a couple more questions.

One was about a republican ad, ball-peeing Scott’s new competitor, Alex Sink.

The ad, which rated a “barely-true” by Politifact, said Alex Sink invested the state’s employee pension fund unwisely and “lost $24 billion.”

Reverberating Politifact’s findings, she said Sink was part of a team who made those investment decisions. Chetry didn’t even mention the fact that the market murdered all our pension funds and yet no one person was ever held to account.

Well and good enough for Rick to do the corporate thing and soft-own the mistakes of others, or Wall Street billionaires taking TARP, he wasn’t going to let Sink get away from her mistakes. He wasn’t going to her slip off this hook, as easily as he slipped off of his own, with a $300 million parachute.

Oh no! Her crimes were simply unforgiveable, and he said so.

“She was told by auditors multiple times the investments were way to risky,” he said. “That should never have happened. She’s the chief financial officer of the state. She’s responsible for this. She lost $24 billion of pension money for Floridians. That’s a big problem.”

What’s interesting here is, in this context, state workers are “Floridians.” But when it comes time to get rid of them they become hated “government jobs,” which have to be eliminated in order to “grow the economy.”

The mutable, slippery truth of Ricky-world.

Anyway, food for thought. Here's to hoping big media like CNN and MSNBC can open up more in the way of time slots to cover news sometime soon. I have often wondered why, if there are so many companies wanting to advertise, they can't just double the ad rates and open up more air time so there is some value to be gained from watching the news?

More food for thought.

[i] “Rick Scott Interview AM” CNN Sept. 27, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNwZ-SMVlt4&NR=1

[ii] “BP CEO: Not our accident” The Raw Story May 3, 2010. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/05/03/bp-ceo-its-not-our-spill/

More Casey's More Caylee's in Rick Scott's New Florida

It's time to politicize the Casey Anthony Trial here at Rick Scott Watch. It is. Sorry. It must be done.

If we think something this bad can happen during Charlie Crist's watch, imagine what is going to happen if we continue on the path Rick Scott is leading us down.

If you kill education, you get more kids without skills to handle life, sex, and babies. More Caseys.

The state provided the evidence and she was aquitted of murder. Fact. The state did a good job, but they didn't have enough evidence to convict her. Fact.

Bitch, moan, scream. Get angry at the jurors from Pinellas County.

Now come on back to earth for a minute. We have a justice system that DEMANDS an overwhelming preponderance of evidence to support the guilt of an accused party beyond a reasonable doubt. That's the deal, the raw freaking deal here in these United States since before there was a United States. Since John Adams got six guardsmen off of murder and massacre charges for standing their ground and doing their job at the Boston Massacre, back in the day. This is how we do it.

Don't stay mad at 12 good fellow citizens of our state who saw their duty and did it. Just grow up.

This story is why you can't run the state like a business. The job of a governor is to protect those who cannot protect themselves. To protect the little Caylees. Not say "sorry for you luck kid."

You stood outside. You carried your sign in support for that little child seeking justice for her. You can't save her now. But you might save another. 

1,800 workers were cut from the ranks of the Department of Children and Families in this budget our governor released at a Tea Party Enclave. These caseworkers step in and attempt to help families in crisis. Now they can't. They weren't necessary in Governor Rick's new Florida. That means more families like the Anthony's will slip through the cracks. More Caylee's, more Casey's coming down the pike. 

He cut as many as 1,690 from the state department of corrections, and we'll get to that when we talk about Gain Time.

Casey lied to the police four times in their hunt for little Caylee. Each lie delayed the police who already are understaffed and over-worked. Each lie, if the mother had been innocent, cost valuable time wherein they might have found that little girl sooner, in whatever state she was in.

Each lie represented a year's sentence for Casey after the verdicts were rendered. A year in jail for each count. She received a sentence today of four years. But time-served awaiting trial, as well all know, is three years. And now we have this animal called "Gain Time" as well that shaves off time from the end of her sentence. 

Gain Time is a little mathmatical guizmo that cuts days off your sentence for being good, and solitary confinement provides few opportunities to be bad. We know it's true. The t.v. lawyer said so. Orange County Corrections is a crowded place. Crowded  also has to do with a ratio of officers to inmates. That's where the gain time comes in. They have to keep that ratio at a manageble level otherwise, riots and chaos rule the day. You get 11 days, nearly half a month in Gain Time, for every month served without any issues in Orange County Corrections.

So Casey gets out next week.

Listen, Karma does not forget. She always comes calling. She may be late but she's never sleepy. Forget Casey, put your hands down, put your weapons down. Karma will sort her out, if there is sorting to be done.

What of the next Caylee?

Here's the deal. We just now spoke of overworked detectives, crowded prisons, lack of evidence, lack of man hours. We spoke of reduced caseworkers to the Department of Children and Families.

In His Majesty's hybridized version of America, where cash is king, where losers walk, where corporations pay no property taxes ever; where necessary state workers get fired the way fish mongers throw mullet, where staffing reductions force fewer corrections officers to control more inmates; where the Gain Time is so high, every day served equals two days off your sentence; what do you think this is coming to?

More Caylees. Hundreds more. So many more we will look back on this and smile fondly when we got so worked up over the death of one small child; where we will laugh at how naive we were back then when we cared about little human beings. Back during the early days of Rick Scott's rule.

The signs you carry for Caylee must be forged anew. You must re-write the signs. We must put a stop to Rick Scott and his criminal goon squad and their dangerous cuts to our services. You must  keep up, get fed up, stand up, and act up.

Rather than let corporations off Scott-free from the shared burden of plugging the budget holes, rather than firing more cops, more corrections officers, more teachers, more salary reductions to those who provide crucial services, we have to re-introduce some sanity into the equation.

"No more teachers, no more cops; take the taxes from the top."

Get used to saying that. That's how you "keep up". Protest. That's how you "stand up" and "act up."

Florida LOOTO and Bright Futures Scholars

Lotto sales are way up, surpassing $4 Billion in fiscal 2011. This is expected in a down market. Lotto, cigarettes and beer. That's what a nervous mass of people who are about to lose their damn jobs buy. It's no great mystery.

Nevermind logic, reason, and even empirical evidence. A couple of months ago, major papers began shilling for the garbage story that our lotto system was broken and so, we need to revamp the lotto-funded Bright Futures Scholars Program or get rid of it. As in YESTERDAY! Fire drill! Fire drill! Everybody panic! KILL KILL KILL, SLASH SLASH!

Witness this little gem April 3, in the Miami Herald. Without the benefit of the first shred of data, the writer of this piece of awful suggested that lotto sales were flat. And so, as night follows day, we must must must (don't you get it? We MUST) scrap the Bright Futures Scholars program. Or tweak it, to make sure it's "going to the right people". i.e. the poorest of the poor, where apparently there are no scholarships. Of course the contract entered into between students and state has long been a simple one. You do the work, you get the grades, you get the scholarship. Easy.

Here is another piece of dog-vomit from Miami Herald on the subject that alleges "lotto proceeds have not kept pace" with needs of the scholarship fund. Again, no evidence in the form of those wonderful things called facts and figures to support this assertion.

A solid guess? The controversy seems to originate from this absolutely horrid legislator from Port Orange Evelyn J. Lynn, who is likely directed by people-hating senior state senator John Thrasher. 

Lynn, chairs the higher education appropriations subcommittee. In March, you may recall Lynn suggested that Florida's Prepaid College Plan - this isn't a "handout" either! This is where people 'prepay' into a tuition fund!! - be suspended. Drawing from a vast reservoiur of anti-knowledge, she postulated that the program may become insolvent since it was tied to the stock market. Only, dundering Dora didn't do the first bit of research on the matter before opening her gob, because IT ISN'T!! AT ALL! Not one red cent is attached to the stock market!!! No, No, no.

"Oh fidddle de dee," said she and promptly coitus interrupted her attempted fornication of the public, when this rock of salience was thrown at her iron-cast head. Leave it to a garden-clubbing, Lincoln Day Dining, Maritini Party, silver haired, intolerant former beauty queen with an "I hate you" smile, to toss this off so casually without offering the first explanation for her own stupidity. AND DID WE MENTION SHE CHAIRS higher education APPROPRIATIONS subcommittee?

Well don't you know nasty pants is going after Bright Futures now. Under the guise of protecting it, the idea would be to increase the requirements. And of course, she will be back next year to bump those up again. All these changes of course, without the first shred of evidence that they are necessary.

As we speak, and in response to the agenda-driven, self-derived story of Bright Futures should be curbed, tabled, tweak, screwed, studies are now being undertaken to "get to the bottom" of the question "does Bright Futures work?"

Work? Define "work" i.e. to function properly? They can't and they won't. Because it isn't about "working". This is about class warfare. It's about looting the lotto. Soon to be called The Florida LOOTO. Guess who will do the looting? The Florida Legislature and Rick Scott.

Rick Scott and the legislature pulled two, quick, crisis managment fast ones on the students of Florida with the administration of this program. They reduced the pay-out per credit hour from $120 to $108. Then they went "oh, but wait, we haven't hurt the students and parents of Florida enough with that move. We need to find another rusty oyster fork to stick in their eye." And so they raised the cost of state tuition.

You pay your water bill every month. Without fail. "No no. Not good enough. To penalize you for doing that, we will cut the flow rate in half, and triple the price of the water. There. How's that feel? Oh, we also had the meter reader poison your dog while he was in your yard. M'kay?"

The deal was, a program designed to send the MAXIMUM through-put possible TO THE STUDENTS OF FLORIDA. This is WHY we voted on having a lotto in the state in the first place. "Pink Slip" Rick might not recall this because he was too busy bilking seniors and veterans benefits from Tricare and Medicare when all this happened. But, I was living here when Lotto was voted on. And the concern then was, technically lotto is gambling and we had laws against it. Legislators agreed that in this one special case, when the aim was to serve the students and hard-working families of Florida - a "right to fire your ass anytime they feel like it" state - with a program that offered a "bright future" to those willing, able and motivated students WHO WORKED FOR IT.

No no. You're missing the point. The point of Ricky-World, is to shut off opportunities of those same hard working familes to send their kids to college, and to stamp out motivation in public education, to kill initiative and drive of young enterprising students in public schools who might just work themselves out of the grind their parents spent their whole lives just to keep their heads above water here, while sending their kids to school, athletic events, and providing an enriching environment where HOMEWORK and STUDY were encouraged.

Remember THIS PROGRAM IS FUNDED BY LOTTO MONEY. It isn't a HAND-OUT from TAXES as the popular myth goes.

Now, you have to really look at it: Lotto sales go up! But they've cut the supply of the money to the muscle all of it was supposed to go to. They provide a third twist to the valve by upping the requirements. They provided not one shred of data that lotto funding was tight in the first place, that lotto sales were down. Once again! It's not tied to revenue from taxes! It's tied to people trying something, hell, ANYTHING, to save themselves financially from this mess republicans and greed heads on Wall Street created in the first place!

No. Not one shred of data that lotto wasn't working and now we have evidence that the exact opposite is true.

So, where is that extra money from these shaving going to go? What will that money be doing now that it ISN'T being directed to the very place it was designed to go in the first place?

Who knows? And the bought-and-paid-for media isn't going to ask.

In sum, we have bald-faced evidence that this program of plundering the lotto is nothing more than another example of attacking and killing the hopes and dreams of middle and poorer economic class working Floridians, and robbing the coffers of the state for whatever nefarious purposes these cretinous leeches - naming names now: Rick Scott, Dean Cannon, Mikey Haridopolos, John Thrasher, Evelyn Lynn - deem fit.

A criminal corporate cabal is in control of your government here in Florida. Their mission is to kill the hopes of your children, enrich themselves while driving as many of us from the state as possible.

You are to be replaced with mechanical golf ball washers, greens, and fairways. You and your children are no longer welcome here. Personae non gratti. You're no longer deemed worthy to stand in your own state.

Bright Futures Must die, so that the rich can plunder our lucrative state lotto.

Now what the hell are you going to do about it?

Jon Huntsman, Rick Scott and the wider GOP agenda

June 22, 2010 Orlando – Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman opened his campaign offices for his 2012 run.Essentially he said you can’t win the White House without the I-4, Tampa to Orlando corridor.

He also hired ex staffers from the Rick Scott campaign to help him.

On a previous pass through Florida, Huntsman did not seek out Scott’s endorsement. At the time, Scott’s approval rating was tanking. And yet, those staffers were hired from the Scott campaign after a meeting between the governor and the candidate Wednesday or yesterday. Huntsman one-stopped shopped, and done was done. Do you suppose he was impressed by what the Scott people managed to pull off? 

Huntsman of the LDS, the former governor of Utah, and former ambassador to China, resigned the later post in April to prepare for this, obviously.

Oh, we’re going to be dealing with China. That experience is going to be a big feather in his cap.

Huntsman’s all-for pulling troops home, putting them on the border with Mexico, and building a wall to protect us which appeals to both sides of the aisle. The covert aim is to prepare for major global conflict which seems to be down the road.

In our humble opinion, this is a futurist, a globalist, and someone dialed in with the Council of Foreign Relations: the Big Machine.

He’s considered a moderate and some might count him out for this reason, given the amount of play Big Media is throwing to your tea party mouth-breathers (Bachman), charlatans (Newt) and window lickers (Perry). Our read is, you'd be wrong to rule out Hunstman for the nominatio, despite the bag-boys and girls and all their noise.

Ask yourself what are folks like Rick Scott doing to the rabid tea party cause? They are setting that bubble up for a final pop if it  hasn't already happened.

Enter Hunstman to covertly lance that boil, and fulfill his part in the drama, and tea party wet dream, called "take the country back fromthose evil people." In which partiers will find their final employment serving for the last time in their useful idiot's last hurrah. Removing  Obama from the White House will prove to be adios for the movement. A kettle heat denied, is just an old container.

On the other hand, Huntsman appeals to the center and moderate left can - almost, maybe just, if they are foolish enough - stomach him, if they have to. Adopted a baby girl from India in 2006. Preventing gay marraige isn't a core value. He claims his desire is to engage on the issues, not attack the opponent, personally. Strangely, many will find this refreshing. 

Like many a republican candidate these days, he also claims to be all about business and the middle class, and will hold up an independant business as an example on the campaign trail, as he did yesterday in Miami.

"See? I care. Watch me care. This place is eggggzactly the kind of business.....(yawn)"

Scott did the same thing, time and again, and proved that the beleagured small business, to him, was nothing more than a hostage-kewpie used to force a massive, big-corporate agenda.

Huntsman's father, Jon Sr., founded Hunstman Corp. ChemicalsThe younger is actually the spawn of big corporate, through and through. Huntsman also grew up in Palo Alto California; Big Think Tank Central. Being a Mormon is going to work in his favor in ways, you and I have not begun to imagine. Every LDS boy of a certain age goes abroad to spread the word. He spent two years in Taiwan.

On the surface, Hunstman seems to be a guy more about foreign policy than economic recovery. But, we've learned that that doesn't matter in an election even during a crisis. Citizens don't count. Small business people don't count, only games in the international sphere and international corporations actually count. Our votes and our rigged process is only a tool that lets those in power keep on playing.

"Across the pacific ocean" is the place where the challenges lie in the 21st Century, not in the prairies of Afghanistan, he said yesterday.

In sum: global-oriented member of the Big Machine, coming in under the radar, ready to lance the tea boil which we are all mightily sick of. He sets up HQ in Florida, where a GOP shill governor and his hand-picked secretary of state can do as they damned well please with the funky evoting machines by Dominion ESS, Premier Deibold,  Sequoia or whatever the hell that monopoly calls itself these days.

And the nation will swallow the lie we are all too stupid to vote correctly as they always do when our elections are stolen from us.

Florida, where Scott, Browning et al have sought to create chaos and confrontation and confusion for the upcoming election.

These combined, spell a major threat to a future of alternative energy and real economic recovery of the middle class, again to the enrichment of the uppers and the vast corporate interests.

Despite a pretty wife, a pretty face, a pretty adopted baby, if this candidate gets traction and faces Obama, he likely will win. We will be looking at more big business over small business. No meaningful loosening of the credit markets. The new status quo as constructed by our apocalypitc horse-governors - Christie, Scott, Walker et al - will be preserved.

More war, not peace, not progress, will brink our horizon.

Wal-Mart Jesus, Darwin and Rick Scott

Business types know all about Charles Darwin, that’s why they call it “corporate Darwinism” and they say this only in their boardrooms. Right. They know all about Darwin, they just don’t want you to know about him, hence the need to destroy public education, drive Darwin underground and replace him at the head the classroom with Wal-Mart Jesus.
Not real Jesus but cut-rate, conscience-free Jesus. Jesus who doesn’t particularly give a shit about your troubles. Just extra low-low prices, and everything must go. Guns are located in sporting goods. He’s can be thought of as Jesus LITE™ twice as violent, with none of the fattening love of the real Jesus, and mad as hell at the democrats. He also wants everyone to take a drug test before they get one more dime of any sort of assistance.
Those who sell Wal-Mart Jesus to you, especially don’t want your children understanding the game being played on them called “screw your kids. Mine are more important.”
The long version of the game is called “Good enough for your kid to attend some feces version of voucher school where they teach Wal-Mart Jesus as gospel, while mine are learning how to enslave yours!”
So, regarding the further need of Rick Scott to cut programs for the disabled? Revert to the fact big business types understand how Darwin works, and they are all for the weak or the needy being served by his principle.
Scott “kills two birds,” then inflicting massive cuts, so that corporations can be given tax breaks and nature can take its course on the weak and the needy. Better they die sooner, so they can’t vote later.
To Rick Scott and other pornographically perverse conservatives behind the tea party – pornservatives, as we call them around the office here - the really orgasmic aspect is watching the disabled, the insane, the addicted, wander the streets like zombies so that Cadillac’s, driven by Charles Darwin, can bump them off one after the other.

They Still Want Their Hands on State Parks for Golf

Just when you thought that nonsense was over here it comes again."The Golden Bear's" promotional and public relations team isn't finished trying to put golf courses in state parks.

They have tapped several press outlets and have begun the old soft-sell. This time, their primary target is the Jonathan Dickinson State Park, near Hobe Sound, an 11,000 acre wildland named after a Quaker merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica. Dickinson along with his party, were shipwrecked in the are of Hobe Sound in 1696, and walked most of the distance between there and St. Augustine, suffering at the hands of, and given food by, various native American villages en route. Great story.

A PR guy for the bear told TC Palm that Lord Nicklaus has a 22nd grandchild on the way and so his master is "looking at finding a way to give back to the sport and the state he loves" Puh-leeze. Here's a translation: 'we've already put money into the design of these suckers and we'd like to find a way to get at least some of that money back.'

The Bill for the Nicklaus trail was retracted by its birthers, Rooney of Palm Beach and Thrasher of St. Augustine when OS's Scott Maxwell wrote about it, then Real Radio further stirred the masses on the internets to go after Jack with persuation.

Now the Nicklaus people are going after those who care for the legacy of the park at Hobe Sound, Friends of the Jonathan Dickinson State Park, with love bombs. No word yet whether they will cave. If they do, others will follow and we will have sold off treasures that make Florida what it is, not to mention, we will have opened up the state to further pornservative atrocities.

Listen, Rick Scott, who was all for this just four months ago as a candidate and as gov. elect, will be gone one day. He'll move on to his next political position. So will people like Rooney, Thrasher, Haridopeyass, and Cannon.We will still be here because we love this state and we will have to live with the mess these people leave behind.

We have to keep blocking this. Not one square inch for golf inside state parks.

Rick Scott A Likely Donald Runningmate

Ever since Governor Scott immediately sought dealings with the Donald back in early March, flying up to New York for this wacky promotional or whatever the hell you would want to call it, we have been wondering, are these two a political couple?
Fair question and we think the answer is yes.

This very strange shot was taken March 2.

Explaining for those of you who have joined us recently. The random, awkward press event cum suspect "line-up" at Trump Towers was for Rick Scott's "Share a Little Sunshine" program; an idea that has evaporated other than vague promises for free trips to Escambia County.

The Donald was there as you see, to his right is Pedro Menendez back from the grave, and Rick Scott to his left, bathing in the presence of his God-head.

Scott then likely said, "Florida is open for business."

The suspects in the line-up of course, all of the appropriate diverse mix and 18-34 demo, were likely the result of a boot-leg trip down to Screen Actor's Guild offices in Midtown, Manhattan: "Hey! we need some bright young faces to look like "Floridians".

Uhg. No. Some things still don't pass the racial stereotype smell test: what's with the gloves and the do-rag underneath the cap on suspect number three?

The idea behind the photo perhaps? (Like bad art one must guess at what the artist was failing to express.) "See the wonderful workforce of cabana boys and towel girls and Hooter's waitresses? Aren't they great? Come on down and exploit them! Yay!"

Vomit.

Anyway, we have postulated the real reason was for Scott to get taxpayer reimbursement to drag his entire entourage and press palm with His Donaldness. Likely Donald was enticed by yet another chance to be on television, at a podium, or otherwise in front of snapping cameras of the national press. Thereby providing cover for them to convene and come to some sort of understanding for The Donald/Scott ticket. Though it is idle speculation at this point, we feel Scott is definitely posting up to be his wingman. C'mon. Look at him!

Now, again, to our state's discredit, in the video above from the Obama roasting, we see a doe-eyed, gooey Rick Scott to his left slathering at the side of The Donald, checking to make sure his master wasn't hurt too bad from the comments made by President Barack Obama.

I have it on good word that The Donald wasn't invited by the White House so much as The Washington Post. No matter, the president was apparently ready for him. Trump's star is currently made of lead. Not the least of the obstacles for this presumed "ticket" is the unwelcome news from their perspective, THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS BEEN KILLED and apparently Obama had something to do with it!

Ooops! Obama's ass is water-tight and floating well above the high line, while Trump's ballast compartment is filling fast.

In the meantime, while teachers are having their careers reduced to atoms and the classrooms are falling apart in this state, with tension you could cut with a knife, here's our governor hard at work, sucking ass and playing political footsie.

Bootlicker. That's how your state is being represented.

How do you like them apples, Florida?