Sadly his replacement is likely to be worse - if the establishment candidate wins the Republican primary (no doubt a friend of Governor C.C. will be put in to keep the seat warm).

Governor Crist is running for the nomination and he is a wild spending nonentity who spends a lot of his time (at least till recently) praiseing Comrade Barack Obama (he dare not praise Castro due to the large Cuban American community in Florida).

Yet the Republican establishment support this man - saying he he "represents minorities" and so on.

This is quota politics - and it does not make sense anyway. Governor C.C. is a middle aged white man. I suppose being male makes him a part of a minority (although that is unusal usage) and he is rich - so I suppose that makes him part of a minority also. He also gave the vote to convicted felons - so I that is another minority.

But it still makes no sense - unless what A. Clarke suggested to me is correct, if so then Governor C.C. does indeed represent a fashionable minority.

Of course the final joke is that if he wins the nomination and then the general election in November 2008 he will vote with the Democrats - and most likely join them.

Another Senator Spector.

Agree with all of Paul Marks' comment.

I don't understand the solidarity that is presumed to exist between Cubans and Puerto Ricans. Nobody ever suggests nominating a Haitian to win the Vietnamese vote, despite the fact that Haiti and Vietnam were both colonized by the French. Would an EU President be seen as currying favor with the English by appointing an Irishman to high office, based on the fact that Ireland's the next island over?

In the race to replace him, what Martinez is doing has a worse result than simple ethnic solidarity would; Crist's opponent in the 2010 Republican primary is a small-government Reagan Republican, and a Cuban - and Martinez is backing the statist white guy!

I'd think that this would be of interest to Samizdata, but probably not. D.C. Circuit puts a smack down on the IRS:

Take it away, Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who vividly starts the majority opinion in Cohen v. United States this way:

"Comic-strip writer Bob Thaves famously quipped, 'A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.' In this case it took the Internal Revenue Service’s (“IRS” or “the Service”) aggressive interpretation of the tax code to part millions of Americans with billions of dollars in excise tax collections. Even this remarkable feat did not end the IRS’s creativity. When it finally conceded defeat on the legal front, the IRS got really inventive and developed a refund scheme under which almost half the funds remained unclaimed."

Ooh, snap. And for the IRS, it gets worse. States Rogers:

"In sum, the IRS unlawfully expropriated billions of dollars from taxpayers, conceded the illegitimacy of its actions, and developed a mandatory process as the sole avenue by which the agency would consider refunding its ill-gotten gains."

Spanking the IRS(Link)

Crist you do not want anywhere near your freedoms. He is a certified Statist dolt. Many say Martinez quit to help Crist, not because he lied to his constituency about most everything, but wants a dolt for a replacement, to keep the breed.

Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican House Speaker, is our candidate of choice to replace Martinez. Crist is not likely to get elected Florida governor after the crap he pulled with the budget and the State run Citizens insurance. Solid Conservative.

Look at it this way, the only thing worse than a dumb bigot for the Supreme Court would be a smart one. This soda-jerk is going to get her head handed to her if she speaks up.

Perry,
Funny that you should mention Republicans and the Kelo case at this time.
One of the justices who supported the theft by Eminent Domain supreme court decision was the soon-to-be-retired David Souter. And David Souter was appointed to the court by____ _ _ ____

Funny that you should mention Republicans and the Kelo case at this time.

That has been my drum beat for a while now... the true problem is not "Oh Noez, Democrats is in office", no... the real problem is "oh hell, both parties are essentially no different".

Until that changes, voting for the Republicans is voting to perpetuate the problem.

Glenn Beck says the same Perry - and even Jim DeMint (Republican Senator) basically admits (in his book "Saving Freedom") that a statist Republican like George Walker Bush is a waste of time.

So the election that really matters is the primary - making sure there is an anti-statist Republican and working so they WIN.

bgates and billtb

You forget a conservative hispanic is not a "real" hispanic (indeed even a pale nordic type can be more "truly" hispanic if he is a statist like Crist).

Just as black man is not "truly" black if he is a conservative (that is why Barbara Boxer, a rich white female, more "truly" speaks for poor black men than the head of the black chamber of commerce who has worked his way up from poverty).

Blacks who are conservative are "traitors".

For example the SEIU (Serivce Employees International Union) thugs that the Whitehouse has ordered in to break up the Townhall meetings, target such black "traitors".

It does not matter if you are small and wear glasses and are not even in the meeting (just standing selling stuff outside) - four of them will knock you to the ground and give you a kicking (including in the head).

St Louis Missouri.

And quite right to - did the guy not remember that Obama is God on Earth?

Remember the Whitehouse directly ordered in the SEIU - they ordered this.

And not a peep of protest from the "mainstream media".

A notational Republican acting like a Democrat is not anything that could in theory get the Insitutional Republicans to expel them. It would guarantee their support. The only Republican I have seen the party try to get rid of was my incumbent congressman who is a conservative. The state party refused to give him the list of delegates and alternates to his nominating convention and forced him to petition [took all of two days] to get on the Republican primary ballot. They supported someone whose acceptance speech in the nominating convention included the promise to reach across the aisle to work with the Democrats. It is the first time I have ever seen a convention 'boo' the person that they just nominated [mind you because he was unopposed at the convention]. The Institutional Republican party are worshippers of Cthulu. All they ask of the Democrats is to be eaten last, and to hold on to their personal perks right up until the moment of mastication.

Subotai Bahadur

Indeed Subotai, which is why the party needs to be destroyed before it can be rebuilt. I mean really destroyed.

My comment does not seem to have turned up.

Surely what is meant is that the establishment candidates should be "destroyed, really destroyed" in the primary elections.

The objective should not be to turn the United States into a one party nation (and with that party being led by a Marxist like Barack Obama) - but rather to defeat establishment Republicans in the primaries with pro freedom people.