The Political Whore

Sonia Sotomayor with her kids nephews at a ballgame. She certainly will have to be alert for foul balls in the confirmation process. (photo courtesy of whitehouse.gov)

This week’s podcast breaks down the Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination with Tampa media lawyer David Snyder. We talk about her race-based rulings, her temperament, Rush Limbaugh and Tom Tancredo’s charges of reverse racism and whether judges really do/should make policy or not.

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We’re combining forces to bring you a more complete set of morning headlines in politics, media and pop culture. Joe Bardi’s Short List on the Daily Loaf and Wayne Garcia’s Morning Roundup in PoHo blog will now be combined, giving you even more news to start your day with.

Here’s a great idea. Too bad it’s illegal in Florida:

• “Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell.”
• Don’t the Rays remind you of … John McCain?!!?
• Per Joe Biden’s Seattle comment, a how-to on loin-girding.
• Is Matt Drudge off his game? (P.S. I’m calling for a boycott of Drudge Report. Who’s with me?)
• With Obama and the Dems on the verge of history, Newsweek reports America really is a conservative nation (no matter how we vote).
• Would it be horribly racist and stereotypical to say that this will most certainly lead to the first 7-Eleven on the moon?
• Who’da thunk that red dresses cost so damned much?
• St. Pete keeping its anti-protest plans secret. Lemme guess: a carton of box-cutters?
• Not only is Crooked Lawyer going to prison for a decade, he’s got a huuuuge friggin’ mole to contend with.
• They’re pretty stoked out in Lakeland to be getting a Five Guys.
• CQ now predicts that two Orlando area Republican congressmen, Keller and Feeney, are headed to defeat.
• The man who had his ass whupped by Sarah Palin in the veepstakes re-emerges with words of support for John McCain.
• GOP ad tries to tie Obama to 9-11 QB Atta.
• Amendment 2 opponents cry fraud against pro-vote advertisement.
• “Tampa, City of Hooters …”

Today’s top political and media news headlines, with updates throughout the day in that little box just to the right:

• More Sarah on the media interview circuit!
• Crist, Cabinet to consider funding final segment of Orlando’s beltway.
• Adam Putnam on why he voted for the bailout.
• Congress slips in authorization for Tamiami Trail bridge to aid Everglades restoration; Miccosukees outraged.
• Oh, and by the way, the Everglades restoration is bogged down and costing us more by the minute.
• Bloodied after her first encounter with Couric, Palin brings her dad to the second one.
• Lawyers delight: Court case deciding which government pays for roads near schools is over. Either way, the taxpayers were paying, so the only ones who benefited were those people racking up billable hours.
• City’s largest union turns down contract with 3.5 percent cost-of-living increase and 3 percent merit raises. How many folks out there got a 6.5 percent bump this year? Raise your hands? Anyone? Thought so.
• The wild, crazy and completely made-up conspiracy theory about Sarah Palin and Eric Cantor.
• Another sign of the impending apocalypse: AC/DC inks exclusive deal with Wal-Mart.
• Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday, man you’ve been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long: