The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has grown so large, with its progress so inexorable, that the Coast Guard will light it on fire to keep it at bay and stop the oil from getting to shore. An oil company says crews are poised to start setting fire to oil leaking from the [...]

Tomorrow we will discover Charlie Crist’s decision on whether to leave the Republican Party and run for the US Senate as an independent. And apparently, he’s taken a look at the idea in a poll, and saw numbers he liked: According to multiple Republican sources, Crist conducted a poll on Monday and Tuesday to test [...]

Many have wondered in the wake of Arizona’s “Papers Please” immigration law when the tea party movement would bother to speak out against it. There may be no greater example of big government overreach than government officers demanding documentation based on their own suspicions. This isn’t just a slippery slope, it’s an ice floe, and [...]

It’s a testament to the institutional power of the Republican Party that not even the man Charlie Crist appointed to the US Senate, his former chief of staff, would follow him to an independent bid if Crist decided on that option. But LeMieux now has a choice to make: If Crist bolts the GOP and [...]

The Florida Republican Party faces a criminal investigation from the IRS, FBI and the US Attorney’s office over party-issued American Express card spending. And among the members of the state GOP implicated is none other than Marco Rubio. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tallahassee, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are all involved in [...]

Charlie Crist admitted to a local station yesterday that he was considering running for US Senate in Florida as an independent. “I can tell you I’m getting a lot of advice in that direction. I’m a listener and so I’m certainly listening to it,” said Crist. He also talked about the decision to pull all [...]

Reid Wilson, who’s pretty plugged in with the GOP establishment, finds them resigned to the fact that Charlie Crist will be on the ballot in Florida in November as an independent, opening up a three-way race and giving the Democrat, Kendrick Meek, a real chance at victory. Over the weekend, Crist pulled TV advertisements that [...]

A Quinnipiac poll shows that Charlie Crist still has no shot getting elected Senator as a Republican, but could do OK in a three-way race: Marco Rubio has opened up an elephant-sized 56 – 33 percent lead over Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida’s U.S. Senate Republican primary, but in a three-way general election with Rubio [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Charlie Crist’s advisers are urging him to abandon the Republican primary for US Senate and take up an independent run. This is a decision Crist would not be able to make after losing the primary; he would have to drop out of the Republican race by the end [...]

Charlie Crist, tiring of rumors that he will switch parties and avoid what appears to be a losing battle in the Florida Senate primary against Marco Rubio, tried to dispel them this afternoon. This statement comes directly from the campaign: “To put these rumors to rest once and for all, as we have said countless [...]

I don’t know if this will derail Marco Rubio in the Republican primary – if I had to guess it won’t – but the biggest papers in Florida just looked back at his record and found a huge slush fund for both political and personal activities, maintained through special interest donations. Two newspapers did a [...]