In Tight Race That Could Determine The Senate Majority, Even The Algae Counts
♫ What’s it all about, Algae ♫
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I love how the guy who broke Florida (in more ways than one) wants to “make Washington Work!”. Why can’t these people just f%kk off, get on their yachts or play golf all day, and just go away. No, they have to ruin everything for everyone else.
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Dear TPM;
The story is mostly about the Red Bloom algae. Your image on the story and front page originally showed Red Bloom algae. Now it’s green. It’s the same image, someone just retouched it to be green. This algae isn’t green.
Why do you do these things?
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"Scott said… his administration is “doing everything we can right now.”
“We need really good easterly winds right now,” Scott told reporters."
Doing all they can, for example hoping the wind changes.
Until they hold a statewide prayer for the algae to vanish he can’t say they are doing everything. And how about sacrificing animals, or better yet, virgins.
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That has to wait for the college kids to hit Daytona Beach next spring.
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Decades of trashing the environment so rich guys can get richer? No consequences, right, Rick?
Son, you been rolled.
It’s not nice to fool-around with Mother Nature…
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Is it just me or did the main picture change colors?
Every Democrat running anywhere needs to make big signs and posters of the environmental degradation like all those dead fish with the caption “THIS IS DEREGULATION!” So citizens can connect that word to something visceral and unacceptable.
WHERE is the screaming about the GOP’s upcoming cuts to Social Security and Medicare!?? THAT issue must become the Dems “Death Panels” until every Republican bug has been squashed!
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All Sen. Nelson has to do is keep saying:
"Smell THAT?? Rick Scott wants to spread it to Washington!"
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It’s not just you. At first it was this one and then this one. I really hope someone can explain that.
I suppose in a different world where human-caused global warming and subsequent changes to the climate are not a reality and existential threat, the tepid irony that a micro-organism might play a larger-than-life role in a senate campaign, is cute, even funny. But we do not live in that world–at least anymore. Scott’s broad and deep history of climate change denialism has so far made him a darling for the Republicans and passable for too many others who, whether they know better or not, hope against hope that climate change is not as bad as it is and will be. The Florida economy is inextricably tied to its coastal property values. With sea-level rise, those values change disruptively in the near to mid-term. Scott’s denialism, his government’s refusal to even begin to consider state efforts to protect state inhabitants, and algae thriving in a warmer ocean are intimately related.
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Toss a couple of dead fish in the bushes outside polling places just to remind people.
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Veteran Florida GOP strategist Mac Stipanovich said that he doesn’t believe there’s a “credible” way to blame the Scott administration for worsening environmental issues that have long plagued the state.
Of course, the fact that the GOP has had sole control of Florida’s government for the last 20 years might be somehow relevant, Mac, you damn dumb Stipanovich.
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I loved this one:
In a Friday statement, Scott spokesman Chris Hartline dismissed the criticism as Democrats’ “attempt to score political points before an election.”
Yeah, Chris, when else would you try to score political points? Dumbass.
AlgaeOP.
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It’s the conservative way…
Yes, please, democrats need to show some obvious links between these terrible and someday fatal delinquencies perpetrated by the Grand Old Prickers. Mother Nature at some unpredictable moment is gonna collapse our living systems thanks to the greed and stupidity of these damnable cretins removing all of the sensible and vital environmental protections. Does anyone remember the reason why we practice cleanliness? God Almighty. And even he can’t help us is we don’t care to help ourselves.
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In a Friday statement, Scott spokesman Chris Hartline dismissed the criticism as Democrats’ “attempt to score political points before an election.”
A-ha! I knew it! Those pesky paid professional leftist protesters in thrall to their liberal Democratic paymaster (and George Soros) are at it again! What is this country coming to, with protesters protesting the trashing of the places they live?
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Hardly even necessary. Tons of dead fish have to go somewhere, and that’s inland. Lots of people can smell the piles from the landfills even if they don’t live near the coast. We’re having a hotter September than usual (I know, it’s Florida, but still) so the rot is even more odorous.
I almost want to call this whole thing a win-win. Except for the dying wildlife part. And the dying economy part. Yeah, other than that.
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