In March of 2010 as Allen West campaigned for the Republican nomination in Florida’s 22nd congressional district, he railed against a bumper sticker that angered him greatly: As I was driving up here today, I saw that bumper sticker that absolutely incenses me. It’s not the Obama bumper sticker. But it’s the bumper sticker that [...]

Tea Party activist Tim Curtis ran on a platform of expanding offshore drilling, ignoring global warming, and lowering taxes paid by the wealthy.

Jeff Miller is a terrible choice for voters who are serious about energy reform, but Miller’s independent challengers, John Krause, Joe Cantrell and Jim Bryan, won’t take a stand for clean energy either.

John Mica’s speech was significant in that it implicitly accepted the idea that offshore drilling is risky, and should not be rushed into.

Jim Piccillo’s move to address the lack of leadership in the 5th district suggests a powerful political strategy for congressional candidates in Gulf Coast states. The merging of environmental issues and economic issues could strengthen the hand of Democratic candidates for the mid-term elections.

Senator George LeMieux said, “Right now is not the time to fault the administration, or BP for what they could have or should have done.” LeMieux seems more interested in protecting BP than protecting Florida’s shores.

A coalition of Democratic senators is now stepping into the gap between energy reality and the Obama energy bill, promising to block any bill that fails to remove current pro-industry measures providing favors to coal mining companies and expansion of offshore drilling.

If Ginny Brown-Waite is no longer choosing to deal with the Deepwater Horizon emergency, it’s the responsibility of Richard Nugent to step forward with a plan for saving the 5th district’s beaches, to show that he’s qualified for the job of U.S. Representative

As of yet, Blue Dog Allen Boyd has said nothing about the spill at all. It’s as if he’s pretending the problem doesn’t exist.

Jeff Miller hasn’t introduced or supported any legislation to help prevent such a disaster from happening again. He hasn’t come up with any bills to provide resources to deal with the present spill either.