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Rick Scott Asks Facebook For One Word Response to 2012 Legislative Session

To be quickly filed under the category "be careful what you ask for," Florida Governor Rick Scott posed this question on Facebook last night:

If you could use one word to describe Florida's 2012 legislative session, it would be ___________. COMMENT below!

As of this writing, only 339 people really think he cares. No one should be too surprised to find that the first comment at the top says: "You are kidding me, right?"

Some of the others: corrupt, anti-American, crooks, pathetic, plutocratic, recall, and several additional votes for "corrupt."

Maybe the "crack" staff in the governor's office think this is a good PR move to make it look like they care, but it just comes off more like they're mocking the people of Florida and rubbing their noses in it. Which seems to be part of Scott's playbook. At least they seem to be leaving the comments alone rather than just taking it down.

I propose the next question be to ask the same of Gov. Scott. Now THAT would get a big response.

What are the chances....

GOP's Keystone Kop Darrell Issa Politicizes The Deaths Of 11 Oil Rig Workers

GOP blowhard, auto enthusiast, and ironic chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Darrell Issa chose the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to demonstrate that he is indeed one of the sleaziest, most arrogant politicians in Washington D.C., and possibly of the free world. (For anyone not familiar with Issa's background, you can catch up here, if you have the stomach for it, and lots of time on your hands.)

Issa, in all his self-important, pompous bluster, also used the occasion to take part in one of the GOP's favorite sports, Obama-bashing, while also misrepresenting the facts, as any chairman of an oversight committee from his side of the aisle would:

(Actual job-crushing, time wasting Tweet)

As Think Progress pointed out, Issa has been busy not overseeing the oil "spill" himself. I"m guessing that would take too much time away from fund-raising, being swooned by lobbyists, cruising auto dealerships, and blasting out falsehoods via social media...or something..?

Under his chairmanship, Issa’s committee has held not a single hearing to investigate one of most devastating corporate crimes in American history, although even he admitted in March that the oil spill commission established by the president found “a degree of negligence by BP, its partners, and regulators that can only be called shameful.”

I suppose politicizing the deaths of the oil rig workers is just par for the course, coming from the guy who claimed 9-11 was "just a plane crash."

It's fitting that Issa uses a cartoon Keystone Kop lookalike avatar for his Twitter account.

It suits him perfectly.