Crowley Political Report

 Tallahassee is a lovely little town. Isolated from nearly everything - hours from any city of any size, our state Capital is a remote island where reality is often suspended.

This comes to mind as Florida lawmakers return to Tallahassee today for a special session called by Gov. Charlie Crist.

The "No I can't win the U.S. Senate race as a Republican so I'll start the Crist Party" candidate for U.S. Senate has summoned lawmakers for the purpose of passing a proposed constitutional amendment banning oil drilling off our pristine condo and mansion ladened coastline.

Miffed that Crist has interfered with their summer plans and simply boiling with rage that Crist dared leave the GOP, House members have threatened to just show up for a couple hours and then leave town without doing a thing.

It is all meaningless showmanship. Crist will cry foul and continue to insist that he just wants to help the little folks keep the few beaches that are open to them clean.

Repubican lawmakers will stomp around insisting that they are not about to fall for Crist's blatant publicity stunt. Democrats will be shocked - shocked I tell you - that GOP leaders are ignoring the "will of the people."

And they say Disney World is fantasy land.