VIDEO: Crist’s faux indignation? You decide
by Michael C. Bender | July 20th, 2010House Majority Leader Adam Hasner’s staff director e-mailed reporters saying Gov. Charlie Crist’s press conference today should win “the Oscar for best performance of planned faux indignation.”
Some will argue that, politically, it might be better for Crist, a U.S. Senate candidate, that lawmakers refused to vote. After all, anger does seem to be it’s own political ideology these days.
That said, Crist seemed as fired up as anyone has ever seen him after House and Senate Republicans refused to vote on whether or not Florida voters should decide to amend the state constitution to ban oil drilling. The only votes the two chambers took today were to adjourn.
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July 20th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
You’re astonished? But of course, you’re only looking after “The People”. Really Charlie. Did you tell The People that state law already prohibited oil drilling off of Florida’s shoreline? Did you tell The People that a constitutional amendment wouldn’t have prevented the tragic circumstance off of the Louisiana coastline?
Charlie you should win an Oscar for this performance. But you’ll stoop to this theatre now that the oil well is capped and you have no means to get free publicity anymore. You’re so transparent. I bet you’ll be hoping that Florida gets slammed by a major hurricane so you can be off kissing babies and telling people that everything is going to be alright.
July 20th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Hurricane Charlie.
Give em hell Charlie!
July 20th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Lets hope and pray The Feds can get this “sucker” pun intended, in bracelets along with his partner in crime Willie McCollum before the August primary! Now that he has publicly aligned himself with the Obama asministration (this includes the like of Alan Grayson) by announcing his support of ObamaCare it appears his former colleges at the RPOF along eith his former close friend Jim Greer should be a little more ready to spill the beans now! Lets get these criminals off the streets and out of our wallets while we have the chance!
July 20th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Charlie Darlie, I can’t stand it! I love you so much. Please, I know you are so busy, but you know where I am over here in lonely ole Sumter county, please come by and see ole lonesome me!
July 20th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
He is a bigger drama queen than Betty White in a Life Time mini series. Sorry Charlie your overacting sucks. All you needed is Abruzzo to give you a dramatic hug at the end and Sachs to cry & swipe her animal hair out of her face.
You can get better acting skills from a try-outs at a high school play.
I would suggest that you give the 55K back it cost the state to some drama club.
Dumbocrats…you are worse to play arround with this. He voted for drilling for a years.
LET IRV SERVE…SO HAPPY HE IS COMING BACK TO CONTROL YOU LOSERS!
GO MARCO!!!
July 20th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Governor Crist’s political theatre opened and closed faster than a bad off-Broadway musical and to even worse reviews. Crist tried to use the special session to divert attention from the fact that like President Obama, he has done nothing to protect our shores from the oil that never should have reached a single beach. The constitutional ban wouldn’t have changed that fact.
The ban also wouldn’t have changed the fact that drilling in the shallow waters offshore is far safer than importing foreign oil from nations that support terrorism, via tankers (where most accidents have historically occurred).
Governor Crist got his photo-ops on the beach with the tar balls and his 2-1/2 hours of theatre. Now we wait for the Deepwater Horizon investigation to be completed so we can find out exactly what caused the disaster. It is more than likely that the disaster was caused by a combination of neglect by BP and the fact that when drilling in 5,000 feet of water the oil is under tremendous pressure and is superheated.
When all the facts are known we may be very glad that we didn’t put a permanent constitutional ban on the ballot for this November when facts are few and passions are running high.
July 20th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Haven’t seen such bad acting this side of the Italian National Soccer Team.
July 20th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
You all are not up here. He is right. You have no idea what is happening to us up here and have no right. Bring it to a vote for ALL of Florida not just the Republiknuts.
July 20th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
My take:
http://www.practicalstate.com/2010/07/20/ive-read-about-harry-truman-and-mister-governor-you-are-no-harry-truman/
Cheers
July 21st, 2010 at 1:13 am
Charlie Crist has been a self-promoting useless bum.
This November, we throw the bums out!
July 21st, 2010 at 5:57 am
This wasn’t faux anger at all.
It’s Mr. Cristo-Change-O having a tantrum and a meltdown in public because his strategy for trying to win the U.S. Senate is unraveling before his eyes.
His Christ-complex is now getting the better of him.
What he can’t believe is that, having given the Legislature the finger, they gave him the finger right back.
No matter how he rails on about this, not having this do-nothing amendment on the ballot in November will mean that fewer single-issue voters (that Chuckles needs) will turn out this fall. Crist knows he needs that higher turnout, an now he won’t get it, and his foot-stomping mad about it.
He rolled the dice, and they came up craps. He ran a bluff, and he got his bad, self-serving, political hand called.
Of course he’s mad.
And he should be mad at himself, for having chosen a self-aggrandizing campaign strategy that put up a do-nothing agenda item, and nothing else.
He made this error two-months ago by waiting to call the session and failing to put meaningful actions before the Legislature that would actually help our people, our beaches, our tourism, and our economy.
His own traditional, congenital lack of leadership has led him to not get his way.
What a frakking two-year old!
July 21st, 2010 at 7:20 am
I fully intended to vote for anyone except Gov. Christ in the upcoming election. I think I might have been wrong. While I still disagree with most of his positions on many things, it appears that he is the only elected official that cares about the state we live in. Florida is at a turning point and should use every ounce of energy possible to prohibit all drilling (not only in Florida but the entire gulf coast).
What I will do is take a list of Florida leaders who spoke out against this ban and use that as a disqualifier to any possibility of voting for them.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:07 am
Charlie the “Drama Queen” attempted to emmulate his current American political idol (Barry Obama). He did not want a political crisis to go to waste. Florida law already does not permit offshore drilling. That is an astonishing missed fact amongst the regional lame-stream media. He should have proposed something more meaningless legislatation like having Floridians to vote to ban off shore drilling in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. If this was a summer TV Pilot, it would never make fall line up. Lets hope the same is true for this poor actor and drama queen in November
July 21st, 2010 at 8:10 am
The lame duck Gov should give it a rest. The Feds wont stop it and the fact that the deep water wells are not in US waters makes the point moot. The politicians and the wannabee politicians also fail to tell us that the oil that is drilled off our coasts does not come back to the US which would make it OUR oil, it goes into a collective and is sold to the highest bidder. The drill baby drill crowd wont tell you that either. I would just prefer some honesty over the political posturing that goes on ad nauseum. How about this, get a person who will simply be honest, forthright and sincere in office for a change. I am sick of all of them.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:16 am
does anybody comment here that is not working for a candidate. Let Irv get up there to control them???? Are you serious!
If the amendment was such a useless thing than just vote on it and put it on the ballot. For years when pushing gay marriage bans, tax cuts, the mantra was “let the people vote.” What happened to that? Sure it is politics on all sides but at the end of the day who the hell cares about putting on ballot. Legislature has never cared before, they load it up with garbage every year so why all the concern now?