April 30, 2010 - Pensito

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With Friends Like These…

April 30, 2010May 6, 2010 Trish

CristBadgeLg Not everyone is thrilled by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s announcement that he will continue his run for the U.S. Senate as No Party Affiliation (NPA) rather than Republican. In his news conference announcing the decision, he assured partisans he would keep his personal voter registration within the GOP fold. This tiny gesture doesn’t seem to be enough to appease many of his 15,376 Facebook friends, some of whom were taking the news poorly judging by comments (unedited) they left on the governor’s wall.

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Verbatim

April 30, 2010 Buck Banks

It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.

— President Obama, quoted by Think Progress April 2, 2010. Just 18 days later a rig operated 41 miles off the Louisiana coast exploded and caused what may be the largest oil spill in history.

Day: April 30, 2010

With Friends Like These…

Verbatim

It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.

— President Obama, quoted by Think Progress April 2, 2010. Just 18 days later a rig operated 41 miles off the Louisiana coast exploded and caused what may be the largest oil spill in history.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”