Doing The Right Thing

...for the wrong reasons, maybe. Still, Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist does the world a solid and throws out his own party's law restricting early voting times.

Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday extended early voting hours across Florida to 12 hours a day.

The executive order comes after record early voting turnout has contributed to long lines at polling sites.

Current Florida law allows for early voting to be conducted eight hours a day each weekday and for a total of eight hours during the weekends.

With Crist's order, early voting sites will be open the rest of this week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. They will be open a total of 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday, the last day of early voting.

''It's not a political decision,'' Crist said moments after signing the order, which declares a state of emergency in Florida. "It's a people decision.''

Between Crist's decision and the complete abandonment of Senator Intertoobs after his conviction on seven felony counts yesterday, GOP solidarity is completely disintegrating.

It's everyone for themselves now as the ship of state sinks beneath the waves of history...