Palin and earmarks Wednesday, Sep 10 2008
Uncategorized 4:47 pm
Too funny: From TalkingPointsMemo.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/opinion/10dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin“>Palin
On Edwards Wednesday, Sep 10 2008
John Edwards 4:37 pm
Since I wrote a bunch of Edwards during the primary, I thought that I’d take this quick moment to finish up my thoughts on him.
I am disgusted. I’m not disgusted about the affair (though it is very slimy). That’s his business with Elizabeth. I am disgusted that he ran for the presidency knowing that he was hiding the affair. It boggles my mind that he would think that this would turn out well. If he wins the Democratic nomination and it comes out, the Democrats are done. Period. The f’ing National Enquirer found out about it in a few short months? What would the digging dirt on the Democratic nominee GOP do in their time?
Unbelievable.
I am beyond pissed at him.
Go away Edwards. Just. Go. Away.
PS. I don’t have a lot of warm feeling about Ms. Edwards either. I love her to death. But, the fact that she didn’t put a stop to John’s run (and do not tell me that she couldn’t have!) means that she was complicit. And, that means that she didn’t recognize the extreme dangers involved either.
Mo Dowd has it going on Wednesday, Sep 10 2008
Palin 4:27 pm
Ms. Dowd from yesterday;
Dowd’s column
What kind of budget-cutter makes a show of getting rid of the state plane, then turns around and bills taxpayers for the travel of her husband and kids between Juneau and Wasilla and sticks the state with a per-diem tab to stay in her own home?
Why was Sarah for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against the Bridge to Nowhere, and why was she for earmarks before she was against them? And doesn’t all this make her just as big a flip-flopper as John Kerry?
What kind of fiscal conservative raises taxes and increases budgets in both her jobs — as mayor and as governor?
When the phone rings at 3 a.m., will she call the Wasilla Assembly of God congregation and ask them to pray on a response, as she asked them to pray for a natural gas pipeline?
Does she really think Adam, Eve, Satan and the dinosaurs mingled on the earth 5,000 years ago?
Why put out a press release about her teenage daughter’s pregnancy and then spend the next few days attacking the press for covering that press release?
As Troopergate unfolds here — an inquiry into whether Palin inappropriately fired the commissioner of public safety for refusing to fire her ex-brother-in-law — it raises this question: Who else is on her enemies list and what might she do with the F.B.I.?
Does she want a federal ban on trans fat in restaurants and a ban on abortion and Harry Potter? And which books exactly would have landed on the literature bonfire if she had had her way with that Wasilla librarian?
Just how is it that Fannie and Freddie have cost taxpayers money (since they haven’t yet)?
Does she talk in tongues or just eat caribou tongues?
What does she have against polar bears?
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There are other questions to ask, of course.
1. Why are you continuing to lie about the bridge to nowhere?
2. Why are you being protected from answering questions? Are you unprepared to be president on day 1?
3. Why did you respond to a question about running for Senator a month ago that you couldn’t leave the state because you needed to be at home with your kids? What’s the difference now? Do you think that the VP slot is easier to do than a Senator?
4. Why did you give a speech to a convention of people who want Alaska to secede from the United States? Are you Alaska First or America First?
5. What would you have done if your daughter’s choice with her pregnancy was to have an abortion?
6. How much of that speech at the GOP convention did you write?
7. Do you think that getting 600 votes in your 1st run for mayor and 900 votes in your 2nd run for mayor prepares you to run for VP?
On Palin - 7 days after her given the vp slot Friday, Sep 5 2008
Palin 12:38 am
In reply to a pro-Palin friend …
For one thing, that speech was written long before McCain picked her. Bush’s speechwriters filled in blanks after the choice. (That was admitted by the McCain people. I can dig up a quote, if you want.) She probably only saw the speech the day before she gave it.
In any event, this is a woman who;
a. Is virulently anti-choice with no exceptions
b. is pro-”creationism” to the point of advocating it being taught in schools
c. is anti-global warming. She doesn’t believe in it. She wants polar bears off the endangered species list.
d. She tried to fire the town librarian after the librarian refused to ban books that Palin wanted banned.
e. There were 5,000 people in Wasilli when she took over as mayor. There are more people who went to my school. That is no experience!
f. She’s been governer for 20 months of the 47th smallest state in the union. That’s barely experience.
g. Has ducked the media as well as the campaign trail since being picked.
h. She is a big fat liar and a hypocrite.
1. She lobbied for the bridge to nowhere before she claimed to be against it and still took the money (and I have pics!)
2. She hired Abramoff’s lobbyist to get federal monies for her little town of 8,000. Eventually, she ended up with $20+ million from the federal government.
3. She worked with Sen. Stevens (soon-to-be-convicted of bribery) to get more earmarks for her town.
4. She ran a budget that was in surplus when she took over as mayor to a debt of $20M (I think that that number is right. I can go look it up.)
5. She fired people who were not with her, including the police chief, when she won office, both as mayor and as governer. She surrounded herself with acolytes. She was almost recalled (as mayor of a town of 8,000!)
6. Her husband was a member of the Alaskan Independent Party until 2002. Their goal is to secede from the US. Palin went to two of their conventions and spoke at the last one.
7. She vetoed a bill helping out pregnant teenagers. Just like her running mate voted against similar legislation.
8. I will bet you $10 her daughter doesn’t marry the child’s father. The father’s myspace page came out and it turns out that he’s not interested in being a dad and he described his relationship in a very casual manner. I bet you that they’re being pressured to lie at this moment in time and after the election, they’ll go their separate ways. I don’t really care one way or the other, but it’s blatant disingenuousness on Palin’s part.
9. Palin’s pastor is a big fan of the “Jews for Jesus” group. In fact, the head of that anti-semitic organization spoke at Palin’s church a couple of months ago. Palin was in attendance. Do you think that she’ll separate herself from the church?
This is what has been learned about Palin in a few days. Wonder how much more will come out in the upcoming weeks.
As far as your statement about her not being a lawyer, I think that it’s pretty silly to hope for someone who will not be able to read the legislation that they want to pass, let alone write any. I think that it’s pretty critical that the president and vice-president be lawyers.