The problem that habitual liars have is that they depend on people not paying attention. Welcome to the big time, Governor. First, you didn't fire him, then you did, but for insubordination. Now it turns out he has proof that the "unauthorized" trip you fired him for was, in fact, authorized by your chief of staff (ref.: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5844710&page=1). What's your next excuse?
Can He Stop 'Troopergate'?
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Posted By: DavidCA @ 09/20/2008 2:01:45 PM
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Posted By: GregHere @ 09/20/2008 8:52:23 AM
...............................McCain is going to loose alot of credibility by the squelching attempts with Alaska TrooperGate, this is a bad way to be going into an election. McCain needs to be open and let America see what the facts are before November 4th.
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Posted By: People For The Truth On Troopergate @ 09/20/2008 1:37:23 AM
Please sign this petition demanding the truth at www.alaskatroopergate.com that states:
"We, the undersigned, call on Sarah Palin to fulfill her promise to cooperate with the Alaska Troopergate investigation.
We demand that GOP operatives stop stonewalling the investigation.
We as Americans say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and demand the information we are entitled to know to make an informed decision before election day!"
Please help get the word out!
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Posted By: People For The Truth On Troopergate @ 09/19/2008 9:50:29 PM
Please sign this petition demanding the truth at www.alaskatroopergate.com that states:
"We, the undersigned, call on Sarah Palin to fulfill her promise to cooperate with the Alaska Troopergate investigation.
We demand that GOP operatives stop stonewalling the investigation.
We as Americans say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and demand the information we are entitled to know to make an informed decision before election day!"
Please help get the word out!
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Posted By: trazer @ 09/19/2008 8:30:19 PM
WHERE ARE THE NEWS WEEK ARTICLES ON BREAKING INTO PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS AND PUBLISHING THEM ON THE WEB???? Newsweek has failed to called out Broken Obama and his silence in not saying this was wrong. Oftentimes silence means they are in support. BROKEN OBAMA would rather give rights to those who blow up families (terrorists) than to protect the rights of citizens. Shame on the media for their failure.
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Posted By: CCATT56 @ 09/19/2008 8:27:48 PM
I am not going to vote for someone that clearly has something to hide and please let the first women in office have some intregrity not someone that is just a bunch of hot air that has something to hide.
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Posted By: uuforyou @ 09/19/2008 7:09:32 PM
Refusing to answer subpenas is very Cheney/Rove like.
Innocent until proven guilty, I'm still NOT voting for McCain/Palin/Bush/Rove!!!!
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Posted By: Mwalimu @ 09/19/2008 6:15:44 PM
This article specifies something about an appropriations dispute between Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan and Sarah Palin, but does not specify what the budget dispute was about. If you listened to the Keith Olberman show on September 17 or looked up entry by Zachary Taylor on TMP the muckraker, you???d know. Walter Monegan decided to get ??? federal funds for an initiative to combat sexual assault???(1)
??? Alaska leads the nation in reported forcible rapes per capita, according to the FBI,??? and because ??? public safety experts believe that the prevalence of rape and sexual assault of minors in Alaska makes the state's record one of the worst in the U.S.???(2) For these reasons, Walter Monegan planned to take his case for federal funds to Washington DC in July, against Palin???s wishes. Palin wanted to punish Monegan by firing him for insubordination.(1) Now McCain is trying to derail the investigation because neither McCain nor the GOP want the public to know the truth.
For 8 years, we have seen lies, secrets, squelched investigations, the obstruction of justice, and cover-ups. As a result of 8 years of this foolishness - all of it aided and abbeted by McCain - we face a multi billion even trillion dollar bailout or watching the entire financial system of the world collapse. McCain???s attempt to stifle TrooperGate investigation merely proves that McCain is no different that Bush. If we elect McCain, we???ll get the same sorry spectacles - only worse. MUCH WORSE.
Sources:
(1) entry on TMP the muckraker, by Zachary Taylor, September 16(?)
(2)???:Palin???s Record on Rape and violence questioned, by Justin Rood, September 15
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Posted By: neos @ 09/19/2008 5:53:46 PM
Does anyone else remember when the Republican party laid claim to the 'law and order' issue? Oh how times have changed. Now we have the spectacle of McCain sending a team of high-powered New York lawyers to obstruct justice up in Alaska. A BIPARTISAN committee, 10 Republicans and 4 Democarats voted UNANIMOUSLY to start an investigation into allegations that Palin abused her office to settle a personal grievance. They appointed an independent investigator to get at the truth. Gov. Palin PROMISED full co-operation, Candidate Palin is on the run. What are they hiding? The McCain legal team is now claiming partisan tainting. Of course that's true now that they have said it. So now team McCain is obstructing justice and refusing subpoenas, as if he needed another link to the Bush administration. If she is innocent why not get the investigation over with sooner rather than later? Obviously the best option is to cry partisanship and get the truth of her 'innocence' out. These stalling tactics only make her and McCain look much worse and will raise Troopergate's visibility as a negative campaign issue. Therefore, logic dictates that she is most certainly guilty at some level of the charges and their best hope is to delay findings until after the election. Sort of like Nixon and the watergate investigation in 72. But this all may backfire ??? there just might be enough decent Republicans left who believe enough in law and order to call a halt to these shenanigans.
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Posted By: Nins @ 09/18/2008 5:22:53 PM
Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, AIG and the rest of the failed institutions have failed primarily because of former Senator Phil Gramm. The Gramm Rudman Act stripped away the regulations separating banking from investment companies, insurance companies and mortgage guaranty companies. Those regulations were added after the Great Depression when it became obvious that allowing banks to be in bed with the stock market was a sure way to rig the system to collapse, as it did in 1929.
But Phil Gramm, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, got this de-regulation pushed though hidden in a bill that protected consumers' bank records privacy. Lo an behold, a few years after the regulations were removed, the sh!t has hit the fan, and the inter-related investment, insurance, mortgage and banking industries are now starting to collapse, and guess what, you, the taxpayer will have to pay to clean it up.
Phil Gramm is the Senator who brought you the "Enron Loophole" that de-regulated futures trading, causing the prices of oil, gas and food to spiral out of control.
Senator Phil Gramm was McCain's top economic advisor until recently, when he was forced to step down after he said that there is no problem with our economy other than a "mental recession" on the part of a "nation of whiners."
Phil Gramm is the man who John McCain said he wants to name Secretary of the Treasury if he becomes President.
You have to believe John McCain when he says that he knows little about the economy. He knows so little that he doesn't even know who to choose as an advisor.
Barack Obama addressed the Enron Loophole, futures trading, short-selling and Wall Street de-regulation months ago in his economic position papers, which are available on his website. Obama has been saying all along that he is going to put in strict regulations and clean up Wall Street.
McCain just started saying that he favors regulation in the past couple of weeks. And how is it that McCain is going to put in new regulations, when he plans to appoint Phil Gramm, the man who caused the de-regulation, as Secretary of the Treasury? I would suggest that McCain is guilty of saying what is politically expedient, and that he does not actually intend to regulate the banking industry. McCain knows that most Americans are unaware of the details.
I am a middle-aged white conservative Republican who loves America. I am voting for Barack Obama.-
Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 09/18/2008 5:54:02 PM
That's plain stupidity.
Bush alone is NOT responsible for the banking failure! Democrats as well as Republicans WANTED to make obtaining a house something that MINORITIES could obtain. So they first reduced the down payment, then it went to ZERO DOWN.
No politician wanted to be ACCUSED OF RACISM so few voted against having strict financial standards!
Bush went along with a LIBERAL agenda to help blacks, hispanics and other lower income groups get their first house.
Now look at us! The banking industry deregulation happened many years before this mess and this mess can't be blamed on that. It was the mistakes of the Fed and Greenspan made also.
Mc Cain in 2005 said we have a problem with Freddie and Fannie and this will come back and bite the tax payer in the ass but nobody listened to him and the Democrats voted AGAINST his reform bill. That's a fact go look it up.
Then on TOP of this mess of people who had NO BUSINESS buying houses because they didn't make enough, had no savings, and were using the interest only or ARM loans the HOUSING MARKET exploded because money was cheap and people could 'seemingly' afford more than they REALLY COULD AFFORD.
On top of this people took home equity loans year after year and SPENT THAT MONEY! When housing prices fell, when ARMs went up to their real rates people couldn't pay for their houses and they defaulted leaving banks and the CMOs holder holding HUGE LOSSES.
The blame is in EVERYBODY's hands, every politician, the Fed, the greedy wall street types, and YOU AND ME who bought houses at prices we shouldn't have. I have two houses and one is unrented and it fell about $100,000. I can't get rid of it. The other one I live in lost $220k from the high and is still slightly worth more than we bought it for.
That's the REAL story and if anybody wants to debate this I'd be happy to. Blaming Bush 100% just makes you look like the biggest dumb A$$ in America!-
Posted By: Nins @ 09/18/2008 6:58:06 PM
Actually, DayTrader, I did not mention Bush at all in my blog, so there is no need to call me names for supposedly blaming Bush. I think your anger is a little mis-placed. Bush allowed the de-regulation, but he was not directly responsible for it. He was busy hurting the economy in other ways: failing to balance the budget, running up the national debt, and borrowing money from China. Since you asked.
And yes, it is true that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were started under Clinton as a means of helping lower income WORKING Americans be able to obtain mortgages. However, the de-regulation came years later, and was primarily authored by Republican Senator Phil Gramm. This de-regulation was the real fly in the ointment. All of the bad mortgages written to unqualified buyers would have done nothing except harmed the mortgage guaranty industry and hurt the real estate sector IF the regulations that separate the banking, insurance, investment and mortgage industries had not been removed. Because the banks were allowed to underwrite mortgages and also allowed to wrap up these mortgages into securities which they sold as investment vehicles to unsuspecting buyers world-wide, the whole house of cards was bound to fall when just one corner was removed. Regulations create a fire wall of separation between industries which, if they all failed at once, could bring down the global economy.
I am not saying that individuals who over-extended themselves are not guilty of bad planning or excessive optimism. But you can not possibly blame one man who maxes out his credit cards or one family that defaults on their mortgage for bringing down the global economy. The checks and balances that protect the industry were removed, and the little guy had no knowledge of this. In fact, most all individuals play by the rules: they borrow, they repay with interest.-
Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/19/2008 5:53:29 PM
But his IQ is 172. He said so.
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Posted By: Zig Zag @ 09/18/2008 8:58:02 PM
O.K., now I understand, just another republican bigot spewing hate. Disgusting.
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Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/19/2008 5:52:38 PM
Not hard to see.
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Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 09/19/2008 11:46:54 AM
So this mess had NOTHING TO DO with the MILLIONS of American's buying houses they couldn't afford and then when housing prices fell they DIDN'T PAY THEIR MORTGAGES and instead walked away?
Yeah, thats the TRUE cause of this. And liberal policies to help get blacks and hispanics into houses they couldn't qualify for because of their low incomes and NO MONEY saved for down payments! Nobody wanted to vote against those bills for fear of being called RACIST!
You are not nor were you ever a Republican. Republicans are as much to blame as Democrats but the real culprit is the scum bags accross the US who walked away from their mortgages and homes. Homes they NEVER SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT in the first place!-
Posted By: Redburn @ 09/19/2008 5:50:44 PM
So the irresponsible lenders lent the money to these people for short tem gians had nothing to do with it?
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Posted By: Pia1981 @ 09/18/2008 6:00:26 PM
Nins! You're back! I'm so glad and so glad to read you. Welcome back!
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Posted By: Nins @ 09/18/2008 6:38:11 PM
Hi, Pia, I'm not back, really, just for a moment to discuss the current economic crisis, which I think is the CRUCIAL election issue. I have been running around like a maniac working to keep our various businesses afloat... although we are not in the financial sector, this is starting to hit us, and I know that it is just the thin end of the wedge. Everyone will be effected by this sooner or later.
Thanks, Pia, for holding down the fort on the blogs. I missed you! Nins.
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Posted By: People For The Truth On Troopergate @ 09/19/2008 12:21:35 PM
Please support our petition at www.alaskatroopergate.com to help us stop the GOP corrupt tactics trying to stonewall the emerging Troopergate investigation.
Our goal is to obtain at least one million signatures we are after to expose the Nixon like tactics that are being pulled here.
This will be THE MAJOR STORY the rest of the campaign and this petition born of the citizens of the USA will help shine a light on it!
The petition reads:
"We, the undersigned, call on Sarah Palin to fulfill her promise to cooperate with the Alaska Troopergate investigation.
We demand that GOP operatives stop stonewalling the investigation.
We as Americans say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and demand the information we are entitled to know to make an informed decision before election day!"
Please help get the word out!
Thanks and Keep up the great work to bring democracy back to the people!
People For The Truth On Troopergate-
Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 09/19/2008 2:18:49 PM
Only people who care about Troopergate are Democrats!
I Love Sarah and am SO PROUD of her for taking care of business and firing the incompetent people!-
Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/19/2008 5:44:36 PM
The only people who care that Democrats care are Republicans.
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Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/19/2008 12:42:58 PM
already signed and forwarded to friends.
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Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 09/19/2008 2:24:28 PM
I personally LOVE Troopergate. I find it SOOOO Funny that Democrats are so up in arms about this. When Obama loses they will be crying about this and racism in America for 8 years and I'll laugh EVERY SINGLE time they bring this up.
Go Sarah. I could CARE LESS that you fired some incompetent person for ANY reason. You go girl!-
Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/19/2008 5:43:17 PM
No sir careerdaytraitor;
The media cares. They report. We laugh - not you - us. She's almost a cartoon, but the GOP did want media attention. You, in all your wisdom also proclaimed that the economy was good, the poor suck, and everyone without a million dollars is lazy. So, why even post?
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Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/19/2008 1:28:40 PM
Todd Palin: 'first dude' or 'shadow governor?'
He's worked in Alaska's oil industry and as a fisherman. But in recent times, he's had another role. Some call him the "Shadow Governor."
In government circles and among the family's acquaintances, Todd Palin is known as his wife's greatest adviser and most loyal protector. One family friend said, "Todd is incredibly supportive and is willing to do whatever it takes to help Sarah."
Todd may appear quiet, almost shy, but he's made quite an impression on his wife's running mate, Sen. John McCain. On the campaign trail this month in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, McCain said, "He's not afraid of Washington, D.C.! He can take them on!"
**NOTE THE LAST COMMENT BY MCCAIN "HE CAN TAKE THEM ON" I WASN'T AWARE THAT TODD PALIN WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE!
Link to entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/19/todd.palin/index.html-
Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 09/19/2008 5:10:08 PM
That's FANTASTIC news. Three for the price of TWO! Go FIRST DUDE!!!
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Posted By: trazer @ 09/19/2008 1:15:15 AM
She has done what every executive is chartered to do. Ensure people are doing their jobs. She has done an exceptionally fine job...Know the facts and we'd all be in support of this great lady and the next Vice President of the United States. She is so exceptionally well qualified over the candidate on the Dems side who seems to have for the most part disappered from the scene.
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Posted By: LisaWhite @ 09/19/2008 1:12:39 PM
Tea is for drinking, not smoking....you must be insane to believe what you wrote.
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Posted By: Redburn @ 09/19/2008 4:36:03 PM
And so has our current great president. Let's give them 4 more years to trash the country.
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Posted By: jeande416 @ 09/19/2008 10:39:09 AM
What are they so afraid of? The truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: emmarcee @ 09/19/2008 10:40:43 AM
No the distraction!
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Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 09/19/2008 2:22:54 PM
Right they have a country to lead! Screw Troopergate. It will be more fun to see pissed off Democrats bitch about it for 8 years or complain about racism. Can't wait!
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Posted By: Redburn @ 09/19/2008 4:32:42 PM
They will have to be elected first.
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Posted By: Redburn @ 09/19/2008 4:22:30 PM
The politics of (McCain)change come to Alaska. Since when do you get to decide to not honor a subpoena. Since Bush and Rove have been running the country.
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Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/19/2008 1:25:46 PM
Florida to close Foley investigation, sources say
CNN) -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will close a criminal investigation into former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley on Friday without filing charges, two law enforcement sources said Thursday.
Authorities were investigating whether Foley might have used computers in Florida to engage or solicit minors in any illegal activities.
The Republican, who represented Florida's 16th District in Congress, resigned in September 2006 after suggestive e-mails and instant messages he had written to teenage House pages surfaced in the media.
Link to article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/18/foley.investigation/index.html
So Foley can now join the elustrious group of Bush, Cheney, Libby, Rice and Palin I am sure that I missed others . By the way I am sure that they will soon drop all charges against Stevens.
Republican Politicians and Illegal Immigrants ???THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, U.S. LAWS ARE FOR EVERYONE ELSE???!
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Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/19/2008 11:50:07 AM
The Palin And McCain Administration: Sarah Flips The Ticket During A Rally (VIDEO)
A WHAT Administration? A WHO Administration?
September 18, 2008 4:16 PM
Uh-oh.
Gov. Sarah Palin is now talking about "a Palin and McCain administration."
lik to article and video: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/a-what-administ.html
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Posted By: nomoreoil @ 09/19/2008 11:37:03 AM
They need to investigate the toxic dumping Palin allows by Cheveron, and the repeal of Ballot measure 2 which saved oil companies billions in taxes and fees, and even though she said yes to the bridge to nowhere she seems to have forgotten to return the 465 million dollars she was given to build the bridge? How about that! Fact Check That B----es!
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Posted By: ozarkajuice @ 09/19/2008 11:01:21 AM
Why are Obama supporters getting mad. Dont you know that this is what Mavericks do. They think they are above the law, so why are you acting so suprised? /sarcastic off
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Posted By: ozarkajuice @ 09/19/2008 11:18:48 AM
One other thing i do not understand is, here we had Palin saying she will cooperate with the investigation. then all of sudden flip flop. but i shouldnt be suprised, this is a lady who thinks its a Palin/Mccain ticket and not the other way around lol.
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