Can He Stop 'Troopergate'?

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-Leach-Biley 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.

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 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 -- 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. How is it that McCain is going to put in new regulations, when he plans to appoint Phil Gramm, the man who authored the de-regulation, as Secretary of the Treasury? McCain says he would fire Christopher Cox, the SEC Chairman, to solve the problem. However, the problem is caused by lack of regulations on the legislative level, regulations that were removed before Cox was appointed. The SEC can only enforce regulations that actually exist, so making a scapegoat of Cox solves nothing. I would suggest that McCain is guilty of saying what's politically expedient, 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.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15050.html
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6007788.html
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http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Rzb

Please read editorials for the last two days in the Anchorage Daily News ( adn.com) as well as the Troopergate story from the beginning (there is a sepcial link.)

This is not longer about Wooten, who was investigated and punished prior to Monegan taking office. It is about Palin and her lack of honor, integrity, character. She should not be in ANY leading position for any party in any government.

She has repeated laid one lie on top of another (which contradict each other) as to why she fired Monegan, even claiming last week that he was not fired, that he quit. Now it is insubordination which flies in the face of her original offer to him as Commissioner of the Alcohol Control Board after she "fired" him from the Dept. of Public Safety.

No explanation from her as to why she would offer him another top job after firing him from another top job due to insubordination. Also, if her current reason is the truth, why didn't she just say that months ago. Instead we got first, no answer as to why Monegan was fired, then she said she wanted to move in another direct, but it turns out the Dept. was already moving in that direction. and then it was because Monegan was not doing a good job of stopping bootlegging in the villages and could not recruit new trooprs, when, in fact, just 3 weeks prior to that she had publically praised Monegan for doing extremely well in both these areas, which is why she offered him the job with the ABC.

Ok, need aspirin. Reviewing all Palin has claimed just makes my head hurt. It does not have any logic at all.

Plain is counting on people outside Alaska not taking the interest nor trouble to research Troopergate for themselves. She is counting on saying something long enough and loud enough that enough people will believe her that her reputation will be salvaged.

I guarantee you she does NOT have an 80% approval rating in Alaska. Soon after Troopergate started, a local TV station took a poll and the result was an 87% disapproval rating. Palin campaigned for govenor on a platform of open and transparent government. No one believed her on day 1 of troopergate and few believe her now.

Monegan could not legally do anything about Wooten. Wooten was a done deal before Monegan was given the job. Palin asked him to commit a crime for him and he would not do it. Monegan has been a law enforcement officer in Anchorage for 35 years and is well respected and liked.

Palin should be impeached and Monegan should run for govenor. He is a man of dignity, respect and honor.

Liz Pintchuck, Anchorage, Alaska

By what stretch of the imagination are we to presume the Palin Troopergate investigation has been roundly politicized. After all, there is a legislative oversite committee of EIGHT Republicans and FOUR Democrats. Confusion prevails because the McCain campaign put the fear of god into all journalists about Governor Palin and all of them, without exception, took the bait. We can and should hold journalism at large responsible for such incompetence. With the possible exception of Larry King, I think our journalists are all a bunch of WIMPS.

The people supporting these Republican candidates are at their core, mostly made up of people who have traditionally been racist in the past or tend to be from generations of people who think of discrimination as a tool to further their own false fears. They also tend to be made up of people who really were closet racists, but for fear of what their neighbors would think of them, have kept it in the closet, only to bring it out in moments where it can't be proven against them or in moments like this election where you have candidates that make it seem like it???s okay or that it is your right by the constitution to be a racist. Some of these same people are made up of the back room types, you know, the ones who conduct most of this nations side-deals, which just happens to derail most of the legislation that would actually benefit the masses as opposed to the few. McCain's campaign has sought to tap into this inbred hatred, regardless of what it will do to the nation, which explains why they continue to proclaim known lies in their speeches, seemingly oblivious to the fact that these statements are publically known lies that have been debunked.
Republicans are gushing over with glee with the idea that some many people, who even remotely harbor racist thoughts, no matter how trivial, are connecting with them and voting against their own best interest. Another tool of words they utilize is getting people to believe, that if you don't vote for them, you are somehow unpatriotic (i.e., ???Country First" slogan). How anyone even slightly intelligent can buy into these painfully obvious ploys and vote against their own best interests is beyond me. I guess some people would rather be happy with their hate and corporate greed, than to see one nation, undivided, striving for racial harmony, equality, fairness of law and ending disproportionate economics in this country which would truly benefit us all. Sorry for the rant, but this is our future and that of our children these war and hate mongers are screwing with.
"McCain/Palin 08'--Two bridges to nowhere" "John McCain has been consistent--Consistently for the rich"

Careerdaytrader, do you understand that the Republicans have controlled literally everything for the last eight years? Do you also understand the fact that they lost control of congress only last fall? Do you understand why they lost that control? Do you get it, that it is because of George W. Bush's policies that were pushed through during the last seven years, because they had control of congress, that has cost you and I most of our paychecks? Do you understand the fact that in retaliation for the American voting public ousting their control of congress last fall, they have done absolutely nothing since last fall but block any attempts to get things done to ease the pressures on your finances? Yeah, that's right, Republicans have deadlocked every opportunity in congress that would have saved you money. Check the actual facts and not the ones they want you to keep repeating as truth. How you and others who have been hoodwinked by the Republican Party can continue to vote against your own best interest is beyond me. You all act as if the last eight years didn'y happen, or worse yet, that the Democrats have been the party in power for the last eight years.

From the outside looking in, I am a Canadian, that has been following this presidential race with intense vigor..the only reason I am writing is to give the people of the U.S a perspective of how this is viewed by others around the world. Obviously, I can't speak for the world, since my name is no Palin, but I am certain others feel the same way.First, if everything that Ms.Palin does and says, is God's will, then her God must be the one below, and she should be smellikng of sulfur..Her obvious lies and deception, not to mention hypocracy, is foull smelling for sure. That is not what bothers me the most tho. What bothered me most, is during her only recent interview, she did not know what the Bush Doctrine was..So...Not a huge deal..Many people did not know, and that's ok...Why didn't she just simply say, I'm not sure what that is exactly, and go on from there..Instead, she pretended to know what it was, and speeled on with a bunch of rhetoric..That showed to me that she was full of it, and gutless to boot...I could go on for days about the McCain/Palin ticket.. It's funny how the word change never entered McCain's platform, until the crap hit the fan..The world hopes, that Americans will choose the cerebral, grounded Obama over the P>O>W..If that makes him a war hero, that's fine, but it sure as hell doesn't qualify him as a war/security expert..and if it does, then there's probably 50,000 more candidates out there..The difference is, that they all have morals, that would prohibit them from becoming a politician. Good luck with your election, and we are praying that this is not going to be another Bush vs.Kerry fiasco..

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!

Sarah Palin is a MAVERICK who will bring real change to Washington!

She said "HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE" and pledged to cooperate fully with the investigation.

She has nothing to hide!

This is how you can tell she is a maverick!

Sorry to all you HOPE-LOVING LIBERALS, but Sarah is NOT going to act like Bush and Cheney! She's ready to lead, she's ready to take responsibility and be transparent! Opaqueness and justice-dodging are trademarks of the "insider" Washington tactics that mavericks like Sarah will CHANGE!...

Wait, she decided NOT to cooperate with the investigation????

HMMM... if I were reasonable, I'd wake up and withdraw my support... BUT, NO!, SARAH IS A MAVERICK, and mavericks don't play by the rules!

BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin is lowering the bar for double-talk. She'll abuse power and cover it up just because she feels like it... and in the end, isn't that what being a maverick is all about?