Palin Admin. Oversaw $26 Million ROAD to ‘Nowhere’

USA west, was before nowhere. Are you saying that building railroad from East to West back then in our history, also meant building road to nowhere. As the railroad was build, the West become accessible and flourished (Los Angeles, San Fransisco, and so on). If our great great grandfather did not build the road to nowhere, USA was only New York, Los Angeles would never been born.
Palin road is not road to nowhere. Palin road is road to growth and prosperity. Let alone, Alaska has a lot of oil, USA badly needed. Alaskan need to grow for the goodness of USA.

I'm not so much troubled by Palin's lack of experience as I am by her actual experience. The amount of dirt being uncovered on her is astounding - we're not talking little things here and there but a systematic record of lying, corrupt behavior, self-serving decisions, stonewalling and abuse of her offices as both Mayor of Wassila and Governor of Alaska. She is 110% about dinosaur politics as usual, and any claims of open and honest government are flat-out bull*hit.

We need genuine leadership like we've never needed it before. Cynical choices, divisive, empty rhetoric, "trust me my friends" platitudes and snarky one-llne putdowns won't cut it anymore. The office of Vice President isn't a trainee position. You can't take an ex-beauty queen, marginally educated hocky mom with zero foreign policy experience and bring her up to speed in a couple of months. If that were the case then most of the posters on this blog would be equally qualified to be VP.

Lots of people choose to blindly follow the Republican ticket no matter what, and they'll never give up this desperate allegiance even if the world goes up in flames. Trying to use logic and facts to sway their opinion is futile, like... putting lipstick on a pig? Yup. So perhaps the best strategy is to move on and let them do what they want to do. Personally I have no illusions about converting hard-core McCain supporters.

The best weapons we have are our time and our votes. Get up from your computer and volunteer at your local Democratic headquarters if you truly want to make a difference in this election. Come November 4th make your voice heard and help start our country back down the road to the core values our founders established so long ago.

First, Palin could have stopped the road project, the contract was signed days before she took office, construction itself would be a long way off. You do not begin road construction projects in winter in Alaska. Second, the road project could have been delayed until a final decision had been reached on how to connect the island to the mainland, and then updated to be the best use of the money. Of course, when she first got in office, she was still in favor of the bridge project. It did not get killed until after she was in office.

I will say, in Alaska???s defense, it is a vast expanse of land with civilization sometimes few and far between (if you put Alaska on the lower 48 states, it would cover about a third, or as we used to say, if Alaska was cut in half & made into 2 states, Texas would be the third largest state). Because of some of the unique characteristics of the land, it is frequently difficult to construct roads and other infrastructure. You have to deal with things like permafrost, very cold temperatures, very short construction periods and a host of other challenges. The Alaska Highway took years to built and they redo and work on it every summer. In a place like Ketchikan, heavy equipment for a major undertaking like that would have to be barged in. It wouldn???t happen quickly.

Don???t get me wrong, I don???t like Palin or what she has done in my former state, but I will always love the great land. For all the challenges of living there, no other place is like it. Alaska provides a lot of the seafood and fish that gets into the lower 48 and elsewhere and while it is nowhere close to the 20% Palin tried to claim, it does produce oil. And there is something special about a place when living in a city of over 262,000 you can open your door to find a moose standing there or get on your bike and ride through a national forest and come out in another part of town, or be out picnicking at 12:30 AM on summer solstice. ( I've experienced 70 below on the North Slope and 30 below for 3 weeks straight in Anchorage too.) And while I hate to send Palin back to inflict more on Alaska, it would be a much more injurious if she made it to DC.

I asked Karl Rove this question on the Wall Street Journal page. I am not sure he is going to answer.

My question is in two parts. First, if Boeing proposes to build an airplane for $250 million, is given this money to do that, then decides to say "no" to building the airplane and keeps the money, is this considered theft? Second, if Alaska proposes to build a bridge, is given $250 million to do that, then says "thanks, but no thanks" and keeps the money, why would the Alaskan governor not be under criminal indictment?

It sounds like the previous governor should also be indicted.

Or did the Republican US Congress simply call the money a gift for Alaska to spend any way they wanted? If so, wow!, Ted Stevens really could get things done. So is he one of the "good old boys in Washington?" Oops, I thought she was talking about Democrats.

So it goes on. And according to the above article, the bridge project goes on, so maybe there is no crime. But wait, she said "Thanks, but no thanks," and we will build our own bridge if we want. So how can the money still be in Alaska?

Even way up there in Alaska they know that the pirate code applies to earmarks; "take what you can, give nothing back". Gov. Palin is proving to be another lying politician who says one thing while doing another. Granted she is probably nicer about it than most, but a liar is a liar. I expect the spin machine on her side to explain this lie as either not really an earmark , or as not really her idea and/or not her fault. Somebody else will be blamed, maybe it was actually Obama's fault, and she can keep on telling her adoring fans about her passion for reform. Gov. Palin loves her earmarks and loves saying how much she hates them at political rallys. I doubted her qualifications due to her limited experience, but I have to admit she can lie with the best of them. Everyone know we love the liars, otherwise why would we keep electing them.

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 caused 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
http://www.newsweek.com/id/145011/page/1
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6007788.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E0D81038F934A25752C0A9649C8B63
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Rzb

No McCain/Palin !
No more Anti-American Republicans!

I support Obama/Biden, because Americas future depends on it !!

She is the "bridge to nowhere"

By the way "WHO" owns Pennock Island, Ketchican,Ak.

What is the matter with building the bridge directly to the airport across to Ketchican ,it appears to be about 1000 foot distance.But I or who ever owns Pennock Island where the Bridge to Nowhere was to go would end up with a very valuable" SOME WHERE" piece of Real E$tate and surely want it to be built.

WASP!!! WomenAgainstSarahPalin

Yep, she's a real fiscal conservative and reformer alright.

If most roads/highways in Alaska LEAD TO THE WILDERNESS (aka "nowhere" in Alaskan terminology) why doesn't the US sell Alaska back to Russia or place it on Ebay similar to the famous governor's jet? THOSE ALASKAN LIERS!!!!!!!!!