Palin’s Pipeline to Nowhere

redogiceman @ 09/21/2008 1:38:16
In sport fishing this would be called chumming or at the least Palin blood sport and any positive comments about Plain not be permitted or just not a blog a conservative would visit. One need only visit the cani77 comments about the arbiters from the time of Clinton of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and view the financial gains of the Dem CEO???s Franklin Raines 100 MILLION, James Johnson, Barrack insider, CEO Fannie Mae and also of failed Country Mark, Jamie Gorelick who had no previous financial experience 45 MILLION, And one should also ignore the THOUSANDS of political contributions to the Dem Chair of the finance committee Chris Dodd 164 THOUSANDS of dollars, Barack Hussein Obama 126 THOUSANDS of dollars, and John Kerry 111 THOUSANDS of dollars. And their siren call will be AIG and other collapsing financial institutions falling from the greed always identified with the non government institutions while more the 50% (that???s more that one half for the math challenged as evidenced by the consumer understanding of %) of the guarantees were Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac. And one should also ignore the fact that the hateful Bush attempted to reform these intuitions in 2004 but was rebuffed by the Dems and RINOs.
One can sum this up with one statement. It was congress that created the sub-prime mess that will cost all of us tax payers and as usual the business/financial challenged Dems are leading the charge for your tax dollars to support their creations.
Lending money to people who likely will not pay it back isn't good business. Such is outcome of Clinton and the congress nirvana attempt to encourage lenders to finance home loans to bad credit risk. Bad business is bad business anytime and will ultimately come back to haunt that entity sometime as this current debacle has. And Barack Hussein Obama sounds like the socialist of the Euro community predicting the end of America financial leadership while a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac similar pursuit of these Euro socialist philosophies had driven us to the current financial market decline.
Since 1990 - Freddie Mac campaign contributions 9.7 MILLION.
- Fannie Mae campaign contributions 2.9 MILLION
Jim Johnson was former CEO of Fannie Mae. The CEO???s of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were cooking the books. The CEO???s had yearly earnings to receive their annual bonuses! They latter amended earnings statements later in the year which it is my understanding they still kept the bonuses.
Obama opposed severances bonuses for all except his friend Jim Johnson.
If you want to know the soaps about the women go to the beauty parlor but apparently the barber was told wrong that Franklin Raines was not providing economic advice to Obama. I believe my barber myself and I don???t BS him because I know he will find out and find a way to embarrass me. What goes around comes around.

As opposed to the price we will pay if Obama gets in.

Obama supporters are the ones being fooled.

You can't make this stuff up....Palin = the gift that keeps on giving!!

You can keep her!!!!

I guess the US is Nowhere?

I don't take much stock in what NewsWEAK says. The are only for on of their own and that is NObama. I live in Alaska, and Sarah is a great governor. I don't hear many governors suspened the gasoline tax like Sarah did, or go after big oil like she did. By the way, my daughter figured skated in that rink, getting any ice time for figure skating is near impossible. Most people who talks/writes about Alaska and our great governor does not know the facts execpt what the liberal media tells them. Does anyone, besides me, know the difference between "pork or pet earmarks" and "earmarks?" I am so tired of all the negative about the Sarah instead of looking at all the good she has done in Alaska. I will never buy another Newsweak liberal mag. again.

n a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?


The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.

He believes people will vote against their own interests.

Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

Hold them accountable NOW! while it will still help.

Elect Obama Biden 2008

Edit: Typo: Added too many zero's to Todd Palin's yearly salary. $100,000 NOT $100,000,000. Apologies.

The bigger picture for America at the moment is how Palin's handling of this situation reflects on how she would handle decisions as President. Yes, I said President; given what little we know of McCain's health history, it's extremely likely that Palin would be President fairly soon. It reminds a lot of people of how Cheney makes his decisions; in secret, with limited input from vested interests of only one side of the issue. It appears that there was no serious consideration of the other proposal, which by all accounts is less expensive, more secure, and quicker to build. And, as others have mentioned here, all American.

Maybe she could build in the same manner as she built the Hockey Arena in Wasilla. Start building. Realize you don't own the land and spend 10 times as much sueing to get the land and permission. By the way. The guy that owned that land said he would give it to the town if they would drop their law suits. Nope didn't happen. She's a fiscal genius that everywoman from Wasilla. Well who cares? She's just like me. Oh wait, I ain't no genius when it comes to spendin' my coin.

Good god...wake up people. Do you really want this lady a heartbeat away? Cheyney Jr.

Palin = The American Taliban and will legislate women back into the stone age. You wanna live that way, fine, leave the rest of us ALONE!She is a liar of epic proportions, and I think she's the anti-Christ! Lies and the lying liars who tell them.Again, you fell for Bush and look what's happened. Worried about Obama being a socialist? Well, Bush via McCain, JUST SOCIALIZED WALL STREET ! HOW DOES THAT FEEL!

PALIN =THE AMERICAN TALIBAN, AND BY THE WAY, HER HUSBAND DIDN'T EVEN GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL, AND HE'S RUNNING THE STATE WITH HER!
SHE IS AN ALARMING DECOY, FOR THE VERY, CANCER RIDDEN MCCAIN. WELL, JOHN KYL SAYS HE'S IN REMISSION, BUT A 72 YR OLD, PUT HER OF ALL PEOPLE, ON THE TICKET. SHE IS IRRESPONSIBLE AT
BEST, AND A LIAR OF EPIC PROPORTIONS.

The article by Mark Hosenball is quite accurate as to the many problems associated with building this crucial pipeline through a foreign country, namely Canada. Given that security of supply is a much touted phrase during the election, it is simply staggering that many Americans do not know that there was a competing proposal to bring the natural gas out, using an existing pipeline corridor to Valdez, Alaska and then via LNG tanker to the western seaboard of the USA. That route would truly be an all-American route. Perhaps Mr. Hosenball, would be interested in following the story up.

The article by Mark Hosenball is quite revealing and accurate about the potential serious problems associated with a natural gas pipeline running through Canada. There are two points that need to be added. One, Canada for the most part has fairly lax security procedures in place. Can the pipeline route through a foreign country be protected? Second, there was a competing proposal to bring natural gas on an all Alaska route along the existing corridor from the North Slope and ship it by LNG tanker to an American port on the western seaboard. A lot of the American public seem completely unaware of this all-american option.

Comment: Lets put the term EARMARKS in context. By what is implied all requests are earmarks including Disaster Relief for Hurricane Victims is a earmark. I would hope we have the intellectual capacity to understand the point about the stupid pork spending she was addressing like the 1M requested by OBAMA for the hospital that his wife works at.

Let???s put the term ???EARMARKS??? in context. By what is implied all requests are earmarks including Disaster Relief for Hurricane Victims is a earmark. I would hope we have the intellectual capacity to understand the point about the stupid ???pork??? spending she was addressing like the 1M requested by OBAMA for the hospital that his wife works at.

Another McCain/Palin lie. What will they lie about next inventing the Blackberry - Oops that's right they already did that.