Sarah Palin: 2 1/2 Year Governorship. No National or International Experience, i.e. Congress Woman or US Senator. No Alaskan Pipeline, though the Media Allowed her to get Away with [Blatantly Lying]at the ..
2008 RNC Convention, when she Asserted that the Pipeline was being Built, when not One Pipe has been Laid and Gas Companies she Snubbed and Prevented from Bidding in the Contract Process, to make the Pipeline...
When in Fact, the Gas Leases are Owned by Big Oil-Gas.
Trans Canada was given [500 Million $$] of the Alaskan State Money an they'd Only Build the Pipeline, Not Supplying the Gas, in any event.
In any case, the Gas Pipeline's Cost More than [27 Billion $$] !!
Guess who will be Financing the [28 Billion $$] Pipeline ..Hmm
[The Dreaded US Government] Tada !!
Can You People not See how Unstable,Unhinged, Un-Predictable & Sparatic this Woman is ?
She's No [Maverick]
John McCain Looks [Normal] Compared to Sarah Palin's Movement.
The Worst McCain did was Pretend to [Suspend] his Campaign Last Year.
McCain Never [Quit-Resigned]
Even during the [Keating 5 Scandal]
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Sarah Palin is a Hollow,Floating Bubble, Just Air Up There.
Blames the Media, yet Runs to the Media at Any Given Chance. Matt Lauer, Wolf Blitzer to Sean Hannity.
Mass Media, is Mass Media.
Is Not Fox News the most Watched of the Cable News Programs..Hmm
The Dum Dum is [Done]
The 2012 Campaign Begins
Sarah Palin's resignation speech sounds like the first shot of her presidential bid
Jul 3, 2009 | Updated: 10:40 p.m. ET Jul 3, 2009
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/20/2009 9:58:39 PM
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/20/2009 2:23:33 AM
Palin is a Hollow, Floating, Bubble...Period...
Palin will not Survive the Republican Primaries.
This Dummy gave [500 Million Tax Payers $$] to a Gas Pipeline Builder, the Funny part is, they only Build Pipelines at a Cost of 20-40 Billion $$ they don't Supply the Gas !!
The Pipeline will take over 10-12 Years to Build and if Trans-Canada does not get the Remaining Capital, they can Simply take the [500 Million Seed Money] Palin gave them and [Run]
Palin is [Dumb] and that's why she's Running from Office, Opposed Staying in Office.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/13/2009 11:22:10 AM
During the campaign, an investigation by the Republican-dominated Legislature found that Ms. Palin had abused her office by leaning on subordinates to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper. She was forced to pay back taxes after it was disclosed that she had billed the state for thousands of dollars in per diem expenses meant to cover travel costs while staying in Wasilla.
Still, of the 19 ethics complaints filed against her, most have been dismissed.
Ms. Palin alleged in June that Mr. Letterman???s joke that one of her daughters had been ???knocked up??? by the Yankees star Alex Rodriguez during a recent trip to New York encouraged ???sexual exploitation??? of younger women.
Her comments then prompted a Republican lawmaker, State Representative Mike Hawker, to accuse Ms. Palin of underfinancing sexual abuse programs. Ms. Palin, in turn, directed public safety officials to give her fodder for a retort, requesting that they put out a statement saying her policies would reduce sexual assaults on minors.
Even Ms. Palin???s supporters came to believe that she was losing focus amid all the fighting.
???It was very relentless,??? said State Representative John Coghill, a Republican. ???My only criticism of her was she probably paid too much attention to it.???
In mid-spring, as the country grew alarmed over the swine flu, Ms. Palin skipped a briefing for administration officials on the outbreak by her chief medical officer, Dr. Jay C. Butler. A spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, noted that the teleconference took place about a month before the first case of the flu was reported in Alaska and that at the time the governor was meeting with top staff on the issue of federal stimulus funds. Since then, the state has had 122 confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu.
Dr. Butler said he resigned his post in June in part because the administration asked one of his highly regarded division heads, the state public health director, Beverly Wooley, to resign. ???I felt that it was not a good time to be downsizing,??? said Dr. Butler, who is now working on a swine flu vaccination at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Butler said the governor???s office apparently deemed Ms. Wooley insufficiently supportive of the parental consent bill backed by Ms. Palin.
Ms. Leighow would only say, inexplicably, that Ms. Wooley had been terminated by the health department, not the governor.-
Posted By: gregcovert @ 07/13/2009 6:50:45 PM
Omaar, my Yemen friend. As we say here in the U.S.A. You are one crazy SOB.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/10/2009 11:53:14 PM
A $30,000 an hour attorney? Palin report overstates inquiries' costs
McClatchy: There's some double counting and other problems with a spreadsheet outlining $1.9 million in state costs for ethics complaints, public records requests and lawsuits directed at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
The administrative director in the governor's office, Linda Perez, conceded that some costs were counted twice and said "the total cost is overstated by $26,849." She said she missed that the Department of Law's updated numbers included costs that were already counted.
"It was my error . . . mea culpa," said Perez, who has worked for governors of both parties since the 1980s.
Perez said she's going to ask the Department of Law about some other puzzling parts of the spreadsheet, including a line item that says 0.3 attorney hours added up to $10,063 in costs.
That would add up to an attorney billing of over $30,000 an hour, and Perez said the flat billing rate the state uses for its attorneys is $121.98 an hour. Perez said she would check and see what costs beyond the staff time went into that calculation of over $10,000 in costs.
There are also discrepancies between two pages provided by the administration detailing attorney hours on ethics complaints. For example, one sheet lists 119.4 attorney hours adding up to $14,564.41 for work on an ethics complaint, but the other page says it was 13.3 attorney hours adding up to almost the same amount, $14,565, for work on that same "Troopergate" related complaint.
Perez said she'll check with the Department of Law on this.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/10/2009 8:00:53 PM
Omaar On Palin Mindset...
Sarah Palin Mindest: She makes No Sense and that Sense makes Sense to [Her] ....
And when Rational & Real Logic Starts to Appear and Starts making Sense, its Non Sense to [Her]
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Peggy Noonan...
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
Noonan goes on to refute all the conservative arguments in Palin's favor, from her supposed working-class credentials to the idea that she upsets the mainstream media.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/10/2009 7:59:43 PM
Can you or anyone in their clear frame of mind, SEE Sarah Palin Debating National, International Policy against Newt Gingrich or Business Planning & Strategy against Mitt Romney ?
The Witch would be a Laugh Out Riot !!
She's not even a [1 Term Governor]
So Palin not having a Political Position is Meaningless as would be her Running for...
ANY OFFICE GOING FORWARD.
She's a [Quitter] [Irresponsible] [Self Absorbed] [Self Centered] [Selfish]
She's Not [Presidential]
She's a [Hollow,Floating,Bubble]
PS Liz Trotta was right about her, when she said earlier this week "She's Inarticulate and Undereducated"
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/10/2009 7:54:28 PM
Political Wire:
Saying Goodbye to Palin
Peggy Noonan on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin:
"She went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be. She was hungry, loved politics, had charm and energy, loved walking onto the stage, waving and doing the stump speech.
All good. But she was not thoughtful. She was a gifted retail politician who displayed the disadvantages of being born into a point of view (in her case a form of conservatism; elsewhere and in other circumstances, it could have been a form of liberalism) and swallowing it whole: She never learned how the other sides think, or why."
"In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough."
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/10/2009 4:07:06 PM
Omaar On Palin Mindset...
Sarah Palin Mindest: She makes No Sense and that Sense makes Sense to [Her] ....
And when Rational & Real Logic Starts to Appear and Starts making Sense, its Non Sense to [Her]
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Peggy Noonan...
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
Noonan goes on to refute all the conservative arguments in Palin's favor, from her supposed working-class credentials to the idea that she upsets the mainstream media.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/10/2009 4:02:27 PM
Rep. Speech Writer Goes off On Palin...With the Truth
Liz Trotta Went Off On Palin Earlier this Week, with the Truth. Simlilar Premise
ne of the most refreshingly honest moments of the 2008 campaign came when Peggy Noonan, a columnist and former Republican speechwriter, was caught on a live mike calling the choice of Sarah Palin to run on the Republican ticket "political bullshit." She smoothed over her harsh remarks in a subsequent column, saying she liked Palin even if she wasn't sure the choice would be successful. But now that Palin has resigned as Alaska Governor, Noonan apparently feels free to speak openly.
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
Noonan goes on to refute all the conservative arguments in Palin's favor, from her supposed working-class credentials to the idea that she upsets the mainstream media.
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Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/10/2009 12:23:13 PM
More ''dreck'' This time, from congressman and impeached judge Alcee Hastings [D-Miss]
As the HCL [ ''hate crimes'' legislation] wends its way through the House , Hastings has attached a rather strange amendment onto H.R.645. Here he gives ''sole discretion'' to the federal AG to determine what or who is an ''extremist'' based upon opposition to gay rights, abortion, gun control, or the workings of the present administration. The argument now is whether or not the ''other purposes'' for using closed military bases to house Americans affected by disaster could include also using these as a lockup for such ''exteremists''. No-one knows, but the GOP Arizona House bloc is finding out, by first attacking Hastings crazy plan to invest all precieved ''threats'' domestically, into the hands of just one person.,and now demanding that Hastings explain himself regarding what these ''other purposes'' actually are. The base deal is probably a tempest in a teapot, and does not recall the hysteria of the Bush years when his critics were all raving over ''concentration camps'',as I read Hastings bill. Yet the other, using a singular judge and jury to decide the parameters of ''extremism'' is actually extremist in and of itself and should be as handily defeated as the lame Michael Jackson resolution sent up by members of the BCC gunned down by even Pelosi.
www.house.gov H.R. 645
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Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/08/2009 7:51:00 PM
Joe Wurtzelbacher became a celebrity for his fifteen minutes because Obama made that scene. Not Joe himself. ''Parties of Ignorance'' wrap themselves in pseudo-intellectual doctines and expect the remainder of us to buy in. Had the ''academics'' done their damned jobs [as NEWSWEAKS Bob Samuelson succinctly points out],we would not be in the mess now afflicting both ''academics'' and ''hillbillies'' and everyone else. There is ''academic'' as applied to scholarly insight and the pursuit of knowlage. Then there are the ''academics'' that are too smart by half. The Obamans are in the latter,rather than the former position and the present state of this nation clearly displays this. These are not seekers, but sharps, and began gulling everyone based on this premise. Americans, as we see from three separate polls this week [ GALLUP, RASMUSSEN ,QUINNIPAC] that have booted Obama to the Fifties, and approval of his economic policies into the Thirties and even, Twenties [ in Bush Country, as his supporters were also once known as ''the twenty percenters'' mentioned with glee by liberals who are not laughing now], are no longer buying the shrewdly applied labels of HopenChange. Liberals will thus learn hubris, before they actually begin to learn.
''Look on the bright side. If is is the best they've got in six months we'll be running this planet''
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Posted By: chris s. @ 07/08/2009 10:09:33 PM
There are those who seem to have a lack of intellectual curiosity. They simply do not care or inquire about anything beyond their narrow world. Sorry, but one is Palin. If she is truly a bright woman, she does a great job of 'dumbing it down'. Another governor, with that trait was Reagan. The man could have dined with nearly anybody, however, he chose to take most of his meals in front of the T.V., on a tray. He relied on Hollywood charm ,humorous anecdotes ,one liners and bellicose rhetoric. For cryin' out loud, George Bush didn't even have a passport before he became president. These people had opportunities ,to learn and grow, that most of us can only dream about. Sadly, they did not take advantage of those chances.
As for Joe, he is making the most of his 15 minutes by being outrageous and making money doing it. I'd be surprised if he has a high school diploma. These days anybody can get a G.E.D.
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Posted By: bkrummel @ 07/08/2009 11:39:20 PM
"Reagan could have dined with nearly anybody, however, he chose to take most of his meals in front of the T.V., on a tray. ... For cryin' out loud, George Bush didn't even have a passport before he became president. These people had opportunities ,to learn and grow, that most of us can only dream about. Sadly, they did not take advantage of those chances."
Who cares? What is honestly wrong with a president who eats dinner in front of the T.V. or doesn't travel as a hobby. I don't think our president needs to be a great intellectual who has dined with the great minds and traveled the world (though some foreign affairs experience would be nice). The president just needs to be someone with some basic intelligence and curiosity, political experience, and a good understanding of most big issues. I just don't think Palin has even the basic curiosity, sufficient experience, or a good understanding of many national issues.
"I'd be surprised if Joe the Plumber has a high school diploma. These days anybody can get a G.E.D."
Again, who cares? I mean, the Republicans parading around an average Joe is a bit silly. Joe does need to educate himself on the issues. But I don't think Joe is a lesser person based his education level. If Joe otherwise has had a good life, he's okay with me.
I wasn't trying to suggest that our leaders must be intellectuals or that the Republican Party had to only consist of educated people. I was suggesting that the Republican Party needs more intellectuals and needs to be more open to intellectuals. I was also suggesting that ignorance of the issues and things like basic science is inappropriate in forming public policy. People don't need to be evolutionary biologists (the theory of evolution is hardly relevant to most people's lives or most aspects of leading the country), but I would hope someone setting the policy for teaching the evolution would know a few basic things about evolution and the controversy and would take the time to learn if they already don't. I would also appreciate it if Joe the Plumber wouldn't make ridiculous comments about kicking immigrants out of the country without considering first how that would really work as a policy. I don't expect my political party to consist of intellectuals, I just expect them to respect me and not act like idiots.-
Posted By: chris s. @ 07/09/2009 9:02:57 AM
I was not suggesting that these people need to be Rhodes Scholars. I do care that they don't have the slightest inclination to learn more about the world they are leading. Joe, educating himself on the issues, he is speaking about, is the perfect example. It's not about snobbery. It's about knowledge of the subject, before you speak. That is the very least we can expect from our leaders. It would be nice if they were informed, before blessing us with their pearls.
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Posted By: bkrummel @ 07/09/2009 2:29:31 PM
I obviously agree with you that our leaders should at least be expected to be informed. But the way you described it was a bit snobbish. There is nothing wrong with eating dinner in front of the TV. Just something wrong with not knowing what you are talking about when setting policy.
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Posted By: chris s. @ 07/09/2009 10:36:27 PM
So, we pretty much agree. I didn't mean to sound snotty. I was speaking about missed opportunities. Personally, I like to surround myself with people who are smarter than I am. Most of my friends are much brighter than I. It's one way I learn and expand my universe. They are just more interesting than the Joe's of this world. However, not as amusing, in a sad way. Whit is more to my liking. True, sometimes, it's so I can live vicariously through their experiences. I don't think it's too much to ask of our leaders, to be smarter and better informed than I am. It wouldn't take that much because, Lord knows, I'm not a member of Mensa, however, my son-in-law is., He can be a real kick in the pants . We just ask him to, please, speak slowly for our benefit. Don't get excited, that was just humor!
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Posted By: bkrummel @ 07/10/2009 1:16:20 AM
"So, we pretty much agree."
Yeap. This is great.
"I didn't mean to sound snotty."
Fair enough. I inferred as much from your prior post and, in an attempt to be brief and to the point, I failed to make this clear in my prior post.
I wouldn't worry too much about my seriousness about "sounding snotty" and about some people's attempts at humor. I have a few pet peeves that I am quite picky about. One is that sometimes people like and including myself (other social / cultural liberals) make the mistake of thinking or acting like our culture and intellectual thinking and curiosity makes us superior to those on social / cultural conservatives. People doing this demonstrate the same fanaticism and intolerance that they are critical of in others and add to the dislike of people like themselves (other atheists, academics, etc). Another is that some Republicans make "jokes" at the expense of youth, minorities, etc. I feel the Republican Party is in serious trouble right now and the Republicans don't show adequate respect for youth, minorities, intellectuals, atheists, etc (myself on many of these accounts). I don't find such jokes funny and I think the Republicans need to take this much more seriously. I think you can appreciate where I am coming from. You really do not have to walk on egg shells around me and I'm sorry if I gave this impression. By the way, your joke about your son-in-law is funny.
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Posted By: DrewCAENG @ 07/08/2009 9:04:50 PM
Lee Lee Lee, how easy it is for you to twist and manipulate. So now Joe the Plumber was an Obama marketing gimmick? How exactly? I seem to remember seeing his bald head at every McCain and Palin rally not to mention on Fox news about every 15 minutes during the election. I also seem to remember Palin bringing his name up every time she was asked to answer a question, be it about the economy or Russian sovereignty. How embarrassing for the GOP and their supporters, and you people think that liberals got fazed by simple campaign slogans! Joe is an interesting fellow, he pretty much sums up my argument that the GOP is the party of... well just look at the guy.
A 59% approval rating is actually historically very high, so who is crying exactly? Lets not forget that Bush left office with the lowest approval rating in modern history. Now you can define intelligence however you want and place Obama and co. into whichever works best for your argument but you have only listed your opinion, not fact.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/09/2009 8:46:03 PM
Portfolio Magazine Excerpts:
Editor's Note: On July 3, Sarah Palin stunned the nation's political establishment and her own state of Alaska when she announced she'd be resigning as governor. What she did (or didn't do) to promote the development of a $40 billion gas pipeline will be a crucial part of her short history in office. This story, which was first published on March 17, delved into the long and complicated history of a pipeline that doesn't exist.
Sarah Palin Pipeline Lies: During the vice-presidential debate, she said it again...
???We???re building a nearly $40 billion natural-gas pipeline, which is North America???s largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever.???
How better to defang the industry that had ruled Alaska like a colonial master for 40 years than to make sure its major players would be no more than spectators at the state???s next grand pageant, the building of a new pipeline that would carry natural gas from Alaska???s North Slope to what Palin called the ???hungry markets??? of the Lower 48?
In her zeal, however, Palin overlooked one salient fact: It was Alaska???s three largest oil producers???Exxon Mobil Corp., BP, and ConocoPhillips Co.???that controlled the natural gas the new pipeline would need if it were ever to pump anything more than hot air.
By writing the rules in a way that excluded the oil companies from the process,
Palin, although she gained the short-term approval-rating points that made her seem attractive to McCain last summer,
But assured that the ???largest private-sector infrastructure project in North America??? would never be anything more than her personal field of dreams.
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Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/08/2009 4:12:58 PM
''We got a pretty good deal from you when you sold Alaska to us''
Remarks, President Barack H.Obama to Russian President Medvedev,July 07,2009.
Thus, even ''academics'' including the Columbia/Harvard-educated Obama can really put their foot in it, with ''Alaska'' becoming both Obama as well as Palins diplomatic Waterloo. As we write, the RUSSIAN TIMES and ITAR-TASS are all over Obama for his unneccesary comments,which have had the effect of chilling whatever goodwill Obama was attempting to amass from the Russian people. Indeed, the ''cool'' of this administration begins to wear off when we discover how uneducated, the ''educated'' perform on the world stage. Biden only created more problems by giving Israel its ''green light'' regarding Iran, totally removing himself from a chain of command that would have been readily understood by an Army E-1 with a GED. Both hilarity and consternation ensue when we find that the ''academics'' who are running this show over the likes of hillbilly pikers like Palin regale the rest of us with ''Richard Holbrooke'' Awards going to the likes of a CHEVRON, feds dressed in mufti sneaking bomb-making materials into federal buildings under Napolitanos watch. ''I hadn't read the bill'' sayeth Obamas new ''Energy Czar'', another of these ''academics'', who may have actually paid his taxes, but suffered from simple reading comprehension skills ,as did nearly all of Congress. A budget that no-one is paying any attention to. A Stimulus package where no-one knows Where The Money is going. A make-it-up-as-you-go-along healthcare bill. Indeed, what we are seeing is a repeat of the early 1960s ''Whiz Kid''period, with the attendant results. A nation in schism. Mebbe we need more hillbillies. Or fewer ''whiz kids''.-
Posted By: Omaar @ 07/09/2009 8:40:26 PM
Sarah Palin Pipeline Lies: During the vice-presidential debate, she said it again...
???We???re building a nearly $40 billion natural-gas pipeline, which is North America???s largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever.???
How better to defang the industry that had ruled Alaska like a colonial master for 40 years than to make sure its major players would be no more than spectators at the state???s next grand pageant, the building of a new pipeline that would carry natural gas from Alaska???s North Slope to what Palin called the ???hungry markets??? of the Lower 48?
In her zeal, however, Palin overlooked one salient fact: It was Alaska???s three largest oil producers???Exxon Mobil Corp., BP, and ConocoPhillips Co.???that controlled the natural gas the new pipeline would need if it were ever to pump anything more than hot air.
By writing the rules in a way that excluded the oil companies from the process,
Palin, although she gained the short-term approval-rating points that made her seem attractive to McCain last summer,
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Posted By: bkrummel @ 07/08/2009 5:26:47 PM
The Republican Party needs people who are experts on issues like science and economics. They need people who can think critically. These people aren't the only ones who can set good policy, but they are indispensable in formulating good policy. The hillbillies are incompetent. That doesn't mean the liberals aren't incompetent. That means that the Republicans needs to get some intellectual muscle into their party.
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Posted By: bkrummel @ 07/08/2009 5:26:27 PM
What is it with you Republicans and your dislike of academics? I doubt most of you even know academics or know what you are talking about when you talk about them.
As for Obama's gaffe in Russia, I never said academics were prefect in respecting others. They say things they shouldn't just like everyone else. In fact, academics are just like everyone else, which is part of the point I'm trying to make. The thing about academics is they actually try and do their best to respect different people and cultures. Obama isn't perfect, but at least he is willing to acknowledge the religious diversity, including non-believers like myself, in his inaugural address and doesn't refer to part of America as the "real America" like Palin does. At least Obama tries.
Most of the "academics" you mentioned are politicians. The Energy Czar Carol Browner doesn't have a PhD or teach at a university. Carol Browner got a law degree and has mostly worked in politics. By academic, I mean someone who works at a university teaching students, conducting research, and publishing papers. Try finding something that such an academic has done that warrants this criticism.
Let's look at the "hillbillies". They believe ridiculous things like the Earth is 5000 years old. When you discuss issues like evolution with them, they mention incorrect stuff like lack of transition fossil, yet they still think that they should decide what is taught in a science class. I could discuss abstinence only eduaction and global warming being a hoax, but you get the point. When it comes to any issue involving science or education, these people are basically incompetent. On abortion, they have this simplistic view that "abortion is murder" and "I chose life" without realizing that their approach to sexuality doesn't work for everyone. The hillbillies have no abortion policy or understanding of the issues involved with such a policy. If the hillbillies merely disagreed with me, that's fine. There is no real substance to their positions. On fiscal matters, right now the best the Republicans can put out is this ideological nonsense over pork spending and cutting taxes. Pork spending, though out of control, is only a small part of the budget. No one outside the Republican Party advocates tax cuts for addressing the current recession, yet all Republicans talk about is using tax cuts. The Republicans expect to convince that tax cuts are a good idea by saying "well they worked every other time". Well you guys complain about the debt and your tax cuts increased the debt everytime too. By the way, we tried having a "hillbilly" as president. He was called George W. Bush. Do I really need to remind you how fiscally irresponsible and overall incompetent he was?
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/09/2009 8:33:32 PM
Sarah Palin Pipeline Lies: During the vice-presidential debate, she said it again: ???We???re building a nearly $40 billion natural-gas pipeline, which is North America???s largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever.???
As Mike Hawker, the Republican co-chairman of Alaska???s House Finance Committee, told me one night in Juneau not long ago, ???The only thing standing in the way of an Alaska gas pipeline is the Sarah Palin administration.???
And as former Governor Tony Knowles, a Democrat, told me over coffee one morning in Anchorage, ???It???s as if getting the gas pipeline built is only her second-highest priority. Her highest is making sure the oil companies don???t build it.???
You see, before she became the woman who John McCain said ???knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States??????and long before she became the new darling of the newly disenfranchised far right???Sarah Palin had been a bare-knuckle backwoods populist who???d built a career out of puffing up dragons she could then slay. Her tactic was first to demonize, then to defeat. She???d ridden her luck for 10 years, from the Wasilla city council to the governorship. And when she became governor, in 2006, she found herself eyeball-to-eyeball with Alaska???s most demonizable dragon of all???Big Oil.
How better to defang the industry that had ruled Alaska like a colonial master for 40 years than to make sure its major players would be no more than spectators at the state???s next grand pageant, the building of a new pipeline that would carry natural gas from Alaska???s North Slope to what Palin called the ???hungry markets??? of the Lower 48?
In her zeal, however, Palin overlooked one salient fact: It was Alaska???s three largest oil producers???Exxon Mobil Corp., BP, and ConocoPhillips Co.???that controlled the natural gas the new pipeline would need if it were ever to pump anything more than hot air.
By writing the rules in a way that excluded the oil companies from the process, Palin???although she gained the short-term approval-rating points that made her seem attractive to McCain last summer???all but assured that the ???largest private-sector infrastructure project in North America??? would never be anything more than her personal field of dreams.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/09/2009 6:49:40 PM
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons for resigning -- that ethics complaints against her were draining the state of money -- appeared to be false.
In response to our questions, the Governor's office provided us with a detailed breakdown of the millions Palin has claimed has gone to defending against ethics complaints. It does list roughly $1.9 million in expenditures.
But Murrow, the spokesperson, acknowledged to our reporter, Amanda Erickson, that this total was arrived at by adding up attorney hours spent on fending off complaints -- based on the fixed salaries of lawyers in the governor's office and the Department of Law. The money would have gone to the lawyers no matter what they were doing. The complaints are "just distracting them from other duties," Murrow said.
In other words, while these lawyers might have been free to do other legal work for the state, the ethics complaints have apparently not had the real world impact Palin has claimed, and didn't drain money away from cops, teachers, roads and other things.
The Anchorage Daily News did a thorough analysis and backed up the spokesperson. The ethics complaints took up time that staff could have spent doing other work, but they did not cost Alaska any money.
"Is it a check that we wrote, no, but is it staff hours, yes," Sharon Leighow, spokeswoman for Palin, said of the expenses related to state employee work.
Those state employees would have been paid regardless.
A large chunk of that work went into the state personnel board's "Troopergate" investigation, which Palin herself initiated on the grounds that a legislative probe was politicized. Only three of the ethics complaints are still pending, a fact that makes Palin's explanation seem even less sensible.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/09/2009 6:37:24 PM
Sarah Palin, Used Basketball & the Point Guard Position as a Metaphor regarding the Game of Politics was a ...
[Very-Bad Example]
A Point Guard will Not Quit a [Game]
Especially Mid-Way Through the 3rd Quarter of a Crucial Game, to Quit is not, Passing the Ball, to Advance or Help the Team, its...
[Quitting] [Phoning it in] & [Giving Up]
Plain & Simple.
in this case, the Game is called [Politics]
Note: Unless he or She is Pulled, Benched, Injured-Fouled Out...
I Repeat, He-She Will Not Quit Mid-Way in the 3rd Quarter...
He or She will Finish the [Game]
Win,Lose or OVERTIME..
Win, Lose or OVER TIME
If Sarah Palin Can not Handle the Media Pressure from a Governors Stand Point [Alaska] how in the Hell can she Handle the Congress, Senate,VP of the USA or the...
Highest Office in the Land, The Presidency of the USA.
Palin Couldn't Cut it and there's Much More to her Abrupt & Hurried Resignation than what Palin Revealed Yesterday, but its coming.
Basketball Exposes Cheats, Quitters & Pretenders.
Basketball also Molds, Winners under Extreme Duress, who Rise to the Occasion, not Succumb to the Pressures of the Game, but Face their Worst Fears & Conquer their Demons....
While the World, Naysayers, Pundits & Odds Makers Watch in Awe as the the Basketball Player, Proves them ...WRONG !!
Note: Look at Kobe Bryant, as the Ultimate in Handling the Media and Rising to the Top, in Spite of it all, Not Running or Succumbing to Mass Media, its Called [Character]
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/09/2009 6:25:30 PM
Can you or anyone in their clear frame of mind, SEE Sarah Palin Debating National, International Policy against Newt Gingrich or Business Planning & Strategy against Mitt Romney ?
The Witch would be a Laugh Out Riot !!
She's not even a [1 Term Governor]
So Palin not having a Political Position is Meaningless as would be her Running for...
ANY OFFICE GOING FORWARD.
She's a [Quitter] [Irresponsible] [Self Absorbed] [Self Centered] [Selfish]
She's Not [Presidential]
She's a [Hollow,Floating,Bubble]
PS Liz Trotta was right about her, when she said earlier this week "She's Inarticulate and Undereducated"
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Posted By: Omaar @ 07/09/2009 6:25:09 PM
Palin???s key reason for resigning was inflated.
Sarah Palin One of the main reasons Sarah Palin cited for her resignation as Alaska???s governor was frustration with ???frivolous ethics violations.??? She said that she didn???t want to waste ???valuable state time and money, millions of your dollars??? go toward responding to the charges. Palin???s office provided the Anchorage Daily News ???with a breakdown of what it says are $1.9 million in costs.??? However, it appears that these costs may be inflated. Most of the $1.9 million is a ???per-hour accounting??? of the time that state employees have spent working on the charges, even though those ???state employees would have been paid regardless.??? Greg Sargent notes:
But [David] Murrow, the [governor's] spokesperson, acknowledged to our reporter, Amanda Erickson, that this total was arrived at by adding up attorney hours spent on fending off complaints ??? based on the fixed salaries of lawyers in the governor???s office and the Department of Law. The money would have gone to the lawyers no matter what they were doing. The complaints are ???just distracting them from other duties,??? Murrow said.
In other words, while these lawyers might have been free to do other legal work for the state, the ethics complaints have apparently not had the real world impact Palin has claimed, and didn???t drain money away from cops, teachers, roads and other things.
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Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/09/2009 3:33:53 PM
It is worse than even I thought.
This mornings RASMUSSEN has Obama at a 51% approval level, worse than Bushs at this point in his presidency. To find out why, several things are becoming increasingly apparent.
1. The ''backdoor'' taxes being set up to be levied on the poor and middle-class [ soda, chips, other fast foods, tobacco, excise taxes, alcohol ] are making way for a more emerging policy of raising taxes on the middle class on their income as well. The liberal BROOKINGS Institute states that Obama ''has no choice'' Even with taxing the blazes out of the ''rich'', there would not be even nearly enough to cover his healthcare scheme as well as the fallout over a climate change bill that even Democrats agree would throw more Americans out of work which is actually anticipated in the WAXMAN-MARKEY bill.
2. In this spirit, Sen.Byrd [D-WVA] has slammed the door shut on any vote on WAXMAN-MARKEY ''until September'' at the earliest, dealing Obama a defeat here. Obama well knows that as his approval numbers continue their fall, there will be less and less political muscle that can be utilized by the administration in order to ram the deal through. In a related aside, Waxman [D-Ca] , no damned differant than when liberals were wailing over Limbaughs ''hope he [Obama] fails'' remarks that sent them into a fury, are totally ignoring the congressmans remarks yesterday that ''the GOP is against America'', forgetting that a solid majority of Waxmans said ''Americans'' are against his own folly.
3. As I accurately deduced, large swaths of the Stimulus package are being doled out by the Democrat leadership to favoured political contributors. To use one instance, House Majority Leader Hoyer [ D-Md] has yanked 18 million out of the package in order to dole it out to his chief campaign warchest contributors at Marylands SMARTRONIX for a lousy website overhaul. [ perhaps someone can explain to this writer where it costs so much for a company website that most of you have never even heard of and will never utilize].
4. Independant voters are fleeing the SS OBAMA . The ''new boss, same as the old boss'' is a key reason why they are departing even divorced from the present condition of the nation. These actions will drop Obamas approval for him and his policies down this much further ,as Obama could not have become POTUS without their help to begin with. Palin actually becomes rather small beer in the wake of these and other revelations that are knocking holes into the edifice of Hopenchange.
The Associated Press July 08,2009:''Promises, Promises. Obama Tax Pledge Unrealsitic''
ABC NEWS July09,2009:''Hoyer-Linked Firm Wins 18 Million Recovery.Com Contract''
POLITICO July 09, 2009: ''Henry Waxman: GOP Rooting Against America''
POLITICO July 09,2009 ''Independants Edge Away From Obama''
www,senate.gov
www.opensecrets.org The Center for Responsive Politics.
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Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/09/2009 12:12:16 PM
DREW; This, ''exactly''.
You forget that Obama never had to confront Wurzelbacher and never had to engage him in debate [ this being, taxes on those making 250 grand a year that would include small business].
It now not only appears, but is a patent fact that Wurzelbacher has been vindicated in this key area. Those making below this threshhold will pay in higher taxes to cover healthcare costs and shrink the deficit, precisely as Clinton did in 1993-94 without,and this is important, without the insanity of WAXMAN-MARKEY and a patchwork glued-together healthcare policy let alone the double-digit unemployment and record number of loans defaults that we now suffer from.
From todays USA TODAY:
Its investigators now find that the Stimulus package monies as sent out by the administration have seen at well over a two to one ratio, the lions share going to states that supported Obama in the election. These monies [as in Obamas Iliinois and all of the New England states] are NOT, repeat NOT, going to the ''American people'' as Obama promised in order to jump-start the economy with jobs and retraining. They are going to pay down state deficits run up as in California, as the result of cockamamie fiscal schemes dreamed up by this species of alleged ''progressive''. The ''people'' are seeing nothing. Even the one region that would assist out of work Americans, namely welfare, is taking a back seat to pork ,waste, fraud, abuse and the hucking of stimulus dough into state general funds where these conditions are freely allowed to occur. Hence the GAOs scathing report this week criticizing this important lack of oversight by the administration and Congress.These are facts DREW... Not ''opinions''. You will bear in mind that Obama rode into Americas Dodge with a 73% approval rating and has frittered away nearly 15 points in less than six months.[ with his ecomonic policies suffering even lower approval ratings by far]. You will also observe that Bush was in the same region at this point in his first term. Obama will not last and will recede even further as the recession and its bread and circuses gaming of the American people, continue. Thus Palin and Joe become mere bit players in the larger drama. This is the ''hope and change'' you voted for.
PS . How are those ''signing statement'' and ''post-detention confinement '' things working out?
''How did they end up running this upside -down world''?
Charlton Heston ''Planet Of The Apes'' [ 1968]
www.gao.gov
www.usatoday.com July 09,2009.
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