Comments on: Sarah Palin’s Evolving Excuses for Firing Walt Monegan

By: Leen

Leen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:54:30 +0000

We have seen this picture before. Meiers, Bolton, Rove ignore subpoenas. These Alaska folks are ignoring subpoenas. Sounds like they are being coached. If I ever get a subpoena I am going to follow suit. Will encourage other peasants to do the same.

Monkey see Monkey do

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:41:08 +0000

NPR documentary on the big shitpile Audio 13 mins.

By: Boston1775

Boston1775 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:26:35 +0000

Okay gang,
I’ve run this idea out before with almost no success, but I have to try it again.
Considering who’s running and advising the McCain campaign, I still find it impossible to believe that they didn’t anticipate that “we” would run down the wide Palin Avenue of stories.
It was simple to find troopergate, the bridge to nowhere, the sacking of Wasilla, the husband at government meetings, double blackberries with email requiring executive privilege and a past rivaling John Edwards.
Karl Rove’s protege and Karl Rove himself only needed teh google.

Come on, don’t you think they’ve weakened the stranglehold of the holy evangelicals on the Republican party?
Because McCain was going to lose anyway.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:19:20 +0000

On Tuesday, Governor Sarah Palin’s appointed Attorney General sent a letter to state Sen. Hollis French, the Democrat overseeing the “Troopergate” investigation, and asked that the subpoenas that were issued last week to comple (sic) testimony be withdrawn.

Attorney General Talis Colberg also stated the employees would refuse to appear unless either the full state Senate or the entire Legislature votes to compel their testimony.
Anrew Halco.com “Just for the record” link

Looks like the same play, same play book. We could start a trash talk thread on troopergate.

By: MarieRoget

MarieRoget — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:10:58 +0000

White Sarah, pure as the driven slush.
The love of possession(s) is a disease with them. It’s strange to think old friend Tommy Hayden is going to be 69 soon.

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:38:22 +0000

Alaska AG: Palin subpoenas won’t be honored

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26742379/

In a letter to state Sen. Hollis French, the Democrat overseeing the investigation, Republican Attorney General Talis Colberg asked that the subpoenas be withdrawn. He also said the employees would refuse to appear unless either the full state Senate or the entire Legislature votes to compel their testimony.

Colberg, who was appointed by Palin, said the employees are caught between their respect for the Legislature and their loyalty to the governor, who initially agreed to cooperate with the inquiry but has increasingly opposed it since McCain chose her as his running mate.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:36 +0000

I believe the ‘too much funding’ problem is real. It is like an ‘activist’ judge who tries to be too fair. Or the US Dept of Agriculture, insisting on conducting yearly surveys of all pesticides and fertilizers, posting that data free on the internet. USDA did that for several decades, but Bush Cheney oversaw the ending of the process, in 2007 posting data for only four crops, and writing to the Federal Register in 2008 the fiat that USDA no longer would collect the data. No data, no problems. Imagine some zealot scientist who wanted to help risk assessment and health studies by lobbying for reinstitution of the cancelled program to gather and publish nationwide pesticide and fertilizer application data. That scientist might be at risk of losing employment in the Bush Cheney government. Recognizing the ploy as a classic Bush Cheney m.o. for hiding and erasing information, a coalition of 50 groups such as Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote a letter in May 2008 to USDA asking the program be reinstated; alternative data collection sources, the organizations stated, had less openness to verification of accuracy of data collection mechanisms, and charged fees for data access too steep for nonprofits’ budgets.

By: Boston1775

Boston1775 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:49:56 +0000

Brilliant

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:27:18 +0000

Has anyone actually ever gotten fired for requesting too much “funding?” What a joke. The response is usually to not provide the funding, not to fire the person.

freepatriot says:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, under investigation for the dismissal of a former commissioner of public safety, says she didn’t fire him — he quit.

And hey, there’s even a parallel to Bud Cummins. They claimed he quit too!

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:02:27 +0000

They’ve resorted to Chapstick.