Comments on: Palin: Is There A Scandal Or Is She Just Abandoning Her Office And Constituents

By: tjallen

tjallen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:55:15 +0000

marg at 196, I’m with you, the Gov. is preggers. Fun to wonder if Todd is the Daddy.

How can Palin announce a quitting date so far off? If this were a legal matter or politically explosive news, she could not guarantee it wouldn’t blow before then. So it must be something that takes longer, more predictable, a process, perhaps biological, that won’t show until then?

I think the “we” in her “we decided…” is not royal or ecclesiastical, but is “we” = “me and my family.” She seems to indicate that there was a family discussion about something. Family matters?

Also, the “higher calling” or whatever her exact words, maybe is not religious or political, but “being a mom.” Uhm, again.

By: oldtree

oldtree — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:55:18 +0000

She ran Ted Steven’s PAC right? Ted was being wiretapped by the feds for his involvement with the same company doing his house, right? She has given the Fed’s cause to wiretap her for years now because she worked or Teddy, and they have the goods. Now Murkowski’s statement is barely more than a question a democrat would ask. She says she “abandoned” the state. Murkowski could be afraid of two things. She might have a tough time against Palin for senate, although after this towel tossing before the second half of her term begins, that’s no longer too relevant. Palin is dead in Alaska politics.
But Murkowski knows that they have been tapping her and all the rest of the Alaska delegations as well. She may have realized that Palin sang to the feds about what she knows and now has to prove Palin incompetent and traitorous to protect herself from jail.
The feds have been looking at the Bill Allen, the big cheese, and all his little minions. Who are his minions?, the entire Alaska GOP, right? This isn’t a small change operation. It does smell like the guano has hit the fan.
I want to bet on this one before the odds are too close to even. Any suggestions?

By: Caitin

Caitin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:25:56 +0000

I think it is a simple as the job got hard. This is a woman who went to 5 different colleges. She resigned her first state appointment on the Alaska Oil Board and now she has quit her job as governor. When things get hard she quits.

She’s a quitter. It really is just that simple.

By: lllphd

lllphd — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:23:29 +0000

whew, nothing like palin to stir up the traffic on a holiday friday night! can’t even begin to catch up.

fwiw, placing my bets on the unseemly untidy, erm, trade she pulled off with spenard building supplies in wasilla, who evidently built her house on the lovely lake where she resigned. however, they built it sorta, er, ‘on the way’ to this other job just up the road apiece, a job building this massive oversized sports center that sweet sarah got FEDERAL funds for. this is why the feds are the ones snooping around and asking the company for paperwork, etc.

a federal indictment on embezzlement charges. now mind you, it may end up that the USatty offices there bungle this as badly as the stevens case, allowing her to eventually be ‘vindicated.’ but the case, if it goes forward, will keep her tied in knots for a few years, pretty much ruling out a 2012 run.

anyway, that’s my bet. i further speculate that the indictment will come down in a matter of days, maybe next week, and it will happen because someone in the sbs company was looking down the barrel of hard time in the fed pen and decided to make a deal.

not sure how that translates as a basketball metaphor, but there it is.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:45:27 +0000

Why do you think I did that?

I’m not that dumm!

By: skylights

skylights — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:39:18 +0000

Psst. When saying someone is dumb, you might not want to spell it “dummer.”

By: Creosote

Creosote — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:16:38 +0000

Good guess – after all she used the expression “full court press”

By: Oskie

Oskie — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:11:04 +0000

“We know we can effect positive political change from outside government at this moment in time and actually make a difference for our priorities, and so we will.”

So, she’s gonna become a community activist?

By: tryggth

tryggth — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:09:54 +0000

I think Schuster got her last night on KO. Well, actually, whoever shot across her bow with those emails.

By: fatster

fatster — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:02:14 +0000

Someone was asking about Rumsfeld just the other day.

Rumsfeld On Abandoning Geneva: ‘All Of A Sudden, It Was Just All Happening’
By Justin Elliott - July 3, 2009, 6:03PM

Donald Rumsfeld has finally said he’s sorry. Sort of.

“In an interview with biographer Bradley Graham, the former secretary of defense says he has regrets about the administration’s controversial detainee policy.

“The twist is that Rumsfeld doesn’t regret the policy itself — specifically the abandoning of the Geneva Conventions for detainees picked up in Afghanistan. Rather, he regrets how the policy was formulated.

‘”All of a sudden, it was just all happening, and the general counsel’s office in the Pentagon had the lead,” Rumsfeld told former Washington Post journalist Bradley Graham, as quoted in By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld. “It never registered in my mind in this particular instance–it did in almost every other case–that these issues ought to be in a policy development or management posture. Looking back at it now, I have a feeling that was a mistake. In retrospect, it would have been better to take all of those issues and put them in the hands of policy or management.”‘

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi.....hp?ref=fpb