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- freedomjoe, on 03/21/2009, -18/+171one of these ethics complaints forced her to repay the state for trips her children took on the taxpayers' dollars which were legally, morally, and ethically indefensible. then in another complaint she was ordered to pay back taxes on the car the state provides for her.
It's deliciously ironic to listen to the right eviscerate every single person Obama wants to appoint -- the right takes them apart for missing 12 dollars in taxes ten years ago. Bring it...Just keep bringing it. Meanwhile, their Poujadist Princess Palin is racking up ethics violations in silence....and they'll rush in to pay her legal fees, how much you want to bet? Because, see, it's not about principle with the right. Otherwise they'd be done with her.
It's about power. And this proves it. - inactive, on 03/21/2009, -15/+130Please please please run in 2012.
- freedomjoe, on 03/21/2009, -16/+103she has another ethics complaint reported this AM! OMG. You can't keep up with her.
From Alaskan paper:
"A new ethics complaint against Gov. Sarah Palin accuses her of using state staff and resources for political purposes on two occasions, once this week and once during the presidential campaign."
I know most people are sick of hearing about her, but frankly, for me she represents the perfect Republican specimen to examine. She is vapid, cheating, lying, spinning, morally bankrupt, spiritually empty, noe-con, projectionist, self-made victim, mean-spirited, back-stabbing, dangerously intellectually incurious, a Poujadist puppet for the Grand Masters to wave in front of a blind and adoring marginalized and uneducated fan base, believes dinosaurs walked with people, abstinence only, a waking culture war action figure, a more determined and brutal George Bush.
I will never forget that she willingly and with malice of foresight continued to put the President and his family's lives at risk with her dangerous, lying rhetoric.
She is a symbol of the right, and her lies and ethics violations represent all of them. Their continued support of her in the face of these lies says even more about their "ideology" than words ever could.
To take our eye off of her would be sheer ignorance on our parts. The willfully misinformed will rise again, and the red-spiked heels dominatrix of the right will be guiding them. Who will suffer? - MediaWeasel, on 03/21/2009, -8/+86"Obviously we cannot afford to personally pay these bills -- and really no future governor should feel the sense of financial vulnerability at the hands of those with a political vendetta bent on personal destruction," Palin wrote. "Some have suggested a legal fund to pay these bills. We'll have to pursue that."
Hey. I've got a really good idea, Sarah. If you want to stop people taking you at your word and holding you accountable, and so you don't end up with massive legal fees again in the future, how about this. (It's a bit radical, and you may not like what I'm going to suggest, but let's run with it. It's just off the top of my head so bear with me.)
How about being an honest, decent human being. - GrandmaSheila, on 03/21/2009, -12/+71A public fund for her legal expenses incurred in defending her from various embezellment and corruption charges?? But... that's SOCIALISM!!!!
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses: Hallmark of the Grasping Old Perverts style... - AgeofMastery, on 03/21/2009, -8/+63So it's ok for her to be bailed out, but not the people of Alaska?
- freedomjoe, on 03/21/2009, -12/+67PS Don't forget to read the comments from her constituents:
"But don't you see, Palin would never dream of asking for your money. There may be "strings attached" and that money won't always be there. See, you may give her $10 a month to help pay off those legal bills, and then after say, 2-3 years, that money won't be there, and then she would need to readjust her budget since that money wouldn't be coming in anymore.
Palin knows that the only way to handle this situation is to cut back on other things, stand on her own two feet, and balance her own budget. That's the Palin Way!" - Phylter, on 03/21/2009, -10/+51Bootstraps people!! Personal fiscal responsibility, all just bumperstickers, it's all they've got.
- Firstdaughter, on 03/21/2009, -9/+47She reminds me of so many women that I've known over the years that give women a bad name. She has gotten by on her looks (which IMO are mediocre at best) and her ability to *****. The flirting and winking through her campaign as VP made me want to puke.
This ***** crap she's pulling now is just more of the same that I've come to expect from "THAT woman".
Can you all imagine what the US would be like if McCain was elected and had kicked the bucket in office? - JenniferInMO, on 03/21/2009, -13/+48Poor little victim. She needs help from her adoring worshipers. Apparently, she feels more entitled to public support than rape victims, children and people with health problems. "***** everyone else, what about me?"
- clvngodess, on 03/21/2009, -7/+41Yeah, we need the material for SNL, and Gnocchi. : P
- Echota, on 03/21/2009, -9/+42Palins lookin for some folks to prop her sorry ass up here.
She don't want to pay her bill's so she's going to hold out a tin cup to her adoring fan's.
Socialist and a hypocrite. - Echota, on 03/22/2009, -7/+39Best sign at the Alaska Rejects Palin’s Rejection of Stimulus Money Rally
Hey Sarah!
I can see the end of your political career from my house!
http://mamadance.wordpress.com/ - Alheithinn, on 03/21/2009, -8/+37Yes, we should weep for her. It's not like she bears any responsibility for her actions or anything - conservatives never do. It's always somebody else's fault and others ought to pay for it.
- freedomjoe, on 03/22/2009, -1/+25good point. really good point.
I also love how she claims she makes only 140k or so, but leaves out the free car, the 40k in per diem she never paid taxes on, the free flights and vacation, the free food, the cook, the nanny, the two houses (one built for free), the bonus money from big oil for just knowin' ya, the 450,000 in wardrobe, makeup and hari expenses for 2.5 months (??!!!) etc. Yeah, we're supposed to feel sorry for her? - JenniferInMO, on 03/21/2009, -3/+27Wow, that was concise! LOL. My rant, should I ever let my full opinion fly would be much longer, it would include crude language and would do nothing more than indicate my dislike for her. Oh, and the term "bitch slap" would be in there too.
- stonecircle, on 06/11/2009, -8/+31Maybe Sarah should start by selling more of her "naughty monkey shoes" on Ebay. That first pair raked in $2025 at auction.
- Technopundit, on 03/22/2009, -8/+30So when's that daughter of hers getting married?
- 4321234, on 03/22/2009, -1/+23She should terrify everybody.
- JenniferInMO, on 03/22/2009, -3/+23She hasn't just gotten by on her looks, she has gotten by on her brain too. Don't get me wrong, she has no intellectual capacity whatsoever. What she does have is a complete lack of conscience and moral compass. She is nothing but a hard-nosed political player who uses whatever and whoever she sees as a means to reach her single objective: to do whatever she wants.
- symmetrical, on 03/22/2009, -0/+19Very well put. For those of us who live in Alaska, it is both embarrassing to have her representing the state and terrifying that the Wal-Mart crowd is so enamored with her. Some people wonder why the Constitutional framers created an Electoral College. They believed quite correctly there would come a time when voters were not to be trusted. That time is at hand.
- novenator, on 03/22/2009, -6/+24aww, wittle boy need to tattle tell?
- Firstdaughter, on 03/22/2009, -2/+20@unreg:
We are the ones who should "let go"?
Are you ***** kidding me???!!!
The right has been bitching and moaning since President Obama was elected. THEY are the ones who cannot let it go. For instance, they still argue about whether or not Obama is a natural born citizen (even though it has been proven over and over again that he is*) and then they bring up impeachment.
*http://digg.com/politics/Federal_Judge_Obama_Citiz ...
The only thing that I want to "let go" of is the obstructionist ***** that the far right passes off as fact! - mikelieman, on 03/22/2009, -1/+18Palin's base sure as hell cares that her grandson is a bastard, in the biblical sense, and that she's so weak AS A CHRISTIAN MOTHER, she can't get her legally-minor daughter to do the right thing, and give that baby his father's name, by getting married -- like ANY GOOD CHRISTIAN WOULD???
What's wrong? Don't Todd own a shotgun? Or is he not enough of a Man to make Levi stand up and do the right thing?
She has Satan at her dinner table, and she's offering second and third helpings. - freedomjoe, on 03/22/2009, -3/+20and what is with the "we'll have to pursue that" -- why does she always use the royal we for herself?
freaky.
honesty? HA HA HA. No one who has ever known her has ever suggested that was a character trait she possessed or displayed. she might could find herself some of that at that second hand shop she claims she liked so much (once her Nieman Marcus addiction became public, that is). - StripeyMagee, on 03/22/2009, -3/+20Palin/Jindal 2012!!
- vagrantwade, on 03/22/2009, -4/+20Do you get some kind of reward points everytime you get dugg down? Because your stupid ass is always on the bottom. Go post on the Fox News comments you old hillbilly son of a bitch.
- inactive, on 03/22/2009, -4/+20Palin who?
- Technopundit, on 03/22/2009, -2/+18If you could see Russia from your house, you'd know.
- AgeofMastery, on 03/22/2009, -3/+18I'm sure he's going to tell his mommy too when she comes down to the basement.
- macgarp, on 03/22/2009, -6/+21she should sell her campaign outfits on eBay
- SaintStryfe, on 03/22/2009, -6/+20When the headline said "Grifter Palin", I swear to Christ, I thought it was another stupidly named member of that insane clan.
- rhabdomancer, on 03/22/2009, -7/+21Sarah, you deadbeat. Pay your bills!
- HappyScrappy, on 03/22/2009, -5/+19Does she still exist?
The amount of attention she is still getting seems rather disproportionate to what she actually merits. - seltaeb4, on 03/22/2009, -0/+13What you say makes no sense.
Obama made well over $1,000,000 last year on royalties from the sales of his two books. He'll be paying taxes on that, you know.
Obama is simply resetting tax levels to where they were in the Clinton years (1993-2001) before Bush came in and made billionaires into multi-billionaires, while everyone else got screwed. - kanojo1969, on 03/22/2009, -4/+17The weird thing about this woman is how ignorant she is. She doesn't read books or newspapers, she went to various colleges but we all know what kind of student she would have been. The odds of her knowing anything about political science are basically zero.
She doesn't know who she is or what she stands for. She doesn't know any economic theory, she would not be able to predict the effects of a price rise or interest rate cut. I am 90% sure she doesn't know what the federal reserve is, why it exists, or what it does.
If someone like this can succeed in the American political arena, you ought to take it as a sign that the whole system is horribly broken. A person like this would never work their way up through the party ranks in the old days, somehow we've thrown that out and replaced it with a beauty contest.
I fear that the US is too far gone for fixing of the existing system. Anyone up for a revolution? - o76923, on 03/22/2009, -3/+16but there's a difference. I want my state to pay to defend my governer if he is accused of breaking the law in his capacity as governor. I don't want the state to pay if they are investigating abuse of power, bribery, threats, campaign fraud, or anything else crazy. If she breaks the law, she should have to pay. It's actually pretty simple.
- 4321234, on 03/22/2009, -5/+17Palin/Limbaugh would be even better. EVERY sane person would be sure to vote against that.
- freedomjoe, on 03/22/2009, -3/+14that's right, Jen. the people who have known her throughout her life say she is one mean-spirited, cruel, power-hungry person who expects to be treated like a queen instead of a mayor or governor, and that she is determined beyond all humanity to succeed. all that "first family" baloney she throws around is getting old for Alaskans.
- EMGroup, on 03/22/2009, -7/+17Sarah would say something like this: "Doncha' know that I am adorable? People love me enough to pay my bills." She should pay the fees.
- zyce, on 03/22/2009, -1/+11 Why not use the public defender?
- novenator, on 03/22/2009, -2/+12Bush/Rush 2012 !
- AgeofMastery, on 03/22/2009, -3/+13She would probably have arranged an accident for him. Or given his wandering eye, (and other anatomical parts), and his taste for former beauty queens a heart attack...
- freedomjoe, on 03/22/2009, -9/+19as for the folks who think Palin has a point when she claims all of these ethics complaints are politically motivated, here are two examples. Read them and then tell us all why you think it's fair to call Blago anything other than a poor victim or Daschle a tax cheat when he did LESS than Palin has already been censured for?
First: Troopergate.
There were two separate investigations concerning the Troopergate probe, both came to the same facts at the end of the process; Palin's husband was trading on the governor's power in her own administration to settle a personal score.
Both the Branchflower and the Petumenos reports clearly identified Todd Palin had exerted influence in trying to get his former brother in law fired.
The main difference in the reports was that Branchflower concluded the governor had the responsibility to control her husband while Petumenos concluded the governor didn't have any responsibility to control her husband because he was just an average citizen who was exercising his rights.
One of those rights apparently included the right to use his position as the governor's husband to pressure state employees to act on his behalf. As the governor's former legislative liaison said during Troopergate; when the governor's husband suggests you do something, it's not really a suggestion.
This was a legitimate complaint and one that proved Palin either looked the other way or wasn't looking at all as her husband tried to settle a personal score using state resources.
Second: Travel expenses.
Another one of the complaints came about after it was disclosed that the governor had charged the state the cost of airfare and incidentals for her family to travel with her on state business.
The complaint was eventually settled with the governor agreeing to reimburse the state over $9,000. The governor agreed that 10 of her children's state-paid trips went beyond where the line reasonably could be drawn.
At what point in time do you decide it's okay for taxpayers to pick up the tab for two of your kids to fly to Philadelphia and stay at the Ritz Carlton Hotel for five nights?
Had the governor thought it through, she wouldn't have billed the state for trips like that. The children's travel was a clear personal benefit with no benefit to the public paying the bill.
What's even more revealing is that early on in her term, the issue of the state not paying for her children's travel was apparently brought up by her staff but ignored by Palin.
(http://www.andrewhalcro.com)
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What about the one she filed against herself (Petumenos)? I wonder how much that cost her in legal fees. And she likes to ignore the fact that, while her attorney originally had a contract with the state so that her legal fees would have been covered, her campaign- when they decided to hijack state government (the Ed O'Callaghan-Meg Stapleton hootenanny)- told her that Van Flein would have to retroactively become her private attorney. She agreed, and should live with the consequences. - novenator, on 03/22/2009, -2/+11COMMUNISTS!
- Alheithinn, on 03/22/2009, -2/+11Brilliant, Echota! That says it all.
- gemlarin, on 03/22/2009, -0/+9I just want to see her get bitch slapped by US voters a second time.
- ichbinladen, on 03/22/2009, -3/+12I thought Grifter was the name of one of her retarded kids. lulz
- twystoffate, on 03/22/2009, -0/+9@m3arvk
Who said anything about ELECTING? We want to see her run so that she'll crash and burn. - m3arvk, on 03/22/2009, -1/+10So half the country can vote for her because she's a woman and a Christian? So the right doesn't have to choose a candidate with any merit for its presidential nominee? So we can continue the fiasco of the GOP's manipulation of the Christian right? So we can risk another 8 years of Bush? So people can vote on their feelings and not the issues?
Yeah, I get that you weren't seriously hoping she gets elected but let's not tempt fate, OK? -
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