Mrs. Palin can you explain how you left a town with $0 debt when you entered office in 1996 with $22 million in debt when you left office in 2002 even though you hired a Jack Abramoff associate to lobby for your town in Washington and he - along with your friend Ted Stevens - managed to get Wasilla $27 million in federal pork while you were mayor? Can you explain why three of these pork projects wound up on Senator McCain's annual wasteful spending list? How does this jibe with your claim that you are a reformer who is against pork?

Posted at September 6, 2008 10:13 PM in response to Batter Up! Tapper requests queries for Palin (updated)

Sent in $250 this am. $125 for me, $125 for dad.

Posted at September 5, 2008 1:30 AM in response to $20M Challenge NOW: Spread The Word!

She said she had responsibilities as mayor. Yet she was so heavy handed the people of Wasilla demanded she hire a administrator to handle the town's day to day business or face a recall.

Sarah Palin took a town with $0 debt in 1996 and left it $22 million in the hole in 2002, mostly from the hockey rink/sports complex she shoved down their throats which never became the money generator she promised it would. Another white elephant from another white elephant.

Even with the stable Clinton economy during most of her mayoral tenure and Jack Abramoff's crony she hired to lobby Washington to help her now indicted buddy Ted Stevens ring up $27 million in federal pork for tiny Wasilla (pop. 5000 when she entered office) she still managed to leave the town swimming in debt. Three of her pork projects even made McCain's own wasteful spending list.

The following organization is the offshoot of President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control started in 1984, also known as the Grace Commission. Definitely not a Dem friendly group but even these guys apparently think Alaska is America's welfare queen state.

Citizens Against Government Waste
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homePage

Rank State Pork Population Pork/Capita

2000 1 Alaska $394,514,000 619,500 $636.83
2001 1 Alaska $480,297,000 626,932 $766.11
2002 1 Alaska $451,334,278 634,892 $710.88
2003 1 Alaska $393,346,750 643,786 $610.99
2004 1 Alaska $524,329,000 648,818 $808.13
2005 1 Alaska $645,502,000 655,435 $984.85
2006 1 Alaska $325,106,000 663,661 $489.87
2007 not listed
2008 1 Alaska $379,699,715 683,478 $555.54

As governor she is borrowing from Alaska's future while she wants to blow today's Alaskan windfall oil tax bonanza and the huge surpluses they've generated on bread and circuses tax giveaways.

Alaska gets 89% of it's operating budget from taxing oil coming out of the ground just like Arab kingdoms and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. They have no state income or sales tax up there. Instead of using that windfall to pay for all the profligate spending her Republican legislature keeps sending her she's issuing bonds to pay for it which Alaskans and US taxpayers will have to pay off in future years while she takes credit for tax "rebates" while she's governor.

Her fiscal policy is a disaster in the making which won't hit til she's left the governor's office. She'd be a disaster as Vice President especially to a President who despite his grevious wounds and type A personality is already past the age his father and grandfather died of sudden heart attacks.

She can put on all the lipstick she wants but her political record is for the dogs.

Posted at September 4, 2008 5:46 PM in response to Dear Media...

Here's some invective for ya Mike. It all just happens to be true.

Sarah Palin took a town with $0 debt in 1996 and left it $22 million in the hole in 2002, mostly from the hockey rink/sports complex she shoved down their throats which never became the money generator she promised it would. Another white elephant from another white elephant.

Even with the stable Clinton economy during most of her mayoral tenure and Jack Abramoff's crony she hired to lobby Washington to help her now indicted buddy Ted Stevens ring up $27 million in federal pork for tiny Wasilla (pop. 5000 when she entered office) she still managed to leave the town swimming in debt. Three of her pork projects even made McCain's own wasteful spending list.

The following organization is the offshoot of President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control started in 1984, also known as the Grace Commission. Definitely not a Dem friendly group vut even these guys apparently think Alaska is America's welfare queen state.

Citizens Against Government Waste
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homePage

Rank State Pork Population Pork/Capita

2000 1 Alaska $394,514,000 619,500 636.83 2001 1 Alaska $480,297,000 626,932 766.11 2002 1 Alaska $451,334,278 634,892 710.88 2003 1 Alaska $393,346,750 643,786 610.99 2004 1 Alaska $524,329,000 648,818 808.13 2005 1 Alaska $645,502,000 655,435 984.85 2006 1 Alaska $325,106,000 663,661 489.87 2007 not listed 2008 1 Alaska $379,699,715 683,478 555.54

As governor she is borrowing from Alaska's future while she wants to blow today's Alaskan windfall oil tax bonanza and the huge surpluses they've generated on bread and circuses tax giveaways.

Alaska gets 89% of it's operating budget from taxing oil coming out of the ground just like Arab kingdoms and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. They have no state income or sales tax up there. Instead of using that windfall to pay for all the profligate spending her Republican legislature keeps sending her she's issuing bonds to pay for it which Alaskans and US taxpayers will have to pay off in future years while she takes credit for tax "rebates" while she's governor.

Her fiscal policy is a disaster in the making which won't hit til she's left the governor's office. She'd be a disaster as Vice President especially to a President who despite his grevious wounds and type A personality is already past the age his father and grandfather died of sudden heart attacks.

She can put on all the lipstick she wants but her political record is for the dogs.

Posted at September 4, 2008 5:41 PM in response to The Mocking Started Here on TPMCafe: Palin Just Returned Your Serve

McAfee antivirus software is supposed to protect computers connected to the internet. By law under no circumstances are voting machines ever supposed to be connected to the internet. Though if you look at the back of a lot of those machines they have modem ports.

Posted at September 4, 2008 12:22 PM in response to A few things Billy doesn't know about Sarah Palin

Billy's little concern troll post echoing McCain campaign mgr Steve Schmidt's line about Palin's family being attacked deserved a response.

If that makes me a poopyhead in your eyes, too bad. Palin is a diehard wingnut ideologue and was a lousy mayor who took a town with $0 debt and left it $22 million in the hole. As governor she is borrowing from Alaska's future while she wants to give away today's Alaskan windfall oil taxes and the huge surpluses they've generated in bread and circuses tax rebates.

Her fiscal policy is a disaster in the making up there which won't happen til she's left the governor's office. She'd be a disaster as Vice President especially to a President who despite his grevious wounds and type A personality is already past the age his father and grandfather died of sudden heart attacks.

Posted at September 4, 2008 12:09 PM in response to A few things Billy doesn't know about Sarah Palin

Alaska is the welfare queen of the United States. Despite their huge oil revenues and surpluses (89% of Alaska's state budget comes from taxes on oil pumped out the ground just like a Arab kingdom and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, they have no state sales or income tax) it gets way more federal pork per capita than any other state in the union and it has for decades.

Three of Palin's own federal pork subsidies for tiny Wasilla even made McCain's wasteful pork list.

That's not reform and it's not change.

You have ample oppo ammo. If you don't want to see more Republican lies become accepted wisdom then go to http://www.memeorandum.com/ and look for newspaper articles or blogs where they are spreading the BS that you can leave comments on and start spreading the truth about McCain and Palin.

We are the change we've been waiting for. Obama can't do it alone, it's up to us.

Posted at September 4, 2008 11:50 AM in response to Want To Vet Her Some More?

Look Republicans are good at the blame game but they'll never point the finger at themselves. I guess they're just stunned that Palin isn't being accorded the same free pass treatment McCain got for so long.

Posted at September 3, 2008 11:47 PM in response to Is the McCain-Media Love Affair Souring?

Oh please he's gonna get set up for life with one of those part time jobs as a sloper like Todd and be able to afford a family of five if he wants. That's if Bristol doesn't blow him off after the election or he doesn't die mysteriously.

Posted at September 3, 2008 11:16 PM in response to A few things Billy doesn't know about Sarah Palin

I think I should just post Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich.

Posted at September 3, 2008 11:12 PM in response to A few things Billy doesn't know about Sarah Palin