News from Alaska

I hate Republicans:

Alaska delegates were wearing plastic hard hats that said, “Drill Here. Pay Less.” They sported reflective construction vests with photos of caribou grazing at the Prudhoe Bay oil fields on the back

Beautiful, isn’t it?

And in other news, I wish Sarah Palin would stop picking on Sarah Palin:

Gov. Sarah Palin wants a state board to review the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan—taking the unusual step of making an ethics complaint against herself. [...]

“It appears that the Governor has filed an ethics complaint against herself. ... This is very unusual because ethics complaints typically are filed against others,” [Tom Daniel, an Anchorage labor and employment lawyer,] wrote in an e-mail responding to a Daily News query.

BTW, don’t miss watching the video of Palin speaking at her old Wasilla church in June that Betty linked to in her earlier post. Sarah Palin makes Dubya look like Richard Dawkins. Sweet jeebus. (Videos here or here)

TEH FUNNY: Couldn’t find a news pic of the Alaskan delegates, but I did find a video and took a screen cap. Funniest. Hard. Hats. Ever. :

Posted by Kevin K. on 09/03/08 at 11:50 AM • Permalink

Kevin:

Great post. Pallin is really a disaster, let’s pray she continues running the Republicans into the ground.  Please check out my “preview” of her speech at:  traitorjoe.wordpress.com

Rob

Ya know, I’m just sayin’, but considering young Bristol’s delicate state at this time, it’s prolly best for the Alaska delegation to lose the ...

Drill Here! Drill Now! hats ...

umm, particularly with Bad-ass Levi a-comin’.

Just sayin’. He is a hockey player after all, and he seems to know how to find the five-hole.

Sarah Palin Ineptitude/Cronyism/Vindictive Firings Watch Number 5:  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/3/9330/95523/364/584429
Here is a CliffsNotes summary by the author:
“Mat Maid in brief:

Palin fired the whole state Agriculture and Conservation board in July 2007, ostensibly to save a mismanaged state-owned dairy, and replaced it with her usual gang of cronies.

As a result, the dairy lost more money than it had in twenty years. 

The dairy, an Alaska icon, closed anyway in two months, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional state money with it. 

Millions of dollars in dairy equipment ended up, at a steep discount, in the hands of a local Palin ally, who now runs a remarkably similar operation with the help of a Ted Stevens earmark.

Want to learn more?  Please read on - I’ve reworked my entry somewhat for clarity and added some new information.”

Sarah Palin Trolling for Pork Watch #3:

“Palin on McCain’s “pork list”
by BarbinMD
Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 11:50:31 AM PDT
Now this is embarrassing. It seems that John McCain’s soulmate has also made his anti-earmark “pork list”.

Three times in recent years, McCain’s catalogs of “objectionable” spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time—Sarah Palin.

Oops. But hey, it’s not like Palin was the first Wasilla mayor to go after federal money, right?

Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds—a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark.

Yeah, she’s quite the anti-pork, anti-lobbyist maverick. It’s too bad the McCain campaign is now refusing to answer questions about the vetting process because it would be nice to know if they knew about this.”

This is currently on the front page at DailyKos.

I wish somebody WOULD “drill there”, right into those empty skulls the Republicans have.

Exactly, donnah, I was just about to post the same thing!