Palin cleared! Palin cleared!
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 12:38 am
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Wow, this is a relief. I was beginning to think the Troopergate Tasergate investigation would wind up with some sort of illegitimate, laughably partisan judgment that discredits the very concept of—
Oh, for the love of–
Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing. . . .”The following document will prove Walt Monegan’s dismissal was a result of his insubordination and budgetary clashes with Governor Palin and her administration,” campaign officials wrote. “Trooper Wooten is a separate issue.”
Of course, from the sounds of the AP’s description of the report, much of it is preoccupied with Wooten’s misdeeds. Sarah Palin’s strategy at this point seems to be to use the Roger Clemens defense, claiming that the spouse was the one shooting steroids into her buttocks initiating hundreds of phone calls and conversations with family, friends, random strangers and government officials about the injustice of a world in which Mike Wooten remained gainfully employed by the state of Alaska. In Todd Palin’s deposition, the First Dude insists that a firewall existed between (a) his personal dismay with Monegan for not firing Wooten; and (b) his wife’s policy-based disputes with Walt Monegan, which he claims (along with the new self-vindicating report from the campaign trail) actually led to the commissioner’s plank-walk in July. These “hundreds” of conversations, then, were not reflective of the governor’s disposition toward Monegan.
Of course not. Palin’s own report proves it.
Can she get back to calling Barack Obama a terrorist now?
8 Comments
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 1:10 am
Palin is corrupt. No doubt about it. Her hell will be that she has to go back to Alaska. Not a bad place, mind you, but I think the climate may have changed since she left. My only question is: why is this race still so tight? For the life of me, I still can’t figure that out.
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 1:32 am
The McCain campaign, according to their (self-serving) acquittal of Palin, are blaming the whole thing on a former campaign opponent, Andrew Halcro. I guess because he has a blog and happens to know Wooten makes him guilty of exercising his 1st amendment right to publicly express his opinion. Give me a break.
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 1:51 am
She says she didn’t do anything wrong. Well, I guess that wraps it up. Of course the Palins haven’t responded to a court mandated subpoena so I guess they are also above the law. Since Palin’s husband is a secessionist who doesn’t believe in America, he can ignore the law. – what about her?
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 6:38 am
TROOPERGATE TO DUPERGATE: A NEWS AND VERSE EXTRA
If
Troopergate=influencing the firing of an Alaska State Police Officer
Then,
Bloopergate=Firing whoever allowed the Couric interviews
Coopergate=Firing, from a helicopter, on a CNN correspondent
Swoopergate=Firing helicopter pilot who buzzed the Russian coast (which he could see from home)
Droopergate=Firing any and all pollsters
Groupergate=Firing an Alaska fish warden (see also: frying an Alaska fish warden)
Lubrigate=Firing anyone who stands in the way of oil drilling
Hoopergate=Firing the Wasilla basketball coach
Poopergate=Firing the Wasilla animal control officer
Scoopergate=Firing whoever cleaned up after the firing of the animal control officer
Recupergate=Firing whoever said there’d be no image problems in a VP slot
Recoupergate=Firing whoever said the home-stay per diem was a God-given right
Rupertgate=Firing the kid who delivers the Wall Street Journal and all those other papers
Snoopergate=Firing all those people who want to see state documents
Soupergate=Firing John McCain’s chef (see also: cottage cheese, oatmeal)
Stuporgate=Firing the state bartender
Stoopergate=Firing anyone on the front porch (see also: Get off my lawn!)
Supergate=Firing everyone Todd doesn’t like (see also: First Dude)
Yoopergate=Firing anyone left on the northern Michigan campaign staff
And,
Dupergate=Firing the advisor who first suggested the 2008 GOP VP Candidate
http://www.newsandverse.com
Light verse, ripped from the headlines
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 11:52 am
Hey. 10 Rep and 4 dem are on the comm. Amazing that you could spread McCain trash w/o even getting the facts.
Of, course 10 rep would not be enough for McCain “lies.”
But you would not know would you?
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 9:38 pm
It’s worth noting that the recently released report finds that Palin did indeed break a law. From the report, the law she was found in violation of was “Alaska Statute 39.52.001-39.52.965 codifies a body of well defined law known as “The Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.” – pg. 48
From the AP story at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_TROOPERGATE?SITE=NDBIS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT :
“Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor….Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law.”
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 10:13 pm
Ops!
Dam the members of the partisan investigation committee they are picking on the bulldog with lipstick!
Ops! Ten republicans and four democrats, blame them anyway it is McCain’s style of politics.
Oh! I know it was the Moslems on the committee, what no Moslems?
Ok! Lets blame the Blacks, what!!! No blacks?
That leaves us with the fact that the members were sexist, lets get the Hillary Clinton supporters to protest the sexist Alaska legislature.
If all else fails just blame the liberal media for reporting this.
You go girl, wink, wink. ;-)
Comment posted October 12, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
Oops…I guess Miss Congeniality is out of the question. Well, there’s always the talent portion.
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