Senator Obama and Senator Biden, that’s who. When Barack Hussein Obama and plagiarizing Joe Biden had a chance to kill Alaska’s Bridge 
to nowhere and spend the money on Katrina victims, the both voted no. Obama and Biden have had plenty of chances and 3 years to defend or explain away their votes, but instead continue to trash Sarah Palin.
Palin stood up to the porkers in Alaska and in spite of the dumbocratic leftard bloggers’ lies, Palin killed it before Congress. Congress removed the requirement to fund the bridge, leaving the choice up Palin. Once given that choice Palin refused to spend taxpayer dollars and killed the bridge.
Obama: hypocrite – liar.
People in Louisiana and Mississippi take note.
AWB
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Sure would be nice to hear the “Pit bull” answer these things herself. Like….
Gee Sarah, how could you let the Governors office get in the middle of a bad divorce?
Gee Sarah, did you really have any first hand knowledge of the alligations you made in your e-mail to the acting head of the Alaska State Troopers or were you just pissed off because your sister married a jerk?
Gee Sarah, who’s gonna write your news releases? The same lobbists that write McBushes?
Poor Sarah, she needs more coaching. Maybe Bill Oraly or Rush could help with the talking points?
Tired old trooper, you sound a little biased.
The state trooper (Palin’s sister’s ex-husband) did: tase her 10 year old nephew; drive his state patrol car while drinking or drunk; did threaten to “bring her downâ€; and did threaten to murder her father and sister if they dared to get an attorney to help with the divorce. Yes, the state trooper was suspended when he was put under a court protective order. And no, the trooper wasn’t fired because he has a stupid union backing him up.
AWB: Your summary of events is a bit off track. Congress left the $454M appropriation for Governor Murkowski to do with as he pleased …a blank check, so to speak. Murkowski put it into the Alaska budget for the Ketchikan bridge.
When Palin took office she cut the bridge out of the budget.
http://herdgadfly.blogspot.com/2008/09/who-killed-bridge-to-nowhere.html
Gee, Sucks:
You seem to have missed the point of my post. There seems to be no doubt the Brother-in-law (Trooper) is a jerk. I said so. He WOULD have been fired if he were in Indiana. However, for whatever reason (union, lack of evidence, act of God) the trooper was not fired, order a new investigation or whatever.
Governor Palin used her position as Governor of Alaska not only to intimidate the head of the Department of Public Safety, she fired him. And, it appears she did it for much the same reasons good old Gonzo (you may remember him) fired attorneys of the Justice Department.
Governor Palin appears to be a very vindictive person. The records of the Alaska Troopers (statements obtained from Mrs. Palin back in 2005) show, and she admits, she had NO personal knowledge of any of these events. She continued to meddle with the case even after a judge ordered her not to. Even after she became Governor. That’s abuse of power!
What her brother-in-law appears to have done (I think he admitted most or all of the alligations) was dead wrong. What Governor Palin was even more egregious.
What is missing is the Director of Public Safety has never said that he took his case to the state personel department. He makes no claim of talking to the Gov directly about him thinking people under her was putting pressure on him to fire the yahoo. In fact he has not offered any information where he told anyone that he would not do it.
The records show he had no less then a dozen times where he was directly in meetings with the Gov. In fact, I think it was three but may have been two, that they shared an extended amount of time on a plane flying within Alaska. They talked about many things and he makes no claim that he even brought up the subject.
If it was such pressure why did he not quit and make it part of the reason he was leaving. He may have had a case that this pressure was so great.
I never read in any of the newspaper and radio station audio files that are available that your comment about the judge ordering her not to meddle in it. That is a new one if it is true. But if that is true why has no one filed contempt charges against her?
If I was in her shoes I would have called the Safety Director in and told him right across my desk. That trooper screw up one little bit I want his ASS OUT OF HERE. If not, you will be going. There would have been no doubt about my position or have someone else pass the message. I would have looked him in the eye and tell him that he works for me “at will.”
I have worked with unions and I have seen them protect jobs of people that should be fired. Heck, I have had union reps tell me that they agreed with me that the person should be gone but they had to support him as he was a “union brother.”
The bottom line is the safety directors serves at the will of the Gov.
I do not the Safety Director has ever said he felt anything more then “pressured” to fire the guy. He is not the one that even brought the subject up with anyone.
You talk about vindictive…. look at the people who are trying to make a big deal out of this…. Sorry check a mirror…. Oh, the Safety Director never filed a complaint with the state even after he left office.
You never addressed the issue that she fired him over his public comments about his proposed budget cut the Gov made. That he had failed to meet the request to bring on more state troopers.
Folks:
The point is………….. Using her office as Governor to revenge a family matter is (at least to me) an abuse of power.
I don’t care about the trooper getting fired.
I don’t care about the removal of the Public Safety Director. He does serve at the pleasure of the Governor (just like the head of the Indiana State Police). And, what good would it do for an “at will” employee to file a complaint and, who the heck would he file it with? Yep, the Governor! Boy, I bet he’d get an impartal hearing!! But anyway….
My concern is she had a personal bone to pick and she used her position as Governor to pick it. Even AFTER being ordered by a judge to desist. Let’s see, didn’t a Fort Wayne police officer just loose his job for “ignoring a judges order?
I don’t know how many meetings The Public Safety Director may have had with Palin face to face. She admited in intervews to the State Troopers she had “no personal knowledge” of any of the troopers actions. That makes her a hearsay witness. And, as I’m sure we all agree, Trooper Wooten was her brother-in-law. An ass to be sure but still her brother-in-law.
Governor Palin has said a lot of things “that she fired him over his public comments about his proposed budget cut the Gov made. That he had failed to meet the request to bring on more state troopers.” She also said she never supported the “Bridge to nowhere”. I may be somewhat slow on the uptake but I can read and my ears still work.
Now she is using “Executive Privilege” to withold information on other e-mails she even forwarded to her husband! I’m sure you disagree but damn, that smells like long dead moose to me! She’ll fit right in with the Washington crowd.
The guy was a big boy to took care of himself but he was not the one bitching. He never bitched and to this day has not bitched. Some retard on a blog bitched and a Democrat bitched.
The bridge to nowhere is interesting. From the time she took office she never was for it. Now why is that critical because the actual cost was not disclosed by the former Gov. I believe in the last six months prior to the election it jumped in cost by up 86 million more. The former Gov also had never set one cent aside, even though he said he had any state money.
Oh, keep in mind a fair size chunk of that money that money was their share of the Fed. Highway Trust Fund that goes each state based on formula. Just like Indiana, Ohio, and every other state gets. I can not remember if they stockpiled some of the money or not.
Was she stretching it a bit. I think so, but I do not consider it a lie either. If she had said once she learned of the true cost you pulled the plug would have been right on.
Just like I don’t like the fact of what little Sauder brings back to Indiana and I oppose earmarks. But it is the rules of the current game and until the Senators change it then it is the only game in town.
But if that knocks her out then you better take Obama with you long before that. Try is Il. senate little streches of truth, try is stretches on the Lugar-Obama bill, try his stretch on Ethics refrom on congress, and try how he denied fellow democrat voters from voting for the person they wanted. I only stopped because I am tired.