Joe Biden asks, “Whatever happened to McCain’s Principles?
There have no principals there since well before John Sidney McCain, III dumped his wife to pursue a rich heiress and enter politics.
This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.
It appears that Palin just went up to the border between Iraq and Kuwait, and then turned around and went home.
Lame.
But each time someone turns over a rock, we see more evidence of corruption, self-dealing, etc.
It appears that Sarah Palin collected per diem payments for times when she was at home:
Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official “duty station” is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.
The governor’s daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.
I’ve done per Diem deductions, and if I did it that way, the IRS would take my house and throw me in jail.
It appears that the story was written, and the title put into the feed a few days early, so here it is.
The issue is not that she is* a junkie. The issue is that even though she had the ability to feed her need in a number of ways that would not have put people at risk, she forged other people’s names at her charity, etc. which placed them at risk through no fault of their own, and then she used her money, and McCain used his position, to protect her and to pursue vendettas against people who did the right thing, and went to the DEA.
Honor, my ass.
*Once someone is an alcoholic or junkie, they always are, the question is just whether they are recovering, or still doing whichever substance they have a problem with.
So, it now appears that the man who sleeps with Mary Matalin is saying that John McCain can’t know about his dishonest and deceitful campaign ads, because he is too “honorable”.
Because, as we all know, the real motto of the Republican party is, “N*gg*rs should not be allowed to vote.
The thing is, this is illegal:
“You can’t challenge people without a factual basis for doing so,” said J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C.-based public-interest law firm. “I don’t think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes after foreclosure begins and sometimes are able to negotiate and refinance.”
Once again, the Republican’s cynicism exceeds my capacity to be cynical.
When you consider that McCain will be limited to $81.78 million for the rest of the campaign, by virtue of his taking public financing, Obama should have a lead, though less than his numbers implies, as the RNC is outraising the DNC, and McCain is embracing the PACs and 527s.
Both the New York Times, and the Washington Post have just come out with articles about Palin detailing personal vendettas, sweetheart deals for friends, and an aggressive pursuit of earmarks.
I’m an eternal optimist, but maybe the bloom is off the media’s rose.
Not only does the Washington Post editorial board call bull sh&% on the phony furor about the “Lipstick on a Pig” non-scandal, but they have a great title, which I swiped, too.
I Agree with Atrios, when you can’t put it over the WaPo editorial board, you won’t fool a 3 year old.
I didn’t see it live, I saw it in dribs and drabs over Youtube…..That is one scary politician.
If you were to take the hostility of Dick Cheney, and add in the itchy trigger finger of John McCain, the result would still look like Mahatma Gandhi next to Palin.
Going to war with Russia over Georgia? Is she nuts? (OK, she is nuts, we’ve already established that)
Is she confusing the Black Sea nation and the southern state that is the home of the Crimson Tide?
Biden is going to have her for lunch, even if the moderators are in the tank for her, unless he is concerned about making her cry.
Here’s a hint: you won’t make her cry, but she she may try to rip someone’s throat out with her teeth…Or is that a pitbull….the lipstick confuses me.
Well, it turns out that while Mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin’s hand picked police chief, she had fired the predecessor for “insufficient loyalty”, instituted a policy of forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits.
It was the only town in Alaska to do so, and it so outraged the legislature that they passed a law against this.
Seriously, C-MI.
We know the basic story: Cindy McCain used a charity that she set up to steal Percocet and Vicodin to feed her habit.
One of the principals in this matter is Tom Gosinski, who discovered the abuse, and discovered that Cindy McCain was using his name to get the drugs, so he went to the DEA, and John McCain used his office to call in political favors to get the US Attorney to go after him.
While it is clear that Gosinski is no fan of the McCains, they got an investigation ginned up claiming that he had tried to extort them after he had been talking with the DEA for months, the picture that he is painting, both of McCain and of his family is unbelievably grim
Well, he’s now releasing his journals to the public, and among other things, there are allegations that the McCains medicated their kids unecessarily.
Gosinski details a conversation with Jeri Johnson, Cindy McCain’s aunt, regarding Cindy’s nanny, Diane, in a July 28, 1992 entry.
Diane voice concerns regarding Cindy’s use of drugs and the effect it is having on the kids. Diane told Jeri that Meghan recently told her to “f$#@ off” after trying to discipline her. She also told Jeri that she is concerned that Cindy is giving the kids drugs which unnecessarily sedate them. I hope that is not happening.
Concerns that Cindy McCain is unnecessarily drugging her children appear again in a July 31 entry — “Cari (Cindy’s adopted daughter) told the three that she fears Cindy gives the kids prescription drugs they do not need,” Gosinski wrote.
Republican family values, my ass.
What more, it appears that the Washington Post had an article about this recently, but it was scrubbed from the web site.
The stories of McCain and his temper, he once called his wife the C-word in public, are legion, and I always assumed that it had something to do with his stint as a POW.
It appears that, in addition to the more recent stories listed in the article, he has been prone to destructive tantrums since he was an infant:
At age 2, McCain’s tantrums were so intense that he’d hold his breath for a few minutes and pass out. His parents would dunk him in cold water to “cure” him, he wrote in his memoir, “Faith of My Fathers.”
Ummmmmm….Are there any sane Republicans out there? Anywhere?
Well it appears that Sarah Palin is getting a cram course in foreign policy from various “experts”, including, Joe Lieberman.
I just have this image of him talking about Iraq and the Middle East, and Palin trying to get him to accept Jesus as his personal savior.
It’s something that would make him profoundly uncomfortable, but I he deserves it.
Dump Jomentum from the caucus now.
I’m sick and tired of coming up with new medical sounding names, OK? It takes more time than it does to write the articles, because this sh%$ really writes itself.
First, it appears that Palin is taking a week or so, the nominal explation is that she is spending time with her son before he ships out to Iraq, but the real reason is that she is taking time off to “get ready”, and you have to love the snark from Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo
Isn’t Palin supposed to move to Cheney’s undisclosed location after she gets elected, not before?
The good Mr. Marshall owes me a screen cleaner…big time.
Howard Finemannotes that senior McCain officials have said that they are using the time to bring her up to speed, and Todd Harris, who is working with the McCain campaign admits that she is not ready, and probably needs two weeks to get her act together, explaining that, “If she goes out and makes a mistake, that is something that [voters will] care about, and that’s something that will haunt [McCain] for awhile, so I think this is a smart move.”
Jed, or the Jed Report has even created a “where’s Sarah” widget for inclusion in your web site.
On earmarks, even the Moonie Times is calling out Palin on her double-talk on earmarks….And when you’ve lost the Washington Times on this issue…….Well, you’ve lost the Moonie Times.
And we still have the gift that keeps on given, Troopergate, we have
CREW saying that Palin is attempting to subvert the investigation of her through back door channels, the Anchorage Daily News says that she is stonewalling the investigation, and Newsweek is reporting that John McCain allies are throwing up roadblocks into the investigation too.
Meanwhile, it appears that the bipartisan committee investigating the matter will push up the date of its report from October 31 to around October 10, which is not an unreasonable response to stonewalling.
Additionally, Alaska lawmakers will plan to issue subpoenas to seven witnesses, though not to Palin, because the seven canceled interviews with the investigator, reportedly after, “Ms. Palin’s lawyer, Thomas V. Van Flein, had forbidden members of her administration to have any contact with the investigator.”
We also have the State Police Union filing a formal complaint that Palin and Her Evil Minions&trade improperly released information from Wooten’s (the guy she wanted fired) private personnel records.
Finally, Mikew Wooten has finally gone public in this matter, talking to CNN and giving a brief interview.
Olbermann apologizes, but what he should have done is ask, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?“
Sasha Issenberg notes that this is the death of a taboo, and it does not bode well for our political discourse:
One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old.
Republicans, at least the idealogue ones who grew up sucking at the tit of Ayn Rand, believe that there is no role for government in public life….None at all, so all that running for office is an attempt to grap power.
They believe that they can do evil to seize power, because they believe that all government is evil.
Silver State Bank in Nevada closed by state regulators and taken over by the FDIC.
Andrew McCain, the sick old man’s son, was on its board of directors for the bank and its parent, and also sat on the banks audit committee….until he resigned “for personal reasons” in July…..Very convenient that….
McCains and failed banks go together like….McCains and failed banks.
Yep, they are saying that they are very, very, disappointed.
Sorry, but Lieberman jumped the shark when he refused to investigate failures during Katrina; in which he clearly showed that he was aggressively covering up for Bush and His Evil Minions&trade, and you did not do anything then.
And we are supposed to expect that you will do something now?
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, we won’t get fooled again.
