{"id":194138,"date":"2008-10-22T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/22\/sarah-palins-clothing-bill-and-the-big-picture\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T01:51:00","slug":"sarah-palins-clothing-bill-and-the-big-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/22\/sarah-palins-clothing-bill-and-the-big-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin’s Clothing Bill, and the Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the comment of a Talking Points Memo commenter<\/a> about Palin and the GOP dropping over $150,000.00 of campaign funds on her cloths and bling<\/a> is amusing, “If Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe had a life of its own, it would get a tax cut from a President Obama,” it misses the big picture.<\/p>\n

We have to remember that she also accepted per deim payments intended for away from home expenses for times when she was at home<\/a>, which should have the IRS coming after her, and her bilking the state out of over $21,000.00 for travel expenses for her children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is not about Sarah Palin. It is rather about movement conservatism, of which Sarah Palin is, at least until after election day, a sterling example.<\/p>\n

Movement conservatism is by its nature corrupt<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Basically, these people read too much Ayn Rand, or more accurately they took it too seriously, because any<\/span> amount or Ayn being read is too much<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Because of this these people believe that the government, and government service to be inherently evil<\/span>, and so they enter into service to do what they believe to be evil.<\/p>\n

The only reason for them to enter government service is money and power, and they believe that they are owed<\/span> these little bits of corruption, whether it be Palin’s per deim or Stevens’ house renovations, because they are doing something so awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the comment of a Talking Points Memo commenter about Palin and the GOP dropping over $150,000.00 of campaign funds on her cloths and bling is amusing, “If Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe had a life of its own, it would get a tax cut from a President Obama,” it misses the big picture. We have …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1090,1051,1003,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-hypocrisy","category-philosophy","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}