Palin Slashed Funds For Special Needs & Adoption

Palin’s initialed line item cuts The audience for Sarah Palin’s speech last night at the Rethugs convention were all a twitter over her promise: “To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if …

May The Pork Be With You, Sarah Palin

  Like flies and maggots descending on a dead boar carcass, facts disproving the Palin maverick/reformer narrative are coming fast and furious. Where to start? Brent Bowdowsky over at TheHill.com yesterday wrote a blog titled “Pork Barrel Palin, The Earmark Champ” that details some of the humongous amounts of money that Palin has secured for her constituents, thanks in large …

Back Off!

Barack Obama: “Let me be as clear as possible:  I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.” It may be …

Palin: Commander In Chief In Waiting (Update I)(Update II)

Sarah Baracuda explaining why she murdered Bullwinkle John McSame‘s selection of Sarah Palin for veep was too much even for a Village Elder like WAPO’s Richard Cohen who begins his column today: One of the great sights of American political life — a YouTube moment if ever there was one — was to see the doughboy face of Newt Gingrich …

Palin Targets Polar Bears, Par Deux

Governor Palin gets an assist from Big Oil and the Grand Oil Party. Oil Group Joins Alaska in Suing To Overturn Polar Bear Protection By Kari Lydersen Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 31, 2008; Page A04 CHICAGO — The American Petroleum Institute and four other business groups filed suit Thursday against Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and U.S. Fish and …

Like Kicking Puppies

That’s right, Grampa Fishbait, teh Beauty Queen looks like your daughter. HYPOCRISY, Alaska— Presumtive GOP presidential nominee John McSteppedinit and his new soulmate VP may be heading to divorce court faster than you can say BabyGate. The story at Daily Kos, growing like a zygote run-amok, is unfolding as you read this. And on Labor Day;  can you dig it? …

Palin Targets Polar Bears

That Great White Hunter, Vice President Darth Cheney, is famous for shooting near-captive birds and genteel lawyers in the face. Now his would-be successor, Sarah Palin, an avowed hunter and NRA pinup gal, whom MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan called “McCain’s new girl,” is picking up where Cheney left off. In an op-ed to the NY Times earlier this year, she …