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Top Alaskan GOPer Decries McCain Camp's Interference in Palin-Troopergate Probe
Republican State Senator Lyda Green, the president of the Alaska Senate, has been no fan of Governor Sarah Palin. After John McCain tapped Palin to be his running mate, Green told the Anchorage Daily News, "She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"
For two years, Green feuded with Palin over key policy matters. But in recent days, Green has become even more dismayed with the Palin pick, for she believes the McCain-Palin campaign has undermined the rule of law in the Last Frontier. She says she has watched with outrage as McCain-Palin operatives have flown into her state and interfered with the so-called Troopergate investigation--the official, approved-by-the-legislature inquiry into whether Palin dismissed her public safety commissioner because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper who went through a messy divorce with Palin's sister.
Calling herself a "raging Republican," Green says, she is "absolutely disgusted, embarrassed, and ashamed" by the McCain-Palin campaign's intervention in the Troopergate probe. Over a week ago, McCain campaign aides began handling the investigation for Palin. The campaign dispatched Edward O'Callaghan, who recently had been a terrorism prosecutor in the Justice Department, to Alaska to oversee Palin's legal strategy. O'Callaghan then declared she would not cooperate with the inquiry. (Before becoming the GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin had repeatedly vowed to cooperate. At one point, she said, "I'm happy to comply, to cooperate. I have absolutely nothing to hide.") And last Thursday, O'Callaghan announced that Palin's husband, Todd, would not heed a subpoena to appear before a state legislative committee to testify about his role in Troopergate.
Meanwhile, state Attorney General Talis Colberg, a Palin appointee, said that he would instruct state employees subpoenaed in the case to refuse to testify (after his Department of Law had already arranged for the state employees to cooperate). And Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein--who once was being paid by the state government and who now says he is being paid privately--last week released official state emails that the Palin camp pointed to as proof that Walt Monegan, the dismissed public safety commissioner, had been fired because of insubordination. (A month earlier Palin had given a reporter a much different account of what had happened with Monegan, and Monegan has produced records he claims undermine the insubordination argument.) Van Flein also sent a letter to Troopergate investigator Steve Branchflower saying that one reason Todd Palin was not complying with the subpoena was that the proceeding "with an ethics investigation involving the Governor during a period in which she is involved in a campaign for public office" is a violation "of due process under the Alaska Constitution." That is, a governor cannot be investigated for an ethics violation whenever he or she is campaigning for an office.
Ever since the McCain operatives became involved, the pushback against the investigation has been fierce. Five Republican legislators filed a lawsuit to stop the investigation, which had been unanimously endorsed by a bipartisan council of the state House and Senate. They claimed the probe was "a 'McCarthyistic' investigation" and was compromised because Democrats who supported the investigation were Obama backers. A Texas-based conservative legal outfit called the Liberty Legal Institute has been representing these lawmakers. Six Alaskan residents filed a similar but separate lawsuit. And the Republican Speaker of the House, John Harris, stepped back from his previous endorsement of the investigation.
The campaign against the investigation has been reminiscent of the Florida recount. Oce again, Republican lawyers and political operatives parchute in and mount a kitchen-sink effort to stymie the workings of a local government. All of this has Green upset. "It is very distressing," she says, "that a national campaign would come into our state and tell our attorney general to tell our state employees not to honor subpoenas, to obstruct justice."
She says she is exploring various options. The subpoenas cannot be enforced while the House and Senate are out of session, and neither body is due to return to the state capitol until January. Green, who is retiring as a state senator, says she is looking into whether she could call just the Senate back. The body could vote to instruct the attorney general to change his position; it could vote to impose punishments on those not complying with the subpoenas. But the Republican-controlled House might not be eager to return in order to inconvenience McCain's running mate. (The state Senate has a small Democratic majority; because a Democratic-Republican coalition controls the body, Green, a Republican, is Senate president.)
"We're looking at a lot of choices," Green says. "I just started making phone calls. But we don't want to end up with any court action that says the legislature doesn't have the power to do what we want to do. The court usually defers to the power of the legislature. And my hunch is that it would under normal circumstances. But these are not normal circumstances."
Green is alarmed by the McCain squad's use of hardball tactics and "the length to which they're going to impede and delay" the investigation. The local press conferences held by McCain-Palin aides, she adds, "are vile. They're attacking nice people, saying things that are not true. Walt Monegan has been respected in all circles. To see him used as a scapegoat is very disheartening."
As soon as the McCain ops became involved in the investigation, the Palin camp and its supporters began relying on a mantra: the probe was tainted by politics. "I can assure you Barack Obama has no role in this investigation," Green says. "They keep saying it's tainted. Say something over and over, it's true, right? This has been a very sophisticated intrusion into Alaska, which usually doesn't want people coming up here and telling us what to do."
On Sunday, the Anchorage Daily News ran an Associated Press story headlined, "Troopergate seems to be trapped in limbo." The article noted that even though Branchflower says he plans to release some sort of a report by October 10, "the probe is effectively killed until January." The sub-headline on the article: "McCain campaign uses its power." At the moment--despite Green's efforts--it seems that power may have triumphed.
SUBPOENA UPDATE: Checkmate!
LYDA GREEN DESPARATE - TAKES UNLAWFUL ACTIONS
The illegal subpoenas are being properly ignored. It is now up to the issuing authority (Branchflower/Judiciary Council) to try to enforce the subpoenas, with concurrence of the legislature.
The legislature is not in session, so they must wait until Jan 09, or call a special session. Either way they need a majority resolution to take any enforcement action.
Alaska AG Colberg has made his move, and guess what Lyda? Checkmate!
Sec. 24.25.030. Disobeying subpoena or refusing to testify.
If a witness neglects or refuses to obey a subpoena, or neglects or refuses to testify or to produce upon reasonable notice any material and proper books, papers, or documents in the possession or under the control of the witness, the senate or house of representatives may by resolution entered on its journal commit the witness for contempt. If contempt is committed before a committee, the committee shall report the contempt to the senate or house of representatives, as the case may be, for such action as may be considered necessary.
Troopergate Subpoenas Unconstitutional
The subpoenas are rightfully being ignored. They are unlawful, unconstitutional, and not enforceable. It is now up to the Branchflower and Judiciary Council to try to enforce them but they must get a majority concurrence of the legislature to take action. So far they are doing absolutely nothing to try to enforce the unlawful subpoenas.
Senate President Lyda Green has taken her fight against Governor Sarah Palin one step too far ? she violated the law, breached her oath of office, violated ethic rules, and tried to unconstitutionally delegate the Judiciary Council's subpoena power to a private non-elected party. This warrants serious and immediate investigation in to Senate President Lyda Green's unlawful actions against the State's highest office, Governor Palin.
When the Senate President signs documents that try to give away the cherished subpoena power that the legislature only granted to our elected legislators as members of special committees, interim committees, or judicial council, she is grossly exceeding all statutory authority, failing to uphold the Constitution and her oath of office, failing to uphold the laws, all for an unlawful shot at Governor Palin. When Lyda Green signed the so called Subpoenas where the judiciary council unlawfully gave away its subpoena power to a private party named Stephen Branchflower as the Troopergate investigator, she violated sacred law of the people and seriously breached the trust and faith of her duties as a legislator and President of the Senate.
Branchflower "requested the power to issue subpoenas" which the judiciary council granted. The special committee or judiciary council does NOT have any authority whatsoever to give away its subpoena power to any one. Yet without enabling authority they passed a motion that Branchflower "be authorized to issue subpoenas."
Exact wording of the motion from the Senate Records:
SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI moved:
Pursuant to AK 24.25.010(b), I move that you [requestor Branchflower] be authorized to issue subpoenas to the following individuals and for the following documents: Frank Bailey, Diane Kiesel, Annette Kreitzer, Nicki Neal, Brad Thompson, Michael Nizich, John Bitney, Ivy Frye, Kris Perry, Janice Mason, Todd Palin, Randy Ruaro, Murlene Wilkes; cell phone records for Frank Bailey for the period of February 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. This authorization is contingent upon concurrence of the Senate President.
Passed 3 to 2.
Lyda Green signed the unlawfully delegated subpoenas under the erroneous authority of AS 24.25.010(b) which only allows the Senate President to sign subpoenas issued by the council to appear before the council. But there was no motion for the council to issue subpoenas, only a motion to unlawfully transfer subpoena power to Branchflower!
Sec. 24.25.010. Issuance and form of subpoena.
(a) A subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness before either house of the legislature may be issued by the president or the speaker.
(b) A subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness before a standing or special committee of the legislature may be issued by the chairman of a committee when authorized to do so by a majority of the membership of the committee and with the concurrence of the president or the speaker, or with the concurrence of the house or the senate.
So why is Lyda Green signing any subpoenas under the supposedly transferred subpoena power to Branchflower as "authorized to issue subpoenas? There was no motion for the council to issue subpoenas. It was a motion to transfer subpoena power to Branchflower as "authorized to issue subpoenas." Statute AS 24.25.010(b) did not apply. And to call Branchflower "Agent of the committee" is like calling Bill Allen of VECO an "Agent of the legislature!"
John Bitney, Palin's former legislative liaison, now aide to House Speaker John Harris was Questioned in Branchflower's office, satisfying his subpoena, but it was NOT before the Council! A clear violation of AS 24.25.010(b) which requires a subpoena witness to appear before the Council, and not in a private office before a private party for closed door depositions under threats of prosecution!
The 13 subpoenas are thus null and void, not enforceable, a gross violation of the attempt to unlawfully transfer the legislative judicial council's subpoena power to a private party investigator, a violation of AS 24.25.010 et seq., all to infringe on the executive power of the governor of the State of Alaska. AG Colberg appropriately is protecting due process for all Alaskans by ignoring the unlawful subpoenas and telling all witnesses including Todd Palin to ignore the subpoenas.
What will Lyda Green do next if we don't stop her NOW! What laws will she violate next? What legislative powers will she give away to unauthorized persons because of her well known personal animosity toward Palin? Lyda Green should step down as President of the Senate and be held accountable for her unlawful and unconstitutional actions.
Hey Independent. So as you're cutting and pasting less than half truths from the American Thinker into this blog, why don't you tell every exactly who Mac "the f*** face" Fuller is. Tell them how much money he has and how much he supports everything that is "white" America.
You see the biggest problem that I have with the Republican Party is that the only time in history that they gave a hoot about any other race besides their own was when Lincoln was president. Ever since then they have made an effort to distance themselves from minorities. I think it all stems from their religion because they aren't too many minorities that have been welcomed into Calvinist church, which is what George Bush, Sarah Palin, Mac Fuller and probably yourself believe in. It's a Christian belief that says you should lookout for yourself and those in your establishment and shun those that are not part of you denomination. It's very similar to the Jewish faith, only they seem to be more accepting to sharing with minorities.
I truly believe this is why we are at war with the Middle East. I really hate to disappoint all you right wing Christian folks, but not only was Jesus a Jew, he also wasn't white. He was of Middle Eastern descent.
Wake up to reality "The Christian White" this country is has almost 100 million citizens that are minority and that number will be getting bigger in the next ten years. The only way you will be able to stop this growth is to start your own Genocide, just like Hitler who looked at Jews as subhuman.
Tell me this; where in the bible does it say that white people are more valuable and more blessed than any other race? I ask this question because over the course of history there has been a desperate effort to suppress minorities, no just in the U.S., but throughout the world. Your untruthful attacks on Barack Obama are just another example of this persistent effort to try and suppress minorities. It would make every single one of you cringe to be lead by a black man and this is why there is such an aggressive effort to smear his campaign.
If Obama wins the election people throughout the world will be dancing in the streets, but if McCain wins there will be mass demonstrations. There is no doubt this is going to happen. Gee I wonder why?.
SUBPOENA UPDATE: Checkmate!
LYDA GREEN DESPARATE - TAKES UNLAWFUL ACTIONS
The illegal subpoenas are being properly ignored. It is now up to the issuing authority (Branchflower/Judiciary Council) to try to enforce the subpoenas, with concurrence of the legislature.
The legislature is not in session, so they must wait until Jan 09, or call a special session. Either way they need a majority resolution to take any enforcement action.
Alaska AG Colberg has made his move, and guess what Lyda? Checkmate!
Sec. 24.25.030. Disobeying subpoena or refusing to testify.
If a witness neglects or refuses to obey a subpoena, or neglects or refuses to testify or to produce upon reasonable notice any material and proper books, papers, or documents in the possession or under the control of the witness, the senate or house of representatives may by resolution entered on its journal commit the witness for contempt. If contempt is committed before a committee, the committee shall report the contempt to the senate or house of representatives, as the case may be, for such action as may be considered necessary.
Troopergate Subpoenas Unconstitutional
The subpoenas are rightfully being ignored. They are unlawful, unconstitutional, and not enforceable. It is now up to the Branchflower and Judiciary Council to try to enforce them but they must get a majority concurrence of the legislature to take action. So far they are doing absolutely nothing to try to enforce the unlawful subpoenas.
Senate President Lyda Green has taken her fight against Governor Sarah Palin one step too far ? she violated the law, breached her oath of office, violated ethic rules, and tried to unconstitutionally delegate the Judiciary Council's subpoena power to a private non-elected party. This warrants serious and immediate investigation in to Senate President Lyda Green's unlawful actions against the State's highest office, Governor Palin.
When the Senate President signs documents that try to give away the cherished subpoena power that the legislature only granted to our elected legislators as members of special committees, interim committees, or judicial council, she is grossly exceeding all statutory authority, failing to uphold the Constitution and her oath of office, failing to uphold the laws, all for an unlawful shot at Governor Palin. When Lyda Green signed the so called Subpoenas where the judiciary council unlawfully gave away its subpoena power to a private party named Stephen Branchflower as the Troopergate investigator, she violated sacred law of the people and seriously breached the trust and faith of her duties as a legislator and President of the Senate.
Branchflower "requested the power to issue subpoenas" which the judiciary council granted. The special committee or judiciary council does NOT have any authority whatsoever to give away its subpoena power to any one. Yet without enabling authority they passed a motion that Branchflower "be authorized to issue subpoenas."
Exact wording of the motion from the Senate Records:
SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI moved:
Pursuant to AK 24.25.010(b), I move that you [requestor Branchflower] be authorized to issue subpoenas to the following individuals and for the following documents: Frank Bailey, Diane Kiesel, Annette Kreitzer, Nicki Neal, Brad Thompson, Michael Nizich, John Bitney, Ivy Frye, Kris Perry, Janice Mason, Todd Palin, Randy Ruaro, Murlene Wilkes; cell phone records for Frank Bailey for the period of February 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. This authorization is contingent upon concurrence of the Senate President.
Passed 3 to 2.
Lyda Green signed the unlawfully delegated subpoenas under the erroneous authority of AS 24.25.010(b) which only allows the Senate President to sign subpoenas issued by the council to appear before the council. But there was no motion for the council to issue subpoenas, only a motion to unlawfully transfer subpoena power to Branchflower!
Sec. 24.25.010. Issuance and form of subpoena.
(a) A subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness before either house of the legislature may be issued by the president or the speaker.
(b) A subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness before a standing or special committee of the legislature may be issued by the chairman of a committee when authorized to do so by a majority of the membership of the committee and with the concurrence of the president or the speaker, or with the concurrence of the house or the senate.
So why is Lyda Green signing any subpoenas under the supposedly transferred subpoena power to Branchflower as "authorized to issue subpoenas? There was no motion for the council to issue subpoenas. It was a motion to transfer subpoena power to Branchflower as "authorized to issue subpoenas." Statute AS 24.25.010(b) did not apply. And to call Branchflower "Agent of the committee" is like calling Bill Allen of VECO an "Agent of the legislature!"
John Bitney, Palin's former legislative liaison, now aide to House Speaker John Harris was Questioned in Branchflower's office, satisfying his subpoena, but it was NOT before the Council! A clear violation of AS 24.25.010(b) which requires a subpoena witness to appear before the Council, and not in a private office before a private party for closed door depositions under threats of prosecution!
The 13 subpoenas are thus null and void, not enforceable, a gross violation of the attempt to unlawfully transfer the legislative judicial council's subpoena power to a private party investigator, a violation of AS 24.25.010 et seq., all to infringe on the executive power of the governor of the State of Alaska. AG Colberg appropriately is protecting due process for all Alaskans by ignoring the unlawful subpoenas and telling all witnesses including Todd Palin to ignore the subpoenas.
What will Lyda Green do next if we don't stop her NOW! What laws will she violate next? What legislative powers will she give away to unauthorized persons because of her well known personal animosity toward Palin? Lyda Green should step down as President of the Senate and be held accountable for her unlawful and unconstitutional actions.
Hey Independent. So as you're cutting and pasting less than half truths from the American Thinker into this blog, why don't you tell every exactly who Mac "the f*** face" Fuller is. Tell them how much money he has and how much he supports everything that is "white" America.
You see the biggest problem that I have with the Republican Party is that the only time in history that they gave a hoot about any other race besides their own was when Lincoln was president. Ever since then they have made an effort to distance themselves from minorities. I think it all stems from their religion because they aren't too many minorities that have been welcomed into Calvinist church, which is what George Bush, Sarah Palin, Mac Fuller and probably yourself believe in. It's a Christian belief that says you should lookout for yourself and those in your establishment and shun those that are not part of you denomination. It's very similar to the Jewish faith, only they seem to be more accepting to sharing with minorities.
I truly believe this is why we are at war with the Middle East. I really hate to disappoint all you right wing Christian folks, but not only was Jesus a Jew, he also wasn't white. He was of Middle Eastern descent.
Wake up to reality "The Christian White" this country is has almost 100 million citizens that are minority and that number will be getting bigger in the next ten years. The only way you will be able to stop this growth is to start your own Genocide, just like Hitler who looked at Jews as subhuman.
Tell me this; where in the bible does it say that white people are more valuable and more blessed than any other race? I ask this question because over the course of history there has been a desperate effort to suppress minorities, no just in the U.S., but throughout the world. Your untruthful attacks on Barack Obama are just another example of this persistent effort to try and suppress minorities. It would make every single one of you cringe to be lead by a black man and this is why there is such an aggressive effort to smear his campaign.
If Obama wins the election people throughout the world will be dancing in the streets, but if McCain wins there will be mass demonstrations. There is no doubt this is going to happen. Gee I wonder why?.
I love it when GOPERs duke it out.
[sexist comment withheld because we're in Mother's house]
-Wexler
The people will see through the "evil injustice" & smears that the "tainted probe" was trying to propagate for political reasons. Palin is being targetted for faithfully serving the people.
Voter should give McCain-Palin a victory so that the government is always on the people's side.
The GOPer mentioned is the Republican that Palin defeated in the election.
This is a political ploy to interfere with the McCain/Palin candidacy. In addition the proof is available to exonerate any wrong-doing by Palin. The courts have access..those pushing for the investigation are Obama supporters.
I once voted republican but, the morals & values of the party have long gone. They have been replaced with the tactics of Bush/McCain/Cheney/Palin. Bush and if elected, his 3rd term McCain is the worst president/republican our country has ever had. Give me a break, just look at his choice for VP. Republicans nationals, leave Alaska alone. Quit screwing up our country. Get OUT!!!!!!
I believe this is the time to keep on putting the heat on Palin to resolve the Troopergate before the election. If she really believes that she's innocent of the charges and have nothing to hide, it would only help her campaign if she resolve this issue ASAP.
Political reasons? Did you pay attention to what you read? This is the Alaskan Senate President, a Republican, with a Republican majority. She's not the only GOP coming out against Palin either. With Palin as a running mate the US is screwed if McCain wins.
No, the committee had more GOP than Dems. Only four Dems in fact.
The trooper is a scum bag and deserved to be canned. Is this the best the dems can muster. Get real!
After reading this article I am completely disgusted with the Republican Party and their abuse of campaign contributions. The McShame campaign has that typical Republican Party attitude that they are above any state or local laws and have certain privileges and entitlements as if the campaign itself is a branch of the U.S. government. I am pretty sure the Republican Party would cry fowl and demand a federal investigation if the tables were turned. How ironic is it that a month ago the McShame campaign said they wouldn't cooperate with the troopergate investigation because it was tainted by the Obama campaign. Really now!!!! I have not seen one shred of evidence that the Democrats have poured any campaign money into the legal support of the Monegan firing investigation and I hope I never do. The McShame campaign now has a full vested interest in using campaign money to influence the outcome of this investigation. How hypocritical of the Republicans to make those accusations, then start doing just that. I am a proud Hispanic AMERICAN and fellow PATRIOT in support of Barack Obama and I applaud him for having the maturity and the integrity to stay away from McShame's problem child, err... troubled VP nominee.
SUBPOENA UPDATE: Checkmate!
LYDA GREEN DESPARATE - TAKES UNLAWFUL ACTIONS
The illegal subpoenas are being properly ignored. It is now up to the issuing authority (Branchflower/Judiciary Council) to try to enforce the subpoenas, with concurrence of the legislature.
The legislature is not in session, so they must wait until Jan 09, or call a special session. Either way they need a majority resolution to take any enforcement action.
Alaska AG Colberg has made his move, and guess what Lyda? Checkmate!
Sec. 24.25.030. Disobeying subpoena or refusing to testify.
If a witness neglects or refuses to obey a subpoena, or neglects or refuses to testify or to produce upon reasonable notice any material and proper books, papers, or documents in the possession or under the control of the witness, the senate or house of representatives may by resolution entered on its journal commit the witness for contempt. If contempt is committed before a committee, the committee shall report the contempt to the senate or house of representatives, as the case may be, for such action as may be considered necessary.
Troopergate Subpoenas Unconstitutional
The subpoenas are rightfully being ignored. They are unlawful, unconstitutional, and not enforceable. It is now up to the Branchflower and Judiciary Council to try to enforce them but they must get a majority concurrence of the legislature to take action. So far they are doing absolutely nothing to try to enforce the unlawful subpoenas.
Senate President Lyda Green has taken her fight against Governor Sarah Palin one step too far she violated the law, breached her oath of office, violated ethic rules, and tried to unconstitutionally delegate the Judiciary Council's subpoena power to a private non-elected party. This warrants serious and immediate investigation in to Senate President Lyda Green's unlawful actions against the State's highest office, Governor Palin.
When the Senate President signs documents that try to give away the cherished subpoena power that the legislature only granted to our elected legislators as members of special committees, interim committees, or judicial council, she is grossly exceeding all statutory authority, failing to uphold the Constitution and her oath of office, failing to uphold the laws, all for an unlawful shot at Governor Palin. When Lyda Green signed the so called Subpoenas where the judiciary council unlawfully gave away its subpoena power to a private party named Stephen Branchflower as the Troopergate investigator, she violated sacred law of the people and seriously breached the trust and faith of her duties as a legislator and President of the Senate.
Branchflower "requested the power to issue subpoenas" which the judiciary council granted. The special committee or judiciary council does NOT have any authority whatsoever to give away its subpoena power to any one. Yet without enabling authority they passed a motion that Branchflower "be authorized to issue subpoenas."
Exact wording of the motion from the Senate Records:
SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI moved:
Pursuant to AK 24.25.010(b), I move that you [requestor Branchflower] be authorized to issue subpoenas to the following individuals and for the following documents: Frank Bailey, Diane Kiesel, Annette Kreitzer, Nicki Neal, Brad Thompson, Michael Nizich, John Bitney, Ivy Frye, Kris Perry, Janice Mason, Todd Palin, Randy Ruaro, Murlene Wilkes; cell phone records for Frank Bailey for the period of February 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. This authorization is contingent upon concurrence of the Senate President.
Passed 3 to 2.
Lyda Green signed the unlawfully delegated subpoenas under the erroneous authority of AS 24.25.010(b) which only allows the Senate President to sign subpoenas issued by the council to appear before the council. But there was no motion for the council to issue subpoenas, only a motion to unlawfully transfer subpoena power to Branchflower!
Sec. 24.25.010. Issuance and form of subpoena.
(a) A subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness before either house of the legislature may be issued by the president or the speaker.
(b) A subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness before a standing or special committee of the legislature may be issued by the chairman of a committee when authorized to do so by a majority of the membership of the committee and with the concurrence of the president or the speaker, or with the concurrence of the house or the senate.
So why is Lyda Green signing any subpoenas under the supposedly transferred subpoena power to Branchflower as "authorized to issue subpoenas? There was no motion for the council to issue subpoenas. It was a motion to transfer subpoena power to Branchflower as "authorized to issue subpoenas." Statute AS 24.25.010(b) did not apply. And to call Branchflower "Agent of the committee" is like calling Bill Allen of VECO an "Agent of the legislature!"
John Bitney, Palin's former legislative liaison, now aide to House Speaker John Harris was Questioned in Branchflower's office, satisfying his subpoena, but it was NOT before the Council! A clear violation of AS 24.25.010(b) which requires a subpoena witness to appear before the Council, and not in a private office before a private party for closed door depositions under threats of prosecution!
The 13 subpoenas are thus null and void, not enforceable, a gross violation of the attempt to unlawfully transfer the legislative judicial council's subpoena power to a private party investigator, a violation of AS 24.25.010 et seq., all to infringe on the executive power of the governor of the State of Alaska. AG Colberg appropriately is protecting due process for all Alaskans by ignoring the unlawful subpoenas and telling all witnesses including Todd Palin to ignore the subpoenas.
What will Lyda Green do next if we don't stop her NOW! What laws will she violate next? What legislative powers will she give away to unauthorized persons because of her well known personal animosity toward Palin? Lyda Green should step down as President of the Senate and be held accountable for her unlawful and unconstitutional actions.
Alaska Sourdough both you and Rush need to lay off the pain killers. You don't know the difference between sheep s*** and cherry seeds when it comes to the laws that govern the state of Alaska. Go laydown, turnout the lights and go to bed.
Mike,
The simple point is this: Certain Lunatics (above posters included) in this country don't believe in the rule of law, period. America is slowly but surely dying, and it deserves to die. This is a country that is built upon debt, swindle, and criminality of all sorts and sizes. Only ideological idiots could be proud of something like this, a cesspool of crap, shame, and crime of all kinds. The above posters are merely echoing what they truly feel, and that is they believe in a society that is survival of the most evil and everyone else can eat cake...........
Mike...
I was taught about the structure of government in 7th grade Civics class back in the mid-twentieth century.
They never told us about the debt, swindle, and criminality part of government in that class, which I now believe was a major omission.
The most disappointing part to me is that I thought those institutions were sacred, I thought that men and women had sacrificed deeply to protect and defend them, and now it turns out that it's just the cover story.
Wow. You're right on all counts. I'm watching the whole system unravel, I just think it's probably going to happen a bit quicker than you do.
How about this scenario....
Congress takes a deep breath and decides to deliberate on this bailout rather than push it through on greased skids. After 2 weeks of warnings, Bush declares a national emergency, seizes the money from wherever with an Executive Order, and puts a "temporary moritorium" on the election while he suspends Congress until 2009. Martial law is declared and troops are put around all Congressional offices.
As the Alaska dittobot said above, "checkmate".
-Wexler
McCain/Palin
Former fed chairman Greenspan has said the country cannot afford McCain's tax cuts for the super-wealthy.
After becoming Mayor of Wasilla Sarah Palin ordered the police chief to charge rape victims 500 to 1200 dollars for the med. test. She will make abortion illegal even in case of rape or incest.
She believes in the "end times" and has said that she's expecting Jesus to return in her lifetime. Science tells us that The Nut Ball could be twice as old, i.e. about 9 billion years, but Without Nuclear War !!!
And McCain wants to destroy Social Security and make more wars. Palin said, "We may need to go to war with Russia". That's NOT an obtion ! May it be possible to survive President Palin on La Palma/Gomera, in the Andes, maybe New Zealand ???
PS: Governor Palin cut funding for special needs children by 60 %.
"The trooper is a scum bag and deserved to be canned"
Then why not allow the investigation to make that clear? Why block the investigation if it was all proper?
As to the whole thing being a political ploy by Obama supporters, that is either ridiculous, since the investigation began long before anyone in the lower 49 had ever heard of Sarah Palin, or else Obama is even better equipped to lead this nation than I thought, since he was able back in the summer to anticipate McCain's choice.
How about some public vetting of Obama:
From Mac Fuller and others:
Watch the money flow. Obama dollars can tell us a lot.
1. $120,349. Other People's Money.
Senator Obama received more political contribution money from now-collapsed mortgage banks Fannie Mae [Federal National Mortgage Association] and Freddie Mac [Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp] than all but one of the 353 other senators and congressmen who received political contributions from these two entities which were recently taken over by the federal government.
Even more dramatic is the fact that 19 years (from 1989 - 2008) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac political contribution statistics show Senator Obama received his $120,349 despite having been in the U.S. Senate for just three years. Only Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut -- who has been in Congress for 33 years (1975-81, House of Representatives; 1981-Present, Senate) -- received more.
2. $195,000. Other People's Money.
Soon after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, his wife Michelle Obama received a $195,000 raise (to $316,962 in 2005 from $121,910 in 2004); subsequently, in 2006, Senator Obama requested a $1,000,000 earmark for Mrs. Obama's employer, the University of Chicago Hospitals, where she handles "community outreach" -- which is apparently akin to being a handsomely paid "community organizer" but with better contacts.
3. $1,000,000. Other People's Money.
Soon after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, his wife Michelle Obama received a $195,000 raise (to $316,962 in 2005 from $121,910 in 2004); subsequently, in 2006, Senator Obama requested a $1,000,000 earmark for Mrs. Obama's employer, the University of Chicago Hospitals, where she handles "community outreach" - which is apparently akin to being a handsomely paid "community organizer" but with better contacts.
4. $250,000. Other People's Money.
When asked during the Democrat presidential nomination race how much money Chicago slumlord and now-convicted felon Tony Rezko had raised in contributions to his campaign, Senator Obama waffled and wafted like the slim timber he is and said his "best guessitmate" was $10,000 to $15,000. In fact, it was $250,000. Mr. Rezko is a long-time associate of Senator Obama and was his first substantial financial backer. Also, "when Obama bought his $1.65 million South Side home, there was an adjacent landscaped lot, which Rezko's wife purchased on the same day for the full asking price of $625,000."
5.$625,000. Other People's Money.
Senator Obama and his wife, Michelle, purchased a $1.65 million Georgian revival mansion in Chicago, where they now reside. While wealthy, Syrian-born Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko was already known to be under federal investigation, the senator approached Mr. Rezko about purchasing the two adjoining properties, then toured the home with Mr. Rezko (now a convicted felon on those charges). Soon after Senator Obama bought the mansion for $300,000 less than the asking price. On the same day, Mr. Rezko's wife purchased the adjoining vacant lot for the full asking price of $625,000.
6.$75,000. Other People's Money.
Senator Obama served as a paid director to a "progressive" Chicago-area non-profit organization, the Woods Fund, from 1999 until almost 2003. William C. Ayers -- who, despite the senator's protestations to the contrary, is a long-time friend and political ally -- served with Senator Obama on the organization's board of directors.
Mr. Ayers is an unrepentant and unpunished American terrorist. Mr. Ayers and his now-wife, Bernadine Dohrn, were leaders of the radical Left, terrorist group, the Weather Underground which was responsible for 25 bombings in the 1960's and 70's including bombings of the New York City police headquarters, the Capitol in Washington, and the Pentagon. After successfully fleeing to avoid prosecution for ten years, Ayers and Dohrn turned-in themselves in 1980 but were never prosecuted due to improper police investigatory actions. "Dohrn was once on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the 'most dangerous woman in America.'"
"Both [Ayers and Dohrn] have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she's an associate professor of law at Northwestern University."
Almost unbelievably, but nevertheless true, on September 11, 2001, Mr. Ayers told the New York Times in an interview, "I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough."
In 2001 the Woods Fund gave a $40,000 financial aid grant to a group with ties to the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) -- the Arab American Action Network -- which was co-founded by radical Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi and whose president is conveniently Mr. Khalidi's wife, Mona. In 2002, the Woods Fund gave the Arab American Action Network a second gift of $35,000. Mr. Khalidi and his wife are successful fundraisers for Senator Obama.
The Arab American Action Network opposes the existence of Israel as a state, calling its founding a "catastrophe." Mr. Khalidi, the Arab American Action Network's co-founder, "was reportedly also a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group. Khalidi's wife, AAAN President Mona Khalidi, was reportedly WAFA's English translator during that period." Both deny this but Palestinian diplomatic sources have confirmed it.
While both Senator Obama and terrorist William Ayers were on the board of the Woods Fund, it also made a $1,000,000 contribution to Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) -- what essentially became Mr. Ayers' failed Leftist attempt to redesign education in Chicago schools in his own image. Senator Obama chaired the CAC from 1995 through 1999 [see #9 below].
7. $325,000. Other People's Money.
As a state senator Obama directed $225,000 of Illinois taxpayers' money, and later as a U.S. Senator earmarked another $100,000 in federal tax money, for programs run by radical political activist and Catholic priest (now removed from his church), Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side. Senator Obama identified Father Pfleger, with whom he has been involved for 20 years, as "a key source of spiritual guidance."
Father Pfleger's Catholic parish, like that of Obama spiritual mentor and advisor Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church, espouses a brand of black exclusivity based in the "black liberation theology" of James Cone and has done so, also like Reverend Wright's church, for two decades.
Pfleger is not only a long-time political associate of Senator Obama and Reverend Wright, but also of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan whom Wright described "as one of the...giants of the African-American religious experience" and praised for his "integrity and honesty" -- despite the well-known fact Farrakhan is an outspoken anti-Semite and admirer of Adolf Hitler. Wright and Farrakhan once traveled together to visit Libyan dictator, Muammar al-Qaddafi -- whose government was responsible for blowing up an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard. Nevertheless, in December, 2007 Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ awarded Farrakhan for his lifetime "achievements."
National Review's Stanley Kurtz (among others) has written extensively about and revealed the extremist political interdependencies of Senator Obama, radical Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. In a lengthy, in-depth article about Trumpet, the slick, nationally-distributed magazine of Senator Obama's church (and one in whose issues he has frequency appeared) Kurtz noted:
...that Wright's theology and politics have more in common with black-nationalist sources (both Christian and Muslim) than with those of conventional Christianity. In particular, Wright is closely allied with a radical and highly controversial Catholic priest named Michael Pfleger, and with Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan. While his specific ties (if any) to Farrakhan are unclear, Barack Obama appears to be very much a part of the broader Wright/Pfleger/Farrakhan theological-political nexus.
It is clear Obama was aware of Wright's views; indeed, the specifically political character of Wright's liberation theology is what drew Obama to Christianity.
Kurtz continued:
Pfleger is just as far as Wright is from the majority of American Christians. Although Pfleger is white, he heads a largely black congregation on Chicago's South Side. Like Wright, Pfleger follows the black-liberation theology of James Cone.
As insightfully penned by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal, here is what the hoopla over Senator Obama and his spiritual advisors ultimately boils down to and why it matters so much for America and her future:
Wright proclaims himself an exponent of "black liberation theology." He cites James Cone, a distinguished professor at New York's Union Theological Seminary, whom he credits for having "systematized" this strain of Christianity.
Here is a quote from Cone, explaining black liberation theology:
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
Could Obama really have been unaware for all these years that his spiritual mentor follows a racially adversarial theology, one that demands of God that he be "for us and against white people" and that he participate "in the destruction of the white enemy"? It doesn't exactly sound like the sort of "change" we can believe in.
Stanley Kurtz further pointed out that none of Senator Obama's rhetorical dissimulating can explain away:
The nature and status of this kind of Christianity.... There is a profound difference between "black-liberation theology" and Christianity as conventionally understood. Trinity [Church] itself recognizes this difference, to the point where Wright, his followers, and his theological mentors often present conventional American Christianity as both false and evil.
Senator Obama has said he never saw Wright's views as being "particularly controversial." Perhaps that is why he secured $325,000 in tax dollars for his radical friend's community (organizing?) events.
8. $15,000,000. Other People's Money (yes, you read that right, $15 million)
Over the past 15 years Senator Barack Obama's church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, and its pastor, Senator Obama's "spiritual mentor" Reverend Jeremiah Wright has received $15,000,000 in grant money from the federal government. Senator Obama has been a church member for 20 years.
Reverend Wright's church also espouses "black liberation theology" as systematized by James Cone. Black liberation theology's doctrines (only very briefly touched upon in #7 above) are not only extremely different from Christian spirituality but from Christianity as a whole. Reverend Wright has now become infamous due to the reportage of his widely-sold video-taped sermons in which he frequently makes anti-American and anti-white pronouncements from the pulpit, and repeatedly asserts (just as a small example) that: America is the USKKKof A; the United States purposefully invented the AIDS virus and infected Third World peoples with it in order to maintain America's standard of living; America brought the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack in New York City upon itself by its own terrorism; and that the U.S. supports state [Israel] terrorism against the Palestinians.
Reverend Wright even turned his "Pastor's Page" over to a member of the Muslim terrorist organization, Hamas, to use as a bully pulpit in a screed against Israel, and by extension, the United States:
Sen. Barack Obama's Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group's official charter - which calls for the murder of Jews - to America's Declaration of Independence.
The Hamas piece was published on the "Pastor's Page" of the Trinity United Church of Christ newsletter reserved for Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose anti-American, anti-Israel remarks landed Obama in hot water.....
Hamas, responsible for scores of shootings, suicide bombings and rocket launchings against civilian population centers, is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.
Now remember, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Senator Obama's church received $15,000,000 in grant money from the United States government.
9. $100,000,000. Other People's Money (and again, yes, you read that right, $100 million).
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was established in 1995 after a $49.2 million grant proposal by Obama friend and unrepentant-terrorist-bomber-now-educator William Ayers [see #6 above] was awarded. Both Senator Obama and Mr. Ayers were deeply involved - Senator Obama as founding Chairman - in the failed, five-year CAC educational "reform" fiasco, which wasted over $100 million of other people's money on Mr. Ayers pet authoritarian educational theories.
The C.A.C.'s own final technical report issued in 2003 repeatedly noted that it was an utter failure.
In order to receive the grant money, an equivalent amount of matching funds had to be raised. $110 million quickly was, $1,000,000 of which was awarded by the Wood's Fund -- the "progressive" non-profit organization of which both Senator Obama and William Ayers were board members.
Not coincidentally, not only was William Ayers one of the first CAC grantees despite being the co-chairman of one of its two operational arms, but his decades-long friend and political ally, communist Michael Klonsky who founded the American-birthed Maoist Communist Party was as well. Mr. Klonsky initially received a $175,000 grant for his Small Schools Workshop, and was later given another $482,622.
Until recently, Mr. Klonsky operated a blog at the official Obama Campaign website. All of its content has now been removed. Additionally, Senator Obama's official campaign web site contains an endorsement page entitled, "Marxist / Socialist / Communists for Obama"
Education is a crucial policy issue in America. Its form and substance should never be left to either the Barack Obama's of the world, nor to William Ayers who, as news editor Ed Lasky noted, "Barack Obama has been attempting to burnish Ayers' reputation by characterizing him as a university professor -- still one of the more honored and respected professions in America. He peddled the notion that Ayers is an educator now and this should absolve him of the burden of his bomber background." Mr. Lasky observed that Ayers adopted an ideology of radicalism over education when he attended Columbia University's Teacher's College:
Ayers has subsequently written a best seller used in ed-school courses which focuses on the moral imperative of teaching "social justice" to students in K-12 classrooms. He has been active in 'teaching teachers' that capitalism is a curse and imperialism is an American obsession. [....]
Instead of educating teachers to prepare their students for the real world, and to acculturate immigrant children into the civic culture of America, Ayers is helping to create a cadre of teachers who will promote a view that is radically at odds with the mores of most Americans and that is divorced from the traditions of education in America.]
Likewise, Sol Stern of City Journal has written extensively about the nexus of Senator Obama and William Ayers regarding education in America, and argues that the more critical aspect of the senator's affiliation with an unrepentant and unpunished terrorist is his refusal to acknowledge Mr. Ayers all-consuming political agenda:
The more pressing issue is not the damage done by the Weather Underground 40 years ago, but the far greater harm inflicted on the nation's schoolchildren by the political and educational movement in which Ayers plays a leading role today. [....]
Ayers's politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. [....]
Ayers's influence on what is taught in the nation's public schools is likely to grow in the future. Last month, he was elected vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation's largest organization of education-school professors and researchers.
Senator Obama, with the help of such people, attempted to radically change the entire Chicago, Illinois education system. Fortunately, he failed. If elected President, he might not.
10. $0 , at last,... Obama Dollars
Now remember, Senator Obama's campaign theme is "Hope" and "Change You Can Believe In," nevertheless, the senator's half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, lives in dire poverty in a tiny, collapsing, dirt-floored hut on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. According to Kenyan-born George Obama (who is pictured outside his hut in the Telegraph U.K. newspaper as well as Vanity Fair magazine (Italian edition) and the Chicago Sun-Times) he exists on approximately $1 a month. Senator Barack Obama met with him in 2006, and had already been a United States Senator for at least a year.
Other people's money is one thing. Obama dollars are something else. There is a lesson here on the man's friends and family, and most importantly, his character.
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I ask why doesn't the mainstream media question any of this? Instead lets focus on Palin's Troopergate - her going after a former broter-in-law who tasered a 10 year old and threatened her family. Yes I know, she's probably not squeaky clean, but neither is your messiah as evidenced above. Yet you never hear about it. How about some fairness here, and in the media as well.
The trooper wasnt a scumbag when he married Sarahs sister.
And you cant fire people because you THINK they are scumbags.
http://syrin.vox.com/library/post/mean-girl.html
Palin has a nasty habit of befriending people, fellow republicans at that, calling them old boy network, then throwing them under the bus for self-serving ends. What corruption did she defeat in Alaska? The pork spending? Nope. The bridge? Nope. Its all spin.
Palin was mentored by Lyda Green(R) [tossed under the bus] (R) Mayor John Stein mentor(tossed under the bus] She was appointed to the oil and gas commision by (R) Governor Murkowski for 124K a year (tossed under the bus)
But hey, if you want to elect a Christian woman thats spiteful, go ahead, she'll divide the Republican party and the Christians like no other.
Read the article I linked to, its sobering.
Hey Independent. So as you're cutting and pasting less than half truths from the American Thinker into this blog, why don't you tell every exactly who Mac "the f*** face" Fuller is. Tell them how much money he has and how much he supports everything that is "white" America.
You see the biggest problem that I have with the Republican Party is that the only time in history that they gave a hoot about any other race besides their own was when Lincoln was president. Ever since then they have made an effort to distance themselves from minorities. I think it all stems from their religion because they aren't too many minorities that have been welcomed into Calvinist church, which is what George Bush, Sarah Palin, Mac Fuller and probably yourself believe in. It's a Christian belief that says you should lookout for yourself and those in your establishment and shun those that are not part of you denomination. It's very similar to the Jewish faith, only they seem to be more accepting to sharing with minorities.
I truly believe this is why we are at war with the Middle East. I really hate to disappoint all you right wing Christian folks, but not only was Jesus a Jew, he also wasn't white. He was of Middle Eastern descent.
Wake up to reality "The Christian White" this country is has almost 100 million citizens that are minority and that number will be getting bigger in the next ten years. The only way you will be able to stop this growth is to start your own Genocide, just like Hitler who looked at Jews as subhuman.
Tell me this; where in the bible does it say that white people are more valuable and more blessed than any other race? I ask this question because over the course of history there has been a desperate effort to suppress minorities, no just in the U.S., but throughout the world. Your untruthful attacks on Barack Obama are just another example of this persistent effort to try and suppress minorities. It would make every single one of you cringe to be lead by a black man and this is why there is such an aggressive effort to smear his campaign.
If Obama wins the election people throughout the world will be dancing in the streets, but if McCain wins there will be mass demonstrations. There is no doubt this is going to happen. Gee I wonder why .
Wrong in so many ways. The legislative council voted unanimously (8 Republicans, 4 Democrats) to hire the investigator. This was, and still is, a bipartisan investigation. The only thing partisan about it are the McCain Rethugs trying to kill it.
Boy Howdy! This thing sure looks like the same old stonewalling we've seen from the White House during the last 8 years!
I'm glad I read through the comments.
Troopergate is OBAMA'S fault!
Thanks for clearing that up!
LOL!
-Wexler
PS a POX on the duopoly... Nader '08
If Sarah Palin is free of all guilt in this matter, she would have ram-rodded this investigation through as fast as she could to get it out of the way of her campaigning.
By using stall tactics, she has tainted any innocence she may claim.
Nothing new. Republicans are used to ignoring the subpoena. Look at Karl Rove. He is out and contributing to Fox. Is anyone one talking about that? NO.
Mike from Denver,
Yes I cut and pasted an article from the American Thinker, because as an Independent I read many different sites. I think it's good and fair to look at both sides. And perhaps I like to stir things up. Thanks for taking the bait.
And as a muslim-american woman married to an African-American man I do not need a lecture on race relations. I however do not believe in the myth of the evil white man as so many do. Some of my best friends are white guys... ha.
And anyway isn't that a form of racism? Or does it only go one way?
As far as history goes, the first slave holder in this country was a black man, and Arabs (my own anscestors) wer slave holders of White Europeans and blacks as well). Know your history.
Besides I thought Obama was about transcending his race, yet his supporters keep bringing it up.
Like I have said in other postings, you can find enough dirt on either side if you look. There is blood on many hands.
Besides I thought Obama was about transcending his race, yet his supporters keep bringing it up.
What race? Obamas mother was white women from Kansas. His father was from Kenya.
And since the three major religions are all Abrahamci they all talk of the same GOD. Their is only one race on this planet. The human one. And it doesnt require one to believe in GOD, Adam or Noah.
Wow, you need to get a job
Yes Jet. Well said. My point exactly. Obama has a white mother, yet he is always being touted as the first African-American to possibly become president. It's pretty sad really. Goes to show that people keep bringing it up. Race will always be an issue unfortunately.
Green was never defeated in an election by Palin.
Some people were taught to hate. That is not a natural emotion. The horrible thing...they pass it to their children. Its time to stop this crap for everyone's sake. Even the ones who have sure low self esteem they must hate and critize others to make themselves feel good.
J.P.
You say hate is not a natural emotion. What nonsense. I would argue that it is. Feelings of agression, jealousy and anger are very natural. As a mother of two I see it all the time. One only has to watch toddlers play in a sandbox and fighting over a toy to see that. Not too much difference in watching two presidential or political parties duke it out.
Some say hate is not the opposite of love. "It's a biter line between love and hate...." - an old Pretenders song.
The opposite of love is indifference - not caring.
All these negative emotions are too real - and humankind has tried many ways to tame the courser nature of these "emotions" through religion, philosophy and governance.
I get your hopeful message that we should try to teach our children not to hate, and I think that most of us do. However to deny that those feelings don't exist is living in la la land.
Wishing it any different doesn't make it so.
Don't let feelings cloud your thoughts or judgements.
Even if the guy is a scum bag, why fire his boss? Then agree to the investigation before you're against it. This wouldn't be a story if an army of McCain lawyers didn't hijack a simple procedure. But we get a sense of executive 'style'.
for the best palin tee shirt, go to www.notmydrugofchoice.com
A vicious dog with red lipstick with copy:
"Pit Bull Palin
A Heartbeat Away."
How about somebody selling a Palin - McCain T-shirt with the caption "Trophy Vice".
Every time I hear Palin referred to as a "pitbull with lipstick" I cringe for the breed that already is unfairly seen as a vicious breed across the board - and now they have to deal with the indignity of being compared to Palin? Poor puppies!
Senator Green who's personality and politics I don't like - is absolutly correct. Our Governor is in way over her head. Good for Senator Green for speaking up. Shame on Senator McCain for picking an inexperienced politician for a very important job
If, as Sourdough says, the subpoenas were unlawfully issued, why was there no effort made to have them quashed?
I remember when Rush Limbaugh used the made-up word, "Feminazi", many years ago. I always thought it was mean. However, I finally feel comfortable with it, when used for Sarah Palin, the Feminazi. Lots of women of a certain ilk will be goosestepping to the polls, unless we prevail. Let's work hard to avoid this catastrophe in the making.
The use of the term "feminazi" is generally considered ad hominem as well as ironic. Hitler's National Socialist German Labor Party (NSDAP) strongly opposed feminism and advocated the singular role of the woman as a "breeder" and child-carer. (from Wikipedia).
McCan't: Suspend the Campaign. Suspend Troopergate. Suspend Belief."