Palin rejects nearly half of state’s stimulus funds meant for education, health care, and labor.
Palin rejects nearly half of state’s stimulus funds meant for education, health care, and labor.
Following the lead of the other 2012 GOP presidential contenders, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) announced today that she would reject nearly half the $930 million Alaska was set to receive from the economic stimulus package. Like Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC), Palin is set to further cripple the state’s education system:
The biggest single chunk of stimulus money that Palin is turning down is $160 million for education. There’s also $17 million in Department of Labor funds (vocational rehabilitation services, unemployment services, etc.), about $9 million for Health and Social Services and about $7 million for Public Safety.
During the press conference announcing her decision, Palin asked, “Will we chart our own course, or will Washington (D.C.) engineer it for us?” She also quoted Thomas Jefferson and complained about “the strings attached” to the stimulus funds. “What we think we need is kind of a time-out, where we back up, we pause, and we really think about what we’re doing here,” Palin said.
Topic Cloud
ArchivesBlog Roll
Maybe money for more abstinence-only programs would have made the package more appealing to Palin.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:55 pmHow about spending some of that money on sex education?
Cut down on the number of babies handicapped by being born to teenage unwed mothers or from old, degenerated eggs?
Come on Palins. Buy some condoms and learn how to use them.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:57 pmShe wanted it spent on abstinence only roads to nowhere.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:57 pmI wonder when these clowns will come to realize that by turning down the education funding they are saying, we want to keep our state stupid?
Do they really think people aren’t going to eventually figure this out?
March 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pm“What we think we need is kind of a time-out, where we back up, we pause, and we really think about what we’re doing here,” Palin said.
Important questions like “Will this stimulus package come included with a wardrobe?” and “Are my children going to get some of this cash?” must be crossing through her mind right now.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pmWhy does screechy hate unemployed Alaskans?
March 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pm.
Dear Bristol,
As an unwed mother…
… What say you?
.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:59 pm“What we think we need is kind of a time-out, where we back up, we pause, and we really think about what we’re doing here,” Palin said.
No, Sarah…what we know YOU need is a time-out, to pause and really think about what you’re doing. Okay, Alaskans…start stockpiling those snowshoes to throw at her.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:59 pmI hear it’s too difficult for these governors to use the money under the strict guidelines that Obama has imposed…like they can’t give the contracts to their friends and contributors.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:59 pmPalin rejects nearly half of state’s stimulus funds meant for education, health care, and labor.
– - The Wasila Whackjob is polling in Iowa. IOWA: http://www.themudflats.net/
Best question:
March 19th, 2009 at 6:00 pm“Do you feel it’s important that Governor Palin is re-elected as the governor of Alaska?”
“What we think we need is kind of a time-out, where we back up, we pause, and we really think about what we’re doing here,” Palin said.
Or in other words, I can’t keep up here so please slow the world down and use little words because education wasn’t high on my list of priorities.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:01 pm.
Sarah Palin said:
This is the conversation you should have had with your daughter…
… NO?
.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:01 pmJust out of curiosity, which eye is focused on the budget and which one on getting re-elected?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:03 pmAlaska is too beautiful to be put in the hands of f@cking peasants like Governor Avon Lady.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:04 pmWell..we know the Republicans running for President in 2012. Jindall, Sanford and Palin.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:04 pmArchie…let the people of Alaska decide.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:06 pmShorter Palin: You know, we don’t need more learnin’ up here, what we’ve got is okey dokey. Also, there’s the emergency room for healthcare, Duh! And labor? I’m not havin’ any more babies, that’s for sure! You betcha! Also, too…
March 19th, 2009 at 6:06 pmThe hypocrisy of Palin and her cohorts who reject their portion of stimulus funds is asonishing. It’s easy for them, in their coddled lives, to make the choice to refuse federal funds to help their constituents.
Compassionate conservatism.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pm#14 Archie B
March 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pmFLAGGED
ADVOCATING VIOLENCE
Is their plan to undercut the stimulus package (at the expense of their citizens) in an effort to blunt the effect of the package and later declare Obama’s plan a failure because so many people weren’t helped?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:08 pmShows how much Gov. Palin and the GOP in general value education. Sad! 2012 is more important than educating the children of your own state.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:09 pmZooey,
March 19th, 2009 at 6:10 pmYea, you bet’cha, and like…
She wants to spend it on another new wardrobe, therefore her need for a “no strings attached” gift. It’s obvious education is of no importance to her; anyone who has heard her speak knows that.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pmOf course she’ll reject money for education. Education is the enemy.
Stupid woman.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pmPalin asked, “Will we chart our own course, or will Washington (D.C.) engineer it for us?”
Your party’s course so far has been aimed straight at the political wilderness, so harness-up, and crack that whip.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:12 pmLatest GOP plan…”When uncertain, when in doubt. Run in circles, scream and shout.”
March 19th, 2009 at 6:12 pmMax-1 Says:
Zooey,
Yea, you bet’cha, and like…
March 19th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Ya know!
March 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pmYou mean the same way that obama is “letting us decide?” LOL!
Obama is now “the decider,” so suck on it.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pmWell..we know how much Palin thinks about education. Just look at her kids. She’s a bad parent.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pmshe DOES have one of those wacky wondering eyes, doesn’t she…
…
i just found this headline:
Corker, Gregg criticize aid for auto suppliers
Detroit Free Press – ?22 minutes ago?
By Justin Hyde • Free Press Washington Staff • March 19, 2009 WASHINGTON — Two key Senate Republicans criticized the Obama administration’s plan for $5 billion in aid to auto suppliers, saying the administration had misled Congress about how it would …
so, we never hear from or know anything about this gregg guy and now he’s all over the place as an obstructionist…
what the hell was obama thinking???
March 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pmIf Palin and Sanford rejected the money because their states truly don’t need it that would be fine, but if they rejected it for partisan gain, they should be removed from office.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:14 pmThe average Alaskan citizen is not known for their abundant wealth. In fact the average Alaskan would be considered low income in the lower 48.
So denying funds for education, health and social services, unemployment, etc, is not going to bode well for her among her constituents. Hope she doesn’t have her heart set on 2012.
Of course there’s always 2016.
Assuming her looks hold up.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:15 pmWAYNEBRO Says:
Assuming her looks hold up.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
ZING!!!
March 19th, 2009 at 6:16 pm— Two key Senate Republicans criticized the Obama administration’s plan for $5 billion in aid to auto suppliers, saying the administration had misled Congress about how it would …
Aid should have been spelled loans. The automakers haven’t asked for a gimme bailout like Wall Street, they have applied for loans.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:18 pmand very very very ironic that the queen of pork would turn down money.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:18 pmThis country is in serious trouble if quoting Thomas Jefferson carries a negative cognition… Yes we all know he was a slave owner, but chances are so were your great great grandparents… That doesn’t mean you should throw away what they have done.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
March 19th, 2009 at 6:20 pmhttp://www.themudflats.net/2009/03/17/palins-approval-index-continues-to-erode-in-her-home-state/
Nailed it.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:20 pmBy refusing the money, she’s hoping that the poor eventually flee the state for more hospitable locales, thereby strengthening the state’s bottom line.
Cold, heartless b*tch.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:21 pmHoodathunk Says:
Just out of curiosity, which eye is focused on the budget and which one on getting re-elected?
l o l …
March 19th, 2009 at 6:21 pmwe are bad!
Hey Archie, if you wanna incite violence, why not don the guise of your fake-progressive sockpuppet, GOPhater?
Or was that one banned?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm“the strings attached” to the stimulus funds.
and, just what ARE those strings?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:23 pmShe’s happy to take federal money for boondoggles like the bridge to nowhere, but turns down money for education. Take heed Alaskans, if it doesn’t benefit the elite it isn’t going to happen.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:23 pm“Also, too, there’s the tax-and-spend thinkin’, and what with me bein’ a maverick and all, I’ve gotta keep up with what the others . . . you know, rejectin’ and just believin’ that the good Lord will continue to provide for our good people ’cause small-town Alaskans don’t need elite D.C. folks predicatin’ where we can spend our money, dontcha know. Also too.”
March 19th, 2009 at 6:25 pmIt would seem that some curious, communicable disease is going around, caught only by Republican governors. From all indications, it involves the use of a knife and their own noses…at least on the face of it.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:26 pmHello my baby raping little buddy, why do think Sarah should be hanged or shot? What did she ever do to you?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:27 pmGo ahead. Pull this empty, faux-philosophical stunt. Follow your fellow wannabes over the cliff. Just because everybody else is doing it doesn’t make it sound strategy. It’s more like political suicide.
Turning their backs on their constituents will have serious repercussions for their political futures. Once one state legislature finds an end around to overrule their governor the rest will follow. It’ll make these governors look impotent, foolish & uncaring.
They’re oblivious to how this kills any chance of carrying their home state in the 2012 primaries. If they can’t win their home state, there’s no way they’re gonna advance to the final round.
-AF
March 19th, 2009 at 6:28 pmAndrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
Give it to California!
March 19th, 2009 at 6:30 pmKaty, we have the same “strings”in TX. I keep asking what they are, as you do, but the governor is so tangled up in politics, he can’t seem to explain. I think this is all perverted Republican logistics. If the strings were ropes, we could hang them.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:31 pmPatty Says:
March 19th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
It’s kind of icky channeling that silly moose cow, isn’t it?
**shudder**
March 19th, 2009 at 6:35 pmWith a 9.1 unemployment rate which is the highest in the history of Alaska Sarah chooses to let the people suffer. As for the money for education well I guess Sarah feels if Bristol has to stay home with her two kids why bother with other kids. Now the programs that would help kids get education/work like the one Levi had are being tossed by Sarah. No wonder that State has such a high rate of teen drugs and pregnancies with full support of Govenor Palin. I guess Levi’s Mom isn’t the only parent selling drugs to make a living in Alaska. Yes Sarah will wait until the bottom fall out or the Russian comes to Alaska before she does something. The people of Alaska can either suffer or kick Sarah out, it’s their choice.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:35 pmCan we just give alaska to canada?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:36 pm“cognition”…?
maybe you mean ‘connotation‘…
and who said quoting jefferson WAS negative…
March 19th, 2009 at 6:36 pmi didn’t get that message…
Republicans are anti-education because educated people are more difficult to deceive.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:38 pmsarah, sarah, sarah….
March 19th, 2009 at 6:38 pmOnly the cave dwellers care about what you think…don’t believe your heart this time…you’ve been fooled…you had your 15 minutes..
now plz focus on your family…before really what’s important slips away…and you find your children have grown and you’re a grey haired neverwas that was the darling of the neo-cons….the world is going to just say no in 2012 and then what?
Zooey Says:
It’s kind of icky channeling that silly moose cow, isn’t it?
**shudder**
Well, goshdarnit, some day we’ll all be quotin’ the lovely governor — just like Jefferson . . . even though Mrs. Palin would consider him a Washington elite if he were alive today, usin’ his snotty educational status to seem superior ‘n all.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:39 pmSome things never change even in times of of extreme. Republicans have continually slashed education so as to cause its collapse and keep young people ignorant of the economic shafting the middle class receives. Our schools in Alaska were hurting before the economic down turn. A corrupt school voucher system is what they are after.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:41 pmArchie B Says:
Should we hang her or shoot her?
*
flagged.
forward to alaska law enforcement.
\|
March 19th, 2009 at 6:42 pmas long as you’re part of the deal.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pmAlaskans get to fit the mold of Sarah!
March 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pm#14 Archie B
FLAGGED
ADVOCATING VIOLENCE
I figured, the more the merrier…
March 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pmSome of those who voted for the Goofus Palin might wake up. Some of them will not, because they are goofuses too.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:48 pmpastcaring
Now you tell us?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:49 pmSorry, I’m a real slow kinda learner—you betcha!
March 19th, 2009 at 6:50 pmThat’s right Sarah! We’re with you all the way! All the way into political irrelevance. Refuse the stimulus money and just keep talking. 2012 will be a remarkable year for political comedy. You will be honored and revered as one of the funniest candidates for the republican nomination for president. I can’t wait. You will get to go on tour again to keep us all in stitches from the non-stop, intense laughter. We will laugh at your hypocrisy, your idiocy, your lies, your ridiculous photo-ops and then we will laugh at you as you and your political career fade away with the sunset. Idiot.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:51 pmIsn’t Bristol in community college?
It’d be delicious if this decision affected her.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:53 pmbarfly Says:
Isn’t Bristol in community college?
It’d be delicious if this decision affected her.
– - I don’t think it’ll affect online Community Colleges.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:58 pmNote to Simple Man: We will take Alaska as long as you Yanks keep that self-righteous crazy beayoch. If she comes, in the words of Howie Mandel – no deal
March 19th, 2009 at 6:58 pmFund everything but what actually does something for the common people…
….typical, fascist, reichwingnut logic.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:00 pmshe can’t refuse any of the stimulous, she either takes all of it or non of it
or has she not been paying attention
oh, it’s palin, even if she were paying attention she STILL wouldn’t get it
March 19th, 2009 at 7:02 pmI’ll say it again, let the Republican governors or legislators reject or accept all of the money, no partial acceptance. The money rejected should then be divided among the other states. Then, let’s see which states recover faster and better from the depression. We’ll find out if trickle down tax cuts or government spending is the best solution. You betcha!
March 19th, 2009 at 7:05 pmWait a second, if Obama might not be a US citizen because he was born in Hawaii, can a case be made that Caribou Barbie is emperor of the territory of Alaska?
Nah, she’s just a whiner.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:06 pmSeems to me that the “keep ‘em dumb” platform would only help her down the road.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:08 pmand simple, could we just give you to Canada? They let your buddy in.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:08 pmGood! This assclown will have this used as ammo against her when Alaska’s educational system crumbles, thanks to her tomfoolery.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pmSarah Palin (then) – Dumb
March 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pmSarah Palin (Now) – Dumber (if that is even possible)
It’s obvious that she’s uneducated as her daughter who dropped out of school. The Palin’s are a group of dropout flunkies.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:16 pmMaybe Saruhhh is funding her state’s programs selling wolf fur…
March 19th, 2009 at 7:17 pmhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/18/sarah-palins-aerial-wolf_n_176496.html
rchie B Says:
Should we hang her or shoot her?
*
flagged.
forward to alaska law enforcement.
X2
March 19th, 2009 at 7:29 pmMrWombat Says:
rchie B Says:
Should we hang her or shoot her?
*
flagged.
forward to alaska law enforcement.
X2
March 19th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
MrWombat …
what is wrong with you?
March 19th, 2009 at 7:44 pmSarah’s track record…Bridge to Nowhere, Troopergate, abstinence, VP run, no funding for education and I suppose some more I’m missing. If the good people of Alaska wake up and replace her in the next election I believe there might be a pole dancer position open in Point Barrow for her. Unless they decide they have more taste than that.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:47 pmIDEOLOGIES ARE MEANINGLESS WHEN PEOPLE LACK THE BASIC TOOLS OF SURVIVAL
Not that I’m complaining, but why do brainless and overly ambitious Republicans insist on handing Democratic and or Republican opponents their heads on a silver platter? Does it cross their minds that an opponent will point out the callousness and irresponsibility of refusing the means to provide financial assistance to citizens currently suffering the disadvantages of lost savings, lost retirement funds, foreclosed mortgages, unemployment and skyrocketing food, education, insurance and medical costs?
March 19th, 2009 at 7:56 pmOh Archie, you’re so cute….
March 19th, 2009 at 8:05 pmWere you taken out of context, ™ ARRRRCHIE?
March 19th, 2009 at 8:14 pmOut of context, screams Archie. Hang or shoot? Are we talking a coat hanger, a flesh wound? What was your context? One sentence, easy to read. Pathetic, Archie.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:23 pmIsn’t this just posturing? I thought that the governors had to take it all or nothing — that they couldn’t choose which provisions to select or to change for what they were spent
March 19th, 2009 at 8:25 pmArchie B Says:
Only far left whackos like you would think I was in any way, shape or form threatening Mrs. Palin. It shows your desperation to smear anyone who comes in your path of destruction or attempted destruction. I believe there is plenty of evidence on this blog to prove it. Enjoy!
*
archie,
you old incest survivor you…
well put.
;;;
“path of destruction”?
ha, ha, ha!
–
March 19th, 2009 at 8:38 pmdoc,
it’s evidence.
::
March 19th, 2009 at 8:40 pmThey don’t need no stinkin’ education in AK.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:53 pmthank you Joe Sudbay (DC)
March 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm“Of course, the larger issue here is that by turning down stimulus monies, Republican governors are jeopardizing the success of the stimulus overall. They are jeopardizing our effort to avoid a depression. All because they want to run for president in four years. It’s just not clear what will be left in four years for them to run for after their politicization of the economic crisis risks sending our country into another Great Depression by gutting the impact of the stimulus. Folks, these people simply don’t care about the consequences of their actions. Whether it’s sending our troops into harm’s way for a lie, without the right equipment, number of men, or a plan for victory, or turning away stimulus money needed to jump start the entire US and world economy. They just don’t care. Winning is everything.”
http://www.americablog.com/2009/03/nothing-says-im-republican-running-for.html
#89 Barinda,
Keep you chit to yourself.
You don’t even make sense.
Blogwhore much?
March 19th, 2009 at 9:53 pmHey flex, agree 100%. They truely believe this president is going to fail and they are going to help any way they can. I think the approch could really backfire on them. The election illustrated this President is a very skilled polition. All this posturing provides plenty of fuel for the midterms elections. Presently they are poking at the Republicans for fun, but it could get real serious.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:18 pmBarefoot, pregnant, and stupid–that’s the Republican way.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pmIf this wingnut governor and the other wingnut governors succeed in hindering the stimulus from helping in recovery, they will be failures. They are too stupid to realize that they will be viewed as failures either way. Wingnuts on the reich are missing a portion of the brain that permits them to use logic. Wingnuts are just not very smart.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:09 pmI’ve gotta disagree.
If Palin is a product of the education of the State of Alaska, then education in Alaska may be a lost cause.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:18 pmI’ll take that unwanted stimulus money.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:30 pmGive all that unwanted stimulus money to the National Endowment of the Arts!
That’ll piss off the fundies and it’s a great thing to do.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:32 pmpastcaring Says:
——————————————————————————–
If Palin and Sanford rejected the money because their states truly don’t need it that would be fine, but if they rejected it for partisan gain, they should be removed from office.
Don`t forget Bobby J, that`s right,J for Jindal 2012……
March 19th, 2009 at 11:34 pmNow we have three sort of new faces for the American Taliban.I have to agree with Flex on this one, their whole hearted efforts to stay the party line will do more harm than they realize, party first,America is in their top 10 somewhere`s.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:41 pmTwo things:
March 19th, 2009 at 11:43 pm1) What will the money that she is accepting be used for?
2) A time out? Didn’t Alaska have a time out while she was shirking her duties to run for VP? Sorry, Mrs. Palin, but this thing didn’t just start yesterday.
Palin is one of a handful of Republican governors who have opted to promote party ideology over pragmatism. She is basically thumbing her nose at the many thousands of her constituents who have lost their jobs, had hoped to attend college, or have had some other monetary crisis affect their lives in the past year. Instead, she is embracing a philosophy that says “I’ve got mine. To hell with everyone else.”
Palin in 2012? Good luck with that.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:51 pmArchie B made a death threat? Not terribly surprising. Back in October, he posted something on another site about drowning Barack Obama, or waterboarding him at the very least. (He was all fired up by this.)
March 19th, 2009 at 11:51 pmPalin, Jindal and Sanford are the GOP’s Pink Floyd governors: “We don’t need no education…”
March 20th, 2009 at 12:11 amPalin has just re-enforced the concept of the Repug’s concept of “Cut off my nose, but it will look SOOO GOOD when I run for Prez in 2010. ……. Uhhh, Alaska hates me, well FCUK Them, the ungrateful Bstards, I represent the Repug Minority and am Proud of it!!!!
Heh Heh
March 20th, 2009 at 12:26 ammooseyak is so pathetic. Strings attached? Of course it has strings attached. The strings are attached to the parts of the failing repugs’ economy. Don’t you understand dummy? It’s suppose to help the people and the state who need help so we can divert a depression.
You of all people should be thankful for the needed assistance. The stimulus is suppose to be used uniformly so we can get out of the repugs’ economic quagmire.
Are you saying, mooseyak, that using this money won’t help children with disabilities and your growing meth problems? You aren’t worth your governorship if you don’t have the foresight on dispensing the need aid.
You are a piss-poor liar, woman. Your state can use the money in a variety of ways. Your bs “strings” attached argument is weak. President Obama’s “strings” are a lot more meaningful stronger and definitely uniform in its purpose than your “silly string” argument.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:31 amchat FLAGGED x3
March 20th, 2009 at 1:42 amI cain’t see wut the problem is, she needed to reject the edumication money because the feds would have mandated removing the pitchers of men and dinosores walking together out of our sciencee books, and not allow us to show that documentary series on that era called the Flintstones, dern godless heathens!
March 20th, 2009 at 1:48 amAw damn. I missed Archie’s swan song. What do you think his next sockpuppet will be called? Al B? Homer S? Or, perhaps he’ll stay old-school and go with Gilligan?
Oh yeah. If utter stupidity was a criminal offense? Bible Spice would be serving a life sentence.
March 20th, 2009 at 1:48 amI feel your pain Pete, I would have liked to have been able to file a complaint on him for the death threat. But I figure we will always have another chance when it’s next sock puppet arrives to vomit more bile. What gets me through the day is my belief that in the end, time wounds all heels.
March 20th, 2009 at 1:59 amBut palin will build a bridge to no where on federal dollars.
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, This move distances you further from any White House hopes you have in the future. You and Jindal are falling fast.
If Palin doesn’t want that money, maybe she should stop asking for federal funds to build that natural gas pipeline. Maybe Palin’s Alaska should NOT get $1,68 in return for every dollar they send in to the Gov’t.
Maybe Palin should stop taxing Alaska’s oil prior it leaving the state to provide its residence with a $2,000 check each year. Because Palin’s Alaska charges the rest of America for tht oil that America paid to build that pipeline.
March 20th, 2009 at 3:49 amPalin’s response is typical of the Republican Party. If Education for the American people was improved, there is no way another stupid guy like Dumya could get elected (twice) as the American President.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:40 amarchies probably the guy who burned downed sara palins church so she could get sympathy and attention..munchausens by orthodoxy, as it were…its clear the guys trying to get us to join him in advocating violence against her, and im glad to see none of us are taking his unmasterful-bait…
archie, we arent violence loving neanderthals like your type, pretty much everyone here would be wholly satisfied merely by seeing palin impeached or jailed for her contempt of court and her abuse of power as detailed in the legislative report. also for tax evasion for not paying taxes on the free trips her kids got on the taxpayers dime even though they wernt invited..
March 20th, 2009 at 6:43 amGovernor Palin is right to reject this money. Alaskans don’t need money for health care. They just put their sick on ice floes and abandon them. They also don’t need any more money for education. How much schooling does it take to learn the 200 words for snow? And what kind of money does Alaska need for labor? I think the elk and seal hunting industries are doing just fine.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:35 amforget russia, she’s a stone’s throw from retarded.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:17 amHold a minute, I’m not fan of Palin, but surely is she accepted the money you’d be accusing her of double standards ? .
March 20th, 2009 at 9:08 amHold a minute, I’m no fan of Palin, but surely if she accepted the money you’d be accusing her of double standards ? .
March 20th, 2009 at 9:08 ambut she’ll spend millions slaughtering wolves.
March 20th, 2009 at 10:36 amstoopid kunt!
Okay, here we go again!
We need to remember that in 2008, then Senator Stevens only garnered $86 million in earmarks…and one in particular for for 34.5M for Native AK education. There is a complete listening on Earmarkwatch.org and other oversight sites, but this one always amazed me as it was not co-sponsered!
http://earmarkwatch.org/2008-senate-laborhhs/search/?sponsor=90
So she may be saying one thing, but has several “cards” hidden from those who don’t ask and don’t tell!
March 20th, 2009 at 1:53 pmIt is 2012 and Palin speaks….
Well ya know when we were offered that big government stimulus money I said thanks but no thanks…Well so I took half only of it…
March 20th, 2009 at 6:17 pmOK – I started not to add my 5 cents – but – I had to after watching Keith Olbermann this evening. Part of the stimulus that Palin refused is funding for children with special needs!? What a hypocrite after prominently displaying her own child, who has downs syndrome, during her campaign. Well, I’ll giver Palin the benefit of the doubt – maybe she just didn’t read the details about what she was refusing?!?! Just following after other rethuglican governors?
March 20th, 2009 at 8:29 pmPalin could be thinking that they don’t need a stimulus package, that her decision, thats their decision who puts her in gov.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pmi think people like sarah palin and bob jindall and that south carolina guy should not be voted to office because they dont represent there people they just think about politics and she is thinking about running for president of romney’s vp i tell you the truth that is the plan for the republican party ROMNEY/PALIN
March 20th, 2009 at 9:01 pmavchavis,
I just watched Olbermann too, the money also goes to an emergency food fund, meals for the elderly, emergency medical services as well as education and others.
Many people may not know that there is a huge food shortage in parts of Alaska and people are literally starving. It’s true, and she thinks it’s o.k.
Palin, Jindal and Sanford, what a group. I can’t wait for that debate.
Palin: I cut off food for the starving.
Jindal: I cut off unemployment benefits.
Sanford: I cut off education funding.
All together: no I did, no I did, no I did!
What a bunch of shi*heads. I guess we don’t have to worry about these three losers in 2012.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:59 pmIt makes a lot of sense for Palin to reject funding for education; the more ignorant she can keep her constituents, the more likely her poor education and even more poorly thought out agenda will be apparent. For a while I didn’t think the GOP could possibly still embrace such a moron after her VP showing, but a huge number are still on that bandwagon. GOOD! The only thing she’s effective at is discrediting herself, so it should save the Obama campaign time and effort in 2012.
March 20th, 2009 at 10:57 pm