Comments on: Sarah Palin Hired Lobbyists To Bring In $27 Million In Federal Earmarks

By: Raymond Haswell

Raymond Haswell — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:12:33 +0000

I would like for an investigstive Reporter to look into where this 27 million was spent. Has it been all accounted for or is it in somebody’s pocket. Curious!!!!

By: Matt Ortega » Community Organizers Fight Back

Matt Ortega » Community Organizers Fight Back — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:22:41 +0000

[...] running dishonest advertisement campaigns and employ high-powered Washington lobbyists — liked Sarah Palin did — to do their bidding. Otherwise they are knocking their own field staff all for a petty, [...]

By: Kelli

Kelli — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:09:28 +0000

Here’s the issue with the earmarks: it’s not that Democrats have never earmarked. The issue is hypocrisy and that the Republicans characterize themselves as the party who wants to keep money in your pocket not let the federal gov’t spend it on pork-barrel projects. When a candidate gets up and claims the moral high-ground on an issue, and yet we find out that the candidate has been guilty of the same political games, then that person’s ethics are in questions. I can respectfully disagree with people on issues, but what I cannot tolerate is someone who lies, card stacks, and takes things out of context to score a political point, changing the rules to suit his/her needs. That’s the real issue here, not whether or not earmarks are good or bad.

By: The Real Ticket for Change

The Real Ticket for Change — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:03:09 +0000

[...] she left office, Wasilla, with aid of the lobbyist and the blessing of Stevens and Rep. Don Young, got $27 million in earmarks, according to the [...]

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Palin Hired Lobbyists To Bring In $27 Million - US Message Board — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:34:43 +0000

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By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:52:58 +0000

The point is that John McCain thinks earmarks are equivalent to murder, yet picked a running mate who used the federal government as a slot machine.

And yes, Frank, that “fear” and “flop sweat” are the same fear and flop sweat you predicted in 2006.

Bush won in 2004 thanks to fundies and the swing voters, especially women. In 2008, McCain still has problems with the fundy vote (that’s part of why he picked Palin), is losing independents, and faces a double digit gap with women voters – who are increasingly less likely to support McCain because he insults them with picks like Palin.

By: SFC B

SFC B — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:10:35 +0000

So, over a four year period, the mayor of a town received $26,000,000 in ear marks for their town, over half of which, $15,000,000 was for a single item; public transportation with their neighboring towns. I’m far from a stats guru, but that’s like $6,500,000 annually and about $1,000 per resident per year. Probably not the worst return on $36,000 a town has ever received.

Do Democrats really want to get into a discussion on ear mark spending with their current candidates? That same article mentions the $85,600,000 in earmarks from Senator Biden in 2008. Hell, at least then-Mayor Palin’s suckling from Uncle Sam’s teat resulted in repairs to her city’s sewer system. Senator Obama managed to spend $100,000,000 to improve education in Chicago without actually making any positive change. But Palin lives in the same state as Ted Stevens, so I guess that means she’s just as corrupt.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:35:35 +0000

Frank, I wasn’t suggesting that each resident received four thousand dollar checks, only that that was the amount per resident that the city government received through earmarks. Which strikes me as pretty high – from what I’ve seen, typically towns that size can expect to see federal funds in the tens of thousands, hundreds if they’re lucky. They cobble that together with state, county and city sources, and that’s generally plenty to support an infrastructure.

I’m not sure how the ‘fundies’ and libertarians are taking the choice of Gov. Palin – so far, evidently, pretty well. I have a feeling that those in the swing states were never going to sit it out anyway – they may distrust Sen. McCain but not enough to countenance the prospect of an indirect vote for Sen. Obama. But as a current attendee of a university, for what it’s worth, I wouldn’t put any money on the ‘kids’ missing this election…

By: fafaroo

fafaroo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:31:38 +0000

“…those dangerous “Fundies” will be lined up at the Polls – hoping that McCain will go to meet his Maker in, say, February of 2009 …”

I can see the bumper stickers in the bible belt now:
“Vote McCalin-Palin 08: Because He Ain’t Gonna Make It To 09″

Too awesome.

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:16:38 +0000

Think “$640 toilet seat” and you’ll get a better picture …

I seriously doubt each resident got a check for $4,000.

What do YOU think?

You know what I think?

I think that Gov Palin has energized the base to the right of McCain, that were going to sit this Election. It’s not “flop sweat” you smell but the fear of defeat …

While you are waiting for “the kids” to put down their bongs and jello shots to go vote ( “Uh, what day’s Election Day again?” ) those dangerous “Fundies” will be lined up at the Polls – hoping that McCain will go to meet his Maker in, say, February of 2009 …

By: Intention to Marry | Saalon Muyo

Intention to Marry | Saalon Muyo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:10:10 +0000

[...] immediately after I heard that John McCain’s running mate was the largely unknown Sarah Palin I caught one of the brewing controversies surrounding that choice: that her 17 year old daughter is [...]

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:51:45 +0000

Four grand a resident. Hot damn. I guess she was over the extremist libertarian phase by the time her little hamlet was swimming in federal cash.

By: Duros Hussein62

Duros Hussein62 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:38:11 +0000

Palin fired Wasilla’s police chief and librarian because they didn’t help her govern enough
She can fire librarians? How do librarians help the governor govern?

By: duh

duh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:27:48 +0000

This, like the previous meme is stupid.

Earmarks have been a part of government here for decades. Other than John McCain himself, few are completely free of them. A small town in alaska, with a small population is going to have the same infrastructure needs (roads,sewers, police) as a larger town and no tax base to get it from.

Getting money from the Feds is not a bad thing in itself, the earmarking process is. McCain and Palin aim to changed the process.

But in the meantime, those are the rules of the game.

Lets look at it this way: All those rich hollywood lefties, the ones that are always complaining that we don’t pay ENOUGH taxes. How many of them fill out a 1040 EZ form do ya think? How many write off as much as their accountants will let them get away wtith…..

Same deal here.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:49:48 +0000

“Of course you didn’t make it happen — but you will distort it and try to spin it as eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil , when it is done all the time, and not at all the same as earmarking legislation to buy votes in your District …”

Wow. You are fucking retarded as ever.

Whatever happened to Republicans attacking earmarks and lobbyist as the scourge of fiscal responsibility? Hell, McCain was actually running on that platform earlier in the year, so what the fuck happened to make the party change its mind on this issue?

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:24:00 +0000

I’m not distorting anything. McCain is against earmarks. Palin brought in a ton of earmarks. I don’t have a problem with earmarks. But John McCain does. I do think $27 million worth for a tiny Alaska town is a little much, however.

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:13:07 +0000

Of course you didn’t make it happen — but you will distort it and try to spin it as eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil , when it is done all the time, and not at all the same as earmarking legislation to buy votes in your District …

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:06:47 +0000

It’s clearly the left wing attack machine’s fault that Palin got $27 million in earmarks, the same sort of congressional money requests her running mate has said is the root of all evil. We clearly controlled her mind and made that happen.

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:45:27 +0000

I suppose you’ll go back two or three years to find something I said to make YOUR point , which will only serve to prove MINE …