Mark my words, with the Democrats in control the world won't turn around (at best it'll pause for a moment before it continues as before), the criminals responsible for the present biggest theft in the history of mankind will not be impeached or prosecuted, they will not face justice, and any changes will be cosmetic at best.

Even on as progressive a site as this, filled with all these brilliant people, almost all of you refuse to see the stark, hard truth: both parties are mere propaganda fronts for corporate thieves, for greedy upper crust parasites. Obama, the politically powerful left, and the Democrats are there only to step into "power" when we've all finally gotten too angry to go on obediently. They're there to mollify us now that the corporate thieves have financially raped our families. Their function is to gently persuade us to allow the thieves to get away with their crimes, scott free and more wealthy than ever before!

Look how Obama speaks: "Now is not the time for finger-pointing, now is not the time for division, now is the time for us to pull together to survive this hardship." Right: now is not the time for justice; now is not the time to impeach and jail some of the biggest criminals in human history. Now is instead the time to let the criminals get away, filthy rich and scott free; now is the time for we the victims of this immoral white collar crime to merely scrape along without getting back any of what was stolen from us, now is the time to try to rebuild our lives until the time when we once again have enough for the same criminal types (mostly relatives of the original crooks) to steal from us once again ... and they'll get away with it next time, too!

As much as I want to disagree with this sentiment, and as much as I hope it will not come to pass, and as much as I'll do my part to not let it happen, I really think this is what we have to look forward to.

Man I hope I'm wrong.

--Lies with impunity

--Denies lying when accused of it

--Doesn't respond to solid criticisms and rebuttals

--Engages in baseless smears and ad hom attacks

--Makes no sense at all

--Just makes stuff up as he goes along

--Acts like this is all a game to him

--Disavows responsibility for failed ideas

--Rewrites history as needed

--Shows no sign of remorse, regret or conscience

--Appears to thoroughly enjoy all of this

...Tastes like Shooter....

This reminds me of the child in school (Palin) who is caught red-handed stealing money (or cookies, or someone's lunch, etc), and without blinking completely denies any wrongdoing, followed closely behind by the blindly irresponsible parent (McCain campaign spokesman) rushing to the school to defend his/her kid at all turns no matter the fact that the teacher, 7 fellow students, and the security cameras all caught the kid in the act. It's the teacher's fault for leaving the money out in the open, or its the principal's fault for running such a loose ship. It's never the kid's fault.

This is really what it comes down to. The abject denials of the kid caught red-handed backed up by the blindly defensive parent who cannot admit his kid has done wrong.

How incredibly sad. The death of the modern GOP simply cannot come soon enough.

I was obviously reading the part which stated her firing of the commissioner was not against the law.

What were the findings of the investigation?

The investigation found that Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska's statute in July 2008 when she dismissed the state's public safety commissioner, Walter Monegan, after he refused to sack her ex-brother-in-law, Alaska state trooper Michael Wooten. (A trooper is a state law enforcement official.)

The report said Mr Monegan's refusal to sack Mr Wooten was not the sole reason for his dismissal, but a contributing factor.

But it added that the sacking of Mr Monegan was a "proper and lawful" exercise of Mrs Palin's rights as Governor of Alaska.

*snip*

What's next?

Legislators do not have the power to take formal legal action against the governor; that would be up to Alaska's Personnel Board.

If the Board decides Mrs Palin violated state law, the case will be referred to the president of the state Senate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7662182.stm

It appears from this reading of the BBC's account that what she did was legal, but why she did it was unethical, but it wasn't clear that it would automatically be punishable beyond something like a censure of the state senate. If there are more and better sources which establish that it is in fact more serious than this, then ok, I stand corrected.

What part of "violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a)" don't you understand?

I normally respect your posts greatly for their insight, Jim, but, really, there's no need to sound like an ass in correcting me.

The next few days will be quite revealing. Now that Palin has been shown to have broken the law in her obsession to get her former brother-in-law fired

Actually, they did not find that she broke the law. They did find that she used her executive power unethically to "settle a family grudge."

Not that I would ever defend that pretty tool, but just for the sake of accuracy.....