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"Unraveling the Gordians Knot of Gov. Palin’s Alaska Gas Pipeline Scam"
"...An earlier proposal by Conoco, BP and Exxon made to Alaska’s former governor, Murkowski apparently fell through because Alaskans were unsatisfied with demands made by the trio of gas drillers. I can see how the residents of the state might have been worried when the big three natural gas guys got together and said “We’re gonna build a gas pipeline, and we are gonna do it our way, whether you like it or not.” The citizens of Alaska might have wanted someone to at least let them pretend that they had a choice. And maybe they were worried about bribes and corruption.
So, they traded one Republican Business friendly governor for another one, and she participated in a scheme to make it look like they had a choice—when all along they were going to end up with a natural gas pipeline being built by the big three natural gas drillers---and one of the big three’s partners from an oil deal between Alberta and Texas. Neat public relations trick that. And all the citizens had to do for all that satisfaction was pay half a billion bucks.
That's quite a bit more money than was involved in any of her other shenanigans, wasn't it? Just on balance, wouldn't that then be the most important and revealing story?
RCP shows WA as O + 4.7 and MN as O + 4.7. Is that a tie? Florida , which you describe as gone, they describe as 'leaning' @ M + 6.3 In fact they still project Obama winning with 273 Electoral votes. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/#data
So the site you are referencing doesn't appear to back your claims. In my opinion, it's too close to call right now. The national tracking polls are tightening, suggesting that the Republican bounce might be fading. Also on 9/13 Survey USA had Obama at + 4 in VA. Which is not the best news for McCain.
And she does not love her country. She is willing to flush her country down the toilet in a fit of pique over not getting what she wants.
Hootowl - I'll ask you again - 4th time now. What about Bill? You never answer, leaving me no other choice than to speculate why. You don't have an answer. Bill Clinton was the big fucking elephant in the room of Hilary's campaign and no one ever wants to discuss that. You think the rethugs are ramping up to eat Obama alive? This is a walk in the park compared to what they would have done to Clinton. Do you really, really think Bill has been a good boy the past 8 years? That's all it would have taken to sink Hilary in the GE.
So please, spare us the continual Hilary rants. You are starting sound deranged. You remind me of a character in Mariyln French's story "The Women's Room."
You think Sarah Palin has done anything for you? You think she's going to do something for women if she is elected? Oh yeah, she's going to do something all right. She's going to set women back 40 years. Her incompetence and ineptitude will only make it harder for truly competent women to be elected.
Answer the question or shut up - What about Bill?
As I said PIVOT all the polls for the LATE results.
I even gave you a website for crying out loud.
McCain is ahead of Nobama in Virginia,you know the state you spent a fortune on by at least four points. Ahead in Florida 5-8, Ohio 5-12.
Meanwhile Obama's "lead" in states he shouldn't have even had to think about like NJ,NY and Oregon is 2-5.
Dead tie to behind in ALL the upper midwest battlegrounds of which he cannot lose a single one
Meanwhile McCain doesn't have to fight for any GOP turf or the Southwest. Can spend ALL his money coming at Obama on the states he can't lose ONE of - hell, he can get NJ and possibly even Mass and NY. That's conceivable.
Put another way, you are F.U.C.K.E.D. Dukakis is going to seem like a popular guy on November 2nd. Now we DID try to tell you.
But whatever,live in denial for another week or two if it makes you happy. Waste another 500 bucks.
Maybe this is what you hand in mind by saying Palin has done something for women?
By: Hilzoy (www.washingtonmonthly.com)
Priorities
Justin Rood at ABC News:
"Evangelicals and social conservatives have embraced McCain's vice presidential pick for what they call her "pro-family," "pro-woman" values. But in Alaska, critics say Gov. Sarah Palin has not addressed the rampant sexual abuse, rape, domestic violence and murder that make her state one of the most dangerous places in the country for women and children.
Alaska leads the nation in reported forcible rapes per capita, according to the FBI, with a rate two and a half times the national average a ranking it has held for many years. Children are no safer: Public safety experts believe that the prevalence of rape and sexual assault of minors in Alaska makes the state's record one of the worst in the U.S. And while solid statistics on domestic violence are hard to come by, most including Gov. Palin agree it is an "epidemic."
Despite the governor's pro-family image, public safety experts and advocates for women and children struggled when asked to explain how Palin's leadership has helped address the crisis. And current and former officials from Palin's administration confirmed that an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis has apparently sunk into doldrums after arriving at the governor's office.
"She's really done a lot of work on oil and gas, but when it comes to violence against women and children. . . we haven't been on her radar as a priority," said Peggy Brown, executive director of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. (...)
Some members of Palin's administration were focused on the issue of sexual violence. Officials in the Department of Public Safety were devising an ambitious, multi-million-dollar initiative to seriously tackle sex crimes in the state, but Palin's office put the plan on hold in July.
Days later, Palin fired its chief proponent, Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, after he declined to dismiss a state trooper Palin accused of threatening her own family members. Palin has said she fired Monegan because she wanted to move his department in a "new direction," and he was not being "a team player on budgeting issues." The dismissal is now at the center of a hotly-contested investigation by the state legislature.
The status of the plan, which would have "fast-tracked" sex crime cases via a dedicated group that included specially-trained investigators, judges and prosecutors, is unknown. "I'd ask the governor," said one official with knowledge of the plan. Numerous inquiries to Palin's campaign spokeswoman went unreturned."
Unlike most states, Alaska gets most of its revenues from oil. For this reason, as the Boston Globe reports, "in her 20 months in office, Palin's toughest financial decisions involved dickering with the Legislature on creative ways to spend and salt away the billions of dollars in oil revenues pouring into the state treasury." With the price of oil skyrocketing, she has been able to send every Alaskan thousands of dollars. It's safe to assume, therefore, that the reason for not pursuing the new sex crimes initiative was not lack of funds; it was lack of interest, plus the need to punish the guy who wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law.
On behalf of victims of sexual violence everywhere, I'd like to congratulate Sarah Palin on her clear grasp of what truly matters: personal vendettas, not preventing sex crimes and domestic violence.
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