There is a second part of the report that no one but the Legislative Council has seen, the part that deals with Wooten's personnel records. We don't know what's in there, but it likely deals with the misuse of his records, particularly in the call to Trooper Dial.

Even if Monegan had never been fired, the abuse of power is breathtaking. At one point, the Deputy Commissioner is at his wife's side where she's having major back surgery in Tennessee, and he's called by Palin's chief of staff, who wants him immediately to deal with the terrible fact that Wooten has drive his kids to school in his patrol car. How the guy just didn't tell him where to stuff it is beyond me.

Then there's lovely Sarah asking why Wooten can't be prosecuted for killing the cow moose using his wife's (her sister's) permit and Monegan explains that they'd have to prosecute everyone involved, which means her sister (for letting him shoot the gun when she apparently decided that she couldn't do it) and her father (for helping butcher the animal). No, no, says Sarah, we're just interested in having Wooten prosecuted. Sorry Gov, says Monegan, no can do.

Finally, there's the simple fact that these folks don't seem to have had a learning curve, let alone any shame. Monegan makes it abundantly clear in January 2007 that there is absolutely nothing he can do to alter discipline that has been fully disposed under the prior administration and in accordance with a union contract. He tells this to Todd. He tells it to Sarah. He tells it to Sarah again. And yet, over a year later, they're still trying end arounds, still using different members of the administration to ask, once again, if there is something that can be done about the same facts he had properly told them he was powerless to alter, even using the Attorney General of Alaska, who presumably knows better but likes his job even more, to ask the same futile question. And then they make it clear to Monegan's chosen successor (the one with the skeleton in the closet they neglected to ask him about, so he never really took office) that, completely contrary to Palin's specific statement way back weeks before McCain had picked her, in fact Monegan's attitude about the Wooten thing was a factor in why they got rid of him (and Branchflower has a nice little section at the back of the report showing how the "new direction" for the department that she announced after she fired Monegan included exactly nothing he had had not either already implemented in full or was in the process of implementing).

Jaysus shooter, someone gets caught being less than honest, and you folks (did I mention vindictive already??) have to come back with, "Well, you guys are worser. --totally blase

Well you guys are worser and that makes you people raving hypocrites.

The real issue is that libs will pursue full-throated denouncement of conservative illegalities no matter how obscure, while indulging in their own with little to no comment when caught, much less be investigated. If you think that's fair, fine.

We expect the rules of practical politics to apply equally across the board, which in this case would mean Palin is right. No rules were broken and/or if they were, it doesn't matter.

You can't have it both ways, bubba. (Oh, it is so nice to be back below the Mason-Dixon line.)

The real issue is that libs will pursue full-throated denouncement of conservative illegalities no matter how obscure, while indulging in their own with little to no comment when caught, much less be investigated. If you think that's fair, fine.

We expect the rules of practical politics to apply equally across the board, which in this case would mean Palin is right. No rules were broken and/or if they were, it doesn't matter.

You can't have it both ways, bubba.

Nice straw man, Shooter. First of all, this wasn't a "liberal" investigation. It was put on by the moose shooting party in Alaska when they thought no one outside of a few curious Seattlites outside their little empire would even notice it was happening.

Second, it's not "obscure." A respected law enforcement officer was summarily fired and a lot of people were curious as to why. Those of us who knew Palin was one of the darkhorse candidates for Veep when this broke immediately thought, after the emails were revealed, "well, cross that one off the list." When McCain picked her without doing even a cursory vetting process, it became nationally relevant because it says something about her judgment, and there's not a whole lot else to rate her judgment on.

Third, saying that no liberal ever said anything negative about any liberal scandal is one of those little bullshit talking points you folks indulge yourself in. It's similar to Palin complaining that no one is talking about Ayers or Reverend Wright or whatever b.s. they've cooked up against Obama this week. "No one" seems to be the equivalent of "everyone but I don't like the conclusion they draw." Check out the politics of the people who brought down Kwame Kilpatrick. I don't think they tend to listen to the same radio stations you do.

Finally, you raised an interesting point earlier about why was this such a big deal, because all she wanted to do was protect her sister against this guy. Well, then why lie about it? Why say that Wooten didn't have anything to do with her firing of Monegan if the reason was so palatable? Why come up so many different cover stories for why she fired him? Heck, if she'd said, "the guy made me autograph a photograph of a man I absolutely fear and hate and I didn't want to see him in cabinet meetings anymore," that would probably have ended the damn thing. It's the coverup, not the act itself, that gets people into trouble.

She probably should file a police report and writing a letter to the local dailies.... and she should alert the Obama Wisconsin campaign with a copy of the report and photos of the damage.--Holly

Well that would make some vandal pretty happy. That said, I'm concerned about the trespass, but not so much about the sign burning. It's perfectly legal to burn American flags, so I'm sure the same goes for campaign signs.