Good riddance to the doughy Keebler Elf (R-Likud).

Dear Joe, if you're ever in Los Angeles give me a call, I'll have lunch with you.

While we're dining, please enlighten me about your position on Israel and Muslim countries. There seems to be a bias there.

It would be rather moronic to allow a traitor that spoke at and endorsed WcCain/Palin at the RNC affair,
to listen in on Democratic policy meetings, you just know that everything would get back to the RNC.

This is way too late to do any good.

you think when they first brought it up, lieberman had the balls to act surprised and hurt? "What? Why not?!"

Hey Joe. You can't eat by me you Mother F@#$ing tratior............

Good riddance; and please take Pelosi and Reid with you when you leave.

Lieberman can go suck repug d*ck.
Crossover already.

Joe Lieberman is a diaper. Watch the repukes crap on him and throw his ass in the garbage.

Freddy Knuckles @ 6:

I don't know who I hate more right now; the idiot Dems in Connecticut or McCon's "white women voters."

Ain't that the truth!?! Damn, wake up people!! What is it going to take to wake the freaking electorate up? And why has he been allowed to remain where he has for this long? Can't his constituents do a damn thing or won't they? Is it the money he brings back to them? I got questions, send me Sarah Palin, too.

"Reid and Lieberman have agreed that Lieberman will no longer attend..."

Agreed? I'm not sure Reid had to get Lieberman's permission. I would like to think it went more like this (even though I know that Reid is too deferential to do this)...

Reid: Hey, uh Joe...
Lieberman: Yeah?
Reid: You know that stunt you pulled last week... the one where you spoke at the GOP convention?
Lieberman: Yes, I was working to bring us together in an independent and bi-partis-
Reid (interrupting): Joe. Shut up. You're out. You're no longer on our side. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

whoopdie-f***in-do !!!!! I'm sure Reid and the rest of the Dems won't let him play in anymore reindeer games either.

Meantime, lets all rejoice at the Dems getting together behind their leadership and backing off-shore drilling. You know, the kind that will solve our oil problems RIGHT NOW.....if, by right now they mean in ten years.

I am getting tired of all these hosebags. When do we get rid of the rest of the jerks in Congress? Two or four more years?

The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 12:

This should have been done a long time ago.

But, Lieberman ought to know with this move that both sides are tiring of him very quick. Along with Palin, he ought to have coffee with Katherine Harris in order to get the straight dope on what the RNC does to those they treat like a cheap toy.

Ralph Gonzales and his buddy spring to mind also.

ChrisM70 @ 28:

You know the best way to fight these guys? MONEY.

If you haven't already,

GO DONATE TO OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN.

NOW.

DAMN STRAIGHT!! GO DONATE!1

GIVE MONEY -

Any Amount $5 - $20...whatever you can.

The only thing that seems to matter is money, and that money can
buy ads to fight the GOP smears.

I rather vote for a Cinthia Mckinney than Obama or McCain.

Sarah Palin Nude?

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

You do know that these kind of rumors just help the Republicans, don't you?

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

School picture?

oz @ 33:

I rather vote for a Cinthia Mckinney than Obama or McCain.

Well that's a real smart move there, oz. NOT!!
Haven't you ever heard of the Supreme Court?
Want it packed with more Clarence Thomases?
"Cause thats what you are really voting for if you waste a vote for McKinney.

ChrisM70 @ 28:

You know the best way to fight these guys? MONEY.

If you haven't already,

GO DONATE TO OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN.

NOW.

yeah thats it! money! why couldnt somebody have thought of that money !we,ll ill be damned!

"A Reid spokesman angrily denied that the Majority Leader had booted Lieberman from lunches"

Oh perish the thought.That would be so uncivilized.
They should fire him out of a cannon.

They don't need him now , by calling him a democrat he helped give them the majority in the senate and control over all the committees. They are hoping to have a net gain of at least five seats after the elections.

he should've been forced out long ago.

pinkobait @ 45:

"A Reid spokesman angrily denied that the Majority Leader had booted Lieberman from lunches"

Oh perish the thought.That would be so uncivilized.
They should fire him out of a cannon.

BWAHAHAHA! Thanks I needed a good laugh. I see we have "friends" among us. The paid pipers are here!!

Senator Reid,

When can I come over and piss in his Iced Tea?

Please advise.

Average Joe

Kai @ 48:

Ron @ 39:

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

School picture?

Doesn't even look like her.

It resembles the picture I saw of her in a beauty contest.
Could be. A woman who would do anything to get ahead would pose nude and think nothing of it.

how about stripping him of those precious chairmanships?

oz @ 42:

Obama is another warmonger and I'm not a troll. If you feel like being treated like you matter to them every four years be my guest.

what's that pre-self-pity? that's a first.

Too bad he's not the VP.

Too bad we're not all lining up right now to campaign for Holy Joe.

In a perfect world, we'd all right now be singing the praises of Joe Lieberman, hero of the Democratic party, number two man in the wildly successful Gore/Lieberman ticket.

In a perfect world, we'd be clucking with disgust at every anti-Joe talking point the Republicans would throw.

"Joe is a warmonger like Al Gore! Al Gore invaded Afghanistan after 9/11 and now Holy Joe wants to invade Iran! It's more 'Democrats Wars(tm)' like Bosnia and Vietnam!" they'd be saying and we'd be saying, "oh come ON! Gore had to go into Afghanistan and Holy Joe is just trying to keep Iran at bay!"

Yeah, wouldn't it be great? Oh, sure, there'd be a few nattering nabobs of Naderism saying that both parties are the war party.

But they'd be wrong, and we'd be right.

Too bad.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 57:

how about stripping him of those precious chairmanships?

Striping him..........yuk, just the thought.......

oz @ 56:

I like her that's all, just I like Cindy Sheehan. They stand for something and disassociate from group thinking and re-electionitis. Cynthia brought the heat to Rumsfeld and Myers for trillions of dollars missing in the defense department and Dyncorp involvement in sex rings (women and children), Have you guys heard of Blackwater? Watch they do every time, BRING OUT THE WEDGE ISSUES!! It was gay marriage last time and abortion will do it this time around.

Give me a break. Stop it! YOU are trying to make a wedge issue right here. Palin is not VP material, my .02!!. Straight and simple. She sure isn't a Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not by a long shot.

JasonS @ 61:

Too bad he's not the VP.

Too bad we're not all lining up right now to campaign for Holy Joe.

In a perfect world, we'd all right now be singing the praises of Joe Lieberman, hero of the Democratic party, number two man in the wildly successful Gore/Lieberman ticket.

In a perfect world, we'd be clucking with disgust at every anti-Joe talking point the Republicans would throw.

"Joe is a warmonger like Al Gore! Al Gore invaded Afghanistan after 9/11 and now Holy Joe wants to invade Iran! It's more 'Democrats Wars(tm)' like Bosnia and Vietnam!" they'd be saying and we'd be saying, "oh come ON! Gore had to go into Afghanistan and Holy Joe is just trying to keep Iran at bay!"

Yeah, wouldn't it be great? Oh, sure, there'd be a few nattering nabobs of Naderism saying that both parties are the war party.

But they'd be wrong, and we'd be right.

Too bad.

Nicely done. ;)

Jo @ 63:

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 57:

how about stripping him of those precious chairmanships?

Striping him..........yuk, just the thought.......

chairmanships, not clothes! he's probably a skeksees. You know, I was eating! thanks a lot.

Ron @ 39:

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

School picture?

(sniffing the air expectantly) Why that smells somewhat Dr. Lauraesque to me. Heady aroma, nice body, hand caught in the cookie jar. Whoever it is I never turn down the opportunity to study the female form (adult only, subject to certain restrictions, not legal in all states, frying pan exemption required before viewing)

ChrisM70 @ 28:

You know the best way to fight these guys? MONEY.

If you haven't already,

GO DONATE TO OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN.

NOW.

I'll donate when he shows a freaking backbone. Until then, blah, blah, blah.

Jeebus, he wouldn't even call the Con's lies lies. Looks like the Dem "leaders" have let another election slip through their cowardly fingers. And, just like 2004, it was theirs for the taking.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 72:

Tyler Durden @ 66:

pinkobait @ 45:

"A Reid spokesman angrily denied that the Majority Leader had booted Lieberman from lunches"

Oh perish the thought.That would be so uncivilized.
They should fire him out of a cannon.

Damn it, don't make Reid fire one of them strong worded letters Lieberman! You can have the lunch, but one more of your shenanigans and you are getting one of them letters Liieberman. You have been warned!!!

Damn, that Reid... he doesn't pull any punches, does he?

just put reid in front of a mike and watch that chin action. he can square his jaw like nobody's business.

Lieberman is lucky he is in the senate, else he would have to face the wrath of Pelosi. And she is a tough cookie..

God am I ever so happy I am an independent...

Freddy Knuckles @ 73:

ChrisM70 @ 28:

You know the best way to fight these guys? MONEY.

If you haven't already,

GO DONATE TO OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN.

NOW.

I'll donate when he shows a freaking backbone. Until then, blah, blah, blah.

Jeebus, he wouldn't even call the Con's lies lies. Looks like the Dem "leaders" have let another election slip through their cowardly fingers. And, just like 2004, it was theirs for the taking.

You are right. They have got to get mean and nasty like the R's and fight like that. Call them out for what they are--Crooks and Liars.

Obama has to take off the gloves and face these folks and call them exactly what they are.

lieberman talks like he's a self-righteous pompous ass, but he's just suffering from chronic constipation. btw, speaking of senators, where the hell is joe biden?

Reid is such a A-hole. He is one big reason why Democrats can't win. The PC police came and told him that Leibermouth was about to cry and we can't have that. Dems are so weak it is sickening. When are they going to wake up and fight for what they believe in? Repubs learned along time ago how to win. Democrats are still hand wringing over weather what they say or do is PC correct.

It's never too early for Ned Lamont to begin his 2012 campaign....

Dhalgren @ 83:

It's never too early for Ned Lamont to begin his 2012 campaign....

I hope ned doesn't get sabotaged by hillary like last time.

An Average Joe @ 53:

Senator Reid,

When can I come over and piss in his Iced Tea?

Please advise.

Average Joe

As soon as his glass of tea is empty. He won't notice the difference...

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 85:

Dhalgren @ 83:

It's never too early for Ned Lamont to begin his 2012 campaign....

I hope ned doesn't get sabotaged by hillary like last time.

Both Clinton and Obama supported Lieberman, go figure.

ChrisM70 @ 37:

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

You do know that these kind of rumors just help the Republicans, don't you?

Silly wabbit, that's not a rumor, that's a picture. We can have fun watching them try to prove that picture isn't dear Sarah. I mean isn't that one of Karl's favorite ploys? "Senator Obama, prove to us you're not a Muslim," well now Sarah can prove to us that she didn't pose nude for a picture. I'm sure lots of people still remember dear Dr. Laura's portfolio so it's not really going to be a stretch to imagine little Sarah (and I do mean little, whoever is in that picture needs to find something to eat) might have posed for something a little risque in her wild and crazy youth.

Thank goodness that Benedict Arnold was not welcome no more.

Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 91:

ChrisM70 @ 37:

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

You do know that these kind of rumors just help the Republicans, don't you?

Silly wabbit, that's not a rumor, that's a picture. We can have fun watching them try to prove that picture isn't dear Sarah. I mean isn't that one of Karl's favorite ploys? "Senator Obama, prove to us you're not a Muslim," well now Sarah can prove to us that she didn't pose nude for a picture. I'm sure lots of people still remember dear Dr. Laura's portfolio so it's not really going to be a stretch to imagine little Sarah (and I do mean little, whoever is in that picture needs to find something to eat) might have posed for something a little risque in her wild and crazy youth.

Don't do this you all. IT IS ABOUT THE ISSUES. This is noise folks, noise!!!

freebird9 @ 95:

Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 91:

ChrisM70 @ 37:

actor212 @ 35:

You do know that these kind of rumors just help the Republicans, don't you?

Silly wabbit, that's not a rumor, that's a picture. We can have fun watching them try to prove that picture isn't dear Sarah. I mean isn't that one of Karl's favorite ploys? "Senator Obama, prove to us you're not a Muslim," well now Sarah can prove to us that she didn't pose nude for a picture. I'm sure lots of people still remember dear Dr. Laura's portfolio so it's not really going to be a stretch to imagine little Sarah (and I do mean little, whoever is in that picture needs to find something to eat) might have posed for something a little risque in her wild and crazy youth.

Don't do this you all. IT IS ABOUT THE ISSUES. This is noise folks, noise!!!

it's not JUST about the issues. the sad reality is that noise, distraction, rumor, hype, repetitive mantras (true or false) have a lot to do with who wins. remember 2000 and 2004.

PCN is showing Grandpa's speech from earlier today - its pathetic. Nothing but buzzwords, empty rhetoric and rehash from Minneapolis. And the sheep are just bleating it up. And if I hear Palin say "eye-RACK" again, I'll spit.

This country is fucked - seriously fucked - I'm starting to think even more than we ever have been...

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How does Joe Blow get McC's cum stains off his blue blazer? Where's Linda Tripp when we need her?

I didn't have time to read all the other posts, but my understanding is that Lieberman has not been coming to these lunches for some time now. This was a non-announcement announcement of a non-event event. Reid is an incompetent idiot. This is just the kind of "action" one expects from today's Democratic Party. We are doomed.

Here is the famous E-mail from a housewife.

(Wasilla Public Library in 1950s)
I'm about the last in the blogosphere to paste this balanced and sober historiography of Sarah Palin's life and views -- as told by a fellow resident of Wasilla, Alaska.
Anne Kilkenny, who has known Sarah Palin since 1992, is a Democrat -- but this treatment of Sarah shows her to be a clear-minded, pragmatic centrist.
If you haven't yet read this. . .it deserves your attention.
This forward ran in the Anchorage Daily News:
Posted by Alaska_Politics
Posted: September 4, 2008 - 12:11 pm
From David Hulen in Anchorage --
The e-mail below has been bouncing around the Internet since Sunday. It was written by Anne Kilkenny of Wasilla - stay-at-home mom, letter-to-the-editor writer and longtime watcher of Valley politics. She's a registered Democrat. She was one of the delegates to the Conference of Alaskans in Fairbanks back in 2004. Her bio from the conference is here.
She e-mailed this letter over the weekend to family and friends Outside, and (despite her request not to post it) it went viral on the Internet very quickly, showing up on blogs and Web sites all over. Since then, Kilkenny has been inundated with phone calls and e-mails. She said she stayed up until 3 a.m. last night answering e-mails, and found nearly 400 new ones waiting when she logged on this morning.
It's posted here with her permission.
And now the internet letter written by Anne Kilkenny from Wasilla, Alaska:
Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks. :)
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .
Thanks,
Anne
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months.
She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She's smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's surplus, borrow for needs.
She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated" her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit, exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
*"Hockey mom": true for a few years.
*"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since.
*"NRA supporter": absolutely true
*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
*"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation
*"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000.
*political maverick: not at all
*gutsy: absolutely!
*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
*"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built streets to early 20th century standards.
*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla's history.
*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn't make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that's life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.
Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008

Well worth reading and stay informed.

It took the WAY TOO LONG to dump that sleeze bag.

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

Spew, vomit, puke arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

He'll find a way to play the victim in public venues. He's a snake-oil salesman - it's in his blood.

When they tell him to bend over and grab his ankles - he does exactly that.

I know what his god thinks of him.
*

actor212 @ 35:

Sarah Palin Nude?

does it really look like her??

of course not

so why would you post that here, and how much is rove paying you to make us look like retards

and stop sending me your stupid fucking emails about the banned book list

This all makes me so so so sick!

Its a perfect example of incompetence in the Democratic ranks in D.C..

If Obama loses this election and the Dems fail to win super majorities in the House and Senate I am out of the Democratic party.

Rosanne @ 116:

ChrisM70 @ 34:

oz @ 33:

I rather vote for a Cinthia Mckinney than Obama or McCain.

oz = troll who can't spell.

the troll cant think rationally either.

Rosanne, you definitely sound like a mental powerhouse, by thinking rationally do you mean the indoctrination you have taken in as conventional wisdom then you are right i am not thinking rationally because your way of thinking is rational but insane, "Coke and Pepsi cause diabetes" so why not choose something else from the political menu. Reps and Dems whine constantly about their politicians but we have to get behind them for the sake of getting one over the other and forget voting with our conscience. I'm against war, 'once you go to war you have lost' Obama and McCain both cause diabetes. I love you though.

an hour late and a dollar short. why wasn't he given the boot long ago???

Joseph Lieberquisling would do well to review the life of Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling, his spiritual forebearer. Both sold out everything that was worthy in opportunistic pursuit of personal power. Norway reintroduced the death penalty just long enough to make Quisling pay with his life for his opportunistic and treasonous collaboration with the nazis and for the crimes he committed while enjoying the power that the nazis parceled out to him.

On conviction for treason, he was put up against the wall and shot. The difference between the two men is only a matter of degree, determined entirely by the fortunes of circumstances. Lieberquisling needs to pay for his opportunistic betrayals and collaboration with his political life, and should thereafter be shunned by polite society.

What cookie cutter do they use to produce this endless number of Bush/McBush twinkies. They everywhere. Rebrand my ass.

see sadly joe l is the only real guy who got it in 2000 the vote fix system is in place and the dems are not in control of it.

im sure they won closer to twice as many congressional seats in 2006..

mccain will take it, he will, like bush in the last 2 elections lose the popular vote, but that will be resolved in the statewide vote tally systems in some select states. just like florida and ohio of past.