First Dude Todd Palin refuses to testify despite subpoena
But he and Sarah have nothing to hide. I promise.
The governor's husband, however, refuses to answer questions to a panel that he believes is politically motivated, according to campaign officials for Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Palin.
"The objections boil down to the fact that the legislative council investigation is no longer a legitimate investigation because it has been subjected to complete partisanship," campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan said.
Todd Palin could be found in contempt of the legislature for failing to comply, but the whole body would have to be in session to do so, and it is not scheduled to reconvene until January.
Josh makes a great point:
Who would you expect to announce that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won't cooperate with the Alaska Legislature's probe into whether she abused the power of her office in Trooper-Gate?
Not Palin herself. Nor the spokesperson for the Governor's Office. Nor the lawyer the state is paying to represent her in her official capacity in the case. Instead, that announcement was made today by a spokesperson for John McCain's presidential campaign.
Just keep that in mind as this case unfolds.
(h/t Cernig)
republicans are not bound by the laws of man
So that's the secret? If you say you believe the subpoena is "politically motivated" then you get to not show up and nothing gets done about it? I'll remember that next time I receive a subpoena.
"This is politically motivated. I'm not doing it!"
I'm sure that will work for me.
And Sarah Palin and John McCain say they are bringing change to Washington DC. Sounds like more of the same to me. Where's the change??? Rove thumbs his nose to Congress and now Todd thumbs his nose to the Alaskan government.
But first dude is so handsome and does sledding and ski-mobiling.
He's one of us.
Cats r Flyfishn @ 3:
And that's all they're doing so why isn't somebody dragging them in anyway?
Would any other citizen get away with that? Why do they think they're above being citizens?
So, is the attorney off of the case? Is the "reformer" who held officials accountable for their misdeeds now held to a different standard??? What gives??? Apparently there is a story circulating that she used her yahoo account for emailing so that she wouldn't get any damning evidence on the records in this matter. Guess she doesn't know that doesn't work very well.
Hell, if I am called to show up for jury duty and I am a no show, the cops will visit me. I know this because after I got married and moved to NY state, my parents received a letter calling me to jury duty, because I was living out of state they ignored it. The cops showed up at their door looking for me. It took some convincing to make them believe that I was indeed no longer a resident of Fla.
So McCain's camp can just say Todd doesn't want to testify and that's it? Sounds like something that could emerge from the Bush white house.
Todd seems like a total sleaze to me. He's enjoying this spotlight with his wife way too much. And just out of curiosity, who is at home caring for the baby and the kids?
How about standing up for the rule of law, the first dude is not above the law. If the first dude thinks that he is above the law, that is what I would call the height of being elitist. In effect what he is saying by not showing up is that laws are for the regular people and not for the powerful and those related to them.
Okay, now I know what Sarah means when she says she will reform Washington. She's going to make obeying the law optional. Doesn't she know that bush already did that?
I received this yesterday and had to share....
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers: a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track: you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating: you're well grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl (sports caster), 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
If your husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now!
These cocksuckers haven't even taken office and they're already shitting on the legal process and wiping their asses with the Constitution. I can't believe people want four more years of this bullshit!
I don't want anyone near the oval office who answers to the name, First Dude. Jesus, how much lower can we go? Given the opportunity, will she rename the oval office the kinda roundish hangout?
It is amazing to me that these people are so cowardly. Why not show up and just plead the 5th? It's an honorable way of dealing with such things (and has the benefit of being, er, Constitutional, and all). No corporate body can make you incriminate yourself. Oh, wait -- they're projecting again: anyone who takes the 5th is, ipso facto, guilty. Oh, wait again -- they don't want to be caught being the mean, petty, bourgeois, nasty little grudge-holders they are.
So - if you're a Democrat like Siegelman you get a "Go to Jail for Nothing" card.
Republicans get the "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
If Diebold wins this upcoming election, everybody should refuse to work in a general strike.
Putting the money machine out of action should get their attention.
Does anyone still buy that BS that the GOP stands for 'freedom', 'justice', and the 'american way'???
Sounds like they got something to hide.
If they didn't, what harm would come from answering a few questions. I know that if I was being falsely accused of doing something I would try to do whatever I could, answer all questions, to clear my name.
But what do you expect from someone who actually wants to be referred to as "first dude"
So this means, by default, that none of us needs to answer a subpoena in investigations. That's good to know.
A great way to start my day, I read on Yahoo news about Charlotte Dennett, she's running for Attny General of Vermont and said today that if she is elected then she will go after Bushco for the crime of murder. I know it's still little more then a pipe dream, but it's the best chance I've heard yet that we might hold Bushco accountable. They must answer for their crimes against America and the international community not to mention the planet!
If you ask me, Todd and Sarah Palin are planning John McCain's demise.
So now what happens? McCain, god forbid, gets elected and then we find out the vice president is a crook? I think I've seen this movie before and it doesn't have a happy ending.
Refusal to testify is the tactic of the last eight years of the Bush Administration. So how is this change John McCain?
anney @ 17:
Seriously, if you or I ignore a subpoena, the authorities would come for us. What it is with these Republicans, that they can ignore subpoenas and there is no consequence? Are these the values of the party of Family Values, namely, disrespect for law and authority? No wonder their children are running amok.
In Response to Subpoena, First Dude Palin Proves Unavailin’
So if one disagrees with the opposing attorney's political views, he has the right to ignore a subpoena. If I tried that bullshit with the drug offenders I've represented, I'd be jailed for contempt. The Palins want America to trust them but they clearly don't trust us...GUILTY PEOPLE HAVE NO FAITH IN THE LEGAL PROCESS.
This is what happens when Pelosi and Reid refuse to enforce the law.
Republicans can't govern.
Neither can Democrats, apparently.
The McCain campaign probably knows there are skeletons in the Palin closets and they probably didn't discover them until after they picked her. Remember they took very little time vetting her.
They, as we used to say in the south, bought a pig in a poke. Which means they bought something without first inspecting it carefully. ("poke" is a southern word for sack or burlap bag.)
I thought the whole point of subpoenas was that you're forced to answer them?
If the legislature can issue subpoenas but can't enforce them, then something obviously is very broken with that system.
Are there any bush appointed judges mixed up in this?
carefulwiththatAxeEugene @ 1:
So....
they want to be Nieztchean Ubermenschen, then? Oy, vey.
pissed off patricia @ 26:
I think that McCain chose a sleazy running mate on purpose. John McCain has a lot to hide, Palin takes the heat off of him.
i believe, under the law, you cannot be forced to testify against your spouse.
pissed off patricia @ 26:
No, no, POP, not a pig in a poke, Hogzilla in a poke. Otherwise, I'd agree with you.
pissed off patricia @ 9:
Well, remember, U.S. Attorney General Mukasey has already said that there are some laws that he doesn't feel should be prosecuted (in relation to the malfeasance in the U.S. Attorney General's office), so the standard has been set and Mr. Palin has chosen to follow that standard.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 4:
What ATL are you from? Neither Palin nor her husband are worth the hoopla over their looks, IMHO.
General Pavel Rennenkampf Xocoyotzin @ 29:
Ubermenschen meinen Asch! Sie sind ubel.
Mick Piobr @ 25:
You need to get your priorities in order. These fucking Repukes are Goddamned criminals....period! Pelosi and Reid are indeed weak and inefficient, but they have not broke the law.
So now the First Dude also gets executive privilege? What sort of banana republic are we living in, anyway?
sassafra @ 31:
he wouldn't be testifying against his spouse. The accusations are that he made some phone calls to get a trooper fired. He would be asked if he was involved in any way in trying to get the trooper fired.
pissed off patricia @ 26:
Be careful with those piggy references POP. Especially if it's wearing cosmetics.
Ricky Bones @ 10:
If you’re a minority and you’re selected for a job over other qualified candidates you’re a “token hire.”
If you’re a conservative and you’re selected for a job over other qualified candidates you’re a “game changer.”
If you live in an urban area and you get a girl pregnant you’re a “baby daddy.”
If you’re the same in Alaska you’re a “teen father.” (Actually, according to your own MySpace page you’re an F’n redneck that don’t want any kids, but that’s too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to take out of context and flog morning noon and night).
Black teen pregnancies? A “crisis” in black America.
White teen pregnancies? A “blessed event.”
IIf you’re a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fulling vetting the individual you’re “reckless.”
A Republican who doesn’t fully vet is a “maverick.”
If you say that for the “first time in my adult lifetime I’m really proud of my country” it makes you “unfit” to be First Lady.
If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that advocates secession that makes you “First Dude.”
A DUI from twenty years ago is “old news.”
A speech given without proper citation from twenty years ago is “relevant information.”
And, finally, if you’re a man and you decide to run for office despite your wife’s reoccurrence of cancer you’re a “questionable spouse.”
If you’re a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five kids including a newborn with Downs Syndrome… Well, we don’t know what that is ‘cause THAT’S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK!
Mick Piobr @ 35:
Ja, mein Herr.
I also like the implications of all of this--Obama has the powers of time travel and mind control!
Democrats knew at least a year ago that Palin would be the nominee, so they began this political process by somehow convincing all of these Republicans in Alaska to bring charges against Palin.
Also.. why is the US Legal System so goddamn slow all the time? I haven't looked at any figures, but my perception is that the rest of the developed world, with the possible exception of Japan, manages to handle stuff a lot faster.
US Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to a speedy trial. Not simply forbidding unduly dilatory processes, but proscribing that they should be as fast as possible (within the limits required for proper justice of course). Yet.. I sometimes hear about a high-profile criminal getting arrested in, say, Germany, at the same time as one in the USA. The German would then get tried, sentenced, appealed and had a verdict on the appeal before the American one had even gone to trial yet.
Why is that? I've heard it's because the US legal system is backed up.. but I suspect the legal culture has gone off in a trend of asking for, and granting, increasingly large amounts of time to respond to legal maneuvers. And also that delaying to get a settlement is a more common tactic in the US?
pissed off patricia @ 26:
Palin Pick Puts
Many Womenpatricia on the VergeAnais @ 22:
Yes, that's certainly true. I'd love to see someone use the Bush administration's and the Palins' refusal to answer subpoenas as their own defense (amid a flurry of publicity) and be willing to go to jail until all in the government are compelled to answer subpoenas.
Alexdem @ 42:
1% of the population is in jail, people sue over their coffee being hot (yes, I wrote that correctly), and the US legal system is backed up from those two factors merged together.
The Cheney-Palins. Secrecy, corruption and political retributions.
Ruthless People @ 46:
....oh, and I forgot to mention lies.
America does not need more trash like this in the WH
How about writing to the Alaska legislature, newspapers, and dept. of tourism, saying that we are concerned about visiting Alaska ..if it's lawless?
Alaska is a beautiful place to visit, seriously, but I've learned a lot about it's inner workings, including high rates of incest, rape, alcoholism, corruption, abuse of power,greed, and who knows what else!
This can't be great for the image of the state. Can it?
Alexdem @ 27:
Absolutely I agree. issuing a subpoena only to have it ignore, makes a mockery of the whole justice system. Unless it is JUST_US.
Left&Left @ 36:
Meant no offense L&L.
I only meant that Pelosi and Reid set the bar when they refused to enforce the law against Karl Rove.
Yes, the repimps are criminals. But I find it mind boggling that nobody is enforcing the law against them.
I had such high hopes for Pelosi, too. The first woman Speaker is a huge disappointment. And an accessory after the fact?
Very frustrating.
sassafra @ 31:
The investigators wanted to question him about HIS participation in the scandal, not hers.
pissed off patricia @ 20:
Interesting that Agnew's troubles began with his accepting bribes when he was the County Executive of Baltimore County, Maryland (a County Executive is sort of like a Mayor, but with more responsibility for more people!). He continued to receive payments as Governor and Vice President. The people paying him off turned on him and became government witnesses which led to his resignation.
I wonder how well versed in history Sarah and the First Dude are?
Mick Piobr @ 51:
I got ya man. We're all pissed...and tired.
Bush republicans find this comforting. It's a sign of strength. I blame it on the effects of sniffing glue .
General Pavel Rennenkampf Xocoyotzin @ 32:
I almost didn't use that old saying because of the word "pig" in it. At least I didn't add lipstick. ;)
McCain is speaking now and he's tying Obama to all the crooks and liars of this financial and mortgages scandals. To hear him tell it, Obama was just about the mafia leader of the dirtiest of dozens.
I swear McCain's campaign hires young people to attend his speeches and cheer real loud for him. You hear these youthful voices cheering like their team is winning. I've been noticing this ever since he and Palin began speaking together. I can't believe she is drawing that many younger people.
This guy is a heartbeat away from being First Dude. I could just see Jethro Todd Palin Bodine at at White House dinner passing the visiting Queen of England a pot of mustard greens and possum innards using the fancy pot passers (cue sticks) sitting at the fancy eatin table (pool table).
Just when you thought the GOP couldn't embarrass and disgrace the nation any worse than they already have they go an nominate religious nutjob versons of the Clampetts.
pissed off patricia @ 56:
Wait?
Is Obama the Doctor, now? Did he gain time travel when we weren't looking? If so...
I have a couple of requests for our time-traveling Presidential candidate...
;-P
How the Hell could a guy who's only been on the national scene for two years, the vast majority of that time running for President seriously accomplish that crap?
dennis @ 43:
You are referencing the New York Sun? Seriously?
Ruthless People @ 57:
Possums are a Southern thing. Palin's from Idaho and this nomination is probably her first visit to the Lower 48 east of the Mississippi.
I feel insulted as a Southerner about comparing Palin to our hillbillies.
At first Palin said that she would be open and cooperate with the investigation, but then the Republican campaign staff got hold of her. Some of them have worked with Bush or know the tactics of the Bush administration intimately. So, of course, the Palins are not cooperating. Checks and balances of any constitution be damned.
You mean all those traffic tickets I have gotten over the years I could have gotten out of them simply by claiming they were politically motivated?
The First Dude and his Harpy are unquestionably qualified for office.*
*meaning, you may not question them, period.
Ruthless People @ 57:
That's exactly the way I picture them too. The Alaskan Hillbillies. They will probably install a cee-ment pond on the white house grounds. We all ready have a slight problem with Ellie May.
Ruthless People @ 57:
With special guest appearance by Dubya as Sonny Drysdale!
Sangemon @ 19:
Sarah Palin is on a "mission" from God. She thinks because some right-wing wacko witch hunter in Kenya "touched" her she won the Governorship.
She "slipped" a few days ago and said, "in the Palin-McCain" administration.
Her husband is known in Alaska as "the shadow Governor". She copies him on all official business. Now he's giving the "middle finger salute" to the Alaska legislature with his refusal to respect a subpoena!!
Here's the link to her kooky religious beliefs about the "end times" and the Kenyan "witchhunter" nut:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/09/palin-linked-el.html
This woman and her husband (obviously negligent and highly ambitious "parents"..their oldest son a juvenile deliquent who was arrested numerous times and their teenage daughter a pot-smoking tramp (no offense to pot!) who got herself knocked up by a "f-ing redneck") should be sent back to the tundra where they belong. Imagine, a woman who is pregnant with a baby who would need immediate neo-natal intensive care flying for TEN hours after her water broke??!! This is the kind of idiotic thinking we need to be a heartbeat away from being COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ENTIRE U.S. MILITARY ARSENAL???!!
The secession of Alaska from the United States looks better and better to me every day.
And to think that Sarah Palin and Mr. Sarah Palin are a mere forty-something DAYS away from potentially being a heartbeat away from having the nuclear codes.
This is all reading like a VERY bad Stephen King novel. Truth is stranger than fiction, right???! RIGHT???
Abbybwood @ 66:
Precisely. Fiction must be plausible. Reality is under no such limit.
Alexdem @ 42:
legal maneuvers = $$$$$$$
pissed off patricia @ 59:
Yeah, check this comment (1 of 1000 of this type):
This is how Dennis rolls.
Abbybwood @ 66:
Used to be that anyone who wasn't mad, wasn't paying attention. Today it's, anyone who is not scared shitless is not paying attention. Just by bringing this family to the ticket McCain said FU Americans, I want to win this race way more than I give a damn about the future of our country.
I think that Palin and her personal/professional experiences have been subjected to the same superfluous attacks as Obama.
www.beyondrace.com
pissed off patricia @ 64:
Even Ellie's momma knew when to close her legs. Somebody needs to tell Sara it's a vagina, not a clown car.
Ruthless People @ 72:
I may stop laughing at that last line of your comment some day, but it won't be today.
Palin is cut from the same cloth as Bush
Neville @ 74:
Legacy-brand?
If you wonder whey we call McSame by that name, look at this investigation that had been going on long before James Dobson told McSame to choose the PTA mom as his running mate. As soon as McSame got involved that begin using the same fascist tactics of the Bush Crime Family with total disregard for the law of the land. The PTA mom is not a pig with lipstick, she is a fascist, neo-consrvative pig with lipstick.
Vote the bastards out of town. No (R) ever again.
How "rovian". Sarah and Todd learn quickly from these sleaze bags. Although I looks like they may have enough of their own sleaze running through their veins.
I hope all regular folks are taking notice. If you are ever subpoenaed by Congress or by your justice system. Refuse. Just flat out refuse. If these folks can do it why not us?
Why not? Harriet Meiers, Josh Bolton, Karl Rove and now the McPalin's are setting I believe the law folks call this a "precedent"
This is why Palin's support among women is falling fast. McCain obviously tried to court our vote by selecting a female running mate. Unfortunately, the female he chose is obviously unqualified and was chosen for her ability to be paraded around as a "trophy VP". I want the first woman VP to be a strong, intelligent person who is capable of holding the reins of power, not a wilting daisy who hides behind her male counterparts whenever the heat is on.
Because Republicans are not accountable to any law.
Laws are for little people and Democrats.
Bush has set the precedent that no law is ever to be applied to any Republican.
Neville @ 74:
What, a crazy quilt?
If Palin McCain lose the general election it will be the end of her life in public office. When she and the first pud come back to Alaska with their tail between their legs it will be the end, the knives will be out and they will the moose. Sarah start speaking in tounges and hope that you win, b/c if you dont they are going to make it the last time that you will ever hold any office bigger than the PTA where you started out.
So much for the Republican Party - you know, the ones who believe in the rule-of-law and whatnot.
Let me guess, executive privilege. Right?
(Yeah,yeah I know.That's why I said this)
Repukes are not part of America and our laws do not apply to them. Let you or me try something like this, they do all the time lately, and we would be picked up and locked up for a long time. Anybody else getting tired of hearing how the repukes disregard the laws of the land for their own gains? From the Office of the President to a Snowplow operator repukes don't care about the law and justice.
Disgusting low life maggots is what they are.
I think we ought to quit calling Mr. Palin First Dude and tag him First Dud.
The Hubris of the species is remarkable. People now know that if they elect the Palin/McSame ticket - they will be getting EXACTLY the same brand of trash in the White House, that is leaving the White House.
Repuglics -- the party of immature, rapacious, despotic, doughy white, cowardly, angry, bigots, racists, perverts, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes, misogynists, stupid women and consummate chronic liars.
*
chuck @ 82:
Yeah, and personal responsibility. Until their bone-headed mistakes run their little corporation aground; then socialism is okay.
dennis @ 43:
That's funny, I saw a poll this morning say women were swinging towards the Obama/Biden ticket by 54-32. OOppsss.
The First Dude may have bought the moment, and hopes that it will all go away, but the Dems can't let Troopergate go away because it's what now is the symbol of Palinberry.
1e47Kansaskowboy @ 85:
I'd settle for calling him Mr Sarah. Hopefully, a year from now we will have forgotten about him and he will be known in Alaska as the guy you hear when you pull into the McDonald's drive-thru.
Mick Piobr @ 51:
The US Congress in passing FISA in June covered up, ie aided and abetted the commission of multiple felonies.
The violation of the previous FISA was a felony, it was violated multiple times. BY THE MILLIONS.
Those Members who had been briefed on Bush's surveillance program were/are principals.
Add to these Conspiracy 18 USC §371 and Obstruction of Justice §1510 et al.
This is not l'il ol' me, this Jonathan Turley and others qualified to make such an assessment.
May those who voted FOR FISA in June rot in hell.
Then we have TORTURE and MURDER. The list of Bush's crimes is a long one and this Congress is complicit.
OK, back to the FIRST DUDE!
Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 68:
Very true.. that's one thing I guess you should hold in mind in particular when you compare the civil law system of America to other ones..
See.. in other countries, they only use that stuff for settling disputes.
He's getting away on his snow machine!
he looks like a typical redneck to me who thinks every tree hugging, liberal and foreigner is out to get him and his job.... he should be dragged through mud and mccain and his goons and goonette should be taught the first lesson of change they keep harping about.
Has "First Prick" been suggested yet? If not I would like to offer it up for consideration.
pissed off patricia @ 95:
How do you know he was first?
Having lived in a land found in SouthEast Asia where the politicians and political parties they front often pull stunts such as what the RePugnants are now performing for Todd and Sarah Palin it just gets richer and deeper folks. Expect it.
The now ex-leader of this SE Asia land who in recent years just pushed the envelope too far even for that countrys low standards of money politics and clan,party and payola cronyism is now in England because he is not a "crook". His ex-political party which ran afoul of the known laxity of law as is renamed itself,bought another election(the money politics) and now still confers with the guy now in England ( he ran away due to court of law verdicts he did not win)on how crooked or murky it should run the land.Over which crooks get how much and how to divide the political spoils. It all gets quite brazen.
The Bush/Cheney WH displays so much of this kind of rule of law scofflaw and scorn. Over and over. They get in trouble at the DOJ,ground zero for rule of law with one dud of a AG they simply go out and put in another. Simple as that.
Todd and Sarah are good RePugnants to be sure. Rule of law? They are Christians!! How dare anyone question Who's Law they follow?
A sample of things to come should these two swells get into the WH with Gramps McCain doddering around on Cindys elbow.
Tweaker.
mudshark @ 88:
Turn on CNBC, mudshark, because I don't think you're going to get a lot of economic posts on the liberal blogs today. Their celebration may be over for the time being. Crisis averted, women relieved about their portfolios typically come back to the home team. We'll see.
Tin foil hat on...
Since when is the VP spouse "first" anything?
She called it the Palin/McCain administration.
Republicans don't really want McCain.
McCain didn't want Palin but was pushed into picking her.
What has "someone" promised her?
McCain, asshole that he is, wouldn't be the puppet W is, but if he dies?
Am I missing something?
Tin foil hat off.
Someone needs to keep hammering on this subpoena thing and compare it to all that
doublespeaktalk about reforming government.lj @ 96:
He would be the first one married to a veep if, god help us all, McCain should win.
I'm curious to know why this ass clown is so against testifying now when in the beginning of Troopergate he was all for cooperating. Hmmm, my gut feeling tells me McPalin is guilty as hell.
Well, we've already had "The First Dick."
Janet @ 100:
She began calling him that when she became the governor of Alaska.
Trittydi @ 86:
Misery loves company.
lj @ 96:
LOL, a British gossip rag, the Mail, claims Palin had an affair with her husband's business partner. Enjoy, even if it's only gossip!
Why do Republicant's even pretend to recognize our form of government?
They break all the laws and ignore any form of oversight.
This is a good look at how the Palin / McCain White House Will behave If elected!
Does it Look Familiar?
pissed off patricia @ 26:
the pig in the poke turned out to be wearing lipstick, but it was still a pig!
I really do not like this "first dude" guy.
Throw him in jail then. Oh wait -- he's a Republican! Never mind ...
What, no one else will say it?
First douche.
There, I said it.
I trust that no one is falling for this "it's a partisan witch hunt" crap. That is a pile of steaming feces and you'd have to have a single digit IQ not to know that.
The investigation was begun long before the woman was even considered for the VP position. How can they turn around now and expect anyone to believe that this is all just something the dems did to "get" the ridiculous tw*t?
It could be twit.... vowel choice is up to the reader.
bateman @ 111:
Seconded.
McCain and Palin..."Message of Change": Take the Bush, Cheney, Rove tactical manuevers regarding governmental subpoena's to every state in the nation. This time ignoring, walking over, and trampling state constitutions too. YEP, thats the Christian Right Republican Party controlling ALL governments.
I'm a disappointed Republican with strong connections on all its GOP levels. THIS NATION HAD BETTER WAKE UP or IT"S OVER FOR OUR CHILDREN. We HAVE to elect Senator Obama and dismantel the Christian Right...take their thunder before OUR nation becomes a Theocracy of a FEW's narrow religious doctrines. Dobson and his followers DEMANDED Palin be added to the ticket: HE and his buds vettting Palin in St Paul during the Democrat convention. McCain DID NOT have a choice or they threatened to influence THEIR followers (the votes who keep the GOP in control) to STAY HOME IN NOVEMBER. Their veting was on theology...not substantive economic issues. Thus, all the skeltons in Alaska! McCain wanted Lieberman or Pawlenty. McCain was not given a choice and his MAVERICK BRAND has been replaced by the Bush/Chrisitan Right plan agenda.
This is SERIOUS: WE HAVE NO CHOICE. If the GOP is elected, Dobson and his followers will move to DC and become Sarah's Palin's spiritual advisors. She is already calling the ballot, "Palin & McCain". Get Palin in as VP and that group will unleash data on McCain and force him out of office. THEY are using him and USING her to advance their abortion and gay hate mongering agenda...and the GOP is dead with out their votes..and they know it!
IT'S OUR CHILDRENS FUTERS ON THE LINE WITH THESE RELIGIOUS FANATICS who have already taken over our party. The nation is NEXT.
One of my freinds ownes a Mercedez dealership and told me weeks ago that even Mercedes Benz and BWM are headed for trouble too. The only two automakers in the U.S. not effected by the economic downturn. He called me while I was writing this comment and told me, "Mercedez Benz just announced, from its Alabama headquaters: 'It's Vance, Alabama plant (only U.S Plant) is reducing it's 4,000 employees to 32 hour work weeks....and possible lay offs." This is in the middle of a ON-GOING construcion project to DOULBE ITS SIZE in Vance, Alabama. That is expected to be abandoned or at least curtailed. Speaks MEGA LOUD TO ME: the financial issues are not over and are far reaching. It hit my pocket book last year...and that PISSED ME OFF BIG TIME.
The difference between me and the Religious Right? I put my family over party and they put party before family because they see the GOP as "GOD ORDAINED" and to go against it would be blashpmey!
Todd Palin is another example of GOP hypocrisy and a political Party (controlled by CHRISTIANS) who tramble the very fundemeantal principals of our founding republics democracy. Thumb their noses at the constitution (national and state) and smile with their bibles in their hands while lying at McCain Palin rallies and demonizing democrats and ANY one who does not adhere to their beliefs, doctrins, or questions their practices.
WE HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM IN THIS NATION....the CHRISTIAN CONTROLLED GOP. If we do not take the GOP down and take that groups thunder....they will take over our government. I been a Catholic way too long to become a shouting Baptist or unknown tounge talking evangelical.
shootthatarrow @ 97:
Of course this type of behavior is not uniquely American. We, as Americans, unfortunately, are too self-absorbed to look to the rest of the world for results of what our poor decisions will bring.
I call this administration the shitpile, with each individual member a piece of the shit pile, or pieces of shit. palin, her husband and the republicans who support her in Alaska have not waited to become the pieces of shit necessary to be the future republican administration, are already eminently qualified. McCain, at one point I might have voted for you, until you thrust this ignorant toady on us.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 4:
don't forget he's also a pilot and named his daughter Piper after his airplane.
We already have people in Washington who won't testify. What do we need these assholes for?
But he and Sarah have nothing to hide. I promise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgkiEiRjBfg
anney @ 106:
pissed off patricia @ 101:
Sad but true.
Anney @ 106 was what I was trying to say though. Oh well it's life in Palinberry I guess.
anney @ 106:
He--the alleged adulterer--suddenly sealed the records of his messy divorce.
Wunner why?
General Pavel Rennenkampf Xocoyotzin @ 60:
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Possums are supposed to taste like chicken. Palin's dude is acting like a chicken. All this talk about pigs and lipstick is subterfuge. You can't put lipstick on a chicken because they have no lips, ergo Palin's dude has no lips; so no lipstick. What we're left with is what we see. Purdy ain't it? And instead of us ignorant Southerners having sex with farm animals the farm animals seems to be f#@king us!
111 bateman Says: What, no one else will say it?
First douche.
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sarah uses him to clean her whazzoo?
Swaggs @ 102:
And the one kid, now in Iraq, "volunteered" to go fight for his country...
And Levi "volunteered" to marry the preggo daughter 'cause he's a family guy...
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Buying off hearts and minds...
Maybe he would agree to an off-the-record interview out by the cement pond. For his time, he will then be taken to Mount Pilot for a picture show.
1)Investigation delayed.
2)McCain wins 2008 presidential election.
3)Investigation proceeds in early 2009.
4)Palin found guilty of abusing power, among other things.
5)Palin asked to resign.
6)Palin resigns.
7)...................appointed Vice President.
8)Locke family moves and I seek employment in Canada while living with in-laws. Actually, this would probably be #3 in the above scenario.
9)While looking for employment, I form Rush tribute band on the side.
10)Have to cease looking for job because it takes so much time to learn Rush songs.
Hey, maybe that ain't so bad...
this can certainly open up a new ad campaign for obama: what are they hiding? is this their idea of reform? is this their idea of how to wipe out corruption? isn't this more of the same "above the law" politics of the past 8 years? run a montage of all the bushies that have been subpoened and refused to testify... etc. etc. etc.
That is a pile of steaming feces and you’d have to have a single digit IQ not to know that.
Or be a Xian/retard/Puke, which amounts to the same thing...
ysbaddaden @ 123:
Freshly scrubbed, next to Godliness and all.
First of all "he" Todd didn't decide anything. The McCain campaign is controlling this whole thing. They agreed to testify previously now suddenly since McCain's lawyers showed up the game changed. Mister "I don't like ties" first dude Todd is just a pawn along for the ride. Palin is positioning herself to look just like the Bush administration who thumbed their noses at any investigation of abuse of power. This needs to be highlighted and an Obama attack ad would good for this to be tied to "Bush like" behavior. The first line of the ad should be, "What are they trying to hide?"
You know Todd lays in bed at night and says to himself, Hot damn, this is going to be so much danged fun. As he thinks about shooting squirrels on the white house lawn. Maybe he and Huckabee can get together and fry up some squirrels in a popcorn popper.
"Ellie May Clampett" is actually a sentence. Ouchie!
dennis @ 99:
Dennis you might try changing channels. That isn't what were hearing in my part of the country (at 10am). Oh, yes! Yesterday, Senator Obama was endorse by the FIVE (5) of the nations largest FEMALE ORGANIZATIONS...2 of which have not endorsed a presidential canditate since 1984. They all had a common comment " PALIN DOES NOT REPRESENT THE VALUES, GOALS OR OPINIONS OF AMERICAN WOMEN AND TO ENDORSE HER WOULD BE TO SET WOMEN'S RIGHTS BACK 50 YEARS"
kablooie @ 131:
Took me a minute, but I got it and did laugh :)
DeBartolo @ 132:
Coincidentally neither does Denis.
pissed off patricia @ 130:
lol, you rule patricia
Actually for now I'd say the polls are inconclusive. I've seen some saying the the palin pick has electrified female voters, and others that say her pick and the pick of Biden will have no effect on how they vote.
The polls are either inconclusive or more likely that REPUBIC women are electrified, not women in general. As for the Independents that's harder to measure so long as polls are dependent on landlines.
I wonder how people can get away with this. Is our judicial system so incredibly weak that there is no recourse.
Oh, and here's an observation:
The investigation wasn't even vaguely "partisan" until McCain dispatched his herd of lawyers to make it so.
While I respect many Republicans, I have to say that their candidates for positions #1 and #2 are lowlifes.
How incredibly insulting to the American people.
BTW: I just noticed I left out two -- count 'em, two -- question marks.
It's too early . . .
Not only would Palin set women's rights back 50 years, she would also set back the rights of indigenous peoples like the Gwi'chin people of Alaska, who depend upon migration of caribou for their traditions, and are imperiled by any drilling in ANWAR reserve.
Palin would also set back animal rights by at least a century. (Pamela Anderson is more qualified for VP, IMHO.)
131 kablooie Says: “Ellie May Clampett” is actually a sentence. Ouchie!
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Well she is an old maid all of 14.
We'd be facing some kind of sentence to do her.
pissed off patricia @ 130:
On the down side can you imagine him on Dupont Circle in his snow machine?
139 kablooie Says: Not only would Palin set women’s rights back 50 years, she would also set back the rights of indigenous peoples like the Gwi’chin people of Alaska, who depend upon migration of caribou for their traditions, and are imperiled by any drilling in ANWAR reserve.
Palin would also set back animal rights by at least a century. (Pamela Anderson is more qualified for VP, IMHO.)
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How about her?:
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z54/mastersagi/SexyTeacher.jpg
dennis @ 99:
Oh Denny Boy, the polls, the polls, are calling.
Crisis averted? Is that what you call bailing out the greedy SOBs that your candidate supported in so many ways? Enjoy paying off your new acquisitions! That is, when you get out of the basement, your bath robe and get a job. You're really starting to smell a little, too. Ask your mom.
This sure looks like more of the same to me.
On another point, what is with this "First Dude" crap. Even if by some awful twist of fate McCain/Palin were to win and be sworn in, he would not be the "first dude" unless she was the President. So he should be called "second dude" (I'd prefer to call him an inmate for not bothering to answer a subpoena, but hey, that's just me).
woody, tokin librul @ 121:
It looks like Brad Hanson was unsuccessful at his attempt to get his divorce records sealed -- the judge denied his request. And apparently before she was tapped by McCain, there were rumors about Sarah Palin's "romantic" involvement with Hanson and husband, Todd"s, reaction to it. Keep in mind that the story about the affair was first published by the National Enquirer, a sensationalist gossip rag, but they were certainly right about Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy and John Edwards' affair.
Waddya bet toddy's the father of bristol's baby?
friggin white trash
144 FastMovingCloud
It's probably a reference to his being the husband of Alaska's head goober.
Now we'll see if the Alaska Legislature is as wimpy as Congress. Do they still have the grit of their pioneer ancestors or have they become as malleable as the politicians from the Outside? A while back the Speaker of the Alaskan House advocated ramming an State of Alaska Ferry through a blockade of small boats at a Canadian port; surely they won't back down to this mamby-pampy charade being put on by Outside lawyers!
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