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AMERICAblog: GOP lawmakers sue to stop ethics investigation of Palin

  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    McCain’s little talking head Nancy Pfotenhauer is working my last nerve. She spouts nonstop bullshit on every show on CNN and MSNBC, and check this out:

    On August 4, 2008, on Newshour, Ms Pfotenhaur stated her belief in the the safety of offshore oil drilling. "And we had evidence, because we had survived some really fairly horrific storms, with Katrina and Rita, and seen that the technology was pretty remarkable and that there were no significant spills during that period of time.”
    However, a Houston Chronicle review of the hundreds of spills reported after the two hurricanes concluded, "The quantity and cumulative magnitude of the 595 spills, which were spread across four states and struck offshore and inland, rank these two hurricanes among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history." The reported spills were from "oil and chemicals stored at massive industrial facilities, in pipelines and on platforms."

    She’s for privatizing social security, she denies there is global warming, she calls herself an economist even though she’s never worked as one, and she is McCain’s top policy advisor.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    Think, what we would be going through if the fatcats had managed to privatize Social Security.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Oh man...that woman drove me nuts yesterday on Hardball......does she ever shut up
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I was cheering on Matthews, he was going for the throat and taking none of her BS. I imagine this woman cut stick a knife in you while smiling.
  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    Me too. She is the new "Coulter" for the Repubs.
  • benb · 1 year ago
    Oh yeah, Pfotenhauer is a piece of work but here's a link where you can watch Chris Matthews grind her down as she struggles to stay on her talking points:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/chris-...
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    My lord, who would have seen this coming.
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    OT -

    CNBC reporting the government will very likely lend $85 billion to AIG. This is unbelievable.
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    You hadn't heard? Everything's fixed on Wall Street now! We can all put this behind us and get back to investing and talking about Blackberrys. Nothing to see here, move along.
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    $85 billion is $283 or so per US citizen.

    W-2 employees' pay check stubs should replace "federal income tax withheld" and "social security tax withheld" with "AIG Welfare Fund".
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    I'll just take a little money out of my Reserve Primary money-market fund to cover it. Oh wait, Bloomberg just reported that Reserve Primary has suspended redemption. Looks like the start of a death spiral for that fund. Whoops. Well, if I can't get to my money I at least hope the fund managers can get their golden parachutes.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    The ever-growing risk is being consolidated int ever-growing pools of risk. This cannot turn out well. Kiss your 401k goodbye.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Imagine a guy, very deeply in debt, lending a few grand to his crack-addicted boyfriend. He'd be called an idiot, right?
  • lucky hussein · 1 year ago
    not to mention 'injecting liquidity' ie, printing money...
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    AIG: way too big to fail (116K employees).
  • ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith) · 1 year ago
    DONT BE TAKEN OFF TARGET. This is all just a big diversion. They want everyone to gang up on Palin again and turn her back into a helpless hockey mom being attacked by Obama and the media. Don't be fooled. Stay on target, attack the economy, attack on healthcare.

    I don't doubt Palins ethics is important, but as we've seen in the last 2 weeks, attacks against her have the opposite effect than expected. I still say the best plan with Palin is to ignore her like an unwanted relative coming over for a visit!
  • nsr · 1 year ago
    Nah. It's not a zero sum game; we've got plenty of voices to hit McCain in so many places he'll think he walked into a tornado. And with people like Richard Cohen turning on him over the Palin pick, this is an issue that resonates across the board, in spite of the "poor Sarah" spin being put out.

    Which won't stop if we back off, by the way. It would only convince them they were right to try it. Look how far he got with that POW stuff-- it worked so well the first few times, now they're using it to justify pretty much gaffe he makes. We should be hitting him over that, too-- he did make propaganda b'casts for North Vietnam, after all. If their strategy is to turn your opponent's strengths into weaknesses, we can at least hammer on the weaknesses he actually has-- each and every one of them.

    I want to see McCain buried under a mountain of his own crap, and this is as good as anything else we have in the arsenal. Palin was a stupid choice, and we need to rub his face in it.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    The joblessness rate went down a full percentage point today as the Treasury dept announced a massive jobs program in their money printing plants.

    As a side venture the treasury Dept announced they would also begin printing toilet paper with the same value as our currency.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    There needs to be an Alaskan driven "If you did nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide" campaign around this...

    but sadly, with all the money that is likely being thrown around up there the probe will likely die.
  • shrrrr · 1 year ago
    John,
    Seriously. Your sentences are getting too complex.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    That would be the investigation that she said she'd fully cooperate with until she then said she'd have nothing to do with them.

    Perhaps someone could diagram this for us.
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    She was for the investigation before Rove was against it.
  • Happy_Housewife · 1 year ago
    We can't be asking her questions. That would be both disrespectful AND sexist.

    Plus, she doesn't know the answer to anything we'd want to ask her, so it would just be a waste of time.
  • red_dwarf · 1 year ago
    If this religiouis fruitcake had nothing to hide it wouldn't be a big to do.

    rePIGs. Bigots and liars. Shirley above has it right. Palin spouts nothing but nonstop bullshit. Can't imagine ANYONE seeing her as anything but the insane pyschopath that she is.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Wow! That was quick even for a Republican. She isn't even elected and claiming some kind of privilege. Talk about more of the same.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    she's gonna chyange whasheengtun.

    guna shyake theengs up.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Does this mean we won't get to see First Douche Todd testifying on the stand? Dammit. That buck soldier sure can fill out a suit. Mmph.


    "Pay no attention to the dead soldiers and Iraqi civilians behind that curtain!" - The Wizard of Karl, smirking.
  • jmcon007 · 1 year ago
    "But she and the McCain campaign have taken actions that could slow the probe, possibly past Election Day."
    It doesn't take a lot of deep thinking for the electorate to understand the McCain/Palin delaying tactics. Obviously Palin has something to hide. Why would someone head into and risk losing an election as a result of this investigation-turd hanging over her head, when she could flush the thing now by being upfront, as she once said she would be?
    It all answers itself. With America going to hell in a handbasket, the neo-nuts continue their three-card monte with the kinda-interested American public. The fact that Obama/Biden are not blowing these two creepy, inartful liars out of the water makes me wonder if America really gives a shit about the truth.
    For how much longer will sane individuals continue to vote against their own interests before realizing they've been had?
  • shanobama · 1 year ago
    Inartful liars? I am beginning to think, with the 'teleprompter' story, that Palin has a personality disorder.

    One is always shocked to realize they know a pathological liar, but those people do exist and they need treatment to stop.