This woman really is not honest.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LojJ9b43ZGg[/youtube]
We already know that the Bridge to Nowhere story is just not true. She was for it whle campaigning for Governor before she was against it — after the world ridiculed it (including McCain, BTW), the earmark was stripped and it was no longer politically useful to her to be for it. She (and the state of Alaska) kept the money, though and spent it on other road projects, so you’d think that if they wanted that Bridge, they would have built it with the money Congress let the state keep in its Transportation Fund. If you are refusing an earmark, you should be refusing the money, too, right?
Obama has not asked for any earmarks this year, while Palin’s government has asked for $197 million for 31 projects. That is down from previous years — last year she asked for $254 million (and this does not count any of the earmarks asked for directly by Alaska communities or organizations, which she has no veto power over), a 22% reduction. But this still leaves Alaska at the top of the earmark heap, per person (approaching $300/person) vs. Illinois (who got $25 in earmarks per person).
Reformer? Please. How are you an earmark reformer when you continue to ask for them?
McCain had been ridiculing some of the science-oriented earmarks, like:
“We’re not going to spend $3 million of your tax dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana,” McCain has said during this year’s campaign, referring to a study he’s mocked for years of whether grizzlies need to keep their status as an endangered species.
But Palin:
has requested $3.2 million to be spent in part researching the “genetics of harbor seals,” in one of the state’s many requests for federal funding of research into Alaska’s fauna.
(Can somebody explain to me why a creationist cares about DNA?)
(Bonus — here is Palin’s Special Council reassuring Alaskans that their gravy train is still intact.)
BushCo tried to make the case in 2000 that Al Gore had trouble with the truth and here we have the folks with the dishonesty issues repeating the same shit over and over in an effort to just make it into some kind of reality.
Haven’t done this before, my friends?