Palin Defends Her Initial Support For Bridge To Nowhere
This looks bad!
HP-CHARLES GIBSON: But you turned against it after Congress had basically pulled the plug on it; after it became apparent that the state was going to have to pay for it, not the Congress; and after it became a national embarrassment to the state of Alaska. So do you want to revise and extend your remarks.
SARAH PALIN: It has always been an embarrassment that abuse of the ear form — earmark process has been accepted in Congress. And that’s what John McCain has fought. And that’s what I joined him in fighting. It’s been an embarrassment, not just Alaska’s projects. But McCain gives example after example after example. I mean, every state has their embarrassment.
CHARLES GIBSON: But you were for it before you were against it. You were solidly for it for quite some period of time…
SARAH PALIN: I was…
CHARLES GIBSON: … until Congress pulled the plug.
SARAH PALIN: I was for infrastructure being built in the state. And it’s not inappropriate for a mayor or for a governor to request and to work with their Congress and their congressmen, their congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget along with every other state a share of the federal budget for infrastructure.
CHARLES GIBSON: Right.
SARAH PALIN: What I supported was the link between a community and its airport. And we have found that link now.
Sarah Palin Supported Bridge to Nowhere
Everyone wants a cookie.
Then they get caught with their hand in the jar and…
“I was just closing the lid…”
Captain
Why is Palin so popular in Alaska?
FYI
POLITICO-It’s earmark abuse that is the problem, suggests Palin
ABC has released excerpts from the third and final session between Charlie Gibson and Sarah Palin.
She seems to argue, in defending her gubernatorial earmark requests, that it’s not so much pork coming back to the states that is problematic as it is the means by which it’s obtained.
This is reminiscent of McCain’s posture earlier in the year when, while crusading against excessive spending, his campaign stops took him to venues that were funded in part by congressional earmarks.
Palin told Gibson that she “drastically reduced our earmark request since I came into office,” but when pushed on her states request for $3.2 billion for researching the genetics of harbor seals and the mating habits of crabs, the governor became defensive.
She said funding those projects were requested publicly and not hidden in legislation.
“Those requests, through our research divisions and fish and game and our wildlife departments and our universities, those research requests did come through that system, but wanting it to be in the light of day, not behind closed doors, with lobbyists making deals with Congress to stick things in there under the public radar.That’s the abuse that we’re going to stop. That’s what John McCain has promised over and over for these years and that’s what I’m joining him, also, saying, you’re right, the abuse of earmarks, it’s un-American, it’s undemocratic, and it’s not going to be accepted in a McCain-Palin administration. Earmark abuse will stop,” she said.
I can only tell you why I THINK she’s popular.
The same reason that Pamela Anderson is popular (hint: it ain’t her PETA involvement).
And when you’re following up a scumbag like Murkowski, just about anything looks good.
Alaska is also a state with a lot of stupid fundamentalists. No offense intended towards my fellow Alaskans. Sometimes the truth just hurts.
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I thought of another reason why I think she’s so popular.
$100+ barrel/oil
Funny how politicians get credit for the good times.
Our coffers are overflowing with revenues. No one is having to make tough choices down in the capitol right now.
CM
The pocket book always has a big impact.