Caught..."And She Knows It" - Palin's earmarks: Not just for the halibut

[kpete]

""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.

Palin, meanwhile, 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."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014655.php

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Everything Sarah Palin is saying is untrue and she knows it.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/politico-palins-liar.html

Palin wrote an op-ed in a local newspaper
outlining her not-so-reticent posture on earmarks:

“My role at the federal level is simply to submit
the most well-conceived earmark requests we can,”
she wrote....

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=4E2E5BFD-18FE-70B2-A815903CFF648F68
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Palin's earmarks: Not just for the halibut
By: Ben Smith
September 10, 2008 07:47 PM EST

Senator John McCain recently told reporters that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has “learned that earmarks are bad.”

But not that bad, apparently. According to a “summary of requests for federal appropriations” http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/FFY09%20Summary%20of%20Fed%20Request.pdf posted to her budget office’s website earlier this year,pb< Palin requested millions of federal dollars for everything from improving recreational halibut fishing to studying the mating habits of crabs and the DNA of harbor seals.[/b>

It’s a position at odds with her recasting as an anti-earmarking champion, and with the tone of the biting scorn she’s employed toward the budgetary practice this week.

more at:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=4E2E5BFD-18FE-70B2-A815903CFF648F68

[BronxBoy]

1. So when...

do we call them liars????

[Tigress DEM]

4. I concur

[justiceischeap]

2. This would make a LOVELY 527 ad. (eom)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Nail...Coffin

This is the smoking gun we've been looking for.

She hasn't "learned" a fucking thing -- mostly because I don't believe she's capable of it -- what she's doing is lying to as many people as possible and hoping that a majority of them are stupid enough to believe her.

[Tigress DEM]

5. CNN is calling Palin on her record of pork.

Went to commercial.

READ THE WHOLE PLAN, but it doesn't seem to be on the website.

[senseandsensibility]

6. I'm sure Gibson will get right on this

:sarcasm:

[BeyondGeography]

7. The sick part is it won't matter one bit to her fan base

Hopefully, it's a big issue at the debate and it seals the deal for a lot of folks who are leaning our way right now.

[RedLetterRev]

8. I still think the more times the word Palin and

"LIAR" are closely associated, the better. Certainly, everyone on this side of the aisle has caught on to the fact that every time she draws a breath a lie is on the way. Now, just beat that drum. There's plenty of footage she's let get committed to tape, intertoobs, archives, etc. It's got a life of its own and she can't call it back now.

Put it to good use. Time's a-wastin'.

[grannylib]

9. Palin = Pork Princess. Palin = Pinnocchio. Palin = Earmark Queen.

Palin = LIAR.

[Pachamama]

10. I've started referring to her as "Pork Barrel Palin"

:hi: