BRILLIANT! The man is BRILLIANT! (Govs. meeting)

[Clio the Leo]

Ok, so the official meme of the MSM regarding this governor's meeting is "Palin asks for money from the very man she accused of spreading the wealth around!"

HA HAAAAAA!!!!

This meeting was BARACK'S idea!!!! She just showed up like she was asked! ha haaaaa!!!

So he kills SO many birds with one stone ..... he offers a helping hand ... er, I mean ... "ear" to the governors, he (again!) shows how he plans to work to rebuild the economy .... he EXPRESSLY tells Republicans that he not only wants to work with them but wants them to VOLUNTEER good ideas to him.

AND ..... he makes THAT WOMAN look like a hypocrite!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!

CAN I VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN RIGHT NOW!!!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!!

And on a side note, when asked at the press briefing afterward what it was like to "have a partnership with people she had unflattering things to say about (during the campaing"

she said, "Oh, that was mutual, those unflattering comments."

PLEASE!!! Sarah! Barack said your name TWICE during the whole campaign ... 1. when you were announced 2. and WHEN YOU LOST!!!

Hush! Get back on your snow machine and head home.

[ellacott]

1. It would be grea if you can team up with Keith Olbermann

I love your wit. :)

I didn't know this was his idea. I liked when Biden reminded them that helping the states will increase the deficit.

[Clio the Leo]

4. TY ... but only if I can do the show while seated on his lap ...

.... prrrrrr!

[rurallib]

2. I thought Alaska had so much oil money they coudn't spend it all

Didn't she authorize a $10,000 per citizen rebate in Alaska this year? And she asks for money?

[Clio the Leo]

5. lol, see! How well it's working!....

... she's NOT asking for money! She's just doing what she's told! "Fly to Philly and SIT DOWN and dont speak until you're asked which you WONT be!" lol

[Blue_In_AK]

19. It wasn't $10,000, it was $1200 added onto our

usual Permanent Fund dividend. Actually, with oil prices dropping like they are, she's going to have some serious budget shortfalls to deal with in her new budget which is due this month. I'm really curious to see what she comes up with. She had the luxury of making governing look easy when we were rolling in money, but I think she's going to have a harder time now.

[rvablue]

22. Maybe she could consign some of those designer fashions the RNC paid for...

after all a quarter of a mill isn't chump change and she might be able to fund the teen mom school programs with it or something.....

:rofl:

[LiberalFighter]

24. I would love for her to try and tell her constituents to return the money.

[BronxBoy]

27. Wait a minute.....

She has a budget due this month and the price of oil has dropped dramatically and she has spent more time campaigning????????

How's that going over in your state? Is she a hands off type of manager and has capable subordinates?

From everything I've read about her, she never has really had to govern or otherwise deal with adversity.

This will be interesting

[Blue_In_AK]

33. Her spokestoadie says she's been working on it,

but some of us are quite worried. I'm most anxious to see how things go in January when the legislature reconvenes. Some of her strongest former allies are Democrats that she dissed during the campaign season. Some of them have insinuated that they're ready to "move on" and forget about all of that, but I think the populace is too aware of her ethical lapses now to let her get away with much.

You're right, it should be interesting.

[rvablue]

21. I think it was $1,200, but it was still a lot given the shortfalls they are now

facing and it is also the single reason that she had that artificially high approval rating that the media loved to bandy about during the campaign.

I hope Obama doesn't give her too much of a helping hand. He wouldn't want to make her a hypocrite, after all, :saracasm:

and I'm going to love watching those approval ratings sink like a stone.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. They already are.

I haven't seen any polling done since the election, but even between August 29 and November 4, her approval ratings had dropped about 15 percent here. The sense I'm getting is that they've dropped even further since the election. Alaska has big problems and she's not been tending to them -- even when she's been here in the state, it's been all about the photo ops and interviews. Her budget is due within the next week or so -- I'm curious to see what she'll come up with. With oil at $45 a barrel or whatever it is now, compared to the $140 just a few months ago, we're going to have a big shortfall.

[SharonAnn]

36. They are a 'client state" supported by the lower 48 (and some oil royalties)

No kidding. They couldn't make it without all the tax money from the Lower 48 that is sent to prop them up.

The oil royalties add to that but couldn't begin to support the state without the money from the taxpayers in the Lower 48.

So, for all that they lke to say that they're 'independent and self-reliant", they're not either.

Just pretty standard, run-of-the-mill Republicans.

[Dragonfli]

3. Wouldn't climbing on the business end of a snow machine

Cause permanent damage to her "female parts"?


snow machine (it makes snow, hence the name)

She must have an appetite for things much larger than todd's machine.

[ellacott]

6. Oh my

I just had a visual of her doing this. :rofl:

[Dragonfli]

8. Sorry for the visual - I just couldn't help myself - too obvious /nt

[hootinholler]

35. It came out Frost Queen for me

:shrug:

-Hoot

[Clio the Leo]

7. ah good point. NT

[DevonRex]

9. And can we please go back to using the word snowmobile? I don't

care what that idiot Palin calls it. It's a snowmobile.

[Clio the Leo]

12. works for me! So it is written, so it shall be done! NT

[TwilightGardener]

13. Yes. I absolutely refuse to call a snowmobile a "snow machine".

[Blue_In_AK]

20. They've been called snowmachines up here forever.

That's not Sarah's doing, and it's not going to change. You guys can call them whatever you want to, but if you come to Alaska and call it a snowmobile, we'll know you're from Outside.

[ITsec]

23. When I was a broadcast engineer in Montana... we always called them snow machines...

and that was over 20 years ago. It was the only way to get to remote mountaintop transmitter sites in the winter.

[ellacott]

26. It reminds me of Rachel Maddow When she Talks About the TV Machine

:)

[MarkInCA]

10. Ouch, the thought hurts n/t

[Kahuna]

11. What a nasty, hideous piece of work she is...

:puke:

[ecstatic]

14. She still isn't over the election! I heard a clip on MSNBC

of her pumping up governors and complaining about how the voters made a different choice, hence VP Elect Biden. She's so irritating! GO AWAY ASS!

[CakeGrrl]

15. He keeps playing chess. Gotta love it. n/t

[agentS]

39. ...while the GOP play checkers and Palin plays Russian Roulette

With an AK

[Terran]

16. Does Alaska still send oil money checks to its population?

Because if it does, and she's at this meeting looking for a handout for the state, then with all due respect, Alaskans should seriously rethink their priorities.

[snowbear]

37. Yep... this year's checks were $3,269 per resident...

$2,069.00 for the oil profits refund, plus $1,200.00 for a resource rebate..

27 straight years of:

[Jennicut]

17. Obama and Biden should tell her "thanks but no thanks"

After all she is so darn mavericky and there is no much up there in Alaska with all those natural resources she should be able to handle it all on her own.

[nc4bo]

18. What a stupid thing for her to say. She really made herself look dum-dum-dum-dum. nt

[atimetocome]

29. both sides hit each other hard. It was the nature of the campaign

[nc4bo]

31. And when did Obama ever accuse Her Most High of palling around with terrorists?

When did our side ever accuse non-Dems of not being real Americans..commies and such.

I must have missed it.

[Cha]

32. "Both sides" didn't lie like a

motherfucker..only palin and mccain.

Oh, and palin's a dumbshit.

[CitizenPatriot]

34. boy if that isn't some rescue package for the campaign of the GOP

I don't know what is. I'm so tired of hearing this argument.

It's the equivalent of saying "both sides are to blame" -- the lazy parent or the lazy populace or the pundits with an agenda.

No one with a brain has watched this campaign and come away thinking both sides were equally complicit. You can go to factcheck.org or snopes or read a conservative writer who cringed with horror and embarrassment over the mccain palin campaign of hate and bigotry. Or you can check with the secret service.

Both sides are equally wrong is the meme of someone who listens to RW talk shows or simply didn't pay any attention. This was the most horrific campaign by the GOP in terms of McCarthyism, racism, and LIES. A truly monumental embarrassment that cost them the election.

[Laurab]

38. That's just bullshit.

It was almost completely one-sided, and Sarah Palin was the worst - she single-handedly tried to destroy the dem candidates with lies and insinuations, and also created a mob mentality. It was the nature of the REPUKE campaign, but not at all the nature of the Obama/Biden campaign. They never treated us like idiots, making false accusations like that, and I surely wouldn't have respected them if they had.

Sarah Palin is a joke, and I wish she'd just go away. I thank her though, for being the reason my ex-mother-in-law, who is both a republican and prejudiced, voted for OBAMA.

[political_Dem]

28. The beautiful thing is that Obama and Biden let Sarah talk

until she put the rope around her own neck.

[Cha]

30. That shit for brains doesn't know how to

stop lying. Does she lie to her husband and her kids like that too?

[zulchzulu]

40. Palin 2012 = 50 state Obama landslide... so where can I write a check?

Anyone who thinks Palin is the "future" of the Republican party is either clueless or absolutely correct... as David Brooks calls her "a cancer on the Republican Party", I only wish the Republican evangelical wing of the party finally takes them down to a permanent 12% of Red State buffoonery.

[Leo The Cleo]

41. Who is Sarh Palin?

Funny how folks want hand outs after they lie about not wanting handouts. You know what I always say. "Thanks but no thanks . . . to Alaskans."

[sohndrsmith]

42. Personally, I could care less about the effect Obama's meeting has on

Palin. Although I end up looking anyway... she's like a bad accident.

The man is brilliant, but not if he called this meeting in order to make Palin look like a hypocrite. She's far too good at doing that all by herself. That would not be brilliant.

But the move * was * and is - brilliant, in my opinion. It just has nothing to do with Palin.

No incoming President (or even sitting President, but I'd be more comfortable double checking on this) has ever called a meeting of every Governor as Obama has. He not only made a formal invitation of the states to be part of the solution - tangibly - but he is also telling them they're accountable for their actions and for speaking up when it's necessary to do so, for the good of their state. He called on them to share their ideas and policies that work, and for being responsible for being on the ball when things go wrong.

I read complaints of annoyance that we are not part of the process as much as we thought we would be, but Obama can't attend to each of our individual voices and concerns on a personal basis. However, holding this meeting is a clear sign in that direction, because of the message of inclusion and accountability of those who represent us. That, to me, is a huge deal and I sense this is only the beginning. It's a signal that we should take heart. Obama is letting us know that we are part of the process... it's just that the process is HUGE and he hasn't even started, yet still, he's shown us a glimpse of a true "We, The People", finally... that's how I see it anyway...

This. Man. Is. Brilliant.

[Vinca]

43. That was my impression, too. The idea that he is the first POTUS-elect

to meet with the governors speaks volumes. It's telling everyone that he is not going to be confined to "the bubble."