Some comments on Palin's op-ed today...

[babylonsister]

Ouch!

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/07/14/sarah-palin-has-an-op-ed-today.aspx

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The op-ed was clearly written by Palin herself. It has that 9th grade, five paragraph essay style along with random bits of right-wing jargon sprinkled throughout in appropriate contexts. It is best read if you imagine that some of the lines were written to be delivered with winks:

I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage. ...

There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! ...

In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.

The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics. ...

We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today.

You betcha!

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Sarah Palin Does Not Understand Cap and Trade

by Conor Clarke

If you're wondering what Sarah Palin will do after leaving the Alaska governor's office, look no further than her op-ed in the this morning's Washington Post. She writes, "at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be: I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy."

As a card-carrying member of the chattering class, let me say that I am in indeed disappointed by this development. Not because Palin is showing a greater interest in policy, or because she'll be focusing on an issue that's near and dear to my heart. I'm disappointed because Palin's op-ed displays an ignorance for the subject so profound it's almost gutsy.

more...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/sarah-palin-does-not-understand-cap-and-trade.html

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This op-ed is just bad enough to make me wonder if Palin may have written it herself http://is.gd/1ym3Mabout 6 hours ago from web
kate_sheppard

http://twitter.com/kate_sheppard/status/2631604293

[BOSSHOG]

1. She's so Mavericky

In about six months we'll get her last column. I can no longer battle the chattering classes and although I am not a guitter I am giving up this current endeavor.

I'm looking forward to my next endeavor and you can see me on Real Wives of Wassila to be produced by Bravo!!

[babylonsister]

2. Well, she did express an interest in getting involved in a

reality show. :P Who knows, perhaps that'd be where her strength is.

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

3. We in Alaska think this oped sounds too SMART

to have been written by Sarah. The snarky parts are hers, but the rest was ghost-written -- or she at least had some help.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I do believe the lady will end up as a lobbyist for the oil industry that she so

reformed as governor of Alaska. Wasn't the editorial a try out?

[BlooInBloo]

5. And white folks are concerned about affirmative action for *black* folks???

:rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Sister, you might enjoy reading this

from Phil Munger at Progressive Alaska also about this oped http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/07/saradise-lost-book-3-chapter-20-raise.html

[misanthrope]

7. Oh c'mon...

...as ineffective as it was, the op-ed was obviously light years ahead of that rambling resignation speech that we all know was textbook Palin. She did not pen that submission by herself.

[Cha]

8. There's no bigger fuckin' chatterer

than the quitter whose final insult to Alaska is a big fuck you.


by Max Blumenthal at the Daily Beast
<snip>>

"Since her sudden resignation from the Alaskan governor’s office on July 3, Sarah Palin has created a constitutional crisis that could cost state legislators hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers' money to resolve. Palin appointed Lt. Governor Sean Parnell to succeed her, and tapped Lt. Gen. Craig Campbell, the commissioner of the Alaskan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, to fill Parnell’s post. However, the state legislature had already chosen someone to succeed Parnell in case of an emergency: State Corrections Commissioner Joe Schmidt. To resolve the conflict Palin created, the legislature will almost certainly have to call a special session, an event that could require at least $200,000 to administer."

<snip snip>>

"The legislators said they would also use the special session to recover $29 million in federal stimulus grants Palin rejected in May. At the time, Gara and other lawmakers accused Palin of rejecting the money to further her national political ambitions. “I’m worried that the governor has taken this sort of national political stance, which is that she’s going to be the opposite of Barack Obama on everything,” Gara said in May. Now that Palin is on her way out, a bipartisan consensus seems to have emerged on retrieving the funding, which would enable the state to fulfill weatherization and energy-efficiency priorities."

<much more>>
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-12/palins-final-insult/

I know I've posted this a lot but this is what she's about...not her twisted hypocricy to drop God's name in an attempt to cover up the fact that she worships at the altar of greed, oligarchy, and perversion.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Her usual word salad ...

with moose vinaigrette.