Friday, October 10, 2008
Mavericky Mavericks Indeed!
Looks like that Palin report has come out. Doesn't look good for Sarah. I think the ruling is a bit complex, but Branchflower finds that she abused her authority, apparently in pressuring Commissioner Monegan to get rid of trooper Wooten. I think he found that the firing of Monegan himself was within her authority, though he found her motivation there somewhat below board. So she violated an Alaska Ethics statute. I'd guess that could result in censure -- really embarrassing stuff, and, well, so much for the "I'm a maverick doodle dandy" line. Oh, they'll keep using it, but nobody's going to buy it anymore.... Sarah looks more like Cheney or Agnew with each passing day. It will be interesting to see how this will play out with McCain, who must be ready to blow his stack just about now.
If I were Sarah Palin, I’d stay away from Chinese restaurants for awhile. In violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act, she has led a wonton life and is now lo mein on the totem pole. Cogito ergo dim sum.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed, dim est Sarah. When I think of her, that old Robert Duvall film "Tomorrow" comes to mind, in which Duvall plays a simple country man who meets a simple country woman, and keeps drawling, "Marry me, Say-ruh. Ah want yew to marry me." (Or "stay with me," I forget which.) Except that the Say-ruh in the film was a sympathetic character, abandoned by her husband in a time of need....
ReplyDeleteMcCain was censured by the Senate Ethics committee and it seems to have done him far less harm than the things Obama didn't have anything ot do with.
ReplyDeleteMcCain spells censure EXONERATE