By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Give Sarah Palin credit: She stung fellow Republican and Alaskan Sen. Ted Stevens on Monday after he was found guilty of lying on financial disclosure forms. Palin basically said Stevens was guilty as charged.
"The verdict shines a light on the corrupting influence of the big oil service company up there in Alaska that was allowed to control too much of our state," Palin said.
"And that control was part of the culture of corruption that I was elected to fight, and that fight must always move forward regardless of party affiliation or seniority or even past service."
The strong words, of course, helped Palin re-establish her credentials as a fighter of corruption in Alaska. Still, the development Monday is not likely to change the basic fact that most Americans don't think Palin is qualified to become vice president.
The federal jury found Stevens guilty on seven counts of lying -- mostly for not listing gifts and home renovations on financial disclosure forms.
Most gifts came from Bill Allen, former chief executive of an oilfield services company called Veco.
Palin knows Veco well, because she has spoken out against corruption in the Alaskan oil industry.
Stevens, who's represented Alaska for 40 years, is fighting to keep his job in the Senate. That job just got a lot harder on Monday, thanks to the jury's verdict and Palin's stinging words.
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Are you insinuating the GOP are loose?
Perhaps you meant to say "losers" not loosers.
RE "VOTE STREIGHT REPUBLICAN"
D_RATS writes:
"THE BEST OF TWO LOOSERS. GOP STILL HAS MORE HONEST AMERICANS CONTAINED IN IT'S GROUP. WHERAS O BAAMA HAS THE LIKES OF BILL AYRES AND JERREMIAH WRIGHT OF "GOD DAMN AMERICA" FOLLOWERS. O MAAMA BELIEVES IN SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM AND ABORTION.
VOTE STREIGHT GOP. THE BEST OF 2 CHOICES. BE SAFE!"
This stupid and poorly spelled rant is proof of what is left of the GOP after McSham and Bushleague have gotten done crashing the party into the mountain. A bunch of mindless parrots, squawking with their caps lock key on about topics they don't even understand. You are an idiot if you actually believe Obama is going to turn the United States into the USSR. Pull your head out and start thinking for yourself for a change. Also, this elitist thinks that you should learn to spell. It will make your silly little flyover state ramblings way more impactful than the caps lock key.
Go read about the following topics: G Gordon Liddy, Council for World Freedom, Keating 5, Rick Davis' ties to Fannie/Freddie, Palin's abuse of power as governor. Educate yourself with something more than McMetamucil talking points and discover some of the skeletons in the closet of your own corrupt party. You will realize Palin and Ted Stevens are one in the same...I agree with you, they are "THE BEST OF TWO LOOSERS" that you speak of.
Your column title tells us
Your column title tells us all we need to know about your bias.
Sarah Palin did not throw Ted Stevens under a bus. She waited until the legal system decided Stevens fate as any reasonable person would and then denounced his behavior. An un-bias column would be titles "Palin weighs in on Ted Stevens".
Typical of the Star editorial board.
Palin is Already Bailing Out
Palin wants Steven's Senate seat. She wants him to win and then resign so she can take over. McCain insiders have made it clear that Palin knows the campaign is lost and is already planning in run in 2012. She will unite the Skinhead, gun-crazy Rapturist, Limbaugh-loving remnants of the Republican Party. McCain demonstrated his complete lack of judgment when he chose her to carry the extreme elements of his party. It is costing him the election.
so tell me what are the
so tell me what are the extreme elements of the democrat party and who carries their torch?
if Sarah Palin a governor from a small state (pop wise) who was before a small town mayor is leading an extreme element I must have missed it.
But i have always been curious of liberals who claim anyone not a liberal is a an extreme right wing whack job. Yet they never seem to be able to describe who among their own is extreme or what extreme leftist beliefs are.
pekime is a foolish zealot
She paints Palin with the same brush as alphabet and displays no regard for understanding the meaning of simple words......sheesh, I have great respect for Billy Jeff Clinton .....though we all know him to be a liar and totally untrustworthy.
One can respect achievement and the positive work they have done but (I know this is hard for partisans to grasp) still hold them accountable for his screw ups. That is a good thing ...not something that they should be ostrasized for.
chazykc
It's inane comments like yours that make me glad that I don't live in your
provincial world.
peskime
you are right we do live in alternative worlds....you reference Rolling Stone as a credible, viable source......nuff said
chazykc
Sarah Palin is at best a huge hypocrite. She talks about Obama's
associations while having some major skeletons in her closet, Ted Stevens being just one. Her relationship with the Alaska Independence Party (a secessionist group) is another.
She claims to have been exonerated from Troopergate, when that is a complete lie. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
As to your Rolling Stones comment, I also have provided sources from the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun Times.
Truth is a Liberal BIAS.
Fun Scenario
Ted Stevens wins re-election next Tuesday. He is then sentenced to prison for his crimes. He then is finally forced to resign.
Governor Sarah Palin appoints herself as Interim Alaskan Senator to "go clean-up Washington in the US Senate with John McCain."
She serves two years until the next general election where she will then run and win a full term as US Senator.
This would give her a good 4 years of national policy experience to run again in 2012 if Obama sucks as bad as most people with a brain can see he will....or 8 years in the Senate if he wins another term. She will be a mere 52 come 2016.
Sarah Palin, a "reformer?" Methinks not
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23140513/the_truth_about_sarah_palin/print
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
Sarah Palin, director of disgraced Ted Steven's "527"
called "Ted Steven's Excellence in Public Service, INC"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html
Sarah Palin on Ted Stevens "I have great respect for him" 7/2/08
Sarah's been palling around with disgraced Ted Stevens as late as July 2, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptTFDsktVQ
Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens are two peas in a pod
Cut from the same cloth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46YdvT3lwQ
Hooray for Quad Kings
He properly identified the definning difference between the traditionalists and the secular progressives: The traditionalists hold all to the same standard while the secular progressives tend to view their own indiscretions with a haughty, blind eye.
I agree that alphabet's descriptor is very condescending to Palin.
NOT ONE WORD TOTALLY IN THE TANK!
Cheap shots at Gov. Palin, but not one word about Yomama's socialist rant in 2001, which is all over the web. PATHETIC FALLING STAR, PATHETIC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
That's Another Difference
That's the difference between you who embrace Liberalism as if it were your religion (the Clintons, Carl Marx, Barack Obama, etc.) and people who believe less government is best (our Founding Fathers, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, etc.). The latter are not blinded by some bizzare desire to villify and blame the other side when one of their own crosses the line.
You couch Sarah Palin's rightful chastising of Sen. Stevens as if it were a bad thing. Terms like "throw under the bus" are dripping with misplaced judgmental indignation.
Liberals have this twisted notion that they must embrace and defend fellow-Liberals even when they lie, cheat, or steal (which is rather telling). Remember the polarization when Bill Clinton was caught in the Lewinsky scandal and then lied about it? As opponents are wont to do, the Republicans moved to expose these character flaws and 'declaw' him (the Democrats did the same thing when Nixon revealed his character flaws in the Watergate scandal).
Liberals rushed to Bill Clinton's defense in droves, trying to legitimize and minimize his flaws. But Republicans did not attempt to soften Nixon's indiscretions. They saw that he had crossed the line and appropriately called for his head.'
Yael, you and your far-left wing cronies (in the media and elsewhere) see Obama, your messiah, through such rose-colored glasses that you are willing to cast his opponents in a negative light at every opportunity ... even when they do the right thing by calling a spade a spade, and castigating Stevens for his character flaws.
You Liberals are an odd but interesting bunch. Be careful for what you wish.
Yes, but
Quad_kings, look at how quickly Obama and the Dem leaders just absolutely trashed Bill Clinton and the accomplishments of the Clinton Administration during the primary. They had to in order to get their Messiah over the finish line. Obama went so far as to throw the 'racist' tag--and that was okay to the DNC.
Look how quickly Biden had to back off his "he's not ready" comments.
Wasn't Lieberman chosen as Gore running mate in 2000 because he spoke out about Clinton?
The Dems are riding the Obama train, yet had to relinquish their brand in order to be the Obama Party instead.
Rewriting actual history seems to be the order of the day here at the Star. Yet, they must be writing for their jobs, if rumors are to be believed.
VOTE STREIGHT REPUBLICAN
THE BEST OF TWO LOOSERS. GOP STILL HAS MORE HONEST AMERICANS CONTAINED IN IT'S GROUP. WHERAS O BAAMA HAS THE LIKES OF BILL AYRES AND JERREMIAH WRIGHT OF "GOD DAMN AMERICA" FOLLOWERS. O MAAMA BELIEVES IN SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM AND ABORTION.
VOTE STREIGHT GOP. THE BEST OF 2 CHOICES. BE SAFE!
Yael - more layoffs at a liberal paper
I sure hope you have your resume updated!
AP LA Times to layoff 75 staffers
Oct 27 03:12 PM US/Eastern
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Newsroom staffing at the Los Angeles Times is shrinking again.
Newspaper spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said Monday that 75 staffers are being laid off in the latest round of cuts.
She declined further comment and would not disclose how many journalists will remain at the paper.
The Times, which is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co., reduced its overall staff by 250 people last summer, including 150 from the newsroom.
Editor Russ Stanton blamed the cutbacks on the economic slowdown.
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Oh yeah, Yael, here's another article on the continued hemorrhaging on newspapers across the country, including your sorry rag the Star ... you liberals feeling really cocky now?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003878037
Excerpt:
Here are some numbers for McClatchy papers: The Kansas City Star’s daily circ declined 2.3% to 239,358 while Sunday dropped 5.3% to 324,837. Daily figures for the Ft. Worth Star Telegram were down 3.7% to 194,257. Sunday decreased 2.9% to 280,447. The Charlotte Observer lost 3.9% of its daily circ to 193,577 copies. Sunday fell 3.7% to 252,300. In the twin cities, daily circ at The Star Tribune in Minneapolis dropped 4.2% to 322,360. Sunday lost 8.6% to 520,828.
Obama Spokesman Makes Souffle of Fox's Megyn Kelly
Bill Burton goes at it with Megyn Kelly of Fox news and gives this phony journalist all she's worth.
Enjoy the brushback to Fox. I did.
The insult that a network is trying to promote the agenda that Barack Obama is socialist is digusting.
I suspect that once Obama becomes president., he will cut off access to Fox.
Enjoy the interview. It's highly revealing.
http://scootmandubious.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-spokesman-takes-on-fox-news.html
of course, Sarah's got her own issues...
Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 — emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Beginning at the Republican National Convention in August, the McCain-Palin ticket has touted the pipeline as an example of how it would help America achieve energy independence.
"We're building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever, to flow those sources of energy into hungry markets," Palin said during the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate.
Despite Palin's boast of a smart and fair bidding process, the AP found that her team crafted terms that favored only a few independent pipeline companies and ultimately benefited the winner, TransCanada Corp.
And contrary to the ballyhoo, there's no guarantee the pipeline will ever be built; at a minimum, any project is years away, as TransCanada must first overcome major financial and regulatory hurdles.
In interviews and a review of records, the AP found:
_Instead of creating a process that would attract many potential builders, Palin slanted the terms away from an important group — the global energy giants that own the rights to the gas.
_Despite promises and legal guidance not to talk directly with potential bidders, Palin had meetings or phone calls with nearly every major candidate, including TransCanada.
_The leader of Palin's pipeline team had been a partner at a lobbying firm where she worked on behalf of a TransCanada subsidiary. Also, that woman's former business partner at the lobbying firm was TransCanada's lead private lobbyist on the pipeline deal, interacting with legislators in the weeks before the vote to grant TransCanada the contract. Plus, a former TransCanada executive served as an outside consultant to Palin's pipeline team.
_Under a different set of rules four years earlier, TransCanada had offered to build the pipeline without a state subsidy; under Palin, the company could receive a maximum $500 million.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081026/ap_on_el_pr/palin_pipeline
some "maverick" she is!