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by zeet | March 7, 2009 at 03:37 pm
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Meanwhile, she admits no wrongdoing but will pay for a few of her kids' trips. State officials haven't itemized the amounts that Palin will repay in the next four months for the children's travel.
Gov. Sarah Palin has agreed to reimburse the state an estimated $6,800 to cover assorted costs related to nine trips taken by her children in 2007 and 2008, but she's not admitting that she did anything wrong.
Her agreement announced Tuesday with an investigator for the state Personnel Board settled an ethics complaint filed in October.
It's the latest development related to Palin's expenses and perks. State officials announced Monday that Palin had turned in her state Chevy Suburban after learning she would owe income taxes on any personal use of it, and last week they said she also would have to pay taxes on expense money she received while living in her Wasilla home.
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at 15:54 on March 7th, 2009
What an important story! A governor who is republican had to pay back some money. Now, if she had only failed to pay her income taxes, she could have qualified to be a member of Obama's cabinet!
at 16:00 on March 7th, 2009
(Shhhh Roy - let's not start to unveil the long long, long list of Republican crooks who either stole our money or got caught with their hands in someone elses trousers...;)
At least she didn't admit she did anything wrong! So that must give a star in the Conservative ranks, wouldn't you say?
at 16:00 on March 7th, 2009
Let's not talk about how Pelosi wanted a bigger jet and wanted to take her adult children along on congressional junkets at taxpayer expense!
Pelosi got the jet, but I don't think anyone let her do what Palin hasn't been allowed to do, eithe
No, that would be awful!
This story is real "mote in the other's eye" while missing "the beam in your own".
at 16:04 on March 7th, 2009
That's exactly what I thought when the Republican Party suddenly figured out that the economic mess is the Democrat's fault!
That's a huge beam right there for ya!
lol
at 18:04 on March 7th, 2009
HA, good one Roy, KAZIIIINNNG!!
at 16:18 on March 7th, 2009
Both parties are guilty of causing the crash. Major republicans and democrats were involved. Any other statement is pure demagoguery.
Republicans have their mouthpieces, their demagogue figures, as do the democrats. Both are much closer to the truth when talking about the flaws of the other side, and much farther from the truth when talking about their own side.
I am not a republican. I am not a conservative. I am a libertarian and a communitarian. I was teaching Business ESL in Milan when Gingrich and Clinton loosened up all the rules that had been put in place in the '30s by FDR.
I was against all of it, as I am against Free Trade and NAFTA, as is Ralph Nader, by the way.
It is disgusting to think how few actually understand what happened.
One good source is the CNBC documentary called "House of Cards". I suggest you watch it. It goes into all the details of exactly how we got into this mess.
Let us just say that Obama is wrong to say, "energy, education and health". What got us into this mess is speculation, loose money from Reagan-appointee Greenspan, and Clinton's and Gingrich's loosening up on controls over banks and the like.
So, I don't carry water for Republicans, and when my father quit the Democratic Central Committee chair he had in Philly, I heard all the stories of democratic corruption.
You should understand that the demos had been voted in in the fifties and first did a great job in Philadelphia of righting the wrongs of the republicans.
15 years later,in the sixties, now the corruption was democrat and has remained democrat.
That is pretty much the story nationally as well.
at 17:51 on March 7th, 2009
While I agree that no one is entirely Snow White in the events of the last 40-50 years, it is too easy to let single events happening during the reign of either Democrat or Republican presidents balance out the real issue at hand:
That both parties have tried to continuously patch a broken system built on "Capitalism" and "Free Markets" that in reality was deeply regulated by incentives and subsidies and earmarks from the Federal Government, instead of realizing that the system itself is rotten - like throwing money at and old car instead of buying a new.
The Capitalistic philosophy needs to be not renewed, but replaced. Ask We the People about how they see it, having lost everything they own due to a system without any checks and balances, driven by greed and incompetence.
I will address that in an article later, but only say that the Republican Party are mainly suffering now because of this lost or outdated ideology - that is no longer valid in the eyes of the common American. You could say that the farmer has overmilked his holy cow - and that the cow has now diseased.
at 16:25 on March 7th, 2009
Here is the link to a preview of House of Cards: Preview to House of Cards
at 17:13 on March 7th, 2009
Very simple
It was a response to the post above it, to the comment, " a huge beam coming at you", by Zeet.
at 18:03 on March 7th, 2009
I may not agree with her politics, but I think she is Hot, doable, and Damn, in a hollywood minute., Just call me Mr. Oink!
at 18:36 on March 7th, 2009
You libs don't know this, but Palin VETOED, STOPPED a bill that would have denied rights to same sex partners.
You have never heard that before, I will bet.
This is what happens when propaganda rules the day and people are made into stereotypes to facilitate the Orwellian "Five Minutes of Hate".
That is from that book, 1984, that many people in the UK say that they have read when they haven't. Couldn't be true here.
at 20:08 on March 7th, 2009
Roy,
the trees don't grow into the heavens over night.
Palin did in fact veto a bill that would have prevented state officials from granting spousal benefits to same-sex couples - but she stated that she did so because the Alaska attorney general had advised her that the bill was unconstitutional, not because she supported spousal benefits for same-sex couples.
It would have been stupid of her to support an unconstitutional ban...and I don't think she's stupid, just out of her freakin' mind. :)
at 20:30 on March 7th, 2009
Yes, but she did the right thing and she gets no credit for it at all. She treated the system, the constitution of Alaska, with respect.
Not what we get often enough nowadays. Isn't that the big complaint about Bush?
I don't support the rights of terrorists. I support the rights of people. So, we have to use constitutional means for acheiving our ends.
Instead, when justices deciding that Prop 8, a proposition that they don't like, decide that they must consider Prop 8 legal, then they will have done the same thing as Palin did when she vetoed the bill, namely the right thing because the constitutionality of the law is paramount in the preservation of our system.
And Obama and Hillary and Biden are all against gay marriage, so thumbs down from your perspective on the moral superiority of the democrats, which is the point of all of this.
at 20:30 on March 7th, 2009
When we're shocked that our elected representatives are doing the right thing this country is in a sad, sad situation...
at 20:33 on March 7th, 2009
Yes, well, the whole world is in that condition. Just live outside of the US for a decade or so and remember, and you will, to breathe deeply.
What you inhale will leave an idelible mark.
at 20:49 on March 7th, 2009
Spent most of my life outside the US - I liked it.
But America is the greatest place on Earth!
That is, once we get it adjusted just a tiny bit....:)