Hoo Rah!
Palin the GREAT!
I don’t say she’s perfect. But I say she’s close.
As far as I'm concerned Palin's comments were unserious political posturing...pablum for the very small population of her supporters.
I watched it last night and it’s great re-reading it again here because she was JUST GREAT.
New day, same Sarah.
I love it and that’s makes her more serious than the other jokers who rely on their precious inside the beltway advisers tell them:
“don’t go too far, play for the precious independents and moderates, it may be right to deal with entitlements but we don’t know how to argue for it the right way, dont rock the boat!
Equally important, listen to what the MSM is reporting about the budget deal. Obama and Reid are being painted as weaklings who held 2/3 control and gave in when they didn’t have to. Palin is right that it will take too long, but it’s the start of a process that can always go faster *IF* we continue to win elections and *IF* our leaders have the same, ahem “fortitude” that she displays. The MSM is unwittingly helping by jumping on the left as being ineffective, and whether it’s Palin or someone else that rises to fill the gap, it will be a huge step in the right direction.
Disagree? Then tell me, had we not won control of the House last Nov., would we even be having this conversation? Or would madame Pelosi be stepping off her private USAF jet to announce yet more tax-and-spend country-killing deals?
One step at a time. It’s the only way.
she also cut governor’s spending by 80% over the previous governor. Makes you wonder what the previous AK gov was doing with 80% more on himself
No longer "the party of No" or the party "with no ideas of it's own".
She’s right on this. Ryan is a RINO embryo, he is not a revolutionary and does not have the testosterone to be a political force. His ideas are mostly repackaged old antiques that never worked or never found support. But his people are good at catchy brand names like “Roadmap for America”.
As much as I don’t like Krugman, he had Ryan pegged right.
And Palin is on the money and diplomatic too. Rather than say Ryan’s efforts are a POS, she says it doesn’t go far enough, i.e. his ideas are inadequate, i.e. he’s a loser.
But he has a pretty face if that is worth any political points these days. But no where near as handsome as JFK who had star power looks.
So I don’t see him as being a memorable figure in history. The media like his pretty face so he will become their Republican darling I am sure, and then he will be sucked into their vortex -—> RINO in Waiting.
Sorry Ryan cheerleaders but thems the facts. Flame away!
Looks like budget cuts are coming whether folks like it or not. The Congress had a chance to maintain our financial system and credibility but instead, this is coming in July. If QE3 follows QE2, the referenced article says we can expect month over month inflation to be approximately 5% to 10% or 100% per year... can anyone say "Currency Crisis?" or "Weimar Republic?"
In a very few months, one brand of insanity or another is going to come to visit. Palin already has seen these numbers and is getting out in front of the wave.
http://barbaricthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/08/alaskan-fisherman.html
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. (As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin) :
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it…It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES”. Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork”. She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning—I imagine—that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona . Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
How Palin Beat Alaska’s Establishment
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB122057381593001741.html
Some old articles.
I think it was Palin who introduced a bill which ensured that any spending bove $1k are posted online for transparency purposes
Very encouraging but national defence has to be on the table as well. The deficit is that bad. What does “fully funded” for national defence mean?
Good article. I like Ryan, his plan is a great improvement over anything the older heads in congress are proposing, but Palin is right.
Ryan is a good guy, but I don’t think we can solve this problem without actually devolving entire departments back to the states or even eliminating them entirely. Energy, Education, Agriculture, these should definitely be on the table. I’d like to find the politician who is willing to look at Interior too. These all bring the government into control of areas where they have no business.
Ryan’s plan is a good one for what it is, which is to slowly ramp down the debt. But it leaves aside the assumptions for another day that have infected this government over the last century and guarantee that we will be right back here next year and the year after. As long as we continue to expect the same things from the federal government we will continue to get the same outcomes.
I think Pence would be a better president and more electable. My heart races at the thought of Christie absolutely demolishing the commie in 3 debates-if the mighty O would even show up for the second two.
That being said, Palin is made of awesome and I believe she is the best we have that might still get into the game. I just wish she stayed on as Governor-not because I think she quit-but because it denied her ample opportunity to shine as she guided her state to fiscal sanity. She has been eclipsed by Walker and Chritie in the public's eye only because she has been out of the game.
Blah blah blah. Hey Mrs. Palin, how about proposing your own budget?
I’m sold. She knows how much needs to be done. Ryan’s plan is a great start to pulling out of the Obama mess, but more needs to be done to dismantle the welfare state. I think we need to look at it in stages, the way the Fabians have. We need reset the ratchet to “unscrew” and keep moving in that direction, a lot or a little, but keep moving.
Not only that but they need to demand 12 trillion to get 6 trillion.. thats just the way it works..
wow! what did they do with that 12 billion surplus in Alaska? Did they give it back to the taxpayer?