Perhaps not approving the Keystone pipeline suits you much better.
I am on record here as supporting the construction of the Keystone pipeline. So if you need to invent something to have a criticism, I'll consider the output of your fevered imagination with all the seriousness it is due.
After Palin's speech at the RNC, I was a big fan too. Then I looked into her record and not so much. She's a lightweight dealing in a string of feel-good platitudes, not a serious thinker as Reagan was. She may be intelligent, but she has done nothing I've seen to correct her clearly deficient education. No thanks. I'd rather have Cruz.
Yeah, a mess for some folk!
... As Alaska governor, Ms. Palin insisted upon and signed a law in 2008 that increased the tax on oil company profits from 22.5 percent to 25 percent and made it progressive. For every $2 increase in the oil price above $50 a barrel, the tax rose 0.2 percent. When oil hit $113 a barrel, the state ran a $17 billion surplus during the Great Recession while sending a check for $1,200 to every Alaskan.
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Ms. Palin's biggest accomplishment has been to jump-start work on the giant gas pipeline, expected to cost more than $30 billion. When she took office, a deal negotiated between former Gov. Frank Murkowski and the oil companies was rejected by the state legislature because it gave the industry favorable fiscal terms without extracting any guarantees the project would move forward. Progress on a pipeline was completely stalled.
Ms. Palin pushed for new public negotiations, including a piece of legislation to provide $500 million in incentives to induce work on a pipeline. Earlier this week, she signed the legislation into law, selecting Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. to build the pipeline.
Her work is widely credited with forcing BP and ConocoPhillips to start work on another pipeline project, called Denali. ...
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... The Alaska political corruption probe refers to a 2004 to 2010 widespread investigation by the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service into political corruption of nine then-current or former Alaskan state lawmakers, as well as Republican US Representative Don Young and then-US Senator, Republican Ted Stevens. Sometimes referred to as 'The Corrupt Bastard's Club' or the 'Polar Pen Investigation', the investigation focused on the oil industry, fisheries and for-profit prison industries.
By Spring of 2006, the FBI set up in a Baranof hotel suite just three blocks away from the capitol building in Juneau. From their position in the hotel suite, they gathered evidence, such as a videotape of VECO's CEO Bill Allen arranging paper money for legislators, and made other observations By August 2008, the investigation resulted in indictments against six sitting or former Alaska Republican state legislators on corruption charges. In August 2008 US Senator Ted Stevens was indicted and, by October, he was convicted in Washington, D.C. on seven felony counts of failure to disclose gifts. The convictions, eight days before the November 2008 election, resulted in his narrow loss to Democrat Mark Begich after 40 years in the U.S. Senate. His convictions were later set aside and the United States Department of Justice declined further prosecution. ... -wiki