Gov. Sarah Palin submitted a spending bill to lawmakers on Tuesday asking that they authorize $461 million from the federal stimulus package for infrastructure projects in Alaska.
Palin's supplemental bill is asking for more than $285 million over what the state expects to receive in transportation projects from the stimulus bill.
The state, instead, expects about $175 million. But state transportation officials earlier this week told lawmakers that the administration would be requesting additional spending authorization in case Alaska receives money that was destined for other states that failed to meet the "use it or lose it" deadline.
Whoa hold on just a damn minute. Didn't Governor Palin express disdain for this bill? Didn't she even go so far as to suggest that Obama veto his own Stimulus Package? Yes she did.
Sarah Palin was on Fox News ’s On The Record With Greta Van Susteren, where she voiced her opposition to the Obama stimulus bill because Congress didn’t know what was in it, and it would add people to the rolls. The problem is that no one, including Gov. Palin seems to know what she is talking about.
Palin said, “I wish he would veto it and send it back until our lawmakers can read it and know what’s in it. I think I speak for a lot of Alaskans who say also understanding that the impacts on individual states that this stimulus package has, they are unknown impacts. So until our guy and our gals in Congress can read it and understand what the impacts are, I don’t want to see it signed.”
"I don't want to see it signed."
But now that it is signed Palin is not happy with the piddly amount that Alaska is getting for transportation costs and has the audacity to request even more.
WTF? How can you come out publicly against this bill and then demand even more money from it later?
And how does she plan to spend this money that she didn't want before she did want it?
At the top of the highway spending list is $107.4 million for the governor's priorities relating to infrastructure for the proposed natural gas pipeline.
Her requests include $55 million in improvements to the Dalton Highway that links interior Alaska with the North Slope, and $25 million in rut repairs to the Glenn Highway.
Ahh of course the gas pipeline! Sarah Palin's doomed pet project. So Governor Palin is asking for MORE stimulus money to throw away on a project that is already writhing in it death throes.
This woman is absolutely devoid of any sense of shame or hypocrisy.
Wait, I thought she was going to turn the whole thing down.. or most of it or some of it or something like that.. NOW she wants MORE... this woman is NUTS.. certifiable nuts.
ReplyDeleteAnd this one doesn't get it and never will..........
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a WTF moment!
ReplyDeleteDuh. Palin is a dope and a hypocrite. Has been and will always be.
ReplyDeleteI do think she is mentally ill. (And I'm not trying to be unkind....just the opposite.)
ReplyDeleteSo, more $$$ for the highway to the North Slopes, hm? So the First Dud (sic) and Levi can get there and back faster.
ReplyDeleteWhat about some $$$$ for the Bushcountry, for... what, maybe some insulation for the homes and buildings so they don't need to use that much energy to keep their places warm... some schools... some community centers... some greenhouse technology so they can start growing some fruits and vegetables... some storage places for fuel so they do not have to buy fuel at exhorbitant prices...
Some call her a dope, hypocrite, morally bankrupt, mentally ill.
ReplyDeleteTruthfully I think she is just trying her darndest to be a good Republican...
Calculated hypocrisy - thy name is Sarah Palin...
"WTF" has become my favorite internet (and real life) expression, and not so amazingly, I use it most in connection with Sarah Palin and her actions. Has anyone in Alaska started any kind of grass roots drive to get her out of office?
ReplyDeleteGryphen, just a heads up on a typo/misspelling: "then" should be replaced by "than", in two of the headers for your articles. :-)
Didn't she keep $230 million from the bridge to Nowhere money? How did that get spent?
ReplyDeleteBasically if the money doesn't benefit oil, her natural gas pipeline, or mining, Palin is against it. She does not care about anything else...education, no, her own kids can't even finish high school, so forget about going to college, and as far as the Natives go, well we all know how she feels about them.
How is this woman still in office?
Such a dirtbag. She really needs to put her money where her mouth is. If she believes the bill is bad, and she wants to speak against it, then she shouldn't take the money.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter though, beleive everyone who spoke out publicly against the stimulus will regret it politically int 2010. Can't wait
Does the average Alaskan citizen keep up with this type of news?
ReplyDeleteDo Alaskans think she's doing okay?
I don't sense a groundswell of outrage. Except for the wonks and legislators, are most Alaskans satisfied with their gov?
---Really curious.
Thanks.
Sarah has had time to read the bill now since it's available online. Now that she's read it, she wants more money while at the same time telling the people of the nation and Alaskans that she will not accept the money with the likes of Mr. Jindal Rogers?
ReplyDeleteMan oh man, she is something else!
LisanTX: "...are most Alaskans satisfied with their gov?"
ReplyDelete*SUPPOSEDLY* she still has an over 60% approval rating in Alaska (shaking head)...
Here's the thing I'm thinking as I'm watching all this Jindal hubbub (wow, trainwreck). He couldn't read and deliver from a teleprompter. He had no, "style". But Palin...she's all flash, no substance. I don't know why they didn't tap her for the gig. Maybe they are hoping to pull her out of the national spot light long enough that all of those campaign f*&k ups will fall off the cliff that is short-term memories of a desperate party. I don't know. But here's the real kick in the pants, kids...if Alaskans don't throw her out, she's absolutely going to be out there in 2012. And there are a number of GOP handwringers waiting with baited breath for that dismal day. You know, I'd LOVE to see what Nate Silver has to say about the percentage of chance that she will be impeached long before that day of unholy reckoning. Until then...IMPEACH HER! IMPEACH HER! IMPEACH HER!
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