Sarah's resignation comes too late to save 200 lives lost due to negligence by the state of Alaska.

State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life -- taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom -- are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.

The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.

No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she's so weak, she often can't even pop dinner into the microwave.

A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.

This kind of negligence by our state government is inexcusable, but understandable when you consider the fact that our Governor tried to run the state via two blackberries while she was focused on becoming VP of our entire country.

(Just let that cold chill finish running through your body before you read on.)

The facts are that Sarah Palin can talk about her compassion and her religion all she wants but we have seen how she treats our indigenous people, how she slashed funding for special needs children before she realized how politically advantageous it was to use Trig as their mascot, and now how she has abandoned some of the our most fragile citizens during the most frightening time of their lives.

Some may want to give Palin a pass on this but they absolutely SHOULD NOT! She is the executive of our state, the fault for this falls directly on her shoulders and she has said and done nothing to protect these poor people. And why not? Because nobody brought it up as a political talking pint that's why!

Running a state requires more than just chasing the television cameras and keeping your name in the papers. It means doing things that may not gain a lot of notice but have a positive impact on the people who elected you to office. But no our Governor cannot be bothered with silly inconsequential things like doing her job.

Instead she spends her time twittering nonsense like this:

Ethics issue would almost be funny if it weren't such an abuse of justice. AKns deserve our public resources be used wisely, not frivolously

For one of the few times I can remember I find myself in total agreement with the Governor. You are absolutely right Sarah, Alaskans DO deserve to have our public resources used wisely and NOT frivolously! And I certainly hope that your successor will finally do just that!