Then in an attempt to dig herself out of the hole that she found herself in Palin fired up the RAM and made her pound out a Facebook rebuttal to explain her rebuttal. (One has to wonder if the rebuttal of the criticism of the Facebook rebuttal will take the form of a Twitter rebuttal. Then after that she will have to turn to jungle drums and smoke signals to get her rebuttals out.) It is long and stupid, but here is the part that was supposed to explain that her "mistake" was no such thing:
Now, in a recent interview I mentioned analogies that could relate to solutions to our economic challenges, including the difference between a communist government’s “Sputnik” and the private sector’s “Spudnut.” The analogies I mentioned obviously aren’t comparable in size, but highlight a clear difference in economic focus: big government command and control economies vs. America’s small businesses.
So there you go. The issue has been rebutted for the final time and Palin emerges victorious, right?
What, are you new here ?
From one of Digby's commenters:
Palin's quirky invocation of the "Spudnut Shop" here in Richland Washington as an example of American "can-doism" is far more ironic than you and most of your readers likely realize.
The fact is, the town of Richland was literally built by the federal government as a part of the Manhattan Project. All of the houses that surround the Spudnut shop were built by the Army. To this day, the only employer in Richland of any consequence is the Department of Energy and the contractors that work on DoE contracts at the Hanford site, just north of Richland. As a result, virtually all of the Spudnut shop's customers are paid by tax dollars. Those that aren't are retirees, drawing government pensions and social security.
Were it not for government spending, the Spudnut shop would be bankrupt in a week.
One of Andrew Sullivan's readers also has his two cents to add:
The Spudnut shop Palin speaks of is half a mile from my house in Richland, WA and it's really good (the secret is potato flour in the batter). She may not realize that the federal government buys most of those doughnuts: the annual budget for cleanup of the nearby Hanford Nuclear Reservation is more than $2 billion, employing about 11,000 workers, and spudnuts are the pastry of choice at meetings there.
Hang on I will get my daughter to type this last part.
Epic Fail. WTF?
Doesn't she have a way with words?
