You writers are pathetic.. How about writing about our country falling to socialism and the elitist... How about all the crime in Government such as Ge, AIG, Acorn,Dodd, Franks, Rangel... etc...........How about the destruction of this country due to the enormous spending and Big company take overs...
Truth is we know exactly why... Your lives must be so exciting.... NOt

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson.............Still trying to hurt a powerful woman, with false stories. Even after you slime balls drove her and her family out of political life. Your agenda will be revealed and squashed like a bug. There is no room in America for subversive, pathetic dependent leaches that rape hard working people under some guise of commonality.

Oh my dear Ria, where did you attend school to have been so, so indoctrinated, Columbia I presume?

Look, Sarah Palin is as smart as a whip. She's playing you liberal-types like a Strativarious, and it's pretty amusing to watch actually.

The woman is just about to "bust a cap" in some asses and as I stated yesterday, I now understand how Chris Mathews felt during Obama's inauguration....I too have chills running up my leg now that I see what Palin is up to.

Mia Risra

Very nice work. Fully aware of the differences between the Republican and Democrat approach to Cap and Trade you skim over the favorable facts to support your argument while essentially omitting the truth to make the claim Palin has flip flopped.

In the 1990's cap and trade was successfully applied to address sulfur dioxide emissions that produced acid rain. Unlike GLOBAL WARMING which is a GLOBAL problem acid rain was a local or regional problem caused by the pollution of local or regional industry. Unlike GLOBAL WARMING the technology to clean up the emissions of those industries causing acid rain were readily available and cheap. Within ten years sulfur dioxide emission were greatly reduced along with acid rain.

The same Cap and Trade approach to CO2 and Global Warming WILL NOT work because it is a GLOBAL not a regional problem.
Russia said at the G-8 they WILL NOT implement any Global Warming reduction initiatives if it impacts their economy. Since the Cap and Trade bill has billions in it for all those you will loose their jobs thats a NO from Russia.
China and India are two of the fastes growing economies in the WORLD. Cap and Trade will hurt, possibly devastate, our industrial midwest that is HEAVLY dependent on coal fired power plants for electricity China is bringing a huge new coal fired power plant on line EVERY week.
Since California's version of Cap and Trade, AB-32, has become effective in January 2007 electricity rates have in California have doubled and unemployment has rocketed 2 points above the national average to over 11%.
With no technology cheap and readily available to quickly replace our coal fired power plants Cap and Trade could PERMANENTLY devastate our industrial breadbasket in the midwest by chasing them to China were labor and power are cheap.

China, with little concern for CO2 emissions, could be taking our jobs and industrial capability and sending back clouds of toxic polluted air across the Pacific for us to choke on.

Knowing all that you have tip toed around the truth and CYA with:

"The key differences between McCain's and Palin's position may lie in that statement." YA THINK??? But you already know that.

More kool-aid for the gullible general publics consumption. NICE WORK!!

Respectfully,
Pete

Where are the beach sandals?

I wonder who is in control of this figurehead named Sarah Palin. She's like a robot who has to be re-programmed for every task.

Sarah did not flip flop she just doesnt remember what she said.That happens when people are trying to say what they think everyone or a certain group wants to hear

JTBCat wrote: "She's like a robot who has to be re-programmed for every task."
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Really, is that what you get? I think she is anything but robotic. If you're going to be insulting, why not find something realistic...but you have a right to your opinion, so if "robot" suits you, fine.
Gov. Palin has always been upfront about being able to drill for oil in oh dear I forgot the name...help me someone...a park in Alaska, without compromising the wildlife and environment. And she's right. As for flip-flopping??? You dare even mention flip-flopping? I give you the King of the Flip Flop, BO. No better flipper than the Pretender to the Whitehouse.

GIVE PALIN A BREAK ALREADY! WHERE WERE ALL YOU DEMO-CRAPS WHEN OBAMA FIRST ANNOUNCED HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT? WHERE WERE YOUR QUESTIONS OF STUPIDITY AND OR MORAL REASONING THEN, AND NOW FOR THAT MATTER? AND LOOK WHAT WE HAVE. WE HAVE A CONGRESS THAT'S FIGHTING SO HARD TO SPEND EVERY DOLLAR THEY COULD GET THEIR HANDS ON FOR PROGRAMS THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT, AND WE HAVE A COWARD FOR A PRESIDENT THAT IS JUST WORRIED ABOUT APPEASING OUR ENEMIES WHILE DEGRADING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JUST TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD.
I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF PALIN BECAUSE SHE'S SMART AND DIFFERENT. SHE HAS GUTS, SOMETHING ALL YOU DEMO-CRAPS LACK. YOU WANT TO COMPLAIN? START WITH THE GUY YOU GUTLESS WONDERS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT. BY NEXT YEAR, IF YOU HAD AN ONCE OF INTELLIGENCE, YOU WILL BE CALLING FOR HIS RESIGNATION. BECAUSE YOUR MINDS ARE SO FEEBLE AND LIMITED, THE ONLY THING YOU CAN THINK OF IS BASHING SOMEONE WITH A BRAIN.
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BY 2012, WE WILL ALL MEET ON THE WELFARE LINE SO THAT YOU CAN SHARE YOUR OBAMA INTELLECT.

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Crash, boom, bang.
Down is up, wrong is right, lies are truth, deceit is good, divisiveness is better, W never happened and torture is religiously sanctioned and totally American.
The Princess Palin show is in town. Loser in '08 and quitter in '09.
There's something you can count on.............but none of it is good, except for the laughs.

The whole point of cap-and-trade legislation is SUPPOSED to address environmental concerns, but the garbage that the House passed has a singular purpose of generating revenue for political paybacks. Buying carbon offsets does nothing to address environmental concerns, what it accomplishes is the funneling of funds.

Sarah supported Cap & trade during the election from the MAC/Palin website & CBS interview, but Now that she is obviously waffling as a paid bigoiler once again!

Sarah's $11+ Billion ALASKA budget, 2008 Population: 686,293 = +$16,000 PER ALASKAN, the highest in the NATION!

Alaska is facing a $1.65 billion budget shortfall for fiscal year 2009 and a similar shortfall for fiscal year 2010, $1.25 billion!

Reagan's POTUS Speechwriter Peggy Noonan: Palin's Failin'

Faux owner & Murdoch's Wall Street Journal: "Sometimes the leak is so bad that even a plumber can't fix it."

You have to give people time to show what they have. Because maybe they have magic too.

But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office.

She is a person of great ambition, but the question remains: What is the purpose of the ambition?

She wants to rise, but what for?

I've listened to her, trying to understand if she is Bushian or Reaganite—a spender, to speak briefly, whose political decisions seem untethered to a political philosophy, and whose foreign policy is shaped by a certain emotionalism, But it's unclear whether she is Bushian or Reaganite. She doesn't think aloud. She just . . . says things.

Her supporters accuse her critics of snobbery: Maybe she's not a big "egghead" but she has brilliant instincts and inner toughness.

But what instincts? "I'm Joe Six-Pack"? She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation—"palling around with terrorists." If the Ayers case is a serious issue, treat it seriously.

She is not as thoughtful or persuasive as Joe the Plumber, who in an extended cable interview made a better case for the Republican ticket than the Republican ticket has made.

she has spent her time throwing out tinny lines to crowds she doesn't, really, understand.

She is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine.

She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite. She doesn't seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts.

(Very Few to) No news conferences?

Interviews now only with friendly journalists?

You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us!

You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.

In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism.

In one now-famous case, Christopher Buckley was shooed from the great magazine his father invented. In all this, the conservative intelligentsia are doing what they have done for five years.

They bitterly attacked those who came to stand against the Bush administration. This was destructive.

If they had stood for conservative principle and the full expression of views, instead of attempting to silence those who opposed mere party, their movement, and the party, would be in a better, and healthier, position.

...The Alaska BUDGET Facts> The crap about Palin's veto pen being responsible for the State of Alaska's budget surplus is really annoying me. The absolute truth is that Alaska's budget surplus is solely due to the rise in oil prices.

The State of Alaska budget deficit in 2004 was roughly $4 billion. At that time oil prices were roughly $30 a barrel.

State budget reports is that the deficit was completely replaced with a surplus by 2006 - coinciding with the rise in oil prices.

It looks like oil prices rose $27.43 a barrel from January 2004 ($30.87) to January 2006 ($58.30), which coincides with the State budget surplus. http://finance.aol.com/quotes/light-sweet-crude-oil-futures-aug-2009-composite/%252fcl%5cq09/nym

I hate to point out that for lack of a better way of saying it, Alaska profits from the misery others, (and the U.S. economy as a whole) with the meteoric rise in oil prices.

Hypocrite Sarah's Alaska receives $506.34 per person just IN EARMARKS, the highest in the nation, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group which tracks earmarks.

Bigoiler Sarah is also a Global Warming denier while even BUSH & NASA Agree: "The ten warmest years (Since 1880 when accurate instrumental measurements began) all occur within the 12-year period 1997-2008." http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/