She did a fine just self-destructing on her own. She has some political skill, but in general she's just not very smart and it shows.
She's far more alert than that Slow Joe Biden. Did you watch the VP debate? Biden totally misconstrued the Constitutional role of the VP and gave the wrong Article (II, not I) as the authority on the powers of the Executive branch.
You just have to look at her trying to answer unfiltered questions.
Love to. Where?
Ever seen President, uh, Obama uh, flounder without a, uh, teleprompter?
Wow. So her own political party is the likes of Al Capone and Ted Bundy?
No. By analogy, some people demean you if you collaborate with them. There are many in both parties of whom that's true. The national Republican Party has asked me for money, and I told them they won't get any so long as Boehner and McConnell occupy leadership positions. Those ...people... cashed in and ran up the bill when Republicans had both houses of Congress, the White House, and a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. We did not get term limits, a balanced budget amendment, a line-item veto, an end to ag. subsidies, or the repeal of authorization for unconstitutional Departments.
Her ability to alienate her own state senate rather than actually getting them to work with her is some great accomplishment?
Lost cause. There's a Washington Party and a taxpayers' party.
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I mean Alaska gets something like one third to one half of its revenue from the Federal Government -- more than any other State. It's not remotely capable of operating on its own and certainly doesn't provide much experience on balancing a budget based on internal revenue when tons of outside money is coming in. It's also exceedingly small (as far as population and government go). Overall, it is just a terrible place to get experience for an office like the President."
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Source?"
http://reason.com/archives/2008/09/03/the-subsidy-state
They don't even bother will sales tax there because they get so much from the Fed.
That relates but it does not suport the assertion.
http://tax.alaska.gov/ would be better, but it is down right now.
Yah. A bunch of them were when I searched Alaska's budget.
Your link:...
Reason:...
From 2004 to 2008, Taxpayers for Common Sense reports, Stevens had a hand in 891 Alaska-oriented earmarks worth $3.2 billion. That works out to about $4,800 per Alaskan, 18 times the national average. And earmarks represent just a fraction of federal spending in Alaska, which totaled $9 billion in 2006 alone.
$9 billion in "federal spending" would include military and Coast Guard bases, which are not part of Alaska's State (government) budget. Neither are earmarks part of a State's budget, in general.
We agree, here, about Stevens. And Frank Murkowski and Lisa Murkowski. Palin supported Lisa Murkowski's opposition. That's the mainstream Republicans who play on their seniority to snag Federal money. Palin's a 10th Amendment Federalist, and opposes this. So also Cain, Bachmann, and Gary Johnson. I have not seen a hint from Perry or Romney that they get Federalism. No Democrat does.
