….. in 2005…. a year BEFORE Palin took office From a Nov 2005 WaPo article…

The $223 million span linking the small town of Ketchikan to sparsely populated Gravina Island and a second Alaskan bridge project have been stripped of their funding by congressional negotiators as they race to wrap up legislative business.

That decision reflects a growing unease among Republicans of criticism of runaway government spending in a transportation bill that includes 6,000-plus special projects for House members’ districts. But the maneuver is largely cosmetic and may only slow the bridge projects. As part of the deal, Alaska will get to keep the $454 million that Congress set aside for the two bridges, and technically the state can use the transportation funds for any project it chooses — including the bridges. [Mata note: Which of course Palin did not plan to do by not allocating state budget funds and following the advise of her transition team report Dec 19th, 2006]

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The Senate tried unsuccessfully last month to redirect a portion of the Alaska bridge funds to fix a heavily traveled interstate bridge outside New Orleans that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. That effort drew furious words and a resignation threat from veteran Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), former chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

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“It’s largely symbolic,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who would have preferred to strike all $24 billion in special projects that members stuffed into the highway bill. “The money will still go to Alaska,” as opposed to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, or to fund other budget priorities, McCain said.

One more time for the fact retention challenged… A YEAR BEFORE PALIN TOOK OFFICE!

She cannot return bridge funds that she did not receive. She received transportation funds that she could have still allocated for the Gravina Bridge. She did not pursue the bridge because it was not cost effective for the Alaskan taxpayers. So she killed the deal.

That horse is dead. Quit beating it. No matter how many times you and the MSM try to portray it any differently, the facts remain the same. Yet the MSM continues to make fools of gullible guppies by planting false claims for the Obama faithful to spread – and for no other reason than to blatantly support Obama.

To me, the real story is the 4th branch of openly and deliberately spreading lies by avoiding the timeline facts in order to elect a candidate. OMG… when the media is so overtly partisan, we are in deep sheeeeeeeeet.

The same is going on in Trooper’gate, where the bank of reporters up in Alaska have never bothered to learn Alaskan law calls for ethics complaints to be run thru the Personnel Board for investigation. Not a legislative investigation. Yet the MSM doesn’t seem to either know there are two processes going on, and refuse to focus on the one laid out by the lawmakers themselves.

He’s always wrong, but it doesn’t phase him. He just keeps pumping the bilge, and ignoring his abysmal record of not getting anything right.

Although Palin once supported the bridge, she killed the project in her own state. “After witnessing the problems created by earmarks for her state and for the nation’s budget, she did what others like me have done: She changed her position and saved taxpayers millions,” Demint wrote.

“Even the Alaska Democratic Party credits her with killing the bridge,” he wrote.

When the Senate had a chance to stop the bridge and transfer the money to Katrina rebuilding, Demint recalled, “both Obama and [Sen. Joe] Biden voted for the $223 million earmark, siding with the old boys’ club in the Senate. And to date, they still have not publicly renounced their support for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere earmark.”
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/demint_palin_bridge/2008/09/10/129485.html

Way to go, dougy!! You are wrong yet again. (That, and you ignore the ZERO-B’s commitment to inertia)

Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a self-proclaimed tell-it-like-it-is maverick, keeps saying his running mate, Sarah Palin, killed the federally funded Bridge to Nowhere when, in fact, she pulled her support only after the project became a political embarrassment. He accuses Democrat Barack Obama of calling Palin a pig, which did not happen. He says Obama would raise nearly everyone’s taxes, when independent groups say 80 percent of families would get tax cuts instead.

Even in a political culture accustomed to truth-stretching, McCain’s skirting of facts has stood out this week. It has infuriated and flustered Obama’s campaign, and campaign pros are watching to see how much voters disregard news reports noting factual holes in the claims.

McCain’s persistence in pushing dubious claims is all the more notable because many political insiders consider him one of the greatest living victims of underhanded campaigning. Locked in a tight race with George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, McCain was rocked in South Carolina by a whisper campaign claiming he had fathered an illegitimate black child and was mentally unstable.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-McCain-Stretching-the-Truth.html

Better late than never.

…go and learn before ye babble

Even Bill Clinton Blames Kennedy for No Child Left Behind Flaws

Bush was an idiot to co-operate with a far Left Dem on anything so important, and that truly is one of his greatest shortcomings, but let us not forget how bad things would be if those Leftists were in charge of everything. G-d save us!!!

Those “looking”? They may be missing what they are looking for. And that would be an Ayer’s socialist educational state agenda with the financial agreement of the then money bags, Obama.

But it really doesn’t matter. Obama’s already told us in not-quite-so-minced-words they he wants to socialize education and everything American.

So what are we really missing?

I love it when the concern trolls run over, throw the front door open and start their frothin’ o’ the mouth about all the things that are wrong about whatever it is they’re frothin’ and foaming over.

More often than not, their passion is misplaced and so is their honesty.

By the way Dennis, nice shoes.

First… remove the tip of your tongue from the left side of your lips, and move it to the right.. Then try moving it back again.

When you accomplish that, maybe we can help you grasp first the fact that you aren’t a Republican, but a Democract, and may find some required personal support in a different forum.

If you think you are confused with your beliefs, at least we’ll know to keep the sentences confined to only one noun, and one verb, at a time.

In the meantime, I’m sure Daily KOs will appreciate your “wake up people” alert. You ain’t gonna make the cut here, bubba.

Americans will soon determine that our party mantra ‘Country First” is unfortunately a shell in light of the nomination of this lightweight for Vice President. She really believes that proximity to Russia constitutes international qualification…and her somewhat psychotic pronouncement that God somehow wanted this country to engage in a war with Iraq is absurd and downright scary. What we don’t need is another religious extremist…and yes, I am a Christian but I don’t portray myself as knowing what God’s plans are..disgusting!

Palin is not a Stevens backer. He is a GOP member, so he endorses her. Palin, however, did him no favors with the Gravina Bridge affair.

Now, if you want to complain about Stevens’ endorsement of Palin, shall we talk about who supports your boy, Obama?

Let’s face it, an small time Mayor and Governor who is under investigation for lying, whose big claim to fame is being a runner up beauty queen and so called hokey mom, who was first extremely fo and then against the bridge to nowhere and then still kept the money for the state…a backer of a Senator who is about to go to jail when convicted…… snipped the BS

Dennis… you need to get out more. Meaning stop getting your news only from Air America, MSNBC and Politico, oh supposed GOP member. You’ve proven, by your statements above, you don’t read squat.

Palin is not being accused of “lying”. She is being accused of using her position to pressure a Gov appointee to fire an AST, and firing him when he did not. Big problem… even that Gov appointee – Walt Monegan – says Palin did not pressure him. He says he was pressured by Frank Bailey.. and Bailey is on record not once, but twice, under oath, saying Palin did not request he speak with Monegan, and had no idea he was speaking with Monegan.

The 2nd thing Palin is accused of is leaking the AST’s medical records. However the only person to is remotely connect to that incident is Bailey… see above, bozo. Also, the keeper of the medical records… THE subject of this post… says there has been no leak of those records, as spread about the in liberal blogosphere.

Congratulations… you’ve proven your bias and lack of knowledge of fact. You make a great parrot tho.

As far as Palin’s qualifications as an executive administrator, she oversaw a town in a strategic location for Anchorage employment, as well as Denali tourist attractions, used federal funds to put in infrastructure to allow for the 13% growth in the last two years of her mayoral term alone. And if you had a clue as to city comprehensive plans, you’d know you can’t add population and new development without also improving the city’s capabilities of handling that growth. Under Palin, she helped develop the infrastructure that allowed for the growth. All tax increases and assessments were done with the population’s assent by ballot.

And oh, BTW, when a city grows, so does their budget and debt.

So Palin has executive experience of managing in an executive administative job from 1996 to 2004.

And what does Obama have? IL Senator, just over a year in Federal Congress before he was a professional campaigner, and no experience in administration… just writing bills that get no where.

He manages nothing… and the only thing he did manage… the CAC… was a colossal waste of educational funds with no positive results. Obama can raise money, and spend money. Throws great parties. That’s it…

You obviously didn’t read the timeline and events of the Gravina Island Bridge or you would know that the federal funds were granted to Congress for Alaskan transportation needs to use as they see fit…. all BEFORE she took office.

The only one lying here is you…. too bad we can do an investigation, eh? But then, your insignificance makes it a waste of time and cash.

If the man deserved to be terminated regardless of how Palin “felt” about him, her “feelings” and “motives” are IRRELEVANT! There is NO WAY to “prove” she fired him for anything but just cause, and even if they could, it wouldn’t matter because NO INJUSTICE WAS COMMITTED!

In a sense it’s the perfect witch hunt, because given his behaviour she had no choice but to fire him, and given his relationship through her sister, slimy slanderers from under every rock and out of every crevace are free to paint the situation with whatever wild fantasies they want, and no one can prove them “wrong,” anymore than they can prove they are right.

Bottom line….

Should he have been fired?
YES!
Case closed!

I believe you don’t acknowledge the degree of the advice as “politically expedient.” Stating it’s ‘just’ politically expedient undervalues the political gravity of the advice. Your interpretation of the situation reminds me of Monty Python’s knight japing, ‘It’s just a flesh wound!’ after losing an arm.

The WSJ piece clearly sees the potential political damage Palin could be facing in the advice given to her. You are simply not registering the threat, by claiming it’s ‘just’ advice.

It also says in that same letter from Shea:

Trooper Wooten was/is a grave public safety threat to your family. It was/is a very personal, emotional matter which was either mishandled or covered up by certain individuals. Todd was/is very concerned. You are a wonderful lady with a fine husband. Certain key advisors were/are weak and self absorbed. I am extremely concerned about certain “wolves” if my recommended action is not taken immediately.(Italics mine)

This is all just politically expedient advice. It’s up to Gov. Palin to determine the appropriateness of it.