Todd Palin Subponea decided by conservative moose huting Republican from WASILLA,

[grantcart]

Let's just get the facts - sounds more reform minded than Palin

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/2/2008_RACE_RUNDOWN?SITE=MALOW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The crucial vote to subpoena Gov. Sarah Palin's husband was cast by a moose-hunting Republican from her own hometown.

Sen. Charlie Huggins, the vice chairman of the Alaska Legislature's Senate Judiciary Committee, wore camouflage pants to Friday's hearing, but they didn't help him blend in among the coats, ties and dress shirts of other lawmakers and national news correspondents.

As the other two Republicans and the two Democrats on the panel argued over the ramifications of issuing subpoenas to Todd Palin and a dozen other people, Huggins held his cards, as well as his fire. When he finally spoke, he made clear - in folksy, plainspoken words - that he'd had enough of the political maneuvering.

Not to mention the suggestion of his Republican colleague Sen. Gene Therriault that the investigation had been hijacked by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

"I do not support Sen. Obama," the anti-abortion conservative thundered at the start of his remarks.

He went on to make an impassioned plea for government transparency and honesty in this "new era" of Alaska politics. A number of lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, have been indicted or convicted in a wide-ranging federal corruption probe.

"I see all this duck-foot action under the water," he said, referring to back-room discussions about the investigation. "Let's just get the facts on the table. The sooner the better."

The final vote was 3-2. The House Judiciary Committee also approved the subpoenas on an advisory v

[Vinca]

1. "Let's get the facts on the table" - I finally agree with a Republican on something. nt

[Skwmom]

28. My money is on MORE smoke an mirrors to try to sell the idea

that Republicans will reform Washington.

I think it's just one small portion of an overall marketing campaign to put lipstick on a pig (the Republican Party).

[symbolman]

2. When you think about it, it may all come down to Palin having

Reaped what she SOWED.. The WIND of Republicans she fucked over on the way up her personal ladder, wearing high heels and stepping on the hands of every REPUBLICAN all the way up.

What would be more ironic than to have the very people she screwed bringing about "REFORM" - Reforming HER ASS in Public, and killing her chances of getting anywhere NEAR the White House, maybe bringing down the whole Republican NeoCon adventure in one fell swoop.

This fellow may actually be of the Old Republican Ilk, the kind that used to come to family picnics when I was a kid, when everyone had a good time, regardless of their political party, good natured jibes cast at each other, golfing Dems and Republicans, tossing each other a beer, with NO HATE or Animosity..

You know there was a time when Conservatives actually stood for something other than Goose-stepping to Bush's tune, and Rubber Stamping everything Cheney or Rove came up with.

The Republican party DOES need Reform - they need to kick Bush co to the fucking CURB, and take their party back from the Fundies and the NeoCon TRASH who wipe their asses with the Constitution.

Wouldn't it be Funny, if indeed Palin and McCain REFORMED Washington DC, by being TAKEN DOWN by their own Party, the Sane Wing of it :)

[dansolo]

3. She's not a reformer, she's a backstabber

I'm sure a lot of people that she stepped on along the way are sharpening their knives right now.

[dmr]

12. She's an opportunist. If there were no FBI investigation, she'd still be in there with

with Ted Stevens and all the other corrupted Republicans. As you say, she back-stabbed her way to Alaska's top job. I can imagine there are some mighty angry people up there just waiting to strike when the moment presents itself.

She may have been successful bullying her way thus far, but she has entered the big leagues, it's just a matter of time before someone bites back. If they haven't already.

[secondwind]

5. they all want her job! In AK , when they smell 'blood' they go for the kill,

just like she did. She didn't like her mayoral job, so she decided to go for the governor's spot.

[Hugin]

7. That's who ultimately brought Nixon down...

His own party.

Latent conscience, I guess.... or maybe it's the ultimate failure of every Pyramid Scheme. Eventually, all of the
worst float to the top and they begin preying on each other.

[symbolman]

8. I think the Communists are the ones that predicted the fall of

the Capitolists, which is what all these guys are, all for OIL and Money..

Tolstoy, was it he who opined that as the Capitolists age the Younger ones come to EAT THEM. I think we're seeing that, and McCain being senile has invited his personal Back Stabber into the fold.

Idiot.

Nixon was Batshit tho, I remember him walking the halls of the White House, talking to the Paintings, smashed out of his gourd... :)

[Hugin]

11. Corruption drenched in Oil...

That's what this is.

An Era died under Bush's watch... and I'm not talking about the WTC attacks. I'm talking about an entire
socio-economic system. It died from neglect and greed.

Currently, I'm wondering if that's why Hucklebee's Revenge was chosen as the VP candidate. They've built a
system so corrupt and filled with hypocrisies that they had to go out to outermost fringes of American
society to find someone who even came close to living the lie they've built themselves (I'm talking about
the Religiously Insane branch of the Republican Party here, y'know... Their base.) and it turns out she's
a lie as well. Nobody could actually live by their standards. Too many contradictions.

Makes me feel like posting a list of questions on the Church Door. (Reference to Martin Luther.)

Maybe they didn't see the danger in going to the fringe like that was that they might encounter an actual
'conservative' of the original type... Not their watered-down, brain-dead, programmed type. And true to
their principles, they are pushing back.

Should prove interesting... If we can survive long enough to see the outcome. ;)

[Kind of Blue]

13. "They've built a system so corrupt and filled with hypocrisies that..."

...they had to go out to outermost fringes of American society to find someone who even came close to living the lie they've built themselves."
Wow!!! Now, that's a great, great line. I wish I had said it.

[symbolman]

15. Yeah it is wonderful thinking

I love that post, reminded me of a cartoon where the scientist gets a really powerful telescope and can look to the ends of the Universe, only to find his own EYE staring back at him..

That's what McCain found, Primordial OOZE with his DNA all over it, stuck to the bottom of his shoe, and like the scum layer on a shower curtain, and Pork Barrel Palin, infinately MORE INTERESTING than HE IS to everyone else :)

[Hugin]

23. It's a hypocrisy of Palin's faith to even be running for office..

Due to the fact she's a female. But, then... I guess Todd'll be the actual candidate. ;)

Haven't heard anyone in the Corporate Media mentioning that little tidbit.

[symbolman]

24. That's RIGHT

I hadn't thought of it that way.. god, this woman can't do anything RIGHT, but BE RIght..in her own mind of course..

Wonder WHY the media ain't giving us a BIG OLD Juicy story about Todd's life?

Now that I think of it, I've heard SQUAT about that guy, other than the choked bark she made, "That's MY GUY.."

I almost puked at that. Had to tell myself I was watching SatNitLive, fool the mind :)

thanks for the input, you're a valuable poster..

[Hugin]

16. You may have it...

Use it wisely. ;)

[bettyellen]

10. "in your heart you knw he'll die" ? so will you, buddy. perhaps if you were reminded of that

more often you wouldn;t offer up such dreck.
a statement both asisine and needlessly cruel, it'd not like any Dem I know to say such things (let alone type set them) thank god.

[symbolman]

14. It's SATIRE

from the position of Palin voters (especially Sarah herself - there are actually ASSHOLES Praying for HIM TO DIE right now), if you had a sense of humor, you'd probably GET IT.. but since you don't...

I'm going to die TOO, only not at the hands of these NAZI bastards, and not without a fight, SO GO be all Classy, over there.. farther, farther yet..

Ahhh, that's Better..

It's my TROLL INDICATOR, they go NUTS.

[bettyellen]

17. it's stupid, it's like satirizing circus clowns or mental patients. what's the fucking point?

with bullshit like that? if their nuttiness is readily apparent then satire is redundant. and needlessly cruel- all in all pretty juvenille.
right up their with the topless sarah photoshops and milf commentary and all the other embarrassing "by all means necessary" stupidity going around that look like they were authored by 14 year old boys.
it's not about class or god knows humour, it's about NOT being an asshole.

[symbolman]

18. Here

Go watch my 40th Flash animation, I've won Hollywood awards for my work, been on the O'Reilly show arguing with that idiot, on Scarborough show TWICE, the second time for my ARMY OF ONE ad, which was one of 14 winning entries out of 6500, and was shown on National TV before the winning one was. Michael Moore called out my name and ad under spotlights in NYC for that ad..

I've been sued by Michael Savage for a half a million bucks, with Janeane Garofalo sending my site a BIG CHECK (to help us fight) and hooked me up with RObert Greenwald to get help doing it. A DU'r's Sister, a Lawyer saved us from a SLAPP suit by them. Not bragging, I could go on and on - I've spent my whole mortgage fighting these bastards, my choice..

I'm fairly recognizable as a national activist and don't really have time to argue with YOU over what a SINGLE person out of hundreds of thousands thinks about a Black Satirical Piece that YOU DON'T GET.

Watch this one, I make FUN of the Brady Bunch TOO!

OH HORRORS..

SHeesh..

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/thepalinbunch.html

How about this one for Juvenile? Been seen by over TWO MILLION FANS

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html

All the time I have for you, sorry you are so uptight, maybe Obama will win and you can RELAX..

Bye Bye now.

[bettyellen]

20. oh i get it alright, mr braggart. and i still think it's STUPID same as going on @OReilly show

what part of pointless don't YOU get?
not bragging- that's actually the most amusing thing u have posted so far!

[symbolman]

21. Okay, you got me there

You "win".

Later.

[bettyellen]

22. i'm sorry that's what you get out of this, losing or winning. it's about how you play the game.

[TwilightGardener]

26. I heartily approve of your avatar, FWIW. The fundies want him to die in office so she

can take over--why should that be unspoken?

[symbolman]

27. Thanks pal!

glad to see that you grasp awfulness in the situation in this satirical piece, and that's what this sign is riffing on, like I said before, and I can hardly believe it myself, there are actual GROUPS out there PRAYING that McCain DIES, but not quite yet, AFTER Pork Barrel Palin is in Office..

I can't believe it, it's like those things that you just can't make up, eh? :)

Thanks, good to hear from sane people - as a person who was drafted at the tail end of 'Nam, and joined the Air Force (we're an Air Force family) I served not only then, but worked in a VA Hospital taking care of over 300 patients who'd been scared so shitless by war that they no longer "communicated", shell shock is what they used to call it..

I figure I've EARNED the right of Free Speech, having fought for it PERSONALLY :)

You too, it looks like...

[TwilightGardener]

30. Yep--you earned it, and don't let the PC police get you down. There

will always be people here who get their jollies by trying to shame and cow others with their holier-than-thou "we're better than that" bullshit. But it's true about the groups praying he'll die--that should scare the shit out of anyone with a brain, and I wish the media would report on it, frankly.

[symbolman]

32. Yeah I get that crap a lot

my problem is I was raised as a kid to answer when spoken to, and that's a liability on the web, with all the crazies lobbing "look at me, Please!?" ego grenades. People that really SHOULD have something ELSE to do with their time, consider places like this their own little Emotional Ant Farm.. put the ant farm in the oven, "Hey! Look at them GO, man!" Next is the Freezer :)

Thanks for bucking me up, we can all use strokes, but to be honest, the sparrowfarts like that don't bring me down, I've got too much energy, the strength of Ten Men, because like Obama, my Heart is PURE :)

Kiss the Wierner doggie you have for me, I love those dogs, had a german girlfriend used to tell me stories about those dogs and Royalty in her country..

[secondwind]

4. Mike Isikoff of Newsweek is in AK, and he calls the Todd Palin

subpoena 'A STUNNER'.

[symbolman]

6. Oh YEAH

I can't wait to read that one.. THRILL at the "Shadow Govenor" who is Installed by way of their Dominionist Beliefs, having never been voted IN, but is the little birdie in Pork Barrel Palin's ear..

HE actually USED her Office to try and Intimidate the Safety Officer into Firing his Bro-in-law..

What do these assholes think this is, HIGH SCHOOL? And they are like the Principal, and now that they are they can sit in the Principal's office and SMOKE CRACK all day? :)

They really are vengeful, hateful, SnowBillys.. SNOW WHITE TRASH :)

I had told my wife, "Screw Sarah.. Go AFTER TODD.. how can She run for Office as HE goes down?"

[Skwmom]

29. Hey Mike, the Republicans need to sell themself at the reformers.

Do I think anything will really come of it when it is all said and done - No. And they'll paint it as a witchhunt.

I thought maybe the Alaskan Republicans would put country first but then I came to my senses. The Alaskan Republican Party of good old boys ran the phony reformer to keep a Democrat from taking over control of the state. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[AlinPA]

9. Nothing will happen there except the US Justice Dept will step in and invent

some way to stop the whole thing.

[Froward69]

19. Their are good republicans

whom are sickened by the neo-con hijacking of their party. We must agree Just the facts would go far into resolving this investigation. I applaud this particular repub for standing up to neo-cons and voting as an American. :patriot:

we know that this may be swept under the rug but at least for now it is progressing.

I admit I believe Secessionist Sarah is Guilty of abuse of Power. so I am automatically excused from her Jury.

[grantcart]

25. today's Union Tribune had an article with comments by Republicans labelling

McCain's ads as lies.

[vaberella]

31. He doesn't support Obama but supports Transparency...one of Obama's no.1

causes of reform. I like the guy already, even if he denies Obama. You can tell he's leaning considering he's wanting transparency and there must also be information about corruption by Palin and he wants that out of the way.

[amborin]

33. she'll be totally cleared and

this will then be used against dems to argue our allegations are all baseless

imho, we should be attacking on the big issues:

More of the same McCain---voted 90% of time with bush

under McCain: your job will be shipped offshore

your taxes will rise

your health benefits will be taxed....etc....