Sarah Palin Writes...An Op-Ed In WaPo

[Me.]

Bless her heart!

The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End
By Sarah Palin

“There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.

American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president's cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.
Cont…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302852.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. Right, the WP doesn't have enough conservative op-ed writers. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. Here we go again the media just can't get enough of her

quite frankly I would pack her off to Siberia!

(where she can watch the Siberians!

[ProgressiveFool]

48. I thought we'd cleared this up... she doesn't need to go there

She can see them from their house. They're Russians, after all... Sheesh.

[katandmoon]

2. I stopped clicking on wapo.com after they fired Dan Froomkin. Even more glad I did now.

[EFerrari]

20. I loved reading Froomkin. He was really good.

If you emailed him with a reasonable question or comment, he always got back to you.

[mwb970]

37. They do seem to be going downhill fast, don't they?

What with one thing and another these days.

[spanone]

3. reads like it was written by the oil companies and the rnc....

sound like sarahs gone to work for exxon/mobil

[EFerrari]

4. Right. And I wrote "King Lear".

:rofl:

[Me.]

9. I Did Wonder

Who the real scribe is. But at least the tasty comments are aimed at her.

[EFerrari]

15. I kept the link open after posting so I can go back and see.

:hi:

sfexpat2000 wrote:
Hilarious. The WaPo is hosting ghosts now?

Sarah Palin couldn't use the word "inherent" in a sentence to save her life.

7/14/2009 12:04:41 AM
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[H2O Man]

31. Right.

And I penned all the Lennon/McCartney songs.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. You Did Not!

I did! :hi:
GAC

[EFerrari]

42. LOL.

[lpbk2713]

5. Way out of Failin's league.

It had to be ghost written.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

6. Yeah, but they sold out of paper copies!

PAPER COPIES!

[spanone]

7. the official start of her campaign....she's directly taking on Obama.

[Me.]

21. She Says She Can Outrun Him

So now she thinks she can out write him (or somebody can). :rofl:

[spanone]

23. she's got the balls to run, i have no doubt. and the repugs are desperate enough to nominate her

[Me.]

25. I Hope Somebody Convinces Them

That that is exactly what they should do.

[lapfog_1]

8. Not only didn't she write this.

I bet all the money I have that she can't read it and understand it.

I doubt she understands the theory of "cap and trade" enough to understand what is written, much less write it herself.

[EFerrari]

14. She probably thinks cap and trade is something about checkers.

lol

[MzNov]

22. so who's behind her newfound literary skills?

McCain?

We know it's rightwing money, but I wonder who is making her a pawn. And she's too stupid to know it.

[ecstatic]

36. I think Bristol wrote it...

The Palins sat down together as a family with Google, found an anti-Obama topic (not realizing that Cap-and-Trade is an issue she had already gone on the record as being FOR in the VP debate), and rearranged some other idiot's article.

Though the article is out of Sarah's league as far as coherence goes, it still is poorly written (no facts, bad choice of words, repeating certain words several times in a short paragraph). If no name was given, I would have assumed it was written by a high school sophomore--which leads me to think it was Bristol.

[Arctic Dave]

10. "Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity"

Thats because we sell oil and gas. This statement is like a brewery saying they understand the link between alcohol and drunkeness.

[MidwestTransplant]

11. Should be Palin "writes" an op ed

[katanalori]

12. yeah, sure she wrote this.......

the idiot cannot even string a sentence together. Worse, the dumbed-downed Americans will buy into this essay of platitudes. Yep, she even got "God" and the nasty media in there.

[ShamelessHussy]

16. "do we want to outsource (energy supply) it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia?"

i believe we've been doing that for decades since the U.S. peaked. Are there any studies that say we can produce more than what we get overseas, I'd like to see them or at least the media ask for them so there can be informed opinions instead of letting the whole nation go with their gut.

though i am concerned about how high electricity prices are expected to go up under the proposed cap&trade plan. Has anyone seen those numbers?

[Contrary1]

17. For someone so stressed and worn out being governor...

she sure has a lot of spare time to fish, make Repub speeches in distant states, and write op eds.

What a woman!

[EFerrari]

19. And her hair is always big, too!

:rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. Haha. This is following exactly the advice of the RW pundits who said she should take one or two

signature issues, like ENERGY, and make them her own expertise so that people could take her seriously.

Sarah.

People outside of your right wing admirers will NEVER take you seriously and you will never be president.

[Aviation Pro]

24. It's always all about you Sarah Dumbass, isn't it?

What a Republicant. Oh, by the way, come back after you rote memorize some Milton Friedman and you might want to brush up on your math skills too.

And holey moley, moron, can you please elevate your "writing" above the junior high school level?

[mitchum]

26. Takes her back to her college days...when she bought term papers...

and passed them off as her own.
She wrote nothing.

[EFerrari]

30. And the WaHo pimped the fakery. n/t

[No Elephants]

35. And she had so many of those college days--and so many of those colleges, too!

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Jesus, Bill Kristol will do *anything* to get published since he lost his Times gig.

[annabanana]

34. DUZY!!!!

Well.. it sure wasn't Sarah who wrote it.

[Robb]

41. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

43. Ha! I bet you called it!

:applause:

[noamnety]

28. When we complained that women were underrepresented in WaPo OpEds

this wasn't what we had in mind.

[Hugabear]

29. Hey Sarah Dumbass - write about something you know about - like abstinence preaching!

:rofl:

[ecstatic]

32. Unimpressive OpEd that Sarah did not write. Who is supposed to

be the target audience of this OpEd?

Independents? Independents won't believe Sarah had anything to do with this piece.

She has no shame! Days after resigning from being so overwhelmed by her duties, she has the audacity to lecture Obama?! This is just another ridiculous misstep by the Palin campaign.

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Here she is answering Gwen Ifill's question about cap-and-trade during the Palin/Biden debate on October 3, 2008:

IFILL: We do need to keep within our two minutes. But I just wanted to ask you, do you support capping carbon emissions?

PALIN: I do. I do.

Capping carbon emissions is short-hand for cap-and-trade.

http://alaskadispatch.com/palin-watch/1197-when-did-palin-change-her-mind-on-cap-and-trade

[cap]

38. Cap and Trade would make one of Sarah's key consituencies, Big Oil, uncompetitive

The Energy Sector is heavily dependent on Government regulation. The Bush administration via Cheney's Energy Task Force realigned the regulations to favor the oil companies. Obama is removing those subsidies and re-regulating the industry.

The whole debate over oil vs green tech is analagous to the days of the industrial revolution when we were changing our energy sources from wood to coal and oil. There were plenty of people who said that we have all these forests and lots of wood, so why should we switch to these new fangled technologies.

Now, the same sort of people want us to sit on energy sources and produce products that the rest of the world DOESN'T WANT. The rest of the world is going green in a big way.

China is moving into green tech in a huge way. They see it as a strategic advantage. They are investing 2x as much money in green tech as we are. Sarah's future is not a particularly bright one that is being articulated by a not particularly bright person.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

39. Was it scrawled in crayon?

Then it was her.

[Me.]

40. !

[Blue_In_AK]

44. An excellent analysis of this OpEd is at Phil Munger's blog

here: http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/07/saradise-lost-book-3-chapter-20-raise.html

It's well worth reading every word. :)

[BlueMTexpat]

45. Thanks, Blue!

And lots of sympathy! Even after she exits the stage as Governor, you Alaskans will still be dealing with the after-effects of Saradise for a long time. :puke:

[Blue_In_AK]

46. You betcha!

It's been educational, at least. I'm hoping that Alaskans have learned to be a bit more discerning next time around. We were much too trusting.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

47. My only fear is she will overexpose and flame-out before she inflicts catastrophic damage

to the remnants of the GOP. She has to stay viable into primary season for 2012. Pace yourself Sarah, please pace yourself.