Hey. She showed up to vote in a “State of Alaska” hoodie, sweat pants, and high heels.

No diva in that wench. No sir-ee.

This would be grand theft, no? The stupid thing is that she’ll never be able to wear it again anyway. Even if she hid it for years, people in the know would know that it’s vintage 2008.

I once asked a sales clerk how in the world a cream blouse could cost $1900.00 (about 20 years ago!), and she explained that the stitching on the sleeve was the tell.

Best. Headline. EVER for this column, Marcy.

“Palin” and “panty-drawer” in the same sentence.

Wow.

I think those RNC lawyers are more likely bearing gifts than looking for more returns of discarded clothing, what a fruitless search they are facing, poor beleagured counselors. My views tend toward the independent in some of these scandals. I support the bridge funding for Ketchikan’s Gravina Isl., just a better EIR element concerning the right of way’s logging, though I have yet to peruse the entire document set, may need more controls. As for the wardrobe, I was happy for the lady’s receipt of RNC gifts, in return for the awkwardness of bringing small children on a two month whirlwind tour of stump speeches. If the clothes included crampons for climbing and tree climbing gear, perhaps she can use that longterm, as well. Not that I support the image building; that is a test she has failed once and may yet address again. And I admit to avoiding most media assiduously. There was one photo of the governor exiting the voting booth with a visage like she had seen the void and was displeased and a little offended by its portent, gazing at the touchscreen; though the accompanying article seemed to hint the expression was her inner scheming for ways to avoid the press dogging her. I am glad not to have seen the media clips of mongering speech at rallies, there is little Nieman’s can do to disguise what that attempts to elicit, something clothes might hide for a while.

@45, full ensemble for new baby.

This is disturbing…

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA), the coal-country chairman of the Energy & Commerce subcommittee that controls greenhouse pollution legislation, echoed the conservative mantra that this election provided no mandate for change. Supporting Dingell, Boucher warned that it would be problematic “if the first action of the new majority … is a dramatic move to the left.”

The Goopers didn’t need to send lawyers to Alaska for the Clothes – any low-priced flunky could do that job. So, imvho, the clothes are a BSO-reason.

A more likely laundry list of real reasons might be:

– Damage control on the Stevens/Young Mysterious Vote Totals
– Troopergate isn’t going away: the Petumenos Report and the Branchflower Report don’t appear to reconcile very well, and the Legislature is not likely to accept Sarah’s Flimsy Whitewash Report over Branchflower’s Meticulous Work, either.
– There seems to be Plenty of Oil and Gas Corruption in Alaska, and Sarah’s Specialty is ’looking the other way’ – so, there’s no telling What’s Under the Tundra there.

Ultimately, I’d say the suits are up there protecting the RNC, with Sarah being involved, but disposable

Here in Massachusetts our governor ran a campaign premised largely on the idea that it wasn’t his campaign; it was our campaign. In the aftermath, we saw the launch of devalpatrick.com and its attempt at gauging what issues were important to the masses. It was a revolutionary idea that seemed to fall flat. After the initial roll-out, I hardly ever heard people discuss it, and certainly never heard government officials push it as a way for people to express their concerns and ideas.

So it will be interesting to see how Change.Gov will fare. Based on a similar premise (and following in the footsteps of a similar people-owned campaign), it has a place for people to tell their stories and policy ideas. I wonder if it will fare better and serve better than devalpatrick.com has… l

Blue MA Group
“Change.gov”

Hi All,

Still in post hurricane mode so I haven’t been able to keep up with everything but what is up with these names being floated for jobs with Obama? It was bad enough to have Dennis Ross hanging around during the campaign but now Rahm is a sure thing, Ross is going to get a job and Harman in Intelligence somewhere? Kerry at State? A Republican gets Defense? I know a lot of this is rumor but what the hell kind of change is this? If we wanted this crap we could have all voted for Hillary or McCain.

Keeping a trillion dollar national security apparatus around to support Israel (which guarantees further attacks on us) while we run a trillion dollar deficit that is certain to destroy what internal manufacturing capability that is left (did we all forget the recent credit crisis – and I specifically didn’t refer to it as a mortgage crisis) and any hope for a better economic environment for our children isn’t ‘change’. It’s just more of the same. I’m already getting calls from people laughing and saying ‘I told you so’.

I know there are a lot of lawyers here who are worried about Supreme Court appointments, Constitutional processes, Congressional niceties and such but this is starting out very badly for those of us who care more about other things. It won’t take long for people who were willing to give Obama a chance to figure out if all we are going to get is more unwinnable war (does anyone seriously think the west can keep a colony in the Middle East forever without torching their economies in the process?)with different leaders then they might as well go back to the real warmongers in 2012. Particularly if Obama tries to spend more money internally as well as externally which is certain to increase deficits if anyone is still willing to lend to us.

If this keeps up Palin may not have to leave Alaska to get elected in 2012. All she’ll have to do is sit on her porch and repeat ‘I told you so’.

I’m not naive enough to believe that politicans don’t pander for votes (does anyone seriously believe there will be tax cuts?) during the election cycle and Jewish voters are a large Democratic constituency but there is a big difference between pandering for votes and whom you choose to surround yourself with once elected. I know folks are all giddy with glee now but they shouldn’t forget that exactly four years ago we were hearing talk of permanent Republican majorities and today the Democrats have the presidency, almost 60 senators and close to 260 members of the House. Things can change quickly and when you promise change but produce nothing but the same old, same old, then voters will turn on you quickly. The fact is, as a nation, we can no longer afford both large defense expenditures AND internal economic improvements. We’re going to have to choose or the situation will get much worse instead of better. Particularly after the recent spending spree by the Congress and the Fed.

So far, initial reports are not promising if these rumors are true.

Was I the only one who wasn’t impressed with his speech Tuesday night? All this talk about ‘defeating’ people who don’t want to be folded into the empire – what was up with that? Then in the NYT this morning we see that they finally come out and say the Georgians were to blame for their recent butt kicking by the Russians just as some of us had said all along. But Obama is talking about the Russians as the bad guys? I would certainly hope my government would act exactly as the Russians acted if someone were to do to Texas what the Georgians tried to do over there.

Yep, yep, I know, change is coming.

Correction: That should have said $70,000 worth of wardrobe for Coleman of Minnesota.

dismayed,

bmaz is not content with just whipping the Republicans. He also wants to pretend they are weaker than they are, and that their women are ugly.

Big Tent Democrat said it well and I will paraphrase ’In this time of terrible travail after 8 horrible Bush years, Obama only got 52% and the Senate is still a problem.’ Big Tent Democrat was surprised that the GOP did as well as they did. Also he thinks Gov Palin actually helped McCain though not enough of course.

Mine now.
1. The country didn’t go very far left. It just rejected Bush harshly and the GOP in general this time. Unless the Democratic Congress and Obama do exceedingly well there will be a swing back. The Congress worries me far more than Obama, but they are joined at the hip now.

Two years from now there will be another election. Will the Democrats be ready? I am pretty sure that the GOP after licking their wounds will be back with a vengeance.

2. Gov Sarah Palin is one fine looking woman, and unless you are a male moose during the mating season in Alaska, to call her a moose, is a great injustice. She has one fine female form.

Now her politics aren’t so attractive.