A Knight in Dragonland

If you fire the governor’s chef and then charge the state a per diem for every night you sleep in your own house, does that make you an agent of change or Charles Rangel’s accountant?

Gail Collins, New York Times.

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Governor Sarah Palin my have signed the final death warrant on the already moribund Ketchikan to Gravina Island “Bridge to Nowhere”, but she still supports a project that would cost even more – $400 to $600 million for the Knik Arm Crossing. This project would benefit … (drumroll) … Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, [...]

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A “culture of ethical failure” pervades the Bush administration. This time those words were used to describe the atmosphere at the Interior Department, where the departmental inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, recently reported astonishing levels of corruption. A section of the department in charge of collecting oil & gas royalties indulged in a [...]

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Jon Stewart and the folks at the Daily Show expose the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP’s mouthpieces.
Sarah Palin Gender Card from the Daily Show
Hilarious and painfully sad at the same time.

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So, Governor Palin … you fought against the Bridge to Nowhere?
Not so much.

Picture > 1000 words.
Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan, via Ben Smith.

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This was about marketing not governing; hiring for appearance not competence. And they did it – without apparent irony – on the anniversary of Katrina as another hurricane threatens. From from being a reversal of the Bush administration’s worst instincts, McCain seems intent on recreating it – as farce.
Andrew Sullivan
We have had two big presidential [...]

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