ADN link is bad

“‘The last straw’ leading up to Monegan’s firing, Van Flein wrote, was Monegan’s planned trip to Washington, D.C., to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn’t yet approved.”

McCain-Brains: “Hmm, that hole doesn’t look nearly deep enough – keep digging!”

I’m glad John Stein and Irl Stambaugh are finally talking.

The ADN article Lindsay is referring to (link here) is just another bright, shiny object the ADN editors seem to be throwing in the path of the truth about Palin’s sleazy, fungelical past.

A “burden on the taxpayer” to process evidence related to violent crimes against women, committed by enraged men desperate control a woman in order “to feel like a man”. Using that logic, Ms. Palin should pay for her own costs as Veep in order not to burden American taxpayers with the cost of exercising Cheney-like control over another distracted, petulant, ADD-afflicted aging maverick. After all, that’s her preference, not a function of stopping and removing sexual predators from the landscape. If someone tried to do that in Metro DC, they would have to empty the lobbies and offices.

damn Lindsay, didn’t know about the DC trip.

interesting the campaign itself is releasing emails, while the good Gov sits on 160 more . . .some with a cc for Todd Palin

where have we seen this all before ?/s

Mother Jones

No good Republican propagandist would use a title like “Does Gov. Palin Hate Rape Victims?” Rather it would be: “Why Does Gov. Palin Hate Rape Victims?”

some have said that victims fund their own “rape kits” was already law or pracvtuice when Palin took over and she didn’t know about it. False? When she was mayor this was first implemented?

wow – hadn’t noticed before she used almost verbatim the same language with Stambaugh she later used with Moneghan`

Campaign Silo is investigating these questions and will keep you apprised.

I was wondering where all the investigative journalists were, one of them is right here, her name is lindsay beyerstein.

very very nice!

Please refresh, link should be ok now.

Rather it would be: “Why Does Gov. Palin Hate Rape Victims?”

“what will it take to get palin to stop hating victims of rape?”

“‘The last straw’ leading up to Monegan’s firing, Van Flein wrote, was Monegan’s planned trip to Washington, D.C., to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn’t yet approved.”

My bold has Sarah approved this sexual assault initiative yet?

Namin’ the gamin’ framin’ with exquisite precision?

Too perfect!

Too true, top marks for you, wigwam!!!

Wildly OT – how is it that General Petraus(sp?), the man who McCrazy named, at the Rick Warren fandango, as the very first person on whose opinion he would rely, has been replaced as the man running the American military in Iraq – with no mention?

(ok, to answer myself a little, I know that there a few other things going on….)

Seems relevant though.

Good question has the General stopped drinking the Coolaide on Iraq? What do we know about his replacement? Or is the General getting out now to avoid blame for an imminent failure in Iraq?

Or is the General getting out now to avoid blame for an imminent failure in Iraq?

dunno, but I do find it interesting that Petraeus was quoted just a few days ago to the effect that he didn’t know that “victory” could ever be declared in Iraq…..

IIRC, Petraeus is moving up to take over command of CENTCOM.

‘Kicked’ upstairs, as it were.

Petreaus is moving up to command Centcom

Maybe this is the link you want.

Monegan accused of insubordination

Nothing is changed from what I forecasted.

1)Palin will wave to crowds but not take any substantive questions from anyone with the possible exception of a potential Faux News joke (her husband talke to Greta van Susteren who steered clear (fluff airhead interview) of any meaningful questions on the investigation instead of being the savy lawyer she purports she is, and the October 12 “debates” hosted by a hand selected News Brahmin Gwen Ifel from PBS in the debate sponsered by Corporate Wiretapper at Washington University. SL, ATT.

2) Palin is a competent “waver” because she has had a lot of practice waving to Russia as she burnished her foreign policy skills over the years. Palin is soon planning to use the talking point that she is helping to dig the proposed Siberian-Alaska tunnel.

Palin’s job is to wave, repeat the same lies that Rick Davis writes for her and puts on the teleprompter, and the McCain camp is sealing off all exposure to questions from either voters or the media for the remainder of the campaign in an unprecedented bubble for someone who would be President of the United States.

As to this so called Trooper Gate investigation, as I’ve said it is a sham and the McCain campaign has essentially shut it down obstructing cooperation from any of the Palin aides subpoenaed, including her husband and they lacked the common sense to subpoena Palin who would also have refused.

The fired indiv idual, Walt Monegan has told ABC News that Palin lied to Charlie Gibson in the heavily edited ABC mock interview.

If anyone has any doubts that Steve Schmidt who runs the McCain campaign and his army of Bush lobbyists have shut down the Trooper Gate investigation, just follow the investigation’s disintegration at TPM Muck daily:

Palin and Aides Will All Refuse to Testify or Cooperate with Trooper Gate Investigation moving to use her puppet AG to Quash Subpoenas and Bury it in the Palin controlled Personnel Board

Obama is going to have to have a strategy to counter the stonewalling and cascade of lies in the campaign that have been covered and analyzed very well at FDL and by Lindsay and the other bloggers here.

My frustration is that there has to be a way to communicate the lies from Palin-McCain and their surrogates that have been extremely well covered here/FDL/EW to the rest of the country–the predominantly over 40 white voters in the swing states that will decide the election.

‘Kicked’ upstairs, as it were.

that’s how I see it, yeah.

There were plenty of news stories when Petraeus was appointed to CentCom to replace Fallon and Odierno (Petraeus deputy) was appointed to replace him as the Iraq commander. There were also stories when it became official through the Senate vote and this past weekend when the Change of Command took place.

As CentCom, Petraeus is still in command although he now has Afghanistan as part of the deal instead of “just” Irak.

Interesting or troubling? or maybe he is a Karl Rove November surprise and is going to start campaigning for McCain.

He was nominated for CENTCOM back in April, but it takes Senate confirmation. The point is that this isn’t retribution for his remarks to the effect that “victory” is unobtainable in Iraq.

Oh, thank heavens. That means we will “win” in both places s/

the McCain campaign has turned over documents to investigators

As much as I love hearing this phrase, what does “the McCain campaign” have to do with any of this? Isn’t this an issue between Palin and the State of Alaska?

I’m not sure the law would allow him to do that! Or, if he didn’t wear his uniform while campaigning for McShame, would people recognize him?

But doesn’t Odierno become, de facto, become McCrazy’s most trusted adviser? IIRC, McCrazy never named the then head of CentCom as the man to whom he would turn.

How close are Odierno and McCrazy?

The most important aspect is that Fallon was booted for hinting at opposition to BushCo’s Iran policy. From the Wikipedia entry on CentCom.

Admiral Fallon resigned on March 11, 2008 after a controversial article that appeared in Esquire Magazine suggested that he was a lone voice opposing military action against the Nuclear program of Iran.

to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn’t yet approved.”

I want to confirm if I can that this money was sought to pay for rape victims tests or what was it sought for? Also do rape victims in Sarah’s hometown of Wassila still have to pay for their own rape tests?

Would the Bush Justice Dept do anything to stop him if he did though?

OT: A front page headline from todays LA Times: “U.S. sway in Iraq wanes as Maliki’s power grows: The prime minister is asserting himself — and listening more to what Iran has to say.” http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..8094.story

I don’t think McCain would consult with any commander who would contradict his preconceived notions. His constant citing of General Petraeus is nothing more than a shameless attempt to link himself to the general who is, rightly or wrongly, perceived by much of the public (especially conservatives) as possessing intelligence and integrity.

Monegan’s planned trip to Washington, D.C., to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn’t yet approved.”

Perhaps it sould have been phrased as a plan that she would never approve. In other words he was pursuing the public good despite the Governor. Public Good, a phrase the the right is trying to erase in national discourse.

Probably not. But, is it illegal to run around in uniform and campaign. Or is it against military regulations and up to the military to punish. And if so, who beside the centcomm can punish? Some role models, we’re hiring.

I seem to remember that the payment of the rape tests in Wasilla was overturned by the courts of the state of Alaska? Someone do correct me if I’m wrong.

Also where does a small town mayor get the power to stop rape tests? That is interfering with the investigation of a crime whats next can Sarah tell the police fingerprint tests cost too much?
Is Sarah Alice and Wassila Wonderland?

Q #1 – Monegan was beginning to address sexual violence in Alaska, and in Alaska Native communities, urban and rural, in a rational way. Palin is strangely resistent to helping in this arena.

Q #2 – Alaska HB 270, passed in May 2000, was specifically targeted to end Palin’s Wasilla policy. Since then, no Wasilla rape victim has been charged for an exam. It would be unlawful. Palin’s police chief at the time (5/2000), objected, but adhered.

frank rich hits it out of the park

No longer able to remember his principles any better than he can distinguish between Sunnis and Shia, McCain stands revealed as a guy who can be easily rolled by anyone who sells him a plan for “victory,” whether in Iraq or in Michigan. A McCain victory on Election Day will usher in a Palin presidency, with McCain serving as a transitional front man, an even weaker Bush to her Cheney.

In some cultures rape victims were stoned to death. The justification being if they had screamed loud enough, they would not be victims, therefore it is their own fault for being so immoral and “loose.”

Perhaps Palin has the same mindset.

Would the Bush Justice Dept do anything…

Don’t you think that any question that begins with those words instantly becomes rhetorical? *g*

link

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09…..ref=slogin

The phrasing hadn’t yet approved suggests we should ask her when she will approve it:)

But doesn’t Odierno become, de facto, become McCrazy’s most trusted adviser? IIRC, McCrazy never named the then head of CentCom as the man to whom he would turn.

In true military tradition, he respects the uniform not the man.

she sure seems to be coming from that general direction

Q #2 – Alaska HB 270, passed in May 2000, was specifically targeted to end Palin’s Wasilla policy. Since then, no Wasilla rape victim has been charged for an exam. It would be unlawful. Palin’s police chief at the time (5/2000), objected, but adhered.

This still troubles me how can a small town mayor over rule police and change police investigative procedure can she say radar guns are to expensive for speeding tickets? Fingerprints are to expensive?
Where does she get this authority legally? Is she the Queen of OZ?

i was going for sarcasm *G*

Given her behaviour in troopergate, she probally believes in a romantic version of frontier justice.

Laura Flanders has another installment of GRITtv across the hall!
GRITtv Live at Noon: Vincent Bugliosi on the Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

Note: We stream live at 12 eastern with Bugliosi.

I don’t know if it has ever been mentioned whether victims were asked to pay for the kits up front, or if they were billed later. In either event, the result would be to punish victims and discourage those unable to afford the kits from reporting the crime.

It sounds like as mayor or governor, Sarah would be the candidate of choice among sex offenders.

The State of Alaska did pass a law to prohibit charging victims for rape kits.

As for why Palin approved such a charge in the first place… she probably thought she was saving some lives, since the rape kit also includes the morning after pill. And anyone who could not pay for the kit, might not be able to get that pill. We already know that she allows no exceptions even for rape or incest, when it comes to abortion.

replying to you both. Palin fired a rational police chief. She then searched for and found one whose views were in accord with heres. Then the policy was changed, to charge vixtims for their investigations. The sexual viiolence arena was the only one in which this happened in Wasilla.

This is a town, where a nearby pastor (Big Lake) shot a guy escaping from robbing his church. In the back. Fifty yards away. And was acquitted.

Monegan was beginning to address sexual violence in Alaska, and in Alaska Native communities, urban and rural, in a rational way. Palin is strangely resistent to helping in this arena.

She simply hasn’t yet figured out how to make it profitable.

This still troubles me how can a small town mayor over rule police and change police investigative procedure can she say radar guns are to expensive for speeding tickets? Fingerprints are to expensive?
Where does she get this authority legally? Is she the Queen of OZ?

Palin takes a very imperial view of office. She is both capricious and vindictive, a veritable Queen of Hearts.

In some cultures rape victims were are stoned to death.

The “justification” being that her (male) relatives have been dishonored.

“I consider the Violence Against Women Act the single most significant legislation that I’ve crafted during my 35-year tenure in the Senate. Indeed, the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 was the beginning of a historic commitment to women and children victimized by domestic violence and sexual assault. Our nation has been rewarded for this commitment. Since the Act’s passage in 1994, domestic violence has dropped by almost 50%, incidents of rape are down by 60%, and the number of women killed by an abusive husband or boyfriend is down by 22%. Today, more than half of all rape victims are stepping forward to report the crime. And since we passed the Act in 1994 over a million women have found justice in our courtrooms and obtained domestic violence protective orders.” – Senator Joe Biden

THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT

Ending Violence Against Women: Senator Biden wrote the ground-breaking Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in the 1990s that set the national agenda on criminalizing violence against women and holding batterers truly accountable. It encouraged states to set up coordinated community responses to domestic violence and rape; was the catalyst for passage of hundreds of state laws prohibiting family violence; and provided resources to set up shelters so battered women abused by husbands and boyfriends had a place to go. The law also established the national hotline that over 1.5 million abused women have called for help. By empowering women to make changes in their lives, and by training police and prosecutors to arrest and convict abusive husbands instead of telling them to take a walk around the block, domestic violence is down 50 percent and rape is down 60 percent nationwide.

Each time the Senator renewed the Act – in 2000 and 2005 – he pushed for new initiatives. In 2000, the Act was attached to ground-breaking laws on human trafficking – crimes where over 80% of the victims are women. In 2005, the Violence Against Women Act tackled issues like domestic violence in public housing and treating children witnesses of family violence. Click here for more information on the Violence Against Women Act of 2005.

CRITICAL RESOURCES FOR STATES AND TOWNS

Supporting States and Local Efforts: Tremendous progress has been made by communities taking the Violence Against Women Act’s laws and programs and turning them into real action, change, and support for families wracked by domestic violence and sexual assault. The Violence Against Women Act of 2005 contains over 40 programs to be administered by either the Department of Justice or the Department of Health and Human Services. These programs range from policies to encourage the arrest and prosecution of abusers, to victims’ services like shelters, to education that can prevent violence against women from happening in the first place. Since fiscal year 1995 to date, over $4 billion dollars have been appropriated for the programs created by the Violence Against Women Act. In Delaware alone, the Office on Violence Against Women has overseen 21 grant awards totaling $9.5 million. Delaware has passed far-reaching domestic violence laws and supported critical victim services. To learn more, click here to reach the Delaware’s Domestic Violence Coordinating Council.

http://biden.senate.gov/issues…..2fb81e8618

“‘The last straw’ leading up to Monegan’s firing, Van Flein wrote, was Monegan’s planned trip to Washington, D.C., to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn’t yet approved.”
Is this the law that Sarah’s public safety commissioner Monegan was trying to get some funding from?

Sarah would be the candidate of choice among sex offenders.

Hello? Dem 527’s? We have an ad slogan for you….

Grit tv up: Live interview with Vincent Bugliosi on the prosecution of Bush for murder.

I don’t know if it has ever been mentioned whether victims were asked to pay for the kits up front, or if they were billed later. In either event, the result would be to punish victims and discourage those unable to afford the kits from reporting the crime.

It sounds like as mayor or governor, Sarah would be the candidate of choice among sex offenders.

Rape Gurney Joe Sarah?

Per WaPo the promotion of both generals is to tie the hands of the incoming president to Bush’s Iraq policy. It will be interesting to see how Petraeus handles pressure to attack Iran with a new administration coming in within 126 days. How much is he going to go out on a limb for the current bunch?

He hasn’t had to worry about Afghanistan in his job in Iraq and now he does. That might just scare the pants out of him seeing as Petreaus has studied a lot of military history and knows that what is happening to US and NATO troops in Afghanistan is the same thing that happened to Russian troops there. We are just going to have to hope that Gates and Petreaus can punt the ball long enough that Cheney is out of office. Bush apparently doesn’t count in this discussion. Then we have to hope that McCain/Palin don’t get elected or we are really going to go belly up.

But the crime rate for rapes would certainly go down in her town, and it might appear to be a great little town with a very low rape rate. That is, if it weren’t rampant with meth!

McCrazy gets his speech off first. Obama might wanna wait until he’s finished before he speaks in Colorado….

Most likely. He might have been tying it together with some programs at BIA too.

There you go, the romanticization of frontier justice!

McCrazy is arguing against the de-regulation that he and Phil Gramm helped to enact.

Who will be the first national figure to call him on this bullshit?

He does hit a sympathetic line with an anti-golden parachute promise.

Interesting poll analysis

the shift to a McCain lead of 2% was not matched in his state poll-based electoral vote performance. If the bounce had been distributed uniformly across states, McCain would have gotten into >300 EV territory. Instead, today he’s at 265 EV. The reason appears to be that his bounce is disproportionally concentrated in his safe states. He also got a significant bounce in battleground states, but it wasn’t quite as large.

oh fer chrissakes. “the days of dealing in “special favors” will soon be over in a McCain/Palin administration.”

so – you gonna fire your entire campaign staff, there, Johnny?

Would be nice if the Dem campaign would emphatically point this fact out!

OT: McCain holds “tenor of campaign” hostage, saying to Mika Brezinski on MSNBC:

“I’ll leave that for the American people to decide. I still say to you, and I know you are a supporter of Senator Obama, if you would urge him to come and do town all meetings with me as I have asked him to do time after time the whole tenor of the campaign would change.”

Shorter McCain: “All I ask in ransom is town-hall meetings.”

Nah! He’s gonna appoint most of them as his cabinet!

Shorter McSame: If I can’t get your attention and your audience at town hall meetings, I have to find other ways to get their attention, and I’m not afraid to use whatever tactics I have to use, whatever works.

Shorter McCain: “All I ask in ransom is town-hall meetings.” “And that is why I have, regrettably, been forced to tell lie after lie after lie.”

There’s additional bizarre wrinkle: The Deputy Public Safety Commissioner testified in 2000–the year the Alaska banned victim-pay exams–that the state had already been setting aside money to pay for all the sexual assault exams.

The question becomes: Why did the Palin mayoral administration deliberately rewrite the rules in 1999 to charge rape victims? The state seemed to think that these expenses are covered for all towns. Why was the Wasilla PD billing victims?

Yeah, it’s a property rights issue.

Nah! He’s gonna appoint most of them as his cabinet!

Unfortunately, that’s not snark – it is true.

Do you mean they were double billing both the victims and the state?

New 527 campaign ad idea: Sarah Palin, give the money back.

Obama saying some very good things – a little emotion would be a nice touch, though.

Linsay, has anyone checked local records to see if a member of the Palin klan has been accused of rape or sexual assault? Since we know Palin is the vindictive type, she may have had a personal motive to charge rape victims, discourage collection of evidence, etc.

Oops. That’s Lindsay. Hunting and pecking this morning. *ack*

OT – Wall Street still fighting like hell to stay within sight of the 11,000 mark, waiting for news about AIG, I assume.

If AIG goes down, it’s game over.

New Scarecrow up at the Mothership!
McCain’s Incoherent Babbling On the Economy

Here is the money line:

These swing states had a 1.5 point Obama lead before the conventions, and that has now turned into a 3 point McCain lead, a 4.5 point shift [toward McCain].

This is the issue. People get this. My husband was stunned last night when he heard Jon Stewart say Palin makes people pay for rape kits.

One might add, just women? Or children, too?

Kagro X has a post up which I link to at my homeblog about an important ABC News report. Palin deliberately stalled tackling the issue of sexual violence against women and children in part of her pushing match against Moneghan for not firing the trooper.

Y’know, when the McCain team started that contemptible commercial about kindergarten sex ed, we should have known right away it was an attempt to inoculate against Palin’s own record.

The ABC News story here.

Oops! Guess who’s spelling out specifics and calling bullshit! Barack Obama on MSNBC!

Lindsay, I was trying to find out by googling about resources for women in that area who have been raped.
I found this, from 2006, a truncated news article which gives me chills…
and this.
But I’m unable to find out whether funding has been restored to that rape response program.
When I worked as an ER tech, the hospital sent a nurse to be trained in this and she was on call to respond.
link

Classic Rove. Attack the opponent on his strength or your weakness. Obama should have been all over it.

No, they don’t. Apparently as soon as the Alaskan Legislature got wind of this practice they passed a law requiring all law enforcement agencies in the State to pay for the kits.

When a top legislator was asked why they were doing this, his answer was “Because of Wasilla.”

I think Palin’s ‘mindset’ is that the very use of a rape kit – including emergency contraception and anti-STD treatments constitute an ‘abortion’ which she violently opposes.