Isn’t it now the Virginia Palin-McSame campaign office?

I think Alaska needs to be declared a disaster area. It needs to be “liberated” and assisted.

The military should be sent to take control of mcShame headquarters.

Seems to me we other states agree to come to the aid of any state whose sovereignty has been interfered with.

There must be some court of appeal here.

With all the Bush toadies on SCOTUS, who would ultimately win? The Republics.

Alaskans I know (in person, by reputation, and via blog) are fiercely independent. Getting routed to some corporate functionary in Arlington, Virginia, when they have a question for their governor or want to access the microfiche records of the Wasilla Frontiersman won’t fly. I can’t imagine they’ll stand for it.

Maybe once she loses the vice presidency Alaskans will impeach her. That would be sweet — another rising star in the GOP goes the way of George Allen and Rudi. They hate losers, you know.

Alaskans I know (in person, by reputation, and via blog) are fiercely independent.

Yeah, but how many of them that you know are reich wingers? This is a serious question….given the fact that most republics are NOT fiercely independent. Alaska seems at least as exotic as Hawaii to me and, if palin is any indicator, it would appear that none of the lower 48 guidelines are applicable.

so what the McCain campaign has done is a Coup d’État of an American state… Is that legal?

Oh I keep forgetting …. IOKIYAR

Our local progressive radio station has a bit they do between segments which is a compilation of some of the awful statements of the wingnut shock jocks and every time I hear this it gives me the willies…..

think of Savage, Limpball, Coulter and others and their hate speech put together in a 30 second segment…..

But it would make one heck of stink all the way up!

From your fingers to God’s eyes!

I’d like to see some reporting of how Alaskans are reacting to the Palins’ squirming away from the Troopergate probe, claiming of executive privilege, etc.

And I wonder if, before now, they knew of Mrs. Palin’s per diem charges for staying at home, of her charging Wasilla rape victims for their rape kits…

In general, I wonder how much Alaskans have now found out about their Governor that they didn’t know before….

That’s pretty absurd. Don’t you think Alaska progressives and independants can deal with this without military intervention.

Here’s something to think about:

Since Joe Biden fought hard to make rape kit charges illegal on a national level, and JOHN MCCAIN voted against it, Palin and Biden should both be asked about it. The have both taken a stand.

Hey ET! Heard ya on the radio the other day!

TexBetsy!

Which program – Lionel? I was on Irish National Radio this morning. They had more anti-alcohol PSA’s on than we do in Alaska…

I’d like to see some reporting of how Alaskans are reacting to the Palins’ squirming away from the Troopergate probe, claiming of executive privilege, etc.

that would be good to know, a great point, if they want the investigation to go forward and mccain is stopping it, and we make that as publicly known as possible, that will be too much pressure on the mccain camp

Lionel

I was really teasing… I’m sure Alaska can take of itself. And Palin, obviously, will have hell to pay.

Book Salon up over at the Mothership

The Anchorage Daily News had an editorial on this yesterday:
http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/531725.html

Abdication by Palin
When did the McCain campaign take over the governor’s office?

Published: September 20th, 2008 12:53 AM
Last Modified: September 20th, 2008 02:47 AM

Gov. Sarah Palin has surrendered important gubernatorial duties to the Republican presidential campaign. McCain staff are handling public and press questions about actions she has taken as governor. The governor who said, “Hold me accountable,” is hiding behind the hired guns of the McCain campaign to avoid accountability.

Is it too much to ask that Alaska’s governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska’s governor?

….

Futile as the request may be, we encourage Gov. Palin to stand up to McCain’s handlers and be personally accountable for her administration’s response to Troopergate. She is the governor of Alaska, not John McCain or Ed O’Callaghan.

Futile as the request may be, we encourage Gov. Palin to stand up to McCain’s handlers and be personally accountable for her administration’s response to Troopergate. She is the governor of Alaska, not John McCain or Ed O’Callaghan.

Apparently she can stand up only to subordinates. But bends over for those above her!

I just saw a McCain ad warning about how Obama will respond to the economic crisis with big government and massive spending. Hee hee! I guess it’s hard to keep the ads on track with the whiplash changes in McCain’s “sincerely held beliefs”…

This palin pick was all hat and no cattle and the world has figured that one out in a few weeks. She’s nothing but trailer trash who charmed her way into government to rip off the feds and live high off the tax payers. She’s dumber than a fence post and she appeals to that segment of the population who identifies with being a fence posts… fundies and hunters on the tundra who want to ski mobile the lives away on petrol! She’s not executive timber.. she’s fence post timber!

Bad move by McCain. But then again he’s brain dead practically speaking and the world is seeing that too. Who wants a senile old fart and some trailer trash in the white house? It will (or should be) a landslide.

Give them some more rope and they will hang themselves. The “debates” could be a hoot.

The first act of an Obama administration should be to raise the tax rate on the top 1% to 75-90%. Bernie Sanders said on Friday that 400 families in the U.S. have increased their wealth by 640 billion dollars since Bush took office. That’s 400 families, 640 billion dollars. If they are unwilling to pay then seize their assets and exile them from the U.S..

They could care less what passport they have. Most of their wealth is offshore in tax havens and sheltered.

It really is unbelievable that Alaskans, espcially the AIP, have not begun to react to mccain’s people running their state. Maybe Alaskans are not really as independent as they like to portray themselves. As long as the repugs spout the rhetoric that Alaskans like to hear, the repugs actions may be exactly opposite without raising a comment.

Granted but make them persona non grata in the U.S.. Make it so they can never set foot in the U.S.. There’s a guy in my hometown who is a billionaire that moved to some Carribean nation because he refused to pay taxes in the U.S.. His factory that is still here should be seized and nationalized. Like you said, given his wealth he could care less.

If you would read mudflats or other Alaskan blogs, you might know, well, anything.

Alaskans are independent? Aren’t they the ones living off the Exxon/Mobil tit?

It’s certainly hard to convince people of the complicity of rethug lies.

Check this out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..26805.html