The Anchorage Daily News just broke a story about a scandal in Alaska’s administration of the Medicaid programs. It seems federal auditors have suspend parts of the program because of gross mismanagement by Alaska officials that was leaving hundreds untreated and may have resluted in over 200 deaths while patients were waiting for treatment.

Tags: health care reform, Sarah Palin

Some members of the FDL gang were chatting away about the circumstances surrounding the photo of George W. Bush with the well-heeled GOP donor, Robert Toussie — who just happens to be father of Isaac Toussie, he of the on-again, off-again Bush pardon.

Poor Sarah Palin, she’s just finished itemizing all her gifts of clothes from the RNC donors and now Pappy Chuck Heath, her dad, has to go and open his mouth. Pappy rattled on about all the boxes of presents streaming in from foreign countries and of course from folks in the good ole US of [...]

The FDL crew muses on Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s interesting method of making sure not just anyone can successfully file a FOIA request with her office: By charging folks out the wazoo for them.

Pass the Pepto-Bismol, there’s one more reason to feel queasy at Thanksgiving, the holiday that’s all the agony of Xmas, but without the presents:
OurCountryDeservesBetterPAC has assembled a treacly commercial thanking Sarah for her:
passionate, hopeful, articulate advocacy of common-sense conservative values

It’s not a parody, though it does verge on the absurd, like when a woman [...]

The New York Post reports that Palin is a hot property.
PR man Hal Lifson–who might just be spinning his own straw in gold–told the Post that CAA, ICM, William Morris, Paradigm and other agencies "smell books, talk shows and commentary for Fox and CNN" as possibilities for the Alaska governor.
However, Gov GILF needs to mind [...]

Sarah Palin has been repeatedly linked to the New Apostolic Reformation, a fundamentalist theology whose leader C. Peter Wagner declared:
I declare this to the principalities and powers who have been agents of Satan to obstruct this transfer of wealth: Your time is up! Your evil powers are broken! By the blood of Jesus Christ, [...]

Tags: Assembly of God, fundamentalist Christians, Muthee, New Apostolic Reformation, Palin, redistribution of wealth, theocracy

How weird  and sort of social climby is this? Gov GILF Sarah Palin volunteered her teenage daughter Bristol as a babysitter for Tina Fey’s three year old Alice during their recent Saturday Night Live filming. Fey told told late-night host Conan O’Brien on Tuesday night’s show:
Gov. Palin was like, ‘Oh, did Alice go [...]

Sarah loves to give “thumbs-up” to the men at her rallies who think she’s HOT, but the men in her own life aren’t nearly so happy about the male attention she’s garnered.

Tags: Palin, todd palin

Here’s a question some enterprising journamalism person with access to McCain/Palin folks might want to ask:  who told Palin to amend her travel expense reports? Via DailyMail:
It is claimed Ms Palin contacted her office after being selected as John McCain’s running mate in September and told staff to amend her expenses so that [...]