Jeff Jacoby needs an editor

...seeing as she's such a small-government proponent, when she says "build it ourselves," she presumably means that the private citizens of Alaska would get out their hacksaws and welding torches their own selves - possibly funded by bake sales and private donations.

I'm not the only one who thinks that Jacoby is given continued employment in the Globe only so that liberal readers can be reassured that conservatives are mendacious and/or stupid. I'm sure there's a competent conservative out there, but he's not it.

Also, one of the conditions of canceling the bridge to nowhere project was that Alaska got to keep the money for other highway projects. That seems like the real outrage to me.

There is no shortage of places to post political rants on the internet. Do you think you could take your bile somewhere else?

Timeline:

• In 2005 Congress killed the earmarks for federal funding for the bridge but didn't reduce the federal funds sent to Alaska.

• As a candidate for Governor, Palin said in May 2006 that it's hard to believe the bridge is the best use for all the money it will cost, but came out in favor of state tax increases on natural gas and cruise ship revenues if the project moves forward.

• Then she said in August 2006 that she would love to see the Ketchikan bridge constructed, though she also acknowledged Alaskans need to be realistic about where the money would come from.

• In October of 2006 Palin said that she supported the overall infrastructure projects going on in Alaska but warned that the flow of federal money is going to slow.

• Palin assumed office in December 2006.

• In February 2007 Palin's office announced that they had set aside no money in their budget for the bridge project.

• In September 2007 upon the cancelation of the project, she said "Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport, but the $398 million bridge is not the answer" and directed the state transportation department to find the most "fiscally responsible" alternative for access to the airport.
  

www.sarah palin isnt hillary clinton.com

Don't pick a candidate whose family and staff leaned on one of her direct reports to fire a guy who had a messy divorce with her sister, then fired the direct report and replaced him with a guy with a sexual harassment history who lasted only two weeks but got a nice severance.

Don't pick a candidate whose foreign policy experience is based on her state's proximity to Russia.

Don't pick a candidate to shore up your rapidly peeling-away base, the Beltway gasbags who enjoy nothing more than dramatic narratives, but who haven't had the country's best interests at heart since the Clinton impeachment drama.

Don't pick a candidate to enrapture the base of your party that's never fallen in love with you: the fundamentalist evangelicals who have captured your party and turned it into a voice for theocracy.

Don't pick a candidate as a cynical sexist ploy because you think her gender will make women who supported Hillary Clinton swoon, especially since Hillary's name still elicits boos at your own rallies. This will really bomb if your Veep's own views are antithetical to liberal progressive feminism -- a creationist who favors state-forced birth, is anti-gay and anti-environment, who may (?) favor The Surge and is pro-gun.

Palin's Troopergate Scandal - Caught on Tape

Governor Palin has been accused of using her position to try to fire her ex brother-in-law, State Trooper Mike Wooten. From Electoral Vote:

Initially Palin denied having any of her staff try to pressure the Dept. to fire him, but then a police recording surfaced in which one of her staff was clearly putting on pressure to get Wooten fired, so she backtracked and said yes there was pressure but she didn't know her staff was doing this.

The full recording is available here. The first few minutes are about a different topic, not relevant to this discussion. Here is an edited version in which the irrelevant material has been deleted. This is indicated by a bleep sound 42 seconds into the call. Nothing else has been changed.