McCain's Earmark Lie
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McCain's Earmark Lie: Palin actually grubs $1 mil/day as Gov. by Kagro X
Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 03:00:11 PM PDT
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.
It's been 652 days since Earmark Queen Sarah Palin took office as Governor of Alaska.
In that time, she's hustled for $453,000,000 in federal lipstick pork.
That's $694,785.28 a day. Six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents. Every day. Even Sundays!
Palin was grubbing six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents out of the federal trough on the very day when John McCain looked America in the eye and said she was taking zero.
And she took it again today, too.
And she took it on every one of the 312 nights she spent at home and billed the Alaskan taxpayers for it.
So why say it's a million dollars a day? Well, first, let me show you what Slick Sarah Palin is telling people:
On the campaign trail, Gov. Palin has repeatedly attacked Sen. Obama on earmarks. "Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in three years. That's about a million for every working day," she said at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.
Ohhhh, this feels like it's going to get embarrassing in a second....
And, behold! Look what "The Math" says!
It is difficult to compare Sen. Obama's earmark record with Gov. Palin's -- their states differ in size, for instance, and the two candidates play different roles in the process. But using the same calculation that the McCain campaign uses, the total amount of earmarked dollars divided by the number of working days while each held office (assuming a five-day workweek, every week, for both), Gov. Palin sought $980,000 per workday, compared with roughly $893,000 for Sen. Obama.
Not only is Palin taking much more, but oh my word if the million dollar figure doesn't actually fit her sooooo much better than the person she's trying to use it against! What a surprise!
So that's almost a million dollars a day, whether she showed up at the office or not. A million bucks, plus $60 in her pocket for defrosting one of her own mooseburgers for lunch.
And really, Palin must be asking herself, why not chisel the Alaska state government a little bit? After all:
The state's earmark requests stand out in part because its state government is among the wealthiest in the U.S. Flush with oil and gas royalties, it doesn't impose income or sales taxes. In fact, money flows the other way: Every man, woman and child this year got a check for $3,200.
Gosh, but they're such rugged individualists up there! They're gonna launch themselves into orbit with those bootstraps, don'tcha know?
A million dollars a day. From you and me. Plus $3,200 in the bank for each one of 'em. And $60 in Sarah's pocket for every lunch at home. (Like every working mom, of course!)
It's the new fiscal responsibility, in John McCain's seven house-owning, $5 million middle class living world!

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Don't bother me with facts. Obama is a fascist. Ooops I mean a socialist. Whatever.
Palin, "YOU ARE SO AWESOME", as one of her sycophant cronies that she appoints wrote to her, as described in the NYT article the other day - the crony must have forgotten to use her personal email account as Palin directed her cronies so all public disclosure can be avoided. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Oooh, where's our returned-to-their-saddle poster when we need them to point out:
"In that time, she's hustled for $453,000,000 in federal lipstick pork."
The sexuaily tinged wording of the left. So Palin is a 'hustler'...
Um, you seem to be forgetting that Palin is the first one to use the lipstick line, that is after McCain used the phrase lipstick on a pig several times.
Wouldn't it be great for the Republicans if they could get McCain and Palin elected over faux sexism charges against the Democrats?
Let me translate the good Doctor's reply, for those of you playing along on our home game:
Hang on - let me get out my trusty "conservatarian-to-English" decoder ring....ah yes....hang on, almost through....OK! Got it! Here's the translation: "I can't actually refute anything in the OP, so I think I'll just bloviate a bit about "the sexualized language of the left."
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
I don’t claim to have an in-depth understanding of Alaskan economics so generally remain silent in that area and I doubt anyone here really does know.
Propaganda, eh?
What part? Did you find anything you could actually refute in there? Or just wanted to insult-and-run?
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
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