GOP Runs off Cliff. Dems Say, “Beep Beep!”
Some interesting new numbers have been coming in this week. It would appear that the approval rating of the GOP leadership is plummeting among…. Republicans. And by ‘plummeting’, I’m talking about a 12-points free fall in one month, according to a Pew Research poll, down from 55% at the beginning of February to 43% now. And we’ve gone well past the 50% mark, meaning that a minority of Republicans approve of their leadership. I find this encouraging, although the places they are looking for new leadership are a bit disturbing. [*coughPalincough*]
Not only that, but approval of GOP leaders overall has dropped to 28% overall — the lowest rating for GOP leaders in 12 years of Pew polling.
In fact, approval of Republican congressional leaders has fallen from 34% in February to 28% currently, the lowest rating for GOP leaders in nearly 14 years of Pew Research surveys.
Why is this happening? Is it general lack of morale among Republicans? Is it that GOP voters are frustrated that their leaders haven’t succeeded in blocking Obama’s agenda? Or could it be that the Dem strategy of using Rush Limbaugh to drive a wedge between die-hard partisan Republicans and those who want to see Obama succeed is working? Something is turning Republicans against their own leadership — in big numbers.
Separately, the poll also finds that Obama’s approval rating has slipped a bit amid doubts about certain aspects of Obama’s agenda. But the big movement here appears to be about the GOP.
This trend is backed up by Rasmussen, and a new poll by Daily Kos, which is worth checking out in its entirety.
Meanwhile, progressives will continue to peer over the cliff.
This video (and the comments) are hilarious! The looney right is completely delusional. Originally posted at ThinkProgress but the wonketeers put on the snark:
http://wonkette.com/407016/fox-news-makes-up-new-lying-tune-for-dumb-obama-and-biden
Just so the cliff is higher off the ground than the darn Oval Office in SNL when The Rock Obama tossed the morons out the window. I clapped & laughed my head off! And I used to be such a nice person…
Will the party of “Whigs,” rise again?
Maybe the ” scared smart” reality is kicking in. What does it take to make people start to wise up?
1 A unjust war.
2 The collapse of wall street and are banking system.
3 Millions of Americans kicked out of there homes with no place to go.
4 Leadership that you can believe in.
5. Massive unemployment.
6. The public to realize that using war toys is not a game.
7. “Tent cities parks” in all American towns.
8. Climate Change.
9. The tumble of the big 3 auto makers.
10. GINO in office!
OT – sorta
Interesting graphic on 50 people who will frame the debate on the future of capitalism.
GINO’s nowhere to be found.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f6f08da-0d7d-11de-8914-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=ae1104cc-f82e-11dd-aae8-000077b07658.html
I look forward to the progressive and thinking conservatives setting up their own new party.. two parties are needed for healthy debate. Civil discourse will be a nice new addition to the political process.
And the nutters can keep flying off those cliffs to no one’s sorrow.
@NoCalGal (14:05:57) :
When the nutters crash at the bottom of the cliff, do they turn into nutters butters?
Can’t you just hear the looney tune music and Porkey saying “Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!”
It seems pretty clear from the numbers that Republicans are even more unhappy with anything having to do with the Democratic Party then there are with their own party. They are just unhappy that the Republicans can’t stop Obama.
@CA dreamin of AK (14:12:33) :
Hm, that Porky wouldn’t be Rush, would it?
heh heh,,,,, I can hear the anvil falling now.
It appears we are witnessing The Awakening of the Comatose Right.
Expect a lot of dysfunctional babbling as they regain consciousness and consciences.
Preacher Jon speaks the truth.
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/94298/Jon_Stewarts_Moral_Majority
And what loser are they going to turn to next to head the RNC? Let me give you a hint: he has lost to a professional wrestler, barely beaten a dead guy, and then lost to a comedian.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_11924996
Why in the world would repubs want someone under investigation by the FBI?
mde – thanks for posting that. It was on Huffpo for a very short time and it was gone before I could capture it. Now that is some crazy s**t !!!
@mde (14:26:05) :
<i.Why in the world would repubs want someone under investigation by the FBI?
Well, it would make them all feel at home, wouldn’t it?
I would like to think that the decline of the GOP, is due partly, at least, to the power of the internet. People aren’t just blindly following their parents and biased news reporting/propaganda.
As more and more people get computer literate, they seek out the truth for themselves. Even people on right wing web sites must get smacked with the truth occasionally. They must follow up on links sometimes, and seeds of doubt must get planted.
p.s. How many macho redneck types were just plain embarrassed by the creepy, weepy Glen Beck on Friday? He should be surrounded, by men in white coats.
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In Juneau in the Senate. Yard Sign in the grass. Pi in the oven. And Sardine in the can.
Gino may just get to lead the charge. Yes, they could be just that desperate!
Moose PuckyNo Gravatar (15:04:36) :
In Juneau in the Senate. Yard Sign in the grass. Pi in the oven. And Sardine in the can.
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lol. I kind of miss living in Juneau (not enough to move back there).
OT, and sad. This is happening all over. And this paper has been reporting on AK stuff for a long time:
SEATTLE – The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and miners caroused in its bars before heading north to Alaska’s gold fields, will print its final edition Tuesday.
Haras Maet out in force over at ADN.
Although it’s clearly understood that the GOP is ‘the party of the rich’, the lower taxes/small government mantra appealed to a lot of voters, who were planning on becoming rich themselves.
1. However, the tax cuts were for the rich, and didn’t trickle anywhere.
2. Small government meant deregulation for Wall Street-that bastion of Republican values-with the ensuing free-for-all/bail-out.
3. For everybody else, deregulation meant poisonous toys, poisonous tooth paste, poisonous peanut butter, and poisonous FEMA trailers.
4. A ‘humble foreign policy’ turned out to be an opportunity for a cabal of neo-cons to sink this country into a Middle-Eastern quagmire.
Now, we’re broke and disgusted, and all the republicans have to offer is Rush limbaugh, Bubba jindal from Mayberry, and maybe Palin.
Let’s say, that the ‘smarter’ Republicans feel they’ve been had.
If the Dems, in pushing the “Rush is your leader” button of the RepoTalibans to intentionally make the Republican party look really really stupid and weak, and to take it to the point that RepoTalibans continue to loose elections, and political power; then of course the Democrats take over most of the political control of the government.
But a one party system in a Democracy doesn’t work well. (I personally favor a no party system of citizen candidates, as opposed to party candidates)
I wonder, however, if the Dems realize that by killing the RepoTalibans they may be raising the now unrepresented moderate conservatives back to the point they were when Nixon was first elected.
Moderate Republicans aren’t so bad. At least they used to be willing to sit and compromise and they could push the Dems out of power.
On the other hand if the Dems are doing this intentionally for the long term removal of the Bushies and Dittoheads, so that there is room for the moderate Republicans – They will be doing the country an enormous favor.
@ Marnie
“On the other hand if the Dems are doing this intentionally for the long term removal of the Bushies and Dittoheads, so that there is room for the moderate Republicans – They will be doing the country an enormous favor.”
I certainly feel this is the case – we have to balance back toward the middle. Even if there are some Dems who wanna go ROGUE, our president is FIRMLY entrenched in upholding the constitution, bill of rights, et al and has never stopped thinking about what the founding “fathers” intended for our government. Read “The Audacity of Hope” if you haven’t – if more of these whackjobs would read his two great books, they would have to stop being scared. That wouldn’t be any fun now, would it?
Well they would probably still be scared, but not for the same reasons they are now! More likely they would be terrified of how well he uses his brain, how well rounded he is, how quickly he learns from his mistakes, and how “what you see is what you get”. No big secrets there, except the idiots keep trying to make them up. Too much trouble to read ya know, and do a little studying, and questioning…they just don’t have it in ‘em I guess.
I don’t get this thing of filling 20 pages of comments on adn over GINO. Even on “our” side. Why talk to those dingbats? Their brains aren’t even hooked to their mouths or typing fingers. Why not consolidate one or two really good zingers to the idiots after they crank out 20 pages of idiocy (elect a responder of the day?)? I mean, it’s not like going to Margaret and Helen and having goofy back and forths. This is vicious nastiness. I really can’t even read that brain dead, bad grammar, socialist Obama, Sarahlove BS. Not worth my time to read or answer. I spend one minute there and regret it. just sayin’…
@ Marnie
Forgot to mention that I have a lot of Republican relatives who I adore as hard working, generous and salt of the earth types. And most of my clients are R’s as well – we don’t talk politics but I love ‘em all the same as good folks and good business people. Of course we need the moderates! And don’t forget the leftie whackos who are as bad as the right wing nutjobs – I hit their sites a few times here and there and just shake my head. We need change, moderation, cooperation and a healthy discussion about all sorts of things!
@ womanwithsardinecan
I don’t read comments at any AK newspaper except the Alaska Dispatch. I don’t do those stupid polls, either. Waste of time.
Completely OT, but the whistling swans have landed in Utah. Resting on their annual migration to Alaska! Spring really is almost here!
I’m all for seeing the Republicans coming back as a reasonable party. But not until we’ve had a chance to really clean up some of their messes and get this train back on the rails. Rewrite the playbook, so to speak. I have a feeling the “loyal opposition” is going to be coming from the left for the foreseeable future.
Slightly OT, but has any recent polling (within the last month) been done of Palin’s approval rating in AK?
Hopefully her new polling numbers will reflect the plummeting numbers being reported here.
empishNo Gravatar (16:00:45) :
Completely OT, but the whistling swans have landed in Utah. Resting on their annual migration to Alaska! Spring really is almost here!
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I’m kicking myself that I didn’t take pics of the Aleutian geese when they were on their stopover here in northern California. I haven’t seen them for the last couple of days. grrr.
I also have moderate R friends and independent friends. We need them. And there are definitely plenty of nutballs on the left. We don’t need them.
empishNo Gravatar (16:00:45) :
Completely OT, but the whistling swans have landed in Utah. Resting on their annual migration to Alaska! Spring really is almost here!
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Awwww! If you get a nice picture maybe you could send to AKM to post for us?
For another moment of zen or something!
With GINO not “confirmed” for the June GOP, maybe the poll numbers will re-bound.
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (15:54:13) :
@ Marnie
Forgot to mention that I have a lot of Republican relatives who I adore as hard working, generous and salt of the earth types.
If I’d had the 25 bucks for membership I would have joined the Young Republicans back in the 60′s when I was at UT Austin. Johnson just wasn’t at all acceptable, and at that time the Republicans made more sense.
Just as well I didn’t. No way I was going to vote for Nixon.
But they weren’t far out wacks and dumbhead like they have been since Reagan.
Marnie – did you ever catch Janis Joplin at Threadgill’s ??
austintx (16:55:47) :
Marnie – did you ever catch Janis Joplin at Threadgill’s ??
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Austintx…are you @ forum? This post reminds me of something, I want to ask you, but OT.
Interesting article by Shannyn Moore on HuffPo…
Shannyn Moore just posted something new:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/karl-rove-sarah-palin-tim_b_175557.html
caligrl – Thank you for sharing that. Griffin is a triple-X CREEP !! Shannyn laid it out. Every person in AK. needs to know about that turd.
caligrl – not on forum…..should I be ??
Just checked adn – McWhatsit says SP hasn’t confirmed, Repubs jumped the gun in announcing “Palin to speak.”
Isn’t there a song about that? “first ya say ya do, then ya don’t; then ya say you will, but you won’t…” something like that, anyway.
austintxNo Gravatar (17:36:31) :
caligrl – not on forum…..should I be ??
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YES!
Nan (17:44:52)
Or Amateur Hour (for schedulers) with McAllister “stunned” and GOP flunkies scrambling to find the communication mis-fire. They’ll all come up with a spin by the AM.
austintxNo Gravatar (17:36:31) :
caligrl – not on forum…..should I be ??
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Oh I wanted to ask you a OT question about a Punk group out of Austin.
austintxNo Gravatar (17:35:04) :
caligrl – Thank you for sharing that. Griffin is a triple-X CREEP !! Shannyn laid it out. Every person in AK. needs to know about that turd.
I wonder if it was him who got the lawyers from texas up there to defend GINO in troopergate???
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YeaH! And Palin paling around with this turd
Someone quoted your/Buddha’s saying on Gryphen’s site, “Some things always come out, the sun, the moon, and the truth” we will wait and see….
OT…in case in was not mentioned yet.
You go, Canada! (on KO) Bush cannot step foot in Canada without being ‘investigated’ (hopefully arrested!) for torture. I wish we, in the U.S., would take as firm a stand. Thank you, Canada.
Now if Canada could do something similar with palin…hmmm…since that foreign country is so close to Alaska…hmmm.
@Marnie
…at that time the Republicans made more sense.
…But they weren’t far out wacks and dumbhead like they have been since Reagan.
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You said it, sister! (and I’m not a Repub, but agree it wasn’t sooo out of touch back then) I still think that ‘religion’ has no place in politics, as in governing ALL the people!
This is good, from ADN:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/energy/1010-is-palin-holding-up-alaskas-long-sought-gas-pipeline
Scroll through to hear Bill McAllister’s response – This sentence stood out to me:
‘McGinniss notes “her absence from major oil-company summits.’ “She had Exxon in her office last week. Not sure what his point is there.” HUH? McCallister responds to a statement about MAJOR OIL CO. SUMMITS with a defense that GINO had an office meeting with Exxon?
Poor Bill McAllister – how long can he keep speaking for she who cannot speak for herself?
OT OT OT
I’m somewhat like womanwithsardinecan – reluctant to spend a lot of time on the forum. Hope you’ll tolerate this one little teeny OT post. I think it’s pretty interesting.
I live in the Upper Yukon out in the bush. (That’s about as specific as I’m going to get.) Today my hubby was talking to someone ‘in the know’ (somewhat of an insider, shall we say), and this person said that the state has started shooting wolves from helicopters in our area. They started a couple of days ago and had already killed 30-some. There was some mention of a figure of “70 percent,” but for the life of him hubby couldn’t recall what that referred to …… so don’t know if it meant 70% in our unit or what ……
Am sad.
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THERE! Now if someone wants to talk about it, they’ll have to go to the forum.
(Maybe it’s not that OT, as this kind of news will hopefully see GINO plummet in the polls.)
UK Lady…Watched Beck Fri. What is this crap tht he’s promoting!! Has anyone ever checked Greta’s blog out??? The mentality of these peeps is unbelievable..It is really enlightening..
Has anyone seen this? Why?
8 charged in Point Hope caribou slaughter
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/725368.html
“Even when troopers got to the scene weeks later, some still-nursing calves remained, trying to suckle milk from their decomposing mothers.”
Star – yes, I spent time on Greta’s blog for weeks trying to politely talk sense to these people – to no avail. Beck is seriously mentally ill and his “We Surround Them” meet ups are extremely frightening.
crystalwolf: I don’t know why the barbarism happens, it is just heart-breaking.
Apparently, GINO grew up with these atrocities, learned them from her dad and that explains her blood-thirsty actions re the ariel wolf-killings etc.
I love reading the comments made on various articles. Some ppl are so articulate – much like AKM – hmmm wondering if AKM has multi aliases —-
Just a couple “cuties” from ADN
“Actually … I miss seeing Palin doing public interviews, without any script or teleprompters. There really aren’t very many TV programs with that kind of laugh-out-loud humor. It must be hard to be that funny while keeping such a straight face, so she really is talented.
I SO enjoy all your comments here! Thanks for letting an ‘outsider’ in.”
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“She’s probably waiting to find out if Piper and Willow and Trig are “invited” before she confirms. ”
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“Guess Meg didn’t call Bill to tell him what Todd decided Sarah should do.”
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (15:54:13) :
@ Marnie
(Republicans)
But they weren’t far out wacks and dumbhead like they have been since Reagan.
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Errrrrrrrrrrr Martha …. I think you forgot Spiro Agnew and the fact that Watergate did not happen in a vacuum. The Republicans cleverly got you to believe all the Dems were either Johnson or Jane Fonda and the unions were destroying the country. They still play those cards. That’s the song Cheney is singing. It worked for 40 years. The game the Republicans started with Nixon they almost completed with Bush. Read Nixonland for some enlightenment.
I think the Republicans need to wonder 40 years in the desert for what they did and are still trying to do. They tried to turn this country into a dictatorship of idiots.
@crystalwolf aka caligrl (19:04:19) :
Has anyone seen this? Why?
“….. trying to suckle milk from their decomposing mothers.”
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can’t find the words ……..
arghhhhhhhhhhh
@Enjay in Eastern MT (19:10:51) :
I SO enjoy all your comments here! Thanks for letting an ‘outsider’ in.”
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hmmmm, I’ve never seen any outsiders here – unless you’re talking about those talking about those silly ones who go SPLAT every now and then!
We enjoy you too, Enjay! (almost typed Enjoy!)
lol @ Yukonbush
those were comments from ADN on GINO doing the trip or not doing the trip
TS is “reporting abuse” on quite a few comments to get them deleted
PS And all those good ole boy Republicans that went along did so for guns, the fantasy that their taxes wouldn’t go up (they did anyway but the idiots can’t count past 10 fingers and toes), and the desire to manage some strange women’s vaginas. Pretty sad trade-off for a democracy. The numbers would seem to indicate that party members are thinking about it.
Lori Los Angeles~I am really concerned about what would happen if Sara ever made it to the WH…Sarah is a loose cannon.She scares the hell out of me..I love this place…
Philip Munger has an excellent new post -
Anne Kilkenny to be Honored by the Alaska Press Club http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/03/anne-kilkenny-to-be-honored-by-alaska.html
Yeah, Anne!!!!
@Enjay in Eastern MT (19:23:57) :
lol @ Yukonbush
OOPS! yup, I saw that later – where the quotation marks were.
lol AT ME!
Ya know, I am about as Conservative as you are liberal.
…and I thought this Blog posting title was funny as hell!
-Pat
Why, thank you!
AKM
The AK Press Corps honors Anne Kilkenny just after Katie Couric is given the Cronkite Award – both awards for exposing Sarah Palin. I posted (as “Ella”) on Phil Munger’s site and I said that “this may make Sarah’s head expode!” Phil answered: “empty objects don’t tend to explode…..”
Lori in Los Angeles(19:47:18) :
The AK Press Corps honors Anne Kilkenny just after Katie Couric is given the Cronkite Award – both awards for exposing Sarah Palin. I posted (as “Ella”) on Phil Munger’s site and I said that “this may make Sarah’s head expode!” Phil answered: “empty objects don’t tend to explode…..”
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Lori, I saw that
I know others have mentioned it, but everyone needs to read Shannyn’s latest – it’s superb … excellent research (but it does kinda give you the creepies):
Karl Rove, Sarah Palin & Tim Griffin walk into a bar…
http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/karl-rove-sarah-palin-tim-griffin-walk-into-a-bar/
Am going to recommend to HuffPost!
@Star
Lori Los Angeles~I am really concerned about what would happen if Sara ever made it to the WH…Sarah is a loose cannon.She scares the hell out of me..I love this place…
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she scares the HELL out of me, too!
and I do love my country so much that I can’t let her anywhere near it!
@Lori in Los Angeles (19:47:18) :
I said that “this may make Sarah’s head expode!” Phil answered: “empty objects don’t tend to explode…..”
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LMAO!
yukonbushgrmaNo Gravatar (20:04:36) :
I know others have mentioned it, but everyone needs to read Shannyn’s latest – it’s superb … excellent research (but it does kinda give you the creepies):
Karl Rove, Sarah Palin & Tim Griffin walk into a bar…
http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/karl-rove-sarah-palin-tim-griffin-walk-into-a-bar/
Am going to recommend to HuffPost!
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Its already on HuffPo!
@crystalwolf aka caligrl (20:07:43) :
“Its already on HuffPo!”
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hahahaha I give up, can’t do anything right.
Thanks crystalwolf, you just saved me lots of time!
That’s what I get for trying to do real WORK instead of keeping up with the blogs like I should ……….
Star and Lainey – do not fret. Her “base” is so extreme, and represents less than 20% of the voters – not enough to possibly be elected, and likely not enough to make it through the primaries. Nonetheless, we will be ever vigilant, for the sake of Alaska, too, also.
yukonbushgrmaNo Gravatar (20:13:38) :
@crystalwolf aka caligrl (20:07:43) :
“Its already on HuffPo!”
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hahahaha I give up, can’t do anything right.
Thanks crystalwolf, you just saved me lots of time!
That’s what I get for trying to do real WORK instead of keeping up with the blogs like I should ……….
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You can subcribe to Shannyn’s blogs on HuffPo and AKM too! Its really great! They let you know when they’ve posted a blog!
Bit O/T — (and about ready for bed)
If AIG has a “contractual” obligation to pay millions of dollars to their ppl (with taxpayers bailout money)
THEN
How can a Judge change a Mortgage Balance / Payments or Interest Rate on a “mortgage CONTRACT” ???
sometimes my mind just goes off to la la land before the body does …..
from a poster at Juneau Empire:
“Southeast Alaskans can not vote Sarah Palin back in as Governor, her husband used the Governors office to place calls to John Harris to argue moving the capital out of Juneau!”
“John Harris, the Republican speaker of the Alaska House, said he had never been called by the spouse of a governor before the two calls he got from Todd Palin. One was to argue for moving the state capital to Anchorage. The other was to ask Harris to “keep an eye” on a key aide who had an affair with the wife of one of Todd’s best friends.”
and I thought I’d seen “clueless” before, but this is a pinnacle beyond my comprehension. Wow.
@ SameOld
As much as I agree that I personally would LOVE to see the R’s wander for 40 years in the desert trying to find themselves – I’m afraid that wouldn’t work either. Corruption, greed and overreaching is not just an R trait and Dems can do it, too, and most certainly have. I prefer to remain unaligned and ever vigilant – and believe as the president does that striving for a much higher percentage of educated Americans may well be our saving grace.
AKM’s on a roll, maybe a light night mocha? NEW THREAD!
@Lori in Los Angeles
Nonetheless, we will be ever vigilant, for the sake of Alaska, too, also.
———Thank You…we need to stick together in times of trouble.
John Harris, the Republican speaker of the Alaska House, said he had never been called by the spouse of a governor before the two calls he got from Todd Palin. One was to argue for moving the state capital to Anchorage. The other was to ask Harris to “keep an eye” on a key aide who had an affair with the wife of one of Todd’s best friends.”
——— what’s up with this palin family??!!?? they’re all so bizaar…beyond the pale! they’ve been ‘unregulated’ too damn long!
@yukonbushgrma (18:25:58) :
Here’s info on the wolf hunt: http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/wolves/story/725545.html
First, a big hand for Ann Kilkenny. We all owe her a huge debt.
Second, an interesting post on Five Thirty Eight.com about the differences (or lack thereof) between those of different political persuasions and how divided we might not be as a nation.
The post has a link to the survey used to draw it’s conclusions. 330 for me. About as far from maeT haraS as I can possibly get. Whew!
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/03/nation-neither-united-nor-divided.html
if the GOP would focus on competent candidates instead of the train wrecks, then “the base” would be a bit more positive and engaged.
someone ought to start a blog called eyeontoddpalin or eyeonthedud and start tabulating all the instances wherein he operates as governor by proxy. am i the only one who believes that his actions are unethical – even if his actions are not specifically covered by an ethics law?
Enjay in Eastern MT
If you happen to check in this page today. You’ll notice that many regular commenters here are not “insiders,” as in Alaskans. We got into the habit of learning as much about VP candidate Palin back in October etc. as we could, and have stayed on
1) for the reason above mentioned
2) AKM has a great site
3) we enjoy talking with each other
4) and the list goes on
yukonbushgrmaNo Gravatar (18:25:58) :
OT OT OT
I’m somewhat like womanwithsardinecan – reluctant to spend a lot of time on the forum. Hope you’ll tolerate this one little teeny OT post. I think it’s pretty interesting.
I live in the Upper Yukon out in the bush. (That’s about as specific as I’m going to get.) Today my hubby was talking to someone ‘in the know’ (somewhat of an insider, shall we say), and this person said that the state has started shooting wolves from helicopters in our area. They started a couple of days ago and had already killed 30-some. There was some mention of a figure of “70 percent,” but for the life of him hubby couldn’t recall what that referred to …… so don’t know if it meant 70% in our unit or what ……
Am sad.
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THERE! Now if someone wants to talk about it, they’ll have to go to the forum.
(Maybe it’s not that OT, as this kind of news will hopefully see GINO plummet in the polls.)
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Somebody is covering that story but I can’t remember where I saw it because I’ve been blog hopping this morning. The National Park Service is pissed because there are wolf populations nearby that are protected by the park.
Separately, the poll also finds that Obama’s approval rating has slipped a bit amid doubts about certain aspects of Obama’s agenda. But the big movement here appears to be about the GOP.
The poll shows that Obama’s approval rating is slipping because Republicans are changing their minds about Obama. Democratic and Independent support for our President hasn’t changed much and has even gone up a little.
Do we care what the Republicans think about Obama? I don’t. I wish he would stop trying to play nice with them and start treating them the way they treated the Democrats for 8 years.
The Protecters of the Palin Brand
EXCERPT;
So, who are the figures charged with guiding Palin’s political image in Washington? Here’s the lineup based on our conversations with informed strategists.
• John Coale: Coale, a well-known Washington lawyer and the husband of Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren, drew national media attention when he endorsed Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid in protest of the way in which Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who he backed in the primary, was treated. Coale, in an interview with the Fix, described himself simply as a “friend” of the Alaska governor
LINK;
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2009/03/palins_team.html
SHOCKING COMMENT;
Chris omits a significant fact about John Coale.
He’s a prominent Scientology lawyer.
Here’s a quick rundown of his Scientology training:
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/j/john-p.-coale.html
.. and another writeup about his involvement with SarahPAC:
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/van_susteren_scientology_and_sarahpac
Sarah Palin — the candidate of Scientology
Who knew? I’ll bet her multitude of Christian evangelical supporters would be interested to find out about this.
But now her babbling all makes sense.
Posted by: tbetz | March 17, 2009 3:20 PM
Dunno if any of you have read this yet, but I strongly suggest it:
http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2009/03/17/Governor-Palins-Big-Energy-Battles?page=1#page=1
Very, very interesting reading.