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Archive for September 6th, 2008

Palin Camp Can’t Name Any Dems Attacking Her Family

It used to be that Republicans used the equivalent of a bulletin-board for a sports team, where the quotes from the opponent were posted prominently and used to fire up the team to play harder.
The Republicans would take a quote, no matter how innocent, and act like some horrible afront to their candidate had been [...]

Wonk Room - Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State

In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community.
This is not totally atypical in her state. Alaska’s government receives more money per capita in federal earmark money than any other state, despite being the only state in the union with no [...]