"Boston Blackie (happily ignored by KD the Merciless!)" mail.com>
wrote in message news:2008090114392916807-bblackie@mailcom...
| "You have to admire the Republican chutzpah. Still confronting a
| national scandal about packing the Justice Department with "loyal
| Bushies," they pick a vice presidential candidate who - in her two
| executive jobs in Alaska - ousted top law-enforcement officials because
| they were insufficiently loyal or not malleable enough.
|
| "One of those firings has put Gov. Sarah Palin at the center of an
| ongoing legislative investigation that presumably will require her to
| testify about whether she was behind efforts by her husband and senior
| staff to pressure the state's public safety commissioner to fire her
| ex-brother-in-law from the state troopers.
|
| "When the commissioner, former Anchorage police chief Walter Monegan,
| refused to go along, he was summarily ousted by Palin without much
| explanation.
She hired him so she had the right to fire him. That's the danger of being a
political appointee.
"My sense of purpose is gone! I have no idea who I AM!"
"Oh, my God... You've.. You've turned him into a DEMOCRAT!" -- Doonesbury
|
| "Unless the Republicans can figure out a way to block Palin's sworn
| deposition, she will have to either admit that she used her political
| influence to wage a family vendetta or she must face the risk that her
| continued denials of involvement will be contradicted by her own staff
| or by some other evidence.
|
| "However, if Palin admits that she did use her government office to
| punish a personal enemy - or that she fired the public safety
| commissioner because he refused to join in her family feud - the
| Republicans may have trouble continuing to sell Palin as a
| reform-minded governor.
|
| "Instead, Palin would appear to fit more neatly with Bush
| administration operatives who engineered the firing of nine U.S.
| Attorneys in 2006 and who employed ideological litmus tests in deciding
| who to hire for career jobs at the Justice Department."
|
| Source: http://tinyurl.com/Palin0001
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