I can only imagine...

[MJZiggy]

The excuses this will bring on...How many posts before we get to Republican revenge...?

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/10/palin.html

[LEWCWA]

yours is better I'm not smart enough to add links!!!

[HowardRoark]

State Troopers, abuse of power, violent and rogue behavior, cover-ups........hell, she was just building her resume.

[MJZiggy]

I didn't know that Arkansas found him guilty of that...his big downfall was that he liked his women, but then there are a few of you out there that spend your lives being led around by your private parts...

[HowardRoark]

I didn't know that Arkansas found him guilty of that...his big downfall was that he liked his women, but then there are a few of you out there that spend your lives being led around by your private parts...

I guess Sarah's big downfall is she likes her sister.

As far as Clinton, of his many distinguishing characteristics, he certainly was bent on being led around by his private part.

[Partial]

What politician doesn't abuse their power?

[mraynrand]

This is the weakest of hatchet jobs, by an Obama supporter and political foe of Palin.

Finding Number One

For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides

The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust."

Finding Number Two

I find that, although Walt Monegan's refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.

The report isn't even internally consistent. There is a bit of a problem in that Palin didn't prevent her husband from using her office to put some pressure on to fire the trooper, but the report essentially is one of a single guy balancing competing and contradictory hearsay. It's pretty low level. BTW, did you hear that John McCain was part of the Keating 5?

[th87]

This is the weakest of hatchet jobs, by an Obama supporter and political foe of Palin.

Finding Number One

For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides

The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust."

Finding Number Two

I find that, although Walt Monegan's refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.

The report isn't even internally consistent. There is a bit of a problem in that Palin didn't prevent her husband from using her office to put some pressure on to fire the trooper, but the report essentially is one of a single guy balancing competing and contradictory hearsay. It's pretty low level. BTW, did you hear that John McCain was part of the Keating 5?

It was legal but it was abusive? Makes sense to me. Plus weren't there a majority of Republicans on the panel?

[texaspackerbacker]

This is the weakest of hatchet jobs, by an Obama supporter and political foe of Palin.

Finding Number One

For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides

The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust."

Finding Number Two
"
I find that, although Walt Monegan's refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.

The report isn't even internally consistent. There is a bit of a problem in that Palin didn't prevent her husband from using her office to put some pressure on to fire the trooper, but the report essentially is one of a single guy balancing competing and contradictory hearsay. It's pretty low level. BTW, did you hear that John McCain was part of the Keating 5?

It was legal but it was abusive? Makes sense to me. Plus weren't there a majority of Republicans on the panel?

"Abusive" was when the creep of an ex-brother-in-law used a stun gun on his pre-teen step-son.

As for the "majority of Republicans", could they possibly be from the corrupt bunch that Palin took on and tried to clean out of the state government when she became governor? There was a time when a majority of Republicans would have hung John McCain out to dry too. I would probably have been among them.

As I said in the other thread, this is a shining example of the liberal principal of Moral Equivalency--Palin standing up to her sister's spouse abusing/child abusing ex-husband, compared to Obama's literal political birth at the home of a murdering domestic terrorist and unabashed hater of America.

[SkinBasket]

Re: I can only imagine...

The excuses this will bring on...How many posts before we get to Republican revenge...?

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/10/palin.html

Looking at the report, it's the report that needs the excuses, not Palin. Of course the media will carry the headline about evil abuses of power without referencing the substance of the report, which basically says, yeah, okay, she didn't do anything wrong, but we still don't like it! Weep. Sob.

[th87]

Re: I can only imagine...

The excuses this will bring on...How many posts before we get to Republican revenge...?

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/10/palin.html

Looking at the report, it's the report that needs the excuses, not Palin. Of course the media will carry the headline about evil abuses of power without referencing the substance of the report, which basically says, yeah, okay, she didn't do anything wrong, but we still don't like it! Weep. Sob.

Actually, it says that she didn't do anything illegal, but it was unethical.

Gray areas at work.

[MJZiggy]

Excuses, excuses. Poor Sarah abused by all those nasty Republicans...

Of course it's their fault and the fault of the report. Sarah couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it. Just because the finding was unanimous an bipartisan, she couldn't possibly have done anything wrong.

[SkinBasket]

Re: I can only imagine...

The excuses this will bring on...How many posts before we get to Republican revenge...?

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/10/palin.html

Looking at the report, it's the report that needs the excuses, not Palin. Of course the media will carry the headline about evil abuses of power without referencing the substance of the report, which basically says, yeah, okay, she didn't do anything wrong, but we still don't like it! Weep. Sob.

Actually, it says that she didn't do anything illegal, but it was unethical.

Gray areas at work.

If by gray areas you mean using politics to make personal attacks against Palin, then yes, I suppose you're right. There's nothing to substantiate the "unethical" part outside of opinion.

[texaspackerbacker]

Excuses, excuses. Poor Sarah abused by all those nasty Republicans...

Of course it's their fault and the fault of the report. Sarah couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it. Just because the finding was unanimous an bipartisan, she couldn't possibly have done anything wrong.

Had "anything to do" with WHAT? What exactly do you see that she did wrong?

[SkinBasket]

Excuses, excuses. Poor Sarah abused by all those nasty Republicans...

Of course it's their fault and the fault of the report. Sarah couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it. Just because the finding was unanimous an bipartisan, she couldn't possibly have done anything wrong.

There's nothing to excuse, Ziggy. I would think an open minded independent would be able to see that. Her political opponents labeling a proper and legal action as abusive for the media to spill out for a few days hardly seems like the kind of ploy a centrist would fall for.