Comments on: Palin cleared by independent counsel

By: Media’s Latest Palin Scandal: Guilt By Daughter’s Boyfriend’s Mother Association « Conservative Thoughts and Profundity

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:15:51 +0000

[...] really adding up. First her daughter’s “questionable” pregnancy, then the bogus troopergate non-scandal and now this from McClatchy News Service: Wasilla resident Sherry L. Johnston , mother of Bristol [...]

By: Palin cleared, for what it’s worth by now « WitSnapper | The Blog

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:51:04 +0000

[...] WitSnapper | The Blog “Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you!” (Merchant of Venice, III.v.45) « ACORN goes to prison…to register MN voters Palin cleared, for what it’s worth by now November 4, 2008 An independent panel (emphasis this time on “independent”) has exonerated Sarah Palin of wrongdoing in the dust-up formerly known as “Troopergate.” The panel was convened by the nonpartisan state Personnel Board with an independent investigator, instead of by one of Gov. Palin’s most vocal opponents in the Alaska legislature with an investigator bought and paid for by him. (More here and here.) [...]

By: nail49

nail49 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:35:37 +0000

simply doesnt know what she’s doing.

Toolshed, I think you have Governor Palin confused with BHO!

Obambi is the one who has NO executive experience. The only thing he has ever run is his mouth.

By: Papa Louie

Papa Louie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:32:16 +0000

graysonret said: The VP isn’t in “charge” of the Senate. Read your Constitution. He can only vote in a tie.

graysonret and watershed, have YOU read your Constitution? You are confusing "being in charge" with having a vote. The Constitution clearly makes the VP President of the Senate. Is there a higher office in the Senate than "President"? Yes, it's true that lacking a vote renders the VP fairly impotent, but that doesn't mean he's not the highest ranking official (in charge) in the Senate. Until the 1960s, it was common practice for the Vice President to preside over daily Senate sessions. Just because modern VP's have become lazy doesn't mean they don't have the constitutional right to preside over the Senate should they choose to do so. From Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution:

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

From Wikipedia:

The U.S. Constitution states the Vice President of the United States serves as President of the Senate, and is the highest-ranking official of the Senate even though he or she only votes in the case of a tie.

By: Troopergate, schmoopergate « Right Minded Online

Troopergate, schmoopergate « Right Minded Online — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:02:54 +0000

[...] 4, 2008 by Mark Sarah Palin has been cleared of any ethics violation in the supposed Troopergate scandal. My only surprise is that this story broke before the [...]

By: watershed

watershed — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:37:41 +0000

The VP isn’t in “charge” of the Senate. Read your Constitution. He can only vote in a tie.

Quite true. But here, in Malkin world, people would rather disagree with me than actually be, well, right. It’s fun to watch.

By: tre

tre — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:28:21 +0000

Well, DUHHHHHHHH! Sarah Palin cleared for doing her job.

Now when will we see investigations of Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s relationship with ACORN, Bill Ayres, Mr.Rezko, intimidating media outlets that oppose him,…

On November 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm, travlinman said:
Sorry, BrianNY #59, I did not read down as far as your post after I saw waterhead’s idiotic attempt at mental superiority. You shot him down quite nicely.

…and with half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair!

By: JHSII

JHSII — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:56:51 +0000

Palin being cleared reminds me of the “October Surprise” that the liberals pulled in 1980 – claiming that candidate Ronald Reagan sent opposition candidate George HW Bush to Paris in a top-secret SR-71 jet to negotiate with the Iranians so that they would keep the hostages until Reagan won the election so that Carter would be defeated. The investigation dragged on for years and years, only coming to the conclusion that it had never occurred just before the 1988 elections. Of course, the report officially clearing both Reagan and GHW Bush was released only after the election.

Does anyone else remember Ray Donovan? He was the disgraced US Secretary of Labor under President Reagan who asked the famous question after he was acquitted “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?”.

That’s all this was with the charges against Governor Palin, a political hit job. The fact that the left is still clinging to it only serves to show how desperate they are.

By: Me, Me, Me « Mark Epstein

Me, Me, Me « Mark Epstein — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:58:23 +0000

[...] society or a man who represents the worst in race-baiting and racist politics? A woman who is cleared of knowingly false accusations or a man who has been routinely dishonest concerning his political-mentoring [...]

By: lowandslow

lowandslow — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:58:02 +0000

To all those that feel this report refutes Branchflower’s, that it was really all about finding the truth.

On page 8 of it it says that both Palins revealed to Gary Wheeler of the AST security staff in a November 2006 meeting that they felt Wooten was a security threat to their family. Why is that important? Because it directly contradicts what Gary Wheeler testified to in the Branchflower Report on page 44. No big deal right, difference in recollection maybe? Well actually it is important, Petumenos uses this testimony from the Palin’s to draw most of his conclusions. Problem is, Petumenos never interviewed Wheeler, never mentioned this contradiction in his report anywhere.

What do you make of that?

By: flaming_o

flaming_o — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:52:29 +0000

On November 4th, 2008 at 5:52 am, graysonret said: Obama will be a “yes man” to Reid/Kennedy/Pelosi. Don’t expect anything more than that.

I'm expecting plenty more than that. Reid/Kennedy/Pelosi never said they would bankrupt the coal industry. Reid/Kennedy/Pelosi never said their policies would skyrocket the cost of electricity. Reid/Kennedy/Pelosi are all buddy-buddy Obama sidekicks when it comes to ignoring the wealth of native energy on the American continent. That's another reason to like Gov Palin. She gives a damn about American energy independence.

By: garyganu

garyganu — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:48:41 +0000

The public and especially students are naive and impressionable. The media, arts and education system has successfully manipulated and deceived them into believing the most convoluted reasoning. This latest biased reporting, by maximizing the initial spin and minimizing the eventual truth about trooper-gate (taser-gate)is just one small example.

With a misinformed and emotional electorate, our nation is ripe for being led down a path of destruction.

I can’t believe that I am seeing this happen before my very eyes.

garyganu

By: Game on! Palin cleared by independent counsel! Go vote for a war hero, not a Marxist “zero”! « Mark Epstein

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:56:17 +0000

[...] Go vote for a war hero, not a Marxist “zero”! It’s “Game On!” Governor Sarah Palin was cleared of all ACCUSATIONS of wrong doing by an independent counsel. So now it’s time to go vote for a war hero versus a Marxist [...]

By: graysonret

graysonret — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:52:42 +0000

The VP isn’t in “charge” of the Senate. Read your Constitution. He can only vote in a tie. I doubt any ties in the next 4 years. He bangs a gavel and keeps things organized, but has no say in bills or debates. As one VP said, “This job isn’t worth a bucket of ’spit’ (p*ss).” Obama will be a “yes man” to Reid/Kennedy/Pelosi. Don’t expect anything more than that, from a very inexperienced senator, interested only in drumming up support for 2012.

By: Papa Louie

Papa Louie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:21:24 +0000

On November 3rd, 2008 at 11:28 pm, watershed said:
The Vice President is NOT “in charge” of the senate, no matter what you want to say about it, people. Its cool, though!

Now let’s take watershed’s brilliant reasoning on the Vice President and apply it to the President. If the “President of the Senate” is NOT “in charge” of the Senate, doesn’t that mean that a President Obama, should he be elected, is not really “in charge” of the country? (Not to mention, he doesn’t even get to vote when there’s a tie!) I could live with that.