My goodness!
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman..
As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66
years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska
. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics
well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of
the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric,
it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the
things that I'm about to mention here.
1. Democrats forget
when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin
took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know
how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.
2.
Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect
the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new
system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon
(the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them,
"don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed,
and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy
rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell
in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country
that has done anything similar.
3. The other thing she did when
she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State
requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went
through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the
"when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need
something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could
use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because
it was extravagant.
Maybe
she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook
(remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the
State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and
dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I
imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear
the names of those other governors.
4. Now, even with her
much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put
together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built
which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of
North America. No one else could do it although they tried.. If that
doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed
while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of
brownies with her other hand.
5. For 30 years, Exxon held a
lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They
made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth
they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could
make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease
and kicking them out.. They protested and threatened court action. She
shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house.
Alaska won again.
6. President Obama wants the nation to be
on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the
legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by
2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things
done, as opposed to style and persona Everybody wants to be cool, sound
cool, look cool. But
that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the
names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a
half years. I won't be holding my breath.
By the way, she
was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work,
but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are
obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when
you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will
spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party,
into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her.. I guess they are
only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars,
womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.
Perhaps this "First ever" information will be of interest to you also---
If you've read this far ................................................
First Lady Michelle Obama's Servant List and Pay Scale
First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C . (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M.. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11.. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Dir ector of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(This is community organizing at it's finest.)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the
facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.
Note: This
does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First
Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force
One to Europe .
FRIENDS......THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000)FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE????? AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL....MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT'S OK TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????
