Musings of a Liberal Texan

I thought this was a great story. Shannyn Moore Just a girl from Homer Posted: April 25, 2010 05:26 PM Palin's Pinnacle of Hypocrisy Sarah Palin took the stand Friday in the trial of Former University of Tennessee student David Kernell. Kernell is charged with hacking Palin's Yahoo! e-mail account while Palin campaigned in the 2008 presidential campaign. Kernell is facing 50 years in prison over this incident. He would be 72 years old when he gets out of prison. According to the Anchorage Daily News, Palin was asked if she thought the charges against Kernell were excessive: Palin said, "I don't know, but I do think there should be consequences for bad behavior." Hmmm...consequences for BAD BEHAVIOR??? This coming from the Quitter Governor of Alaska who: • used state resources to relentlessly pursue a family vendetta • took per diem as governor while sleeping in her own bed • took her kids at state expense on official State of Alaska business trips • lashed ...

FASCINATING READ There's A Method to Republican 'Madness' by Robert Parry | April 1, 2010 - 10:11am Washington’s conventional wisdom for explaining the intensity of Republican obstructionism toward President Barack Obama breaks down one of two ways: either it’s a philosophical disagreement over the role of government or a desperate need to stay in line with a radicalized right-wing base. But there is another way to view the GOP political strategy, as neither principled nor reactive to the rantings of Tea Partiers, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. It is that the Republicans are following a playbook that has evolved over more than four decades, to regain power by sabotaging Democratic presidents. In this analysis, the Republicans believe they can reclaim the lucrative levers of national authority by making the country as ungovernable as possible while a Democrat is in the White House, essentially holding governance hostage until they are restored to power. Then, the Democrats ar...