Palin v. Sebelius? "Team Sarah" Organizes Against Obama Pick

An online community of female supporters of Gov. Sarah Palin is launching a last minute campaign to derail the candidacy of Kathleen Sebelius for the secretary post at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Team Sarah, which was founded to support and mobilize for the McCain-Palin ticket and claims tens-of-thousands of members, blasted out a petition on Monday morning urging members to "flood the phone lines" in opposition to Sebelius' candidacy.

Hi Team!

Today's the day! Our Not on Our Watch! Phone Bank Blast is set for TODAY from 2pm - 4pm ET. Write a note & stick it on your forehead, set your cell phone alarm - do what you have to do to remember to make your calls TODAY!

Our goal is to flood the phone lines of the Senate Finance Committee and make our message heard loud and clear - NO SEBELIUS! Not on Our Watch!

For the complete project information, including the phone numbers of the members of the Senate Finance Committee, visit: http://www.teamsarah.org/profiles/blogs/team-sarah-announces-the-not or "gather around the Water Cooler.

Also, if you haven't sent out your postcards or letters yet, it's not too late! Send them out as soon as you can so that they reach the Senate Finance Committee this week.

Sebelius's nomination is set to come to a vote before the Senate Finance Committee this Tuesday, April 21. The nomination is expected to pass through the committee and ultimately the Senate, though on Friday the terrain got a bit rougher, when ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley criticized the Kansas Governor for understating the amount of money she raised from doctor who performs abortions -- likely the same revelation offending the Team Sarah members.

Progressive groups have been pushing for an expeditious confirmation of Sebelius for weeks, arguing that the administration is being disadvantaged by lacking a cabinet figure to tackle a subject of such key political and economy importance (health care).

Here, for instance, is the SEIU's petition:

Earlier this month, a Republican Senator put a mysterious hold on the confirmation of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services Secretary. It's hard to believe that while the clock ticks on fixing health care, the top leadership position in the government's health agency is left vacant. This is simply unacceptable.

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Comments

[jjgg5]

So, "Team Sarah" (HA!) does not support Sebelius. What a surprise. Sebelius is very qualified and intelligent. Oh, no! Smart, well informed female politicians! That would set the women's movement back a hundred years. This cannot be permitted. Palin for President in 2012.

[CML96]

Do Sarah's ardent supporters understand that she was supporting CHOICE in her speech at her recent event in Indiana?

[democracy7]

No, it completely flew over the annointed ones head. But then most things seem to.

[AhnAmuru]

Annointed = POTUS.

Try the phoney one.

[roshni]

202-224-4515
Call this number now and express your support for Sibelius.

[AhnAmuru]

The Duchess v. The Dairy Maid?

[Hayduke1]

Maybe Palin could explain what, exactly, this has to do with governing Alaska.

[CaptainVideo]

Sarah:

We won and you lost! When you lose an election, the people who win are likely to do things you don't like. DEAL WITH IT!

You betcha.

[noneIn2008]

There is bias against Palin due to her hair. Yes hair. She should keep it the same and help advance our society. Recognize that a woman with a more masculine hair cut does not catch as much heat. It is a fact behind Hillary's changing her hair style and color. The sadder point is the USA still has these deeply "rooted" biases against women in power.

[CaptainVideo]

Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair.
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen.
Give me down to there hair, shoulder lenght or longer
Here baby, there, momma, ev'rywhere, daddy, daddy.

hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair.Flow it, show it,long as God can grow it, my hair.

[CaveatMagnusFrater]

Why don't Americans love her? Hair Hair Hair Hair Hair Hair Hair Hair Hiar!

[Lee323]

"There is bias against Palin due to her hair."

The only bias I have seen is due to her ignorance and arrogance.

Hair shmair.

We will "advance" our society by placing candidates with character, intellect, and a desire to serve the constitution and the American people in positions of governmental power. Period.

[sizogee]

Agreed.

The main point-of-attack against her has to do with her ignorance. The next point-of-attack deals with her judgement.

I don't doubt that one's gender and appearance make a difference, but Palin is attacked for legitimate reasons.

[Trudy]

The problem with Sarah's hair is that there is a vacuum underneath it.

[MideastDove]

So. it's just been about her hair all this time, eh?

That's kind of like saying it's all about the wrapping paper instead of what's in the box.

[kewps]

Mccain was interested in the box for awhile.

[LoveAlaska]

Whawt the heck are you talking about!~Come to Alaska, we are not biased against Palin because of her hair. We are suffering because of her lack of brains which is located somewhere under the hair. Are you for real? Honestly, Palin is ruining Alaska as we speak and you think there is a bias about her hair. Get help.

[espresso4me]

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Nurse Ratchet randomly comes to mind for no apparent reason, other than the absurd pairing of Palin and TeamSarah (with an ! ). They actually think they are somehow important, credible, and have something positive to offer...? Quite a collective imagination (with an !). Perhaps Team Sarah (with a ! ) is, in reality, a 12-step group for politically borderline narcissists, sociopaths and other related disorders. Good luck with that recovery. Could take quite a while.

[maryyooch]

That is good! She IS Nurse Ratchet.

[Char59]

What's wrong Sarah, can't you hand Sebelius on your own? Is she too tough for ya! you betcha!

[roshni]

202-224-4515
Let's make some phone calls for Sibelius.

[BIG JOHN]

TEAM SARAH, AKA, TEAM DINGBATS.

[WestCoastWoman]

Does Sarah's team consist of so called "Mavricks".... or Joe The Plumber wanna-be's?

[smileatfear]

Mavericks, dittoheads, and JTP wanna-be's are all the same thing.

[aznurse]

tea baggers

[ElBruce]

What? Why? Why Sebelius? Do they think Palin is in line for DHHS or something?

[zola77]

Why sebelius? probably cos Palin feels intimidated by her smarts.

[RRG64]

would love to see that debate aired worldwide....Sarah couldnt debate issues with a jr high squad.

[SharpDressedMan]

Now that this memo leaked, did it occur to anyone at TeamSarah that the phone calls between 2 - 4 PM will be ignored or considered harassment from whackos?

[smileatfear]

Let me stick a post-it note on my forehead to remind myself not to answer the phone between 2-4.

[CitizenFarmer]

The idea is to make the baby a part of the choice on abortion. A social worker can take a baby out of a harmful home situation; yet, with abortion, no one is allowed to save the baby from death.

[Islandtime]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[ElBruce]

It's not possible to abort a baby. A fetus, yes, but not a baby.

[conservativelady]

Wow, some people really are into semantics aren't they? My first reaction to your statement, I feel sorry for your kids. That heartless attitude carries over to other situations. I have noticed that there is a new breed of heartlessness out there among the "educated." Could it be that those having abortions didn't just cut out a baby? I think so. It's pretty scary. There is definately a new breed out there that wasn't around when I was a kid. Nope, most people were pretty much the same, down to earth and they had a heart. People weren't perfect, but at least they had a quality of being real, something I don't see in your heartless attitude towards unborn babies.

[armadillo]

You need new material. You're putting everyone to sleep.

[aznurse]

oh, that's the idea.

[CaptainVideo]

A fetus before it has developed systematic brain waves is not a sentient, self-aware being and therefore not a person with rights. It is only pre-human. Ending its life is therefore not murder.

[CML96]

Exactly.

[conservativelady]

You need help. Seriously. I have been wondering what is with all these fake people around these days, who try so hard to be "perfect" with all of their poltically correct ways of trying to be. I now I realize that people are trying to compensate for not really having a human heart. How is it that liberals have such a reputation for being "loving?" You can keep your kind of love. It's too icy cold for me. Maybe Palin isn't as bad as I thought. Maybe I ought to give the lady a second chance.

[sizogee]

My problem with these pro-lifers is that they entirely ignore the debate of where life begins -- they speak as if everyone uses their standards. They craft these wonderful arguments based on the idea that, without debate, abortion equates to murder, ignoring the fact that their main premise is refuted by most.

[CitizenFarmer]

Sentient and self-aware --- there are studies that indicate that the population of ancient Egypt were not self-aware; they viewed themselves as a specific entity within a group; somewhat like an individual bee within a hive. Self-awareness generally comes around the time of Christ. It is not that Christ as an individual brought self-awareness; rather, the entity of Christ allows us to identify ourselves as individuals rather than bees in a hive.

[Ward Adams]

Earlier, someone wrote that they felt a little sorry for the Republican Party. Beware! The GOP is out there, doing pushups, and WAITING... They have a terrifyingly effect way of getting everyone fired up and on the band wagon. DO NOT COUNT THEM OUT! Especially now that Fox News has finally jumped off the cliff of real journalism into the realm of true propaganda.

[AlaninElkGrove]

What's this I read? Sarah Palin is acting as a "community organizer"? Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!!!!