Just when I think Sarah Palin must have gone off her meds... she demonstrates she has...
Months ago, she asked Ted Stevens "to step aside... to play a very statesmanlike role in this now." RESIGN! This week, she asked Senator Begich to resign. Does she think if they all resign she can move to Washington? I wonder. Write your own rules, play your own game and you get a free wardrobe? Did we vote for best looking? Or best Levi's? Or best smile? NO! Sarah Palin ousted incumbent Frank Murkowski in the primary and popular governor Tony Knowles in the general! She won because the People wanted change. The people wanted leadership. The people wanted Ethical Honest Government. The people did not want Mean Girl Snark!
Tonight she released a letter to Senate President Gary Stevens. Background: I'll be brief. Juneau Senator Kim Elton-D received an appointment from President Obama to work in the Department of Interior on March 6, 2009. Alaska rules state that the district party submit preferred candidates to the Governor for an appointment. The Juneau Democrats gave Sarah Palin one name: Beth Kerrtula. Beth is currently a House Representative. She has been a member of the House since 1999. She has been the House leader since 2006. Kerrtula is clearly the most qualified candidate in Juneau.
During the campaign, Beth said that Sarah Palin was not qualified to be VICE-President... I know, shocking assessment. Sarah had a cow and named local Republican turned Democrat Tim Grussendorf to the seat.
Tim was a Republican 3 weeks ago... tadah! Now he's a Dem. The rules state the Senate Democrats have to approve the appointment. They said, "Thanks but no thanks."
More background...even briefer: Star Date 2007, Republican Representative (from Wasilla) Vic Kohring was convicted of bribery and corruption. Empty seat. Sarah appoints an elder from her Super Size Your Jesus church, Wes Keller. The Repubs approve... DONE, Keller is a House Representative.
My gosh, you're all caught up! OH, Wait! The process is now UNCONSTITUTIONAL to Madam Palin. She has just released a letter saying she wants her pick; Republican Tim Grussendorf (sounds like a wizard from Harry Potter) to go before the full house for approval! And, Palin believes the historical process is wrong.
I only hope she has medicine for the drama she brings to the state of Alaska. Here is her letter:
April 2, 2009The Honorable Gary Stevens
President
Alaska State Senate
State Capitol, Room 111
Juneau, AK 99801Dear Senator Stevens:
On March 31, I nominated, under AS 15.40.320, Mr. Tim Grussendorf to fill the vacant senate seat for senate district B. On the following day, April 1, I received an unsigned memo from "Alaska Senate Democrats" to Senator Gary Stevens that the nomination of Tim Grussendorf, "did not achieve the needed support to be seated." The memo also stated that "Today the nine Senate Democrats met to discuss Governor Palin's nomination." Based on various news reports, it is our understanding that the meeting of Senate Democrats took place behind closed doors.
The Alaska Constitution provides that "Each [house of the legislature] is the judge of the . . . qualifications of its members. . . ." Alaska Const. art. II, sec. 12. The Department of Law has opined that "confirmation by a political caucus is probably a legally deficient procedure. The confirmation procedure set out in existing law appears to conflict with the Alaska Constitution." 1987 Inf. Op. Att'y Gen. 2 (Sept. 21; 663-88-0107).
Accordingly, the closed-door action taken by a minority of the Alaska Senate is without legal effect. Until the Alaska Senate takes action consistent with the Alaska Constitution, my appointment of Mr. Grussendorf remains in effect.
I respectfully request that the entire Alaska Senate consider my nomination of Mr. Grussendorf in open session, in the same fashion as the legislature would consider any other appointment subject to confirmation. The people of Alaska and Juneau are entitled to a public confirmation process that is consistent with the Alaska Constitution.Sincerely,
Sarah Palin
Governorcc: The Honorable Johnny Ellis, Senate Majority Leader
Enclosures:
Memorandum to Senator Gary Stevens, Alaska State Senate President.
File No. 663-88-0107, Subject: Procedure for appointment to fill legislative vacancy.
With the GOP dumping Sarah Palin for Newt Gingrich, Wayne Anthony Ross a less than savory Attorney General candidate and Senator Begich NOT resigning, we may be witnessing the desperate gasps, rattling coughs, and grasping at ghosts of a lost political career.
nobody should be re-elected to office w/o verifying who they are working for.
And none too sun will the sun set on this absurd Pretender from Alaska...
Great post Shannyn!
I'd love it if she tired of politics and took up the Hasselback seat on The View. Then her spoutings could be enjoyed for pure entertainment value without the fear that they would ever amount to anything.
The left is creating its own monster and moving us closer to the days where they will manifest their own fears through their derangement. One day, liberals will wake up in a cold sweat, hearts pounding. For it is these words that puts more fear into a liberals hearts than any other: "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solemnly swear..."
I continue to hold hope that there will be more anti-Palin hit pieces coming in the future.
And in reading your 3 part manifesto (do you by any chance have a cousin named Ted?) the one thing that pops out is that Alaska voted for her on a tough no more corruption platform. And you said that the "Sarah Palin they elected before the Vice Presidential campaign was back, she put the nation on alert that this is who she is." lol Well....she went home. When they can keep her there. But she wasn't the Sarah Palin they elected (though she doesn't seem to have been that even before the VP run.)
But the one thing you got the right is that she's put the nation on alert that this is who she is. Oh she am what she am in all it's tawdry, inept glory. No argument there. Or to quote the governor in one of her few moments speaking coherently "you betcha!".
And don't think you've put fear in a "liberal's heart" from this poster. I'm a moderate Independent.
What validates Palin supporters' sense that Palin is Reagan is that Palin is being treated like Reagan was by the same leftist media and the elitists in our country. A quick watch of a section of "Rendezvous with Destiny" confirms this assertion. Linda Chavez said Reagan was reviled by the press. Dr. Paul Kengor < a href="http://www.visandvals.org/Hating_Palin_Words_of_Wisdom_from_Reagan.php?view_all=1">writes "Often, maintaining sanity and surviving means simply ignoring the haters. That’s where Ronald Reagan was before he stepped foot in the White House. And that’s a good place for a conservative Republican like Sarah Palin."
If the ankle biting stops and the historical parallels to the way Reagan was "Palinized" after the 1976 Republican Convention fizzles, that's when Palin supporters need to worry. As long as she's a credible threat to expose liberalism for the intellectually bankrupt philosophy that it is, she will be attacked because she it enemy number 1 of the Democratic party. She will be attacked long into her presidency, if you hold the theory that history repeats itself.
A current perusal of the internet is starting to show that there are more and more pro-palin social networks popping up. This phenomena is in direct response to the number of "hit pieces" being spewed on the web against her.
"Accordingly, the closed-door action taken by a minority of the Alaska Senate is without legal effect. Until the Alaska Senate takes action consistent with the Alaska Constitution, my appointment of Mr. Grussendorf remains in effect."
Kind of gives ya chills to see the combative Sarah Palin back again. Her rise to power in Alaska was based on a tough "anti-business as usual" approach. Alaskans were sick of corruption. She was their voice and she beat Murkowski in the primary to go on and become governor.
When Sarah "Barracuda" wrote those words, she put the not only the state of Alaska on notice that the Sarah Palin they elected before the Vice Presidential campaign was back, she put the nation on alert that this is who she is. This is the Sarah Palin Alaskans elected. Only this time, out of staters and national columnists are now criticizing her for political moves and a style that Alaskans overwhelmingly approved of before she hit the national scene.
When the left attacks her for "burning bridges to everywhere" by being in your face and telling you like it is, it's just a dream come true for Palinites who think she's the next coming of Reagan. As the leftists on sites such as this one continue the bash-fest, the more at ease Palinites feel about her credibility and her viability as a presidential candidate.
Just saying, she's 45 years old, and still hasn't learned to wave bye-bye..........
If they don't they need to. I know, let's let her fantastic advisor, Greta's husband, do it.