McCain's VP:

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) - Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she "put the government checkbook online" in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington.

"We're going to do a few new things also," she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. "For instance, as Alaska's governor, I put the government's checkbook online so that people can see where their money's going..."

There's just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online - somebody's already done it. His name is Barack Obama.

In 2006 and 2007, Obama teamed up with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to pass the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, also known as "Google for Government." The act created a free, searchable web site - USASpending.gov - that discloses to the public all federal grants, contracts, loans and insurance payments...

Palin might also have noted that her running mate, John McCain, was an original co-sponsor of the 2006 transparency bill that became law.

Aw, jeez.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) - Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she "put the government checkbook online" in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington.

"We're going to do a few new things also," she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. "For instance, as Alaska's governor, I put the government's checkbook online so that people can see where their money's going..."

There's just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online - somebody's already done it. His name is Barack Obama.

In 2006 and 2007, Obama teamed up with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to pass the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, also known as "Google for Government." The act created a free, searchable web site - USASpending.gov - that discloses to the public all federal grants, contracts, loans and insurance payments...

Palin might also have noted that her running mate, John McCain, was an original co-sponsor of the 2006 transparency bill that became law.

http://wonkette.com/402869/402869

It's like an Onion headline, or something. Wow.

Cycloptichorn

"All of my women friends, a week ago Monday, were on the verge of throwing themselves out windows," an author and political activist, Nancy Kricorian of Manhattan, said yesterday. "People were flipping out. ... Every woman I know was in high hysteria over this. Everyone was just beside themselves with terror that this woman could be our president " our potential next president."

A posting on a New York-based Web site for women, Jezebel.com, spoke of unbridled anger. "What I feel for her privately could be described as violent, nay, murderous, rage," an associate editor at Jezebel, Jessica Grose, wrote just after the Republican convention wrapped up. "When Palin spoke on Wednesday night, my head almost exploded from the incandescent anger boiling in my skull."

Looks like a lot of women are having fits of the vapors over Palin...

The new Quinnipiac poll, echoing the Gallup and CBS surveys, puts Obama up by four points overall.

In each survey, the movement to the Democrats is most dramatic among white women -- the group that Sarah Palin was supposed to be drawing into the Republican camp.

What's up with Palin? The governor's overall favorable rating has fallen to just 40 percent in the CBS/New York Times survey -- down four points from last week. Palin's unfavorable rating is up 8 points to 30 percent. But the shift is even more dramatic among women, with whom Palin's star has fallen 11 points in one week.

If there is any anger, and I'm not agreeing that there is, it would be over the selection of Palin as representative of women. It looks like she could easily screw up any chance of a capable woman having an opportunity to lead the country any time in the near future.

Then the torrent slowed and certain aspects (such as the repeated lying) of Palin have taken shape and solidified. Palin, under closer inspection, doesn't fare very well. And some of the people who were predisposed to like her are unimpressed with what they're seeing.

sozobe wrote:

Then the torrent slowed and certain aspects (such as the repeated lying) of Palin have taken shape and solidified. Palin, under closer inspection, doesn't fare very well. And some of the people who were predisposed to like her are unimpressed with what they're seeing.

Last week John Mclaughlin predicted that by the end of THIS week, Palin will be seen as having more minuses than pluses.

Huh?

Palin strikes again:

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"Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first,” Palin said. “So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first," - Sarah Palin, Energy Expert and University of Idaho graduate in sports journalism.

Hilzoy, mercifully, unpacks it. Hard not to wince at the grammar and the logic. Remember this is allegedly her sole area of expertise and she's barely above high school level.

YOGI BERRA FOR VICE PRESIDENT?....A plea from Dan Drezner: "Do any of my readers speak Palin?" Head over and see if you can help him out. I'm afraid this one is beyond my feeble skills.

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