Sarah Palin's Record Of Accomplishment In Office

Via Powerline, who thinks she's running in 2012 but that the resignation will haunt her. Name one of the Republicrats that want to duck her who have accomplished half as much.

Here's some of the things we've done:

We created a petroleum integrity office to oversee safe development. We held the line for Alaskans on Point Thomson - and finally for the first time in decades - they're drilling for oil and gas.

We have AGIA, the gasline project - a massive bi-partisan victory (the vote was 58 to 1!) - also succeeding as intended - protecting Alaskans as our clean natural gas will flow to energize us, and America, through a competitive, pro-private sector project. This is the largest private sector energy project, ever. This is energy independence.

And ACES - another bipartisan effort - is working as intended and industry is publicly acknowledging its success. Our new oil and gas "clear and equitable formula" is so Alaskans will no longer be taken advantage of. ACES incentivizes new exploration and development and jobs that were previously not going to happen with a monopolized North Slope oil basin.

We cleaned up previously accepted unethical actions; we ushered in bi-partisan Ethics Reform.

We also slowed the rate of government growth, we worked with the Legislature to save billions of dollars for the future, and I made no lobbyist friends with my hundreds of millions of dollars in budget vetoes... but living beyond our means today is irresponsible for tomorrow.

We took government out of the dairy business and put it back into private-sector hands - where it should be.

We provided unprecedented support for education initiatives, and with the right leadership, finally filled long-vacant public safety positions. We built a sub-Cabinet on Climate Change and took heat from Outside special interests for our biologically-sound wildlife management for abundance.

We broke ground on the new prison.

And we made common sense conservative choices to eliminate personal luxuries like the jet, the chef, the junkets... the entourage.

And the Lt. Governor and I said "no" to our pay raises.

Comments

[narciso]

Apparently you don't need any facts to comment on something, you don't know about. The ignorance of the political situation up there displayed by Paul M. is quite staggering

[Slide]

lets not forget the Moose killings.

[Nathan C.]

Don't you mean the wolf killings Slide?

[Nathan C.]

Oh and sorry I didn't get back to you Dan was away for a bit will be posting back on that soon.

[mark l.]

http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/statetaxes

scroll down for map of state budget conditions...

her state is set for a budget surplus in 2010. (notice that the states that have the best conditions, denoted in green and white are almost exclusively red states).

an irony?
california's budget, which is in the worst condition, is actually in better shape than the nation, or should I say, obama's nation.

[Nishner]

Yeah, they raised taxes on the oil industry and shazam, a budget surplus.

[Slide]

Moose and wolves... she likes to kill apparently

[mark l.]

"Moose and wolves... she likes to kill apparently"

didn't know you were a vegetarian.

[mark l.]

"Yeah, they raised taxes on the oil industry and shazam, a budget surplus."

ok. imagine obama is the governor of alaska...

wouldn't he want to cut back on oil production or at a minimum, not want to increase production?

hint:
for every dollar of profit that our DOMESTIC oil companies make, the federal govt gets a dollar.
logic would conclude that it would be better to produce domestically and tax the profits that are created to put towards a very massive deficit. Instead we are going to buy oil elsewhere, make no govt revenue, and transfer our money to other countries?

I'm looking at the rassmussen numbers, and obama is blessed with the same approval rating as w, when he won reelection in 04. Obama is three years away from his next campaign. Everyone knows he can spend money, but the question of an effective leader is whether they can make money for their constiuents, and as a byproduct, themselves.

wasn't paying much attention to the strongly opposed/strongly favored breakdown of rassmussen poll, until now.

37% strongly oppose? that's larger than self identified republicans.
30% strongly favor? that is waaay below dem party identification.

considering you get 60% of the turnout for midterm elections, and glancing at the stronger approval sentiments for/against, 67%, I'm looking at an absolute creamtion for democrats in 2010.

just think...obama had popular support after his election, in the face of a crisis. He has now squandered all the new found supporter he had. the whole country was pretty much united behind him. not anymore.
(if you haven't figured it out, this is akin to the lib criticism that bush held wide world support and squandered it by invading Iraq. seems what bush did in a year and a half, obama did within 7 months).

obama=the new divider.

oil is going to spike, just a matter of time...
the longer it doesn't spike the more likely it will fall on the messiah's reelection.
unemployment is still going to increase, and more dangerously, hold at the high level for quite some time.
inflation is inevitable.

I would not want to be an incumbent in any of those situations, who was blamed by the public.

enjoy the majority, while you can.

[mark l.]

"considering you get 60% of the turnout for midterm elections"

clarification:
60% of the turnout for the presidential elections.

[Nishner]

Hint: The only reason Alaska has a budget surplus is Ms. Palin helped RAISE TAXES on Big Oil. Damn socialist.

Yeah, fixing the Bush Recession / Depression is hard work and is going to piss off a lot of people. Too bad Bush and his pals screwed up the country so much.

As for your prognostication that the Dems will get creamed 1n 2010, you're the guy that a day or two before the election picked McCain to win. You always predict victory for the Repubs, defeat for the Democrats. Someday, like the proverbial stopped watch, you'll be right.

[unseen]

Nishner

In May, Governor Sarah Palin directed the Department of Revenue (DOR) to review the performance of the PPT. Anticipated revenues were down by hundreds of million of dollars and Alaskans recognize that PPT was a result of a political compromise. Given the cloud of unethical and illegal activities – including oil service company executives pleading guilty to bribery and two legislators’ recent guilty verdicts in federal corruption trials – they have to question if that compromise was tainted.

The tax needs to create stability by ensuring that both Alaskans and industry receive an equitable share of the state’s nonrenewable resources; the public must have confidence in the state’s oil and gas tax.

When it became clear that a change was needed, the governor directed DOR to develop a proposal to address the deficiencies with PPT. DOR requested input from the Department of Natural Resources, and with a collection of oil and gas consultants, the team analyzed a variety of potential tax structures. The team included DOR’s economists and accountants, DNR’s Division of Oil and Gas commercial analysts, geologists and engineers, and attorneys from the private sector and the Department of Law.
http://gov.state.ak.us/aces/aces_about.php

I wouldn't call that simply raising taxes on the oil companies. Try dealing with corruption of the oil companies and the state officals and making an entire new tax system due to that corruption. Did the state recieve more from that new tax system. Yes but a guess can be made very clearly that up until Palin AK was being robbed of its wealth due to corruption.

[unseen]

and further the main reason the state has a surplus today is because of allowing the dems and reps to simply spend all that money Palin directed a large chunk of that money to be invested into rainy day funds during the record prices of oil last year. Funds that the state can and has tapped into to balance its budget this year.

[Troll Hunter]

She kills moose. And field-dresses 'em. [I think the photo was of a .338 Winchester, but that's a guess.] Yeah. Animals and plants die when we eat them. Awwwww.

Wolves - that ditty was started by Palin's approval of an Alaska dept. of wildlife management request for a particular cull of wolves. Lefties got ahold of that and reported it as if Sarah rode right-seat in helicopters personally shooting wolves out the door from a mere 30 feet up. [Actually, rumor has it, it was Trig riding shot-gun. Ever wondered how he got 'is name?]

[Just remember that "slide" comes in a tube and it's used to, er, "field dress" the victim.]

[wally sandaver]

The bizarre part about this main post is that ... some of it is true. For her first year, Palin was an effective governor who used her popularity, looks and charm to forge some bipartisan compromises. But as soon as she sniffed the national stage and celebrity adulation, she quit. She didn't step down then but it is pretty clear that she stopped governing the state in June, 2008. Then a year later after not governing for a year, she acknowledged that governing annoyed her and was too difficult, so she quit. She quit midway thru her FIRST term, and therefore, did not pass the ball. Instead, she quit in the first quarter of the basketball game, went into the locker room to get a massage, and declared for the WNBA draft or a job with ESPN.

Palin is the ONLY sitting governor to quit in her first term - apparently in the history of the U.S. - besides two recent governors who quit over sex scandals. Those guys should have quit. So should Ensign, Vitter, Craig and Sanford. But Palin has no scandal. Less than $300,000 was spent on the ethics complaints and the biggest chunk of that was the one she filed herself. I empathize with her frustration about negative press but she took the job, she put her kids on display and then did not like what she got into. The job of governor was simply too hard for her after she sniffed the money, fame and freedom of being a celebrity. It's over folks. She is a quitter and Americans don't abide quitters for public office no matter how charming and beautiful.

[Ran]

"The job of governor was simply too hard for her after she sniffed the money, fame and freedom of being a celebrity. It's over folks. She is a quitter and Americans don't abide quitters for public office no matter how charming and beautiful."

Thanks Wally for the very calm, almost rational pretense of being balanced. I'm not so sure you're in the right place to sell your tripe, but hey, it was a nice, classy try. Perhaps try at New Majority? (Hint: Real Conservatives don't abide frauds.)

[mark l.]

unseen-
be careful. you might confuse nishner with the essense of policy decisions.

he still think a govt can borrow an infinite amount of money for instant gratification without any detrimental effect.

nishner-
obama's spending isn't a problem if he can increase gdp growth to compensate. If he ignores growth, he becomes the guy who killed the golden goose to get one egg faster, forgoing all future eggs the chicken can lay.

[gus]

Yeah, I prefer Mulattos who hate America and love Marxism. That Sarah Palin is terrible, she gets things done, Obama is a flop.

[Slide]

Mulattos? don't hear that term very often now a days... but, we are on a right wing blog which is kind of a time warp. Next up, them Coloreds

[Slide]

hey guys you have to read Peggy Noonan's column. You REALLY have to read her column. She is giving you good good advise to the GOP but we all know its not going to be followed since the wingnut element is firmly in control of the Republican party... this is so incredibly good news for Dems it makes my heart flutter.

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

read it guys. She speaks the gospel in this column.

[North Dallas Thirty]

Actually, given how Noonan's words are being applauded by known racist and misogynist bigots like Slide, she should really rethink to what audience she's trying to appeal.

And really, that article is hilarious. It shows the hateful jealousy and spitefulness of a woman who is being eclipsed and is screaming, upset, and crying about the fact that no one listens to her any more.

Classic example:

"Mrs. Palin's supporters have been ordering her to spend the next two years reflecting and pondering. But she is a ponder-free zone. She can memorize the names of the presidents of Pakistan, but she is not going to be able to know how to think about Pakistan."

"Not going to be" is future tense. Noonan is so bigoted and hateful that she claims Sarah Palin is incapable of learning and thinking now or EVER. That's ludicrous, and it demonstrates just how unbalanced Peggy Noonan has become.

Of course, Slide loves Noonan, who is bigoted like he is.

[Good News!]

Sarah Palin for RNC chair?!

Forbes has an interview with Shannyn Moore. Here's the last question:

Forbes: There is talk that Sarah Palin may replace outgoing Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele. Do you know anything about this?

Moore: I've heard talk about it, but at this point it's just a rumor.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/10/shannyn-moore-sarah-palin-business-media-moore.html

Howard Dean flamed out spectacularly in 2004 and came roaring back as the grassroots hero DNC Chair who flipped the House and Senate two short years later.

Just sayin'.

[mark l.]

"She speaks the gospel in this column."

peggy noonan has this delusion that she can be a speech writer for obama. her suck up factor is off the charts.

the problem for peggy?
she thinks obama is going to be loved like reagan. apparently she does not read the polls.
to be honest though, I would love to hear an obama speech that explains where we will get all the money he is spending.

she writes good drivel, which worked well for reagan, and works exceedingly well for bambi, but the speeches always sound better when the guy is popular.

[Rich K]

You guys need ro be nice to our trolls here. They give us butter for our bread and gravy for our taters. Please feed the trolls,Thanks You

[Slide]

"Forbes: There is talk that Sarah Palin may replace outgoing Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele."

Oh God please make this true. Please make this true. Please make this true.

[Slide]

"being applauded by known racist and misogynist bigots like Slide"

hey, you forget pedophile. Don't sell me short man.