Early in January, a Sarah Palin op-ed appeared in the NY Times in which she argued against adding the Polar Bear to the list of endangered species because the polar bear populations in the Arctic were healthy:

“…polar bears are more numerous now than they were 40 years ago. The polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s North Slope has been relatively stable for 20 years, according to a federal analysis.”

The governor said that the bears were “magnificent animals, not cartoon characters” that are “worthy of our utmost efforts to protect them and their Arctic habitat,” but added that putting them on the endangered species list was the wrong way to do it.

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One of Barack Obama’s often repeated promises made on the campaign trail was that he would not raise taxes on the midddle class:

“I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

He repeatedly vowed “you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”

Some Obama critics have charged that by signing a law last spring that raised the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, the president broke his promise. That tax hits the middle-class and the poor especially hard since most smokers fall in one of those categories. Obama apologists argued that the number of smokers is rapidly declining, and the tax only falls on those who engage in a practice which harms themselves, so it really doesn’t affect the majority of the middle class.

Let’s see them spin their way out of this one:

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Senator John Kerry has thrown the joke he told Tuesday about Governor Sarah Palin under the bus. Or in Kerryspeak, he obviously voted for the joke before he voted against it.

Just one day after Gov. Palin stood up to the liberal Senator and returned fire, he has apparently calculated that his joke went too far, not to mention that he has lousy timing.

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In a case which explores the depths of human depravity, authorities say that a Duke University official tried to persuade a person he had met in an internet chat room to travel to North Carolina to have sex with the official’s adopted 5-year-old child. Unfortunately for Frank Lombard, the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy, he did not know at the time he attempted to pimp out the son he had adopted as an infant that the other person in the chat room was a police officer.

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One would think Sen. John Kerry (D-Cambodia) would have realized by now that his idea of humor doesn’t go over very well. It must be because he’s a nasty person, and his pathetic attempts at being funny just turn out to be… well, nasty.

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From the governor via Twitter:

“Travel now to bring appreciation from their Alaska family & Natl Guard leadership to heroes in US European Command’s area of responsibility”

We had wondered if Gov. Palin was going to return to the Middle East to visit her state’s Guard troops deployed there after she tweeted:

“Got Fed ok for Adjutant Gen Campbell, Command Sgt Major Choate and me to travel to our Ak Army Natl Guard troops on Wed. Glad to go to them”

But now it seems that she’s headed for Europe.

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Governor Sarah Palin recently tweeted:

“Got Fed ok for Adjutant Gen Campbell, Command Sgt Major Choate and me to travel to our Ak Army Natl Guard troops on Wed. Glad to go to them”

The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate’s tweet didn’t say exactly where she would travel to visit the toops. But one has to wonder why she would need permission from the Feds to visit her own state’s Guard troops unless she’s talking… er, tweeting about going overseas to do it. The only other place we can think of that she might need federal permission to visit Alaska Army Guard troops is Fort Greely.  The missile base, however, is a hundred miles from Fairbanks, so a visit to the facility would not involve much in the way of travelling. Also, Gen. Cambell should not need federal permission to visit Greely.

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If you’ve watched any of the televised images from Iran since the people first went into the streets to protest their country’s rigged election, you’ve seen them in action. That bunch of thugs wearing civilian garb and clubbing protesters with nightsticks are the Basij — Niruyeh Moghavemat Basij is the formal name — the militia the mullahs use to maintain control of Iran’s population.

In addition to their nightsticks (some of which are electrically charged), members of the Basij (pronounced buh-SEEJ) also wield chains, knives and axes, and they ride around on small motorbikes. A commenter on CNN this weekend described them as “a cross between Hell’s Angels and Al-Qaeda.” While their motorbikes are small compared to the hogs the Angels ride, don’t laugh. The little bikes have more than enough power to chase down young Iranians who are fleeing for their lives.

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Examiner.com’s George Copeland has some food for thought for the Republican Party. The GOP, he points out, tends to avoid controversy and allows The Left to club it unmercifully. But Sarah Palin marches to the beat of a different drummer than most of her fellow Republicans:

In the view of many of her supporters, not only did Palin excel in her handling of this controversy, she dragged Letterman down by his neck, kicked his butt, and then squashed his head like a tick. Some might wish that somebody had dared to attempt such tactics when Newt Gingrich was being hounded out of the House.

The GOP, at its lowest point since Ronald Reagan left the White House at the end of his second term as president, should pick up the cadence from its 2008 vice presidential candidate:

In today’s era of heavily slanted MSM coverage, of vicious partisan attacks on GOP leaders, and of sniggering and baseless contempt from the left-wing punditry, should the GOP stay true to its shopworn and ineffective tactics? Or, should a new course be charted, one along the lines so ably demonstrated by Sarah Palin?

Copeland concludes by asking what the Republicans have to lose. I honestly think that there are some in the party who have become so accustomed to losing that they are afraid to try to win. As strange as that may sound, it makes a lot more sense than the conspiracy theory which holds that those same people are all Democrat moles seeking to sabotage the Grand Old Party from within.

Sarah Palin is a fighter. For those in the Stupid Party who have forgotten how to fight or have simply lost the nerve to do so, the daughter of two teachers is uniquely qualified to instruct them in the art of political combat and will even help them find their own lost backbones.

- JP

President Barack Obama made another promise this week that you can take to the bank. Well, you can take it there, but forget about cashing it. Like so many of Obama promises, it’s just another lie. Speaking to the American Medical Association Monday, the president insisted that his health care plan will let Americans keep the coverage they have:

“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

It sounded so nice, he said it more than twice:

“If you like what you’re getting, keep it,” Obama said. “Nobody is forcing you to shift.”

As with much the prevaricator-in-chief says, those periods he punctuated his assurances with have morphed into commas, followed by a lot of buts, howevers, and excepts.

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A coalition of bloggers is appealing to supporters of Gov. Sarah Palin for donations in a week-long effort to raise more than $500,000 to help her pay her legal bills.

Spearheaded by web site Conservatives4Palin, the bloggers launched their fundraising webathon Monday in a coordinated effort to help retire the Alaska governor’s legal debts.

The webathon is using professional-quality videos which call the ethics complaints filed against the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate “petty politics and frivolous attacks” and a “thermometer” graphic that displays how close the bloggers are to reaching their goal.

The legal fund, called the Alaska Fund Trust was created in April to cover Governor Palin’s expenses in defending herself against those allegations.

In a telephone interview with Anchorage television station KTUU Monday, Fund trustee Kristan Cole says the webathon is having an impact:

“Any time the governor is mentioned, the volume goes up tremendously and so the volume — given this new information going out this morning, and the videos that are on the Web site — we have seen the volume go up tremendously as we do anytime the governor is mentioned,”

According to the thermometer graphic displayed on the bloggers’ websites, $54,645, or about 11 percent of their goal of $500,000, was raised on the first day.

“We are happy to help in any way that we can,” Rebecca Mansour, one of the site’s main contributors, said. “This is a completely grassroots effort. We are just trying to get the message out just to help them advertise.”

Although Cole declined to say how much money has accumulated in the fund so far, she said the fund’s first disclosure report, scheduled to be released next month, will reveal that information.

- JP

New York Times media columnist Bill Carter reports:

David Letterman directly apologized to Gov. Sarah Palin and her daughters on his program Monday night, saying he took responsibility for a joke that had offended Ms. Palin, her family, and her supporters.

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The fallout from David Lecherman’s raunchy and sexist attack on 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her daughters has yet to settle, but already a silver lining has appeared around the mushroom cloud lingering over such attacks, which have become common from the left.

Until Gov. Palin stood her ground and declared that Creepy Dave apologize to young girls everywhere, liberal feminists had remained silent in the wake of attacks on conservative women, their children and their values. Now an increasing number of them have been pushed to the point where they can remain silent no more. Those women who truly believe in the principles of feminism have been forced to choose between their feminist ideals and the sort of political tactics taught by Saul Alinsky and other radical leftists.

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Republican New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb has written CBS CEO Les Moonves asking the network chief to fire David Letterman for the talk show host’s crude jokes he made at the expense of Governor Sarah Palin and her daughter.

Kolb said his letter condemns Letterman for his “shockingly inappropriate” jokes:

“As the proud father of a daughter, and as a husband, I wanted Mr. Moonves to hear from me directly about Mr. Letterman’s disparaging remarks,” Kolb said in a written statement.

“Firing Mr. Letterman would send a clear message that CBS will not tolerate any of its employees — even an established media figure like Mr. Letterman — making demeaning and degrading comments about women.”

Kolbe joins his colleague Assemblyman Gary Finch, who also sent a letter to Moonvies (this one by personal courier) calling for the creepy comic’s ouster:

“Governor Sarah Palin was a guest of the City of Auburn in New York state,” said Finch. “She was subjected to degrading comments about herself, her 14-year-old daughter, and all women, on primetime television by Late Show host David Letterman. I find these comments to be completely unacceptable and outrageous.”

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“I insist Mr. Moonves fire David Letterman and send a clear message to America that the CBS Network and its affiliates do not find insulting women acceptable.”

The Empire State legislators are not the only ones calling for Letterman’s dismissal. There is a website entirely devoted to that propostition.

Did Creepy Dave poke an angry hornets’ nest with his sexist and demeaning attempts at humor? You betcha!

Update: A “Fire David Letterman” rally is being organized, according to an e-mail reported on FRee Republic. The event is scheduled to take place from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm Monday June 15 outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697 Broadway in New York City. The e-mail says that:

“CBS has received so many negative comments about Letterman they have shut down the comments section of their website.”

Well, isn’t that convenient…

- JP

Scrawled on a notepad found in the car of Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn Wednesday:

“Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do.”

Spoken to reporter David Squires by President Obama’s former mentor, counselor and pastor the same day:

“Them Jews ain’t going to let him [President Obama] talk to me.”

Leftist bloggers and the government-run media would have you believe that von Brunn has more in common with “right-wingers” (libspeak for “conservatives”) than with any other group.

But these quotes are evidence of a certain like-mindedness between the shooter and the neo-Marxist pastor of the church Barack Obama used to attend before his inauguration as this country’s 44th president.

Both Wright and von Brunn are racists who hate Jewish people. Both adhere to variations of socialist doctrine. Conservatives recoil in horror at both racism and socialism. These are not our people. Those pointing their fingers at the right over the madman who killed Stephen Tyrone Johns, the good man who tried to be helpful to von Brunn by opening the museum door for him, should look closer to home.

- JP

The massive fallout over Dave Lecherman has all but obscured some other important news concerning Alaska’s governor.

TransCanada, the company chosen to manage Alaska’s natural gas pipeline project to bring the clean-burning fuel from the North Slope to the lower 48, has concluded an agreement with ExxonMobil to cooperate on the endeavor. With ExxonMobil now on board, it’s a big positive for Gov. Palin.

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Via Fox News:

Statement from Meghan Stapleton, Palin spokesperson
Today at 8:08am

“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show. Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”

A major alphabet network late night host, drunk on the arrogance of a freshly-negotiated contract, started a public battle with the Palins that he can’t win. A sincere, no excuses apology is his only way out.

Major sponsors are already trying to pass the buck to local CBS affiliates. Why? Angry fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and grandparents of young girls are putting pressure on the sponsors, the network and their local CBS stations. It’s working.

Update: Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, a national women’s public policy group, called on David Letterman today to formally apologize.

- JP

The weasel tries to defend himself:

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight’s show. “These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.” Saying he hopes he’s “cleared part of this up,” Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

Gov Palin was right. Even his excuse is pathetic. He would have sounded more believable had he given one of John Nolte’s “Top Ten Possible Letterman Reactions to Fallout Over Willow Palin Rape ‘Joke’” posted at Big Hollywood.

Bottom Line: From the NY Daily News - Lecherman’s excuse is not accepted:

“It doesn’t matter whether he was talking about Willow or Bristol, what he said was unacceptable,” responded Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow.

- JP

From Politico, Governor Sarah Palin, in a guest appearance on John Ziegler’s KGIL radio show today, called David Letterman “pathetic” after the vicious See-BS Late Show host cracked what was evidently supposed to be a joke about her “slutty flight attendant look.” The governor also said that reporters and bloggers in the state-controlled media who accused her of plagiarism are “buffoons”:

High-quality audio of Ziegler’s entire Tuesday show is posted here. Click on John Ziegler, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 12:00 PM. The segment with Gov. Palin starts at about 3:45 in.

Update 1: Moe Lane lanced the boil that is David Letterman.

Update 2: The Great One evicerated what remained of Letterman after Moe got through kicking his sorry butt.

- JP