From The Times 9/22/07
Gov. Sarah Palin ordered state transportation officials to abandon the ''bridge to nowhere'' project that became a nationwide symbol of federal pork-barrel spending. The $398 million bridge would have connected Ketchikan, on one island in southeastern Alaska, to its airport on another nearby island. ''Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport,'' Ms. Palin, a Republican, said in a news release, ''but the $398 million bridge is not the answer.'' She directed the State Transportation Department to find the most ''fiscally responsible'' alternative for access to the airport. Ketchikan is Alaska's entry port for northbound cruise ships that bring more than one million visitors yearly. Flights into Gravina Island require a 15-minute ferry ride to reach the more densely populated Revillagigedo Island and Ketchikan.
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You are seriously an idiot.
Nearly all of the articles critical of Palin acknowledge that she opposed the 'bridge to nowhere' AFTER the issue garnered national. Before Alaska got called out on it ... she supported it.
(same source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/us/politics/01bridge.html?scp=1&sq=bridge%20to%20nowhere&st=cse)
And could you stop it with the arugala comments? Why are you so adamant about our public officials being as provincial as you are?
...national attention. (whoops, looks like I'm the idiot)
It's funny how you can't take a piece the Times has written now to re-write history but you totally discount the article when the Times had "no dog in the hunt".
I'm not adamant that my elected officials be "provincial". Just quit pretending you're one of the guys and then roll a 67 on the bowling lanes and then go to San Francisco and talk about how we cling to guns and god.
The fact is democrats are elitist because they have a total tin ear when it comes to the lives of people in fly over country.
They embrace abortion like a hill to die on when middle America is opposed. They are pacifist even though sensible Americans know you confront evil with force, not words. And they believe that you take care of your own.
Why the hell are you so adamant that the leader of the US be the same leader they would elect in.... France?
Now pass the damn arugula.
In other words, democrats are elitist because they believe in the right to abortion and have a more nuanced view of the world than seeing everyone as either good or evil?
Just becuase a politician doesn't give up their belief in abortion rights, doesn't make them elitist.
Who cares if your politician can bowl? I'm happy that he speaks with at least a little candidness.
Also, do you know anything about Sarkozy? You'd probably like him.
So democrats are "open" to nuance?
Then why won't they even consider the idea that life begins at conception? Where's all the open mindedness there?
Where's all that open mindedness and nuance from "progressives" for them to look at all the cities they run and own that their policies have turned them all into third world countries?
I couldn't care less if a candidate bowls. I do care when they try to get me to eat a shit sandwich and tell me it's good for me.
All I need to do is look at the condition of our inner cities, all run by democratic and "progressive" policies and I see high taxes, high crime, crappy schools, high unemployment, etc. etc.
Me and my fellow gun and God clingers decided long ago that we don't want our communities and our country to look like Detroit, Cleveland, & New Orleans which is why we vote "provincially".
And yet you still want to think of me as a small minded thinker. Who really has the small mind here?
I didn't use the word open, so I don't understand how you segued into that rant about democrats not being open.
Did Bill Clinton turn the country into inner-city Detroit in his eight years?
I don't think so.
Did the economy go sour under George Bush.
Definitely. Why don't republicans seem to care about spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Iraq, if not trillions? Why are you so excited about being taxed to spend our money over there?
Is it in the name of safety? Or are you all just trying to make life better for the average iraqi?
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS0106/809040437&s=d&page=2#pluckcomments
associated press article posted by Cincinnati Enquirer
Wow. This is an interesting conversation. Especially since, once again, the Republican side is SO uneducated on what's going on in this country. You can't spend our tax money on military issues and interanational issues then point the finger at the Democrats when our own national problems - that you think government should stay out of - get worse and worse.
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