Palin won't meet with 'Troopergate' investigator

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Chicago Examiner / AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Map, News) - A campaign spokesman says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won't speak with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her public safety commissioner.

McCain campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan told a news conference Monday that the governor, the Republican nominee for vice president, will not cooperate as long as the investigation "remains tainted." He said he doesn't know whether Palin's husband would challenge a subpoena issued to compel his cooperation.

The campaign insists the investigation has been hijacked by Democrats. It says it can prove Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was fired because of insubordination on budget issues - not because he refused to fire a state trooper who had divorced Palin's sister.

Read more: http://www.examiner.com/a-1589085~Palin_won_t_meet_with__Troopergate__investigator.html

[AzDar]

1. How very Cheney-esque.

No thanks.

[AnAnonymousDemocrat]

12. You've got that right

Not only is it Cheney-esque, it's quite Rove-ian too.

The woman's not even in office yet, and she's already obstructing justice.

[superconnected]

2. But but but she said her and her staff would cooperate fully....

[ananda]

6. Bush said the same thing about the Plame investigation.

But Bush, Rove, and everyone in his admin
have simply refused to cooperate with any
investigation in any way whatsoever.

We don need no stanky laws or Constitution..
we're Reeps.

[George II]

17. You must be pretty young...it actually sounds Nixon-esque.

(first, let me apologize, I responded to the wrong posting, it was the "Cheney-esque" post that I wanted to respond to)

Nixon perfected the art of stonewalling. That is until his OWN "base" in Congress abandoned the crooked bastard.

It's going to happen here, too - what people forget is that the body doing the investigation has five members, three of which are republican (according to Olbermann a few minutes ago), and it was a republican who cast the deciding vote to issue the subpoenas to 13 people including the "first dude" (aka first asshole!)

The bottom line is that the longer she holds out and the more Nixon/Cheney like she becomes, the better it is for Obama. People are just plain SICK AND TIRED of this crap.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. The McCain campaign's insistence that this is partisan is bullshit.

The investigation was fully supported by both Republicans and Democrats in the legislature. There's no way the Democrats could "hijack" the investigation since they're in the minority. I wish John McCain would get out of Alaska's local politics. He doesn't belong here.

[gateley]

4. You know something? These Republicans keep coming across as

weak, sniveling, spineless little bullies - everyone is against them and it's just not FAIR! :(

Have they no pride?

[Solly Mack]

5. Talk about tainted

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

7. Thanks..but no thanks, Charlie.

[Solly Mack]

8. hehehe!!

[billyoc]

9. Change Agentry at it's finest.

:rofl:

[madrchsod]

10. moose is just another republican who thinks their shit do`t stink

to bad a lot of the american people can`t smell

[texasleo]

11. That's not change we can believe in.

[DeadManInc]

13. subpoena her ass!

She is hiding, she is guilty!

[brooklynite]

14. Howard Fineman: "The way she's operated is in the best tradition of old big-city politics"

[secondwind]

15. they should just subpoena her ass, and be done with it.

God, I can't believe these people..........they are exactly like what we have now in the Administration!

[bobd0]

16. Another Republican ASSHOLE who holds them self above the law

[mcollier]

18. In the same mold as bush and cheney

No surprise yet again from the republican leadership ( if you want to call it leadership )....

Thanks but, No Thanks.... If I wanted bullshit, I'd get my own...

We need and demand accountability from leaders... Not the same old bullshit of the past...

[johnfunk]

19. Y'think Slick Sally P has something to hide?

Just sayin'...

[liberal N proud]

20. Just like bu$h

MORE OF THE SAME!

[Politicalboi]

21. She told them

"Thanks but no thanks"

[a la izquierda]

22. Strolled over to MSNBC and read the article...plus the comments.

Hilarious. To read repukes' defense of her is just a dang riot!
But, to be fair, there were not many Palin defenders.

[frylock]

23. cast off this taint, and become taintless

[Razorblade02]

24. I wonder What Susan McDougal Think about all these people?

...who continually get out of testifying in front of a court/grand jury/ etc.? She went to jail for refusing and these asses are getting around it. It's Bullshashit I tell you! I wish the voters would stop this madness and stop supporting these people!

[tanyev]

25. And as TPM points out, this announcement was not made by Palin herself,

or a spokesman for the governor, or anyone speaking for the state of Alaska, but by a spokesman for the McCain campaign. Odd, no?

[jec6897]

26. If the Democrats were Republicans

If the Democrats were Republicans how much hay would they make of Troopergate? Where are the billionaire Democrats willing to fund investigations, get out rumors, etc. (It's sad, but what do you fight fire with?)