Palin on ABC: My earmarks were ok because the requests came through our "research divisions"...

[jefferson_dem]

Sarah Palin on Congressional Spending:

GIBSON: The state of Alaska, under OMB figures in 2008, got $155 million in earmarks for a population of 670,000. That's $231 per person in Alaska. The state of Illinois, Obama's state, got $22 per person. You got ten times per person as much. How does that square with your reforms?

PALIN: We have drastically, drastically reduced our earmark request since I came into office.

GIBSON: But you still have multiple of any other state.

PALIN: We sure are -- and this is what -- you go out and you ask any Alaskan this. This is what I've been telling Alaskans for these years that I've been in office, is no more.

GIBSON: Governor, this year, requested $3.2 million for researching the genetics of harbor seals, money to study the mating habits of crabs. Isn't that exactly the kind of thing that John McCain is objecting to?

PALIN: Those requests, through our research divisions and fish and game and our wildlife departments and our universities, those research requests did come through that system, but wanting it to be in the light of day, not behind closed doors, with lobbyists making deals with Congress to stick things in there under the public radar. That's the abuse that we're going to stop. That's what John McCain has promised over and over for these years and that's what I'm joining him, also, saying, you're right, the abuse of earmarks, it's un-American, it's undemocratic, and it's not going to be accepted in a McCain-Palin administration. Earmark abuse will stop.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5789483

[WinkyDink]

1. "Earmark abuse will stop." AKA: Democrats can go p*** up a rope.

[Cosmic Charlie]

2. what earmarks? according to McAss she didn't have any as Governor.

funny, it's almost like he doesn't even know her.

[Windy]

9. yah think??? n/t

[TwilightGardener]

3. "The stuff I'm doing is the stuff I'm going to stop myself from doing..."

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. I'm not sure that even qualifies as English.

:shrug:

[Bolo Boffin]

5. It takes a thief... n/t

[BeyondGeography]

6. A transparent form of frivolous spending rather than hidden

:thumbsup:

[jefferson_dem]

8. Isn't McLame supposed to "make them famous"?

Come on Johnny! Let's hear it. I want names! Who are those rascals in white lab coats in the AK "research divisions" who are gobbling up all that pork?

[BeyondGeography]

12. Bear DNA, bad. Seal DNA, good.

:freak:

[NYDem Observer]

13. Well he has made Sarah Palin famous

And we definitely know her name. McCain got that one right!

[ErinBerin84]

7. "that's what I'm joining him"

what? what?

[Major Hogwash]

10. Ha-ha-ha, "research divisions", that's a good one, is that what they're calling lobbyists these days

OMG! The lexicon at Bushlexiconography just got broken into!

Time horizons, not timelines.

Research divisions, not lobbyists.

Victory with honor, not coming to a sudden realization that the war is a waste of time, money, lives, and resources.

Peace in our time, not until they are all dead, and we get to say who "they" are.

Liberation, not invasion.

Stable environment, not we quit launching offensive manuevers.

Global warming, not pollution from having no solution for 30 years.

Independence from foreign oil, not drill here, drill now, drill in my back yards.

Who cares what history says, we'll all be dead by then, not I could care less what happens since I will be dead in a few years.

Iraqi freedom, not Iraqi genocide.

Freedom isn't free, not we're going to listen to anyone's phones calls and that is the way it is.

Country first, not me first because I think I deserve it, you morons.

I love my wife, not a divorce would look pretty bad for my campaign right now, so I put up with her.

Straight talk express, not I'm going to bullshit my way into the White House and lie my ass off, just like George did.

[City Lights]

11. She's leaving me speechless.

:wow:

[pscot]

14. This lady needs air-time

Oprah, Larry King, Rush, Tweety, O'Lielly, The Daily Show. Does letterman accept vice- presidential candidates? America needs to get a good look at ms Palin.