Oh my...turns out Governors don't have "veto" power over earmarks.

[dkf]

A Bridge Too Far: McCain Falsely Claimed Palin Vetoed Earmarks

McCain has repeatedly said Gov. Palin "vetoed" millions in federal earmarks. But the claim turns out to be bogus: a governor can't "veto" an earmark, and Palin did no such thing.

The notion that Palin "vetoed earmarks" has become a fully-fledged GOP talking point in recent weeks. Here, for instance, is Republican congressman Jeb Hensarling repeating the claim at a news conference 12 days ago.

But governors don't "veto" federal earmarks. As Palin's own gubernatorial spokesman, Bill McAllister, told TPMmuckraker: "She can choose not to submit the request, but once Congress makes them, they're there."

It's true, as the Boston Globe reported over the weekend, that as governor, Palin vetoed over $500 million in state legislative spending requests over two fiscal years.

But generic spending requests, which Palin rejected through the use of her line-item veto power as governor, aren't remotely the same thing as earmarks. As McAllister told us: "It's called line-items, generally. ,that's not common parlance." And the money that Palin cut didn't come from the federal government, which is the starting point for the whole earmarks debate. So that $500 million figure has nothing to do with earmarks.

In other words, McCain has taken a statistic from one issue, and applied it to defend Palin's record on a different one -- under the assumption that the press won't look closely enough at the details to call him on it.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/a_new_frontier_in_mccains_dish.php

[NYC_SKP]

1. Good find, dkf! K and R nt

[BuyingThyme]

2. She also vetoed starfish.

[cui bono]

7. Her reason being "stars belong in the sky, silly".

[NoQuarter]

3. What would you expect

from a lying sack of shyte?

[WCGreen]

4. It would be interesting to see where the line items that she vetoed

originated from. I would bet that she vetoed a lot more democratic projects and kept the GOP projects in the budget.

[JBoris]

5. Whats next? Are we going to find out she was never a "hockey mom"?

Has she ever said anything that is actually true?

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. Someone in Wasilla said she was "for about 5 minutes".

Whatever that meant; didn't elaborate.

[jillan]

6. This could be one of those half-truths. Governors can veto legislation.

So maybe Palinocchio is trying to say that she is vetoing legislation that has earmarks attached to it? One never knows what she is trying to say!

[PBS Poll-435]

8. NFS

Dur

[lamp_shade]

10. Hmmmm k/r