Help me understand this: Palin asks for $400 million for bridge to nowhere. The project is

[hisownpetard]

ridiculed and approval withdrawn. So - she gets the money, anyway????

And she spends it on whatever the hell she wants? Why is the money awarded to her if the project was cancelled?

I even read somewhere that she had a paved road put in, up to the point where the bridge would have been.
Is this all just a bad joke, or what?

[Eric J in MN]

1. The compromise was that instead of giving Alaska money for one project...

...Congress gave them the money to spend on any transportation project or projects they chose.

[Duke Newcombe]

2. Talking point: "She kept the $$$"

She cut in line ahead of Minneapolis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x-ckRu5jEY

Hammer it all day, every day.

Duke

[hisownpetard]

6. Well, that'll show 'er!

- Daddy, can I please have a million dollars to make a dollhouse out of the garage?
- No, that's ridiculous. And to punish you for your dumb thinking, I am going to give you a million dollars
and you can do whatever you like with it.

When did the world become so insane?

[KansDem]

3. Yeah, this from the "Party of Fiscal Responsibility" and the "Party of Morality."

Not to mention the "Party of Cutting Earmarks" and the "Party of Gutting Wasteful Spending."

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Makes me want ot lie down on a $35,000 tanning bed and think...

[hisownpetard]

5. Hey, if you can't be well-informed at least you can be tan!

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4. $233 million of it stayed in Alaska for other transportation projects

[hisownpetard]

7. "for other transportation projects"? Well, when it comes to Palin, you'd better define "transport"

or she might think you're talking about the Rapture.

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8. ha ha!