The Latest Democrat-Ic Jobs Plan
By Mitch Berg
Apparently, it involves writing endless spurious “ethics” complaints against Republicans – especially uppity women and minorities.
They’re running 0 and 13 against Sarah Palin, but then they were only meant to have shelf-life until the first Tuesday of last November, now, weren’t they?
Michael Geraghty, investigator for the State Personnel Board, concluded that there is no need for a hearing on the complaint filed in March by Andree McLeod, who has been a vocal critic of the governor since being denied employment with the state last year.This is the 13th ethics complaint against the governor or her staff that has been resolved with no finding of a violation of the executive ethics act. A few more are pending.
“While the complaint process under the ethics act can be a useful tool for holding state officials accountable, it’s obvious that political opponents of the governor have been abusing the system, attempting to turn their resentments into legal issues,” said Bill McAllister, the governor’s communications director. “We’re grateful that the personnel board and its investigators have taken a rational approach to these matters, finding that the vast majority of the complaints did not even warrant the collection of evidence because they failed to assert any violation of the law.”
But it gave them a shrieking point – “Governor Palin is under investigation!” – to sway the ill-informed and gullible during the campaign.
And that’s all the really matters, isn’t it?
May 28th, 2009 at 8:45 am
“I can see Russia from my house!”
May 28th, 2009 at 9:05 am
You can see Russia from Perth Amboy?
May 28th, 2009 at 9:08 am
AC isn’t a total idiot, so he must know that the quote comes from Saturday Night Live.
‘Member the attacks on The Newt in the 90s? The Democrats went 1 for 66 in complaints against him. And the one that sort of stuck was that he taught a college class in Georgia that had political content. Imagine that.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Of course she never said anything remote close, it was an SNL sketch that other obtuse people couldn’t discern wasn’t real either. This fact alone makes that video of all of those Obama voters being interviewed about specific quotes during the campaign all that much funnier.
0 for 13. I expect, when Jindal commits the sin of running for President while being a not-white male Republican, he’ll be 0 for 45 before the convention.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:23 am
True enough, Chuckwagon. And Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. And John Kerry wasn’t a simultaneous coward and war criminal in Vietnam. And Barack Obama isn’t a Muslim. But it’s all good in politics, eh wingnuts?
“I can see Russia from my house!”
Who was it who said that again? It sure sounds like something Sarah Palin would say. And you can’t prove she *never* said it, can you?
May 28th, 2009 at 9:30 am
And John Kerry wasn’t a simultaneous coward and war criminal in Vietnam.
Well, maybe not SIMULTANEOUSLY. That would take some serious effort, and Kerry was too busy having Christmas in Cambodia seered, SEERED into his memory.
Mmmmmm, seered memory. . .
May 28th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Silly Clown. John Kerry is a confessed war criminal. Under oath, before Congress.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:08 am
“I can see Russia from my house!”
From her house in Alaska, our 56th state!!
May 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
And Al Gore never said he invented the Internet.
Technically correct. His actual quote was:
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
I guess all lefty gaffes are taken out of context, right mangy clown?
May 28th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
“And John Kerry wasn’t a simultaneous coward and war criminal in Vietnam.”
Ah, so the next moonbat I hear smugly proclaiming that Democrats can “walk and chew gum at the same time” gets bitch slapped to the pavement on your say-so, right Clown?
May 28th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
ill-informed and gullible = AssClown
right on cue
May 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Feel free to suck on this, BradC:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
May 28th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Feel free to suck on this, BradC
mangy clown, you’re such a dumba$$. That’s the exact quote I cited.
Man, the toxic fumes in Jersey are further deteriorating your already feeble mind.
May 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
It’s an explanation of why it’s false to say Gore claimed he invented the Internet, you silly little prick.
May 28th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
“Invented” vs “took the initiative to create”. I think Mr. Gore’s resume padding was pretty plain for an objective observer.
How’s that TV network of his doing?
May 28th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
AssClown gets taken to task by BradC.
Careful Brad, that could get you a shuning!!!
Bwwwaaahahahahahahahahaha
Nice meltdown, AssClown.
May 28th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
“I`ve been to all 57 states.” — The Communist-in-Chief
May 28th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Dunno what Al Gore’s up to at the moment, Kerm. Hey, you think maybe John McCain’s using his new free time to get those crooked yellow choppers of his fixed?
May 28th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Nah, Shiftee, Angryclown only shuns wingnuts who are dumber that you. And that’s a pretty tall order. BradC is a half-wit, which puts him comfortably in the mainstream of you far-right Mitchketeers.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Hey, you think maybe John McCain’s using his new free time to get those crooked yellow choppers of his fixed?
Mocking a war vet, this time about injuries received in service to his country. Do all you far-left types hate the military, Angry Clown?
May 28th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Yes, Clownie. I think McCain should sue the North Vietnamese for smashing his teeth in. I hear those commies have really good socialized health care. It must extend to dental work, dontcha think?
Dunno what Al Gore’s up to at the moment, Kerm.
Bending you city boys over a cap and trade barrel.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Funny, I thought Congress had free dental.
“Charlie don’t floss!”
May 29th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
angryclown said:
“It’s an explanation of why it’s false to say Gore claimed he invented the Internet”
Just because Barbara and David P. Mikkelson think Al Gore should be excused for saying “I took the initiative in creating the Internet” in front of a national audience at a presidential primary debate doesn’t make it “false”, angryclown.
They think it was only “a bit clumsy (and perhaps self-serving)”, but people can read what he said and judge for themselves, and so they do.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Whatevs, Trojan Man. It’s not a surprise to Angryclown that you’re willing to turn facts on their head to fit your silly Faux News perspective.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
What “facts” are upside down, angryclown? He didn’t say “I invented the Internet”? Given. The “fact” is he said something similar and equally embarrassing, so suck it up princess.
And what is with the “Faux News perspective”? Did you pick that up in the DU, or did you come up with that yourself? Is it supposed to hammer your “point” home? If so, it isn’t working.
May 30th, 2009 at 8:17 am
The only way to “hammer a point home” through your thick skull, Trojan Man, is with a ball-peen hammer.
May 30th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Perhaps it’s the only way you can think to accomplish it, but I suppose options are limited for unfrozen caveman lawyers:
“Your modern ways frighten and confuse me”
June 1st, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Don’t trust a burbot.