The late Grammy winner Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown was exiled from Louisiana by Katrina. His grave site in Texas was washed away by Ike.
Down in the underbrush beneath Sarah Palin’s forest of lies there’s been this line that even if she was a big time earmarker that she still vetoed half a billion worth of earmarks as governor.
Well, not exactly.
Gov. Palin’s spokesman confirms to TPMmuckraker that she installed a tanning bed in the Governor’s Mansion.
A Bridge Too Far: McCain Falsely Claimed Palin Vetoed Earmarks Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central reports on a conference call last week among Democratic operatives and donors trying to gear up the kind of independent political activities that Obama had initially discouraged.
It’s Sunny All Year Round at the Governor’s Mansion in Alaska Here’s an interesting article by the AP’s Brendan Farrington in which McCain gets quizzed on various of his lies. He admits some are lies but say it’s okay. And in others, well …
McCain cut off a question about the “Bridge to Nowhere,” which Palin claims to have killed in Alaska even though Washington pulled back money for the project before she turned against it.
“The important thing is she’s vetoed a half a billion dollars in earmark projects–far, far in excess of her predecessor and she’s given money back to the taxpayers and she’s cut their taxes, so I’m happy with her record,” McCain said.
This week at TPMCafe Book Club, New York Times Magazine’s Paul Tough joins us to talk about his new book Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest To Change Harlem And America.
The book pivots around Geoffrey Canada, a poverty-fighting Harlem visionary– Obama described his work once as “an all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children.”– and his work on The Harlem Children’s Zone, a $58 million organization reaching out to 7,000 children.
Discussing along with Paul: Kira Orange-Jones of Teach For America, Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America and Andy Rotherham, co-director and co-founder of the Education Sector.
People certainly are incredibly jazzed about Sarah Palin. That tour de force ABC interview, the prolific earmark record, and of course all those “Bridge to Nowhere” lies. The Palin Factor rolls on …
Full-size video at TPMtv.com.
Post’s Ignatius hops off the tire swing and suggests McCain is selling his soul to the devil.