TPM has a good summary of the latest developments on the bridge to nowhere story. The McCain camapign keeps tying itself in knots trying to explain it. Each time they respond, they add to the misinformation.
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You guys are really grasping at straws. You always talk about pragmatism…when she was running for Governor she said she wasn’t going to stop a project..once she was in office, she decided it was wrong and stopped it. She ultimately made the right decision. That’s better than sticking to a wrong initial decision. If you think this is going to be a big issue, you’re wasting your time.
She was very pragmatic, but they are painting her as some great reformer, and you’re buying it. Just like you thought Bush was a cowboy because he drove a pickup truck on a ranch.
When she was mayor, she hired a lobbyist to garner 27 million in earmarks for Wasilla, a city of 9000 people. How is that being a reformer?
As Gov she made over a half a billion in cuts and she blew the whistle on her own party leaders as an up and comer.
Please name one thing OB has accomplished. Just one. Name one bill he got passed or how he is an agent of change. We can talk about his 100′s of millions in earmarks/pork.
Obama’s accomplishements include the Lugar-Obama bill on nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, and an ethics reform package that the Washington Post called “the strongest ethics legislation to emerge from Congress yet.” Ruth Marcus summarizes his record on reform:
“He helped pass a far-reaching ethics and campaign finance bill in the Illinois state Senate and made the issue a priority on arriving in Washington. Much to the displeasure of his colleagues, Obama promoted an outside commission to handle Senate ethics complaints. He co-authored the lobbying reform bill awaiting President Bush’s signature and pushed — again to the dismay of some colleagues — to include a provision requiring lawmakers to report the names of their lobbyist-bundlers. He has co-sponsored bills to overhaul the presidential public financing system and public financing of Senate campaigns.”