Sarah Palin is touted as a bureaucracy buster who once said "thanks but no thanks" to the Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (see: Anchorage Daily News) "Bridge to Nowhere" connecting a 50-resident island to Ketchikan, AK, at a cost of nearly $400-million, including Stevens' $223-million earmark.
But, like the salmon her husband catches during fishing season, Palin is bouncing around on her governmental philosophy according to the Detroit Free Press. The newspaper reports that Palin is quoted by the Ketchikan Daily News the project was necessary to "help this community prosper" during a campaign visit to the community October 22, 2006.
Her flip flop during her first visit with the public after being selected the vice presidential candidate has even eaten at the Alaskan backing (see: Reuters).
The Stevens bridge was initiated as an earmark against the 2005 highway spending package under the Republican Senate (see: Salon) before Imbecile in Chief became a foe of such spending when the Democrats took over the house in the 2006 election.
Palin altered the plan by changing Alaska's spending priority for its share of the project (see: CNN). However, the earmarked Federal funding remains in the Alaska budget though not allocated to the bridge (see Wikipedia).
Take care,
jim
Monday, September 1, 2008
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