YEAH!

Well, if I was a hypocritical Bush Fluffing, hate spewing christian-- I would simply say

God Works in Mysterious Ways-- and call it a day (because as we have seen over and over again its Easy to Blame the Invisible and there is NOTHING the Evangelicals loves more than Easy--)

But since im not I will say this;

Being that the right "Prayed for Rain of Biblical Proportions" to ruin Obamas day, only for their prayers to backfire and ruin their own, I would say this is another instance of that mysterious thing called Poetic Justice!

It's the republican way.

The more I hear about Palin, the more I realize she's just not a very nice person.

Let me rephrase that: the more I hear about Palin, the more I'm sure she's an asshole.

Zed

I'd agree with (B)

Teenage mothers should be supported by their parents and the baby's daddy's parents; aprrentaly the parent should also be responsible because they could not control their child. When the blessed parents are old enough to work, get a job. Why do we always have to fund for teenagers mistakes anyway? Maybe that will make parents and teenager think before they have sex.

"Maybe that will make them think before they have sex...."

Well, why not put them in stocks and throw ripe tomatoes at them when they get pregnant? That would also make them think.

"The blessed parents are old enough to work, get a job...."

Bristol Palin? You bet. I hear Dairy Queen is hiring. Let her make her own way with a freaking high school education. And if that idiot boy decides to leave her for hockey---Hey, she made that bed, right?

I said that ZED was a brain dead, dick smoking redneck asshole, and he just proved me right.

That's very christian of you.

ALEX

Don't you know most of these GOP 'compassionate conservatives' are "Christian"? (snark)

They're Pharisees, quite a few of them. Metaphorically of course.

quit following me.

where does the brown brick road go.......

ALEX

And there's also the link you posted tonight to Alaska's budget line item vetos which include a 62% cut in funding for children in Special Needs Education.

What a piece of work!

I read a few hundred comments around the 'net tonight on sites from Time to the MSM outlets. It was almost overwhelming how people viewed tonights speeches from Romney to Rudy to Palin as arrogant, snarling, snarky, condescending, and laced with one easily refutable whopper of a lie after another. A strong percentage of them were middle class independents who were flabbergasted at the display of mean spiritedness that would have made Montgomery Burns sneer with pride.

Played well in the hall, but no so well in the rest of the country - except to 'compassionate conservative' fake Christian Republicans.

The GOP strategists must think Americans are stupid. No so much anymore as I suspect they'll find out in the coming weeks.

ALEX

Guarantee you they'll attack the source and not the facts. But, here's what you linked to earlier tonight. Sickening.

Sarah Palin Slashed Special Needs Education by 62%

For those of you who seem so enamored with Gov. Sarah Palin, it might be worth noting that she oversees the budget for the Department of Education and Early Development Special Schools in Alaska.
These funds provide supplementary educational services to students with severe disabling conditions and the Alaska Challenge Youth Academy. The resident school where the child would normally be placed does not have the resources to provide an adequate educational program. Without the supplementary services the childs needs would not be met by the local school district in most cases.
The following programs are included within this component:
Special Education Service Agency (SESA)

The Annual budget for 2007, which preceded Gov. Palin was $8,265,300.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/...

The Annual budget for 2008, enacted by Gov. Palin is $3,156,000.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/...

The Annual budget for 2009, enacted by Gov. Palin is $3,156,000.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/...

This is a cut in special needs services to children in Alaska of 5,109,300 , or 62%.

So, as the Alaska State Budget description states, "Without the supplementary services the childs needs would not be met by the local school district in most cases."

Did 62% of all of the special needs children in Alaska stop having needs once Gov. Palin took office?

Before we get so excited about Gov. Palin bring her "Reformer" agenda to Washington, perhaps we should get to know a little more about what exactly that means to our children, and the opportunities that she would "Reform".

And you need to realize you're not getting McCain toaster oven points for spamming this site.

Palin goes on national TV, and at the convention no less, to tell American mothers with special needs children that they will have a supporter for them in the white house.

What Palin didn't tell them is don't count on needed funds, go scrape it out of the charities.

The article is both incorrect and misleading. Check the facts:

Covenant House Alaska grant income received from the State of Alaska:
(2006) $1.2 million
(2007) $1.3 million
(2008) $3.9 million

In 2008, Covenant House Alaska asked the state for $10 million to assist in the building of a new $22 million facility. The legislature appropriated $5 million, and Governor Palin used her line-item veto to limit this year's grant INCREASE to $2.6 million (a total grant this year of $3.9 million). Additional money will be allocated for this capital expenditure project over the next few years, a phased-in grant rather than all the money at once.

This was confirmed in a quote from the Executive Director of Covenant House Alaska, Deirdre Cronin:

"Despite some press reports to the contrary, our operating budget was not reduced. Our $3.9 million appropriation is directed toward a multi-year capital project and it is our understanding that the state simply opted to phase in its support for this project over several years, rather than all at once in the current budget year."