The GOP machine has crumbled. Attorney General Renkes resigned. Mr. Ruedrich was fined $12,000. Jim Clark—Mr. Murkowski's lead pipeline negotiator—pleaded guilty to conspiring with an oil firm. At least three legislators have been convicted. Sen. Ted Stevens is under indictment for oil entanglements, while Rep. Don Young is under investigation. Throughout it all, Mrs. Palin has stood for reform, though not populism. She thanks oil companies and says executives who "seek maximum revenue" are "simply doing their job." She says her own job is to be a "savvy" negotiator on behalf of Alaska's citizens and to provide credible oversight. It is this combination that lets her aggressively promote new energy while retaining public trust. Today's congressional Republicans could learn from this. The party has been plagued by earmarks, scandal and corruption.
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Ethics AND free enterprise. What a concept.
Well just the only thing standing between the world and the return barbarism. And integral to the very founding of our country.
And of course, it's only Republicans that need to be taken down. The ODaley machine is pure as the driven snow...
And perhaps you're in a bridge shopping mood today also?
If we don't stand up and take the corruption down then it will take us down. To the depths of the rest of the world.
That ODaley wants to respect us. Because corruption is all they respect. And he knows how to give it to them.
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