A final “fuck you” to Palin from the Alaska Legislature, who overrode her veto on stimulus money by a narrow margin. Stick it up your ass, Sarah.
In other enlightened news, the esteemed Senator from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski (appointed by her father in a previous scandal) stated that her reason for voting against Sotomayor for the SCOTUS was that “Alaskans don’t like people who graduate from Ivy League schools or people from the east coast.” Ah, analytical reasoning at its best, Lisa. Where did you go to law school again? Oh…right…Georgetown. What a dipshit.
Nitpick: Senator Murkowski got her BA at that terrible east coast school Georgetown, and her law degree from a wonderful west coast school Willamette University, in Oregon.
But even if she spent her entire life west of the Rockies, apart from visiting Washington DC while the Senate was in session, it’s just stupid to attack people on the basis of what part of the country they come from. Heck, there are even a few decent people from Alaska!
Chefguy is too kind, he abstained from adding the extra additional dollop of yummy fuckyouitude. Alaska law says the legislature must overide such a veto by a whopping 75% majority. Saying she lost is like saying the Detroit Lions had a lackluster season. They beat on her like a red-headed stepchild.
Oh: and yes, I’m traveling, but no, I don’t live there anymore. I still do a daily check with the local newspaper site because the goofy shit that goes on there is endlessly fascinating.
Florida has a lot of nuts, I’ll grant you, but on the whole I think we’re a little more balanced than Alaska at this point. It’s pretty much always been this way. Plenty of liberals, conservatives and every point in between and beyond. We even have a closeted gay Republican governor*.
*I have absolutely no proof for this; just kind of hoping, because I’ve grown to sort of like Charlie, and he seems as if he’d be happier if he we’re actually homosexual.
