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Sarah Palin rape kit circus post #1
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Another Rape Kit Circus Post
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84 and counting. Note #72 about rape kits
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Interviews and a review of records turned up no evidence that Palin knew that rape victims were being charged in her town. But Croft, the former state representative who sponsored the law changing the practice, says it seems unlikely Palin was not aware of the issue.
++++++++Oh no they didn't.
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The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bush administration, The Associated Press has learned.
Two law enforcement officials said Tuesday the FBI is looking at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and insurer American International Group Inc. Additionally, a senior law enforcement official said Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. also is under investigation.
The inquiries will focus on the financial institutions and the individuals that ran them, the senior law enforcement official said.
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Now that Palin is the Republican nominee for vice president, Democrats such as former Alaska governor Tony Knowles — who signed the rape-kit bill into law and was defeated by Palin in 2006 — are raising the issue to question Palin's commitment to women's issues and crime victims
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One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure contradicts a statement Sunday night by Mr. McCain that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had no involvement with the company for the last several years.
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House Republicans rose up en masse against their vice president on Tuesday morning to blast an administration proposal that would grant Treasury historic authority to start buying hundreds of billions of dollars in devalued mortgage-related assets, according to members present.
The lines to speak were long, the questions many and sentiment in the Cannon Caucus Room Tuesday swayed heavily against the Treasury proposal.
Afterward, Texas Rep. Joe Barton took the unusual step of telling reporters that he had politely given Cheney a piece of his mind – the sort of dissent Republicans considered unthinkable during much of the Bush administration's reign.
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Liberal bloggers have cited the story of Wasilla charging victims for rape kits as evidence that as mayor, Sarah Palin backed cruel and insensitive policies. But just about everything we know from initial accounts of this controversy is wrong.
When the practice came to light, the state passed a law banning it, and the minutes from the state-legislature committees reveal several missing details.
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On the home page, I have a piece looking at the much-discussed Wasilla policy on rape kits, looking at the minutes of the six separate state legislative hearings on the legislation that banned the practice of charging victims for the kits. The minutes revealed three surprising, and greatly clarifying pieces of information.
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The overall evidence of these minutes, and the lack of corroborating paperwork to be found in Wasilla strongly suggests that no rape victim in Wasilla was ever charged for a rape kit.But when you're a liberal blogger, who cares? It's just smear and move on, no research or fact-gathering needed. They've got a job to do – destroying those who disagree with them — and to hell with the truth.
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The $700 billion financial bailout bill being pushed by Bush and Congressional leaders is attracting broad opposition. Not only does it rip off taxpayers and violate constitutional limits on delegation of government power, it also threatens to spread the contagion of the mortgage meltdown, drive up inflation, and ruin the value of the U.S. dollar at home and abroad.
Law Professor Ilya Somin and economist Steven Landsburg question the need for a bailout. Sebastian Mallaby, a supporter of past bailouts, balks at this one, comparing it to “wandering into a bad-loan bazaar and being ripped off by every merchant.â€
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ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: If Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain doesn't vote for the Bush administration's $700 billion economic bailout plan, some Republican and Democratic congressional leaders tell ABC News the plan won't pass.
"If McCain doesn't come out for this, it's over," a Top House Republican tells ABC News.
A Democratic leadership source says that White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten has been told that
Democratic votes will not be there if McCain votes no — that there is no deal if McCain doesn't go along. -
The press is bitchin' and moaning again.
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Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.
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