Comments on: Alaska Town Opens "Road To Nowhere"

But Without Bridge, $25 Million Gravel Road Good For Just Road Races And Hunting

[pastdue1]

Posted by ronaldR5 at 02:28 PM : Sep 21, 2008

The road was part of the bridge to nowhere , and when Congress scuttled that, Palin was urged to return all the money to Congress so it could be used for reconstruction in the wake of Katrina. Palin really did not say "Thanks , but no thanks" but it is a good campaign goody. The McCain campaign only says now that she rejected the expensive design for the bridge; (? , actually Congress rejected the bridge, but let the money be used for any transportation project in Alaska, and, in fact, Palin could have redirected it to be used in the Katrina devastation). Palin took the money and did nothing to stop this $23 million gravel road.

[legacyabq]

Gitnyre:
Hmm. So your point is:
Congress spends money.
Therefore congress sucks.
Biden and Obama are congressmen.
therefore, Biden and Obama suck.
Wow.
That is a most informative and illuminating deduction.
I am stunned by your keen powers of observation.

The problems we have take longer than 2 years to foment and come to pass.
they are broad and systemic, and ideological.

Just because the dems got the majority in cong.
TWO SHORT YEARS AGO,
does not mean it''s logical to say they are to blame for insert problem here .
The right, and their broad ideology on stripping all government intervention (regulation), has been in power for many many years.. Even when clinton was president, the right wielded much power.
So, on the whole, if anyone should be blamed, it is them. We have been veering right since reagan.
AND NOW BOYS AND GIRLS
WE HAVE AN 10 TRILLION, that''s TRILLION dollar debt to deal with.
Lemme guess: In two years, when we are staggering under this, you will blame Obama (if he''s president)
because he is the president in power IN THAT MOMENT.
You must broaden your perspective beyond the political moment and look at trends and history..
Otherwise,
you are just an ALL_CAPS_RANTER..

[ronaldr5-2009]

The previous Alaskan Governor, Frank Murkowski, sponsored the Road to Nowhere. It was challenged immediately. Supporters of the Marine Ferry system across Southeast Alaska viewed the proposal as Murkowski''s attempt to weaken the ferry system. Palin supported the ferry system.

Many lawsuits were filed to stop the Road to Nowhere; and finally Palin replaced Murkowski.

The implications in this AP article are curious and misleading. But the intent is quite clear, as evidenced in this blog session.

[pastdue1]

Well, it looks like, again, the McCain-Palin camp is thwarting all efforts to let the public know just what and who Palin is. They have pressured the Commission on Presidential Debates to limit the vp debates to , guess what, prepared answers. They justify with " want Ms Palin to have opportunities to present Mr. McCain''''''''s position. . . NYTimes.
Is there something so basically wrong with Palin or something so damaging in her past that allowing her to answer, without script, would damage the McCain-Palin ticket?

Guess we will never get any answers on the "road to nowhere", although we''ve heard plenty on the merits of "bridge to nowhere"

[lewiston14]

But your garden tractor is killing the earth. didnt you read about that.

[scallywag8]

OK...Let me get this straight. A road to nowhere to a bridge to nowhere to and airport on an island of 50 people. You give me 25 million dollars and I will take my garden tractor and build a runway on the mainland and buy everyone on the island a boat and still have a good profit.

[lewiston14]

25 million to make 3 miles of dirt road. Nice work if you can get it.

[txpatriot4us]

The Road to No Where -----Sounds like the Republican Party...but add "The road to bankruptcy for the USA also fits them aptly.

[tryhonesty]

RepubliCON Palin was for it before she was against it...what a bunch of morons!

[benighse]

Sarah, where you going? ....I''m going to drive on my road to nowhere......Sarah, who you taking with you?....My elderly buddy, John Mccain since he''s going nowhere fast....Sarah, what will you do?....We''ll go fishing because we didn''t build my bridge to nowhere....toooo baddddd, sooooo sadddddd.....

[benighse]

Maybe they''ll name it: "PALIN--ON A ROAD TO NOWHERE"

[pvperson]

Palin plans on building the "airport to nowhere" at the end of the "road to nowhere" as soon as she''s elected.

[jkl3465]

what a waste of money

[pastdue1]

because Bush is not hated outside of the fever swamps of the left. His low approval rating is because republicans abandoned him over spending.
Posted by coltmeadows at 10:21 AM : Sep 21, 2008

Beg to differ ~ why is it that the only place Bush can visit and get any kind of welcome is Georgia and Saudi Arabia?
You are right, Republicans, big business Republicans have abandoned him on spending; however, now, they are all too willing to have $800billion spent on their folly. But, main stream, middle class Republicans have abandoned him on his war, on his stubborn refusal to change untenable positions and on his flat-out incompetency to keep our country on an even keel. Many have come to believe that the Bush administration has placed the United States in jeopardy and wondering if we actually survive his administration. Cheney has been abandoned by main stream Republicans because of his UnAmerican activites, case in point, disregarding the constitution.
While McCain is talking out of the other side of his mouth right now. One must look closely at his policies. His "maverick" status is only visible on the hit and miss things, look at his overall policy and the words he couches it in ~ words like "taxpayer keep more of his money" "little business create many many jobs" "transparancy in government" haven''t we really heard these slogans before.

[mcdonaj3]

Alaska is awash in money from the north slope. Go to https://www.pfd.state.ak.us. This year each resident will receive up to $3,269 from the Permanent Fund Divided Division. If they want that bridge so bad let them use their own money!

[stupidrules3]

I know the Daily Show says otherwise, and does it with a glibness that appeals to those who think glib is smart.
Posted by coltmeadows at 10:21 AM : Sep 21, 2008

I guess it''s glib to play 2 clips back to back of both Bush and McCain contradicting themselves. I realize the Daily Show is a comedic look at politics, but they do have a point. It''s like *** Morris and Karl Rove calling Hillary a whiner for accusing the Republicans of sexism and then accusing the Democrats of being sexist.

[coltmeadows]

George Bush won two elections against your best and your brightest, including a Nobel Peace prize winner who thinks my lawnmower threatens the planet. He won those elections because people trusted his judgment. In both elections, Bush was the better choice. His tax cut led to a period of sustained economic growth, and has produced an economy so strong that it has (so far) survived (1) $5 a gallon gas, and (2) the meltdown of those two pillars of democrat patronage, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.

John Kerry ran on a platform that he would have pulled out of Iraq. Rather than make a brilliant tactical change on the ground -- i.e., the surge -- he would have left, leading to sectarinan violence, and other wild stuff in the Middle East. John Kerry voted for the war in Iraq as a Senator; and he would have lost it as the president.

I know the Daily Show says otherwise, and does it with a glibness that appeals to those who think glib is smart. But trust me: This "McCain is Bush" thing is not working because Bush is not hated outside of the fever swamps of the left. His low approval rating is because republicans abandoned him over spending.

[geneonlbk]

Are you better off than you were eight years ago? Is your country better off after eight years to GOP control? Do you really believe that Palin will not be as much of a crook as she has been in Alaska? Do you really want someone who could barely get through some pretty bad colleges in six years to be making decisions for you? I hate to think about her class standing. Could it be lower than McCain''s class standing? We do not need dumb political animals to run our country, put there by slick handlers working for you know who.

[buttonjockey]

$25 million for 3.2 miles of graveled road? Somebody needs to audit that project! I understand that preliminary engineering costs are high before you even drop a blade, but that is a ridiculous amount of money!

The Road to Nowhere is an example of same old, same old spending. Not reformist at all.

I think the Republican party now has its own Bridge to Nowhere. It''s called the McCain - Palin Ticket.

[coltmeadows]

Like you, I prefer my female candidates for high office to gain all of their political clout and notoriety from their husband''s accomplishments. This idea of going from the PTA, to a mayorship, to a
governorship, and gaining the highest approval rating of all governors by defying entrenched corrupt politicians in your own party is just plain un-American -- unless, of course, your name is Jimmy Stewart.

Sarah Palin has certainly offended the gods.