Bridge to the Twelfth Century

By Capt. Fogg

"I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere.” -- Gov. Sarah Palin

Nothing like starting your campaign with a lie. Of course, anyone who can't tell the difference between thanking congress for a bridge and thanking them on a bridge should be thrown off a bridge, but that's another matter. Americans don't notice such things anyway and a correct preposition might make her seem "elitist."

Fact is, support for the bridge was part of her campaign platform and although she apparently withdrew support when it turned out Alaska might have to contribute to the project, she didn't say no to the money, or on the money, as she might be expected to phrase it. She spent it elsewhere, telling Ketchikan residents she "felt their pain." Her actions hardly qualify as the kind of "cost-cutting" she claims to support as a new leader of a party that has been party to the largest deficit spending of the last 2/3 of a century and the largest most intrusive Federal government ever.

Of course, to any Republican, the past is plastic and malleable. It can be molded and shaped to create anything one likes, and indeed her personal history entry in Wikipedia was changed -- tuned up as it were, and apparently by her son the day before her selection was announced.

What reason predominated in the sclerotic mind of the Maverick when he made that selection remains a mystery, but it isn't a stretch to think that it's all about Roe v. Wade. Opposition to that by a woman seems more palatable than from another old white male Bible-thumper, but of course opposition to alternative energy and allegiance to an oil consuming empire can't be discounted.

Of course, it's more important, if one has any regard for truth, decency, justice, democracy or liberty, that these people be thwarted while there's still anything left to steal. That is if you don't value your Hummer and your Church more.