In an interview with Katie Couric, Steve Schmidt, the Rovite, said about Sarah Palin....She's fought the oil companies. She's building a huge natural gas pipeline. She's taken on the corrupt special interests. She's returned taxpayer money back to families in Alaska.
Prove it.
Sarah Palin has fought the oil companies. How, precisely, has Sarah Palin fought the oil companies. I keep hearing this line, but with no specific backup to it. It seems as though they act like the oil is being pumped by either the state of Alaska or the US Government. And this pride you have of this supposed battle is with the same group of companies that McCain's major platform of Drill Here Drill Now will embrace? Steve Schmidt, prove it. Prove your statement. I can't believe how the media just lets a statement like that go, even repeats it, with no facts. How did Sarah Palin fight the oil companies? I would love to see specifics.
Sarah Palin is building a huge pipeline for natural gas. Oh really? How is Sarah paying for this pipeline, why wasn't a US company chosen to build it, why is it being refined in Canada instead of the US, is US Steel required to be used in this pipeline, etc? Who is building it? Is there a penny of federal money involved? Specifics please as to how Sarah is building this pipeline?
Sarah Palin has taken on the corrupt special interests? By this do you mean the heretofore respected members of the Republican party that you represent? What corrupt special interests has she "taken on"? Again, you got any meat with that sauce?
Sarah Palin has returned taxpayer money to Alaskans. Yeah, ours. Since we pay a lot of taxes on every gallon of fossil fuel used, whose money is it she is giving back? So, Alaska has a budget surplus (perhaps because of all the federal money the state governmenet gets?) and decides to give all 600,000 of its residents (or whatever percentage is adult, so a much smaller number) a check. Great. The money that comes from the fact that the rest of the country is paying $3 to $4 a gallon for gas gets kicked back to some Alaska residents. I would love to see how she will impliment that program for the rest of the country. Another tax credit check?
Finally, Lindsey Graham said that the important thing about the bridge to nowhere is that even though she was initially for it, she killed it. Well, that's just total bullshit. She did not back off the bridge to nowhere until Congress killed the $320 million they needed from the federal government to build it. She said they couldn't afford to do it without the federal money she was in favor of receiving. That's what they call killing it?
Somebody in the media please make these liars back up everything they say. Two words need to be uttered after every talking point they spew. Prove it.