According to the AP:
Five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power.
The article is referring, of course, to the "Troopergate" scandal, in which GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin is alleged to have fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan for his refusal to fire her sister's ex-husband from the Alaska State Police.
And here I thought the GOP despised trial lawyers and lawsuits.
Another interesting update to this ongoing saga is that
Alaska's House Speaker, a Republican who voted to authorize the review two months ago, on Tuesday questioning [sic] its impartiality.
Rep. John Harris wrote that what "started as a bipartisan and impartial effort is becoming overshadowed by public comments from individuals at both ends of the political spectrum."
What irritates me the most is that the GOP constantly rails against trial lawyers and "activist" judges, and yet they repeatedly use the shadiest legal tactics to steal elections, disenfranchise voters, obfuscate public records, condone torture, ignore habeus corpus, permit questionable wiretaps, and refuse subpoenas.
They also politicized the Justice Department and brazenly sought to install judges of their own activist bias into federal positions all over the country.
This is the worst bunch of hypocrites our country has ever seen and I can't wait to vote for change on November 4.