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Palin Took Per Diem for Each Day!
Outside The Beltway | OTB — Palin Took Per Diem for Each Day! A front page headline in today’s WaPo blaring “ Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home ” has, not surprisingly, garned top honors at Memeorandum . The gist of the scandal? [image] Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business. The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town ...

WaPo’s latest cooked up scandal against Gov. Palin
Sister Toldjah — When last we left you, they were bogusly claiming that Gov. Palin “slashed” funding for teen moms earlier this year via line-item veto. That story was debunked hours after the WaPo first reported it. To my knowledge, they still have not issued a correction. The latest poorly researched story from the WaPo regarding Gov. Palin starts off with the following headline (via Memeo): Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home ...

Do as we say dept.: Rep. Rangel on taxes
Overlawyered — While the commentariat is gripped by discussion of whether Gov. Sarah Palin should have cut personal travel expenses only by 68 percent compared with her predecessor as Alaska’s chief executive, or by some higher amount, maybe it’s worth pausing a moment to note that the dean of New York’s Congressional delegation — and the most powerful figure in Congress in charge of tax legislation! — has just been caught not paying his taxes. Tags: Charles Rangel, do as we say, New York, Sarah ...