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  Sarah, you ready for all this? It's a mighty dirty playing field out there. Hope your skin is thick.

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Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families." ----- Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates. Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/p... [image] Hypocrites!

Palin personally cut funding that gave unwed mothers a place to live
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Yes, Palin did it herself. The Washington Post has a photo of the budget with her handwriting on it. She's such a compassionate, right wing theocrat: ...

Palin Cut Funds for Teen Moms
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers. According to Passage House’s web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.” Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

The Palin Record
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — She cut funding for a group that helps teen mothers.

What Did I Miss?
The Mahablog — Did anyone see Bush’s “speech” tonight? I understand it was kept to 8 minutes. They really don’t want him around, do they? When I got home from Tuesday night chorus rehearsal they were showing a tribute to Reagan. How many years will it take for them to get past Reagan? I realize the Dems had a tribute to the Kennedys, but that’s because there was a Kennedy on the stage. I watched Thompson with the sound off. He’s much better that way. Looking at the conventioneers reminds me of the folks back home. All white. Oo, Lieberman’s up. TV off. Anyway, I’m going to break my own rule here and ...

Impossible dilemmas
The Poor Man Institute — ...   He is a very angry little man.  And now, in his one pre-executive decision, he has managed to pick the craziest, stupidest, most unqualified, most embarrassing candidate since the Foley Administration …  and whose pastor believes that terrorism is God’s judgment on the Jews, and that people who don’t love Bush are damned … and whose undeclared business was shut down by the state … and who compassionately cut state funding for pregnant teens, like her daughter … and is basically ...

McCain, Palin And Bush vs Teen Pregnancy
Daily Kos — One of Sarah Palin's policies is in the spotlight today. From WaPo: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. Sarah Palin and John McCain almost certainly share the same opinion of contraception: Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican ...

Sarah Palin's record shows that she's not pro-life, she's pro-punishment for teen sex
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. ...

Her Turn
Jules Crittenden — [image] « Dutch Step Aside … Her Turn [image] Palin’s big night out. Boston Herald :  S T. PAUL, Minn - Top Republicans are swinging into battle after 48 hours of brutal personal attacks on Sarah Palin as the GOP vice presidential contender steps up to speak for herself tonight. The Alaska governor takes tonight’s Republican National Convention stage in a dramatic, high-stakes bid to take her candidacy back from liberal bloggers and pundits who have pummeled her and her family. “She’s tough, she’s thick-skinned and she seems to be very bright,” said U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.). “She’ll be able to handle anything that comes her way.” The all-out attack on ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Special issue-free edition. Uh-oh: former police chief says Palin fired him over campaign contributions. GOP convention: ignore the issues, vote McSame. Hilarious -- Short Ride calls himself a Democrat -- twice. Willard and Huckleberry to audition for 2012 speak tonight. Meanwhile, the Paulites are throwing their own party. Why does Sarah Palin hate pregnant teenagers? My friends, this is a bounce you can believe in.

Daily Palinoia: Now the National Enquirer is a Reliable Source
JammieWearingFool — Funny how when the National Enquirer was breaking the John Edwards love-child story the media scoffed at them as tabloid trash. All of a sudden they're now a go-to source , sitting at the top of Memeorandum this morning. Politics of personal destruction is now the primary aim of the alleged mainstream media. The latest non-story is this absurd Washington Post claim that Palin "slashed" funding for teen mothers, a story quickly blown out of the water .In other urgent Palin news, the future Vice President's future son-in-law is heading to St. Paul . Stop. The. Presses. In other breaking news, some alleged former acquaintance supposedly doesn't like ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words
Sister Toldjah — And I’d say the double standards by Us magazine on the cover page they did for the Obamas versus the one they did for Gov. Sarah Palin speaks volumes. This is the uphill battle we, as conservatives, face.  This battle includes not only things like the differing Us magazine covers, but also the usual phoney “slashed spending!!” charges, like the WaPo does here against Gov. Palin on funding for teen moms  (which is debunked here), we typically hear and read from mediot elites who know better, but who instead choose to show who ...

Why does Sarah Palin hate teenaged mothers?
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings It just keeps getting worse and worse for (and about) Sarah Palin as more and more comes out, and we continue to be all over the whole debacle here at The Reaction. (Go to the home page, or, if you're already there, scroll down.) Here's one of the latest developments. ********** As you probably know by now, Palin's daughter Bristol, a 17-year old high school student, is pregnant. Though McCain has known about this for some time, the news was conveniently broken by the McCain campaign while the media's attention was ...

Sarah Palin Conducts Aerial Hunts Of Pregnant Teens
Ace of Spades HQ — Sarah Palin Conducts Aerial Hunts Of Pregnant Teens Many Layers Of Fact Checking At WaPo It's over at Malkin's and in the sidebar headlines here, but really deserves a post because it's a lie that has legs running all over the internet now. In their mad rush to smear Palin for something- anything - the WaPo fails to notice that their evidence actually refutes itself. Here's the hack's headline: Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms Proof: [image] Check out the description right on the appropriation. Covenant House Alaska- Covenant House Facility Expansion (HD-1732) ...

Palin Blocked Funds To Help Teenage Mothers
Think Progress — ... the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Writing her initials on the legislation, Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House provides programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers. A copy of Palin’s line-item veto: On its website, Passage House ...

Compassionate Conservatism
Eschaton — Palin style. ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. Just think about this one for a moment. Palin is rabidly anti-choice, wanting it to be illegal in all cases except when the mother's life is threatened. This is a program which provides housing for teen mothers "in need of a place to live," presumably due to the fact that their parents and sperm donors are somewhat less than supportive. Despite this, these young women choose (that ...

What are you going to believe, Michelle Malkin or yer lyin’ eyes
Martini Revolution — Fraulein Konzentrationslager: “The Kossified MSM has completely lost its marbles!!!” Your lyin’ eyes: Sarah Palin’s line-item veto changes in 2008 spending bill written by hand. UPDATE: Folks, this isn’t all that difficult. If the legislature sets a funding level, and a governor cuts the approved funding, she cuts the funding. You can argue the merits but you cannot claim she didn’t slash the authorized funding. And the fact that the legislature may have increased it over the prior year doesn’t change the fact that ...

New Palin smear: She “slashed” funding for pregnant teens by, um, expanding it
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Daily Kos up to no good again? Nah — this one comes from WaPo , doing the hard work of ignoring primary sources that are reproduced right in the piece. ...

Sad and Ironic: Palin Vetoed Funding for Teen Moms
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Yet another example of how the religious right insists babies be born, but then chooses not to support the babies, mothers, and families afterward. This is a classic story with a newly relevant twist. The WaPo: After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, [Alaska Governor Sarah] Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional ...

Life Begins at Conception and Ends at Birth…
Matthew Yglesias — … which no doubt explains why a good conservative like Sarah Palin would want to slash funds for a program that provides transitional housing for teen mothers.

Palin and pregnant teens
Political Animal — PALIN AND PREGNANT TEENS.... The Washington Post's Paul Kane reports that Sarah Palin, as governor, used a line-item veto to "slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live." As it turns out, Alaskan lawmakers passed the state's budget, but Palin started taking out funding she found objectionable. In this case, she cut funding for Covenant House Alaska from $5 million to $3.9 million. The practical result, of course, is that fewer teen moms in Alaska would be eligible for shelters and educational programs. The obvious criticism, I suppose, is to relate this to Palin's own family, but there's a more important policy point to make here. TNR's ...

Q of the day - what’s off limits?
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Pam Spaulding “Children are off limits.” I agree that the Obama campaign needs to steer away from any discussion of a minor child of a candidate. That’s not, however, the same as discussing the hypocrisy of a ticket that promotes abstinence-only education and favors SCOTUS justices that would revisit a woman’s right to reproductive freedom. That’s worthy of discussion, the obvious nature of Sarah Palin’s daughter becoming pregnant as a result of pre-marital sex is not a judgment on her personal behavior, but a reflection on what policies a McCain/Palin administration would advocate for—and how real life can get into the way of ...

It's the Hypocrisy, Not The Inexperience
Open Left - Front Page — In regards to Palin, progressive media has performed beautifully so far. So much has been dug up so much on Palin that she has practically become a national joke, and the McCain campaign is even blaming the progressive blogosphere for this result. From this point forward, the key for progressive media is to make sure that we keep attacking from virtually every angle except for the "lightweight" angle. ...

Smearing Sarah Palin
Weekly Standard Blog — ... that Palin was a Pat Buchanan supporter? Or the Washington Post report that "Palin Slashed Funds For Teen Moms", when in fact she ...

Publications I Normally Admire
Ross Douthat — ... ) the claim that Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party. I normally have great respect for the Washington Post, which trumpeted the claim that Palin - "the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant," in the words of the item - used her line-item veto to "slash funding" for a program "benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live." (This is true enough, if by "slash funding" you mean "reduce a sixfold increase in the program's funding to ...

More Palin urban legend dousing: New York Times caught with its Big Foot in its mouth
Southern Appeal — ... that Palin was a Pat Buchanan supporter? Or the Washington Post report that “ Palin Slashed Funds For Teen Moms “, when in fact she ...

The Non-Existent Cut of
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, September 03, 2008 [image] The Non-Existent Cut of [Jonathan Adler] It's fashionable in Washington to characterize a decline in the rate of increase as a "budget cut," but even this can't explain the Washington Post's sloppy reporting on Sarah Palin's use of line-item budget authority as Governor of Alaska. Here ...

Shocker: Sarah Palin Slashed Funding For Pregnant Teens By Expanding It
Say Anything — ... ST. PAUL—Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. ...

Smaller Increase = Cut
Rhymes With Right — I’m curious – if you increase funding for a program three-fold million, how can any honest person call it a cut ? Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced ...

McCain and Palin: The Death of a Maverick
Firedoglake — The great myth being spun at the Republican convention is that John McCain and Sarah Palin represent some maverick, reformist spirit that will redeem the Republican Party by rejecting the politics and legacy of George Bush and Dick Cheney. It is a myth happily spread by a cynical Brooks and gullible Broder and those in the Beltway media who are not yet disgusted by the campaign’s astonishing mendacity. But it is a false and dangerous myth. The reality is that neither McCain nor Palin is a maverick; they are instead captives of the right wing religious and policy extremism that now defines the soul of the Republican Party. The proof of their complete ...

Gov. Palin’s Pro-Life Slashing of Funding for Teen Mothers
Comments from Left Field — Ahhhhh! I love the smell of hypocrisy in the great state of Alaska! Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation — “SP” — Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. ...

Shocker: Sarah Palin Slashed Funding For Pregnant Teens By Expanding It
Say Anything — ... ST. PAUL—Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. ...

Sarah Palin Post Speech Thread
TalkLeft — Here's to Gov. Palin and her PTA experience. Can someone please tell her she's running for the Vice Presidency of the United States, not Cheerleader in Chief for John McCain. For her cheap shot at Miranda rights, my gloves are coming off. Oh, and her praise of the line item veto? Her first use of it cut funding for homes for unwed mothers. More speech thoughts? ...

To the media - please keep it up (Part II)
QandO — Yes, friends Sarah Palin "cut funds" for pregnant Alaskan teenagers according to the Washington Post’s Paul Kane. He even has pictures: ...

WaPo Caught in Blatant Anti-Palin Lie
Moonbattery — The Obamunist media hasn't managed to improve its line of attack on Sarah Palin, which consists of going for the throat of her pregnant 17-year-old daughter. The Washington Post let fly with this headline: Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms Even though her own teen daughter became pregnant! How awful! Except the alleged "slashing" was actually a threefold increase. It has reached the point where you literally cannot believe a word you read in the mainstream media. They will tell you that today is Saturday, the 32nd of February, if they think it will hurt Sarah Palin or help the preposterous Obama candidacy. Hat tips: Michelle ...

There is REAL Anger Brewing Out There
sassafrassin.com — ... A couple of days ago, the “WaPo” (”Washington Post”) ran this story: WashingtonPost.com: Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms ...

Media Play Dumb To Smear McCain/Palin
Confederate Yankee — Media Play Dumb To Smear McCain/Palin MSNBC's Mark Murray and ABC News' Jake Tapper seem to have found a new way to help Barack Obama, playing dumb and purposefully misconstruing a McCain/Palin fundraising letter in order to claim the Republican ticket is being dishonest. Murray writes: This afternoon, the McCain campaign issued a Palin fundraising solicitation for the joint McCain-Palin-RNC fund. (After this week, McCain no longer can raise money after accepting $84.1 million in public funds, but the Republican National Committee and state parties can.) "I cannot tell you how special last night was for me and how enthused I am to be John McCain's running mate," Palin said ...

Freddoso: Following Caribou Barbie
Articles on National Review Online — St. Paul — On Wednesday, I headed between events from Minneapolis to Saint Paul, driven by a woman named Kimberly. She was white, a mom in her late 40s, with a tattoo on her forearm and a mild Minnesota accent. She did not look like a typical Republican voter. She certainly was nothing like the party faithful who had flocked to her town. I asked her what she thought of the convention, and she complained about the protesters who had come in from outside, breaking things and hurting business. That s just dumb, she said. There s a perfectly fine way to protest, and they have to come here and act like idiots. Then she went on: I don t know who I m going to vote for. I haven t been watching ...

The Trail of a Comment
The Buck Stops Here — I left a comment at a Washington Post blog on Wednesday. It has been well-traveled ever since. A commenter there claimed that Palin had slashed special education funding by 62%. I found this claim implausible, so I did just a few minutes of digging. Sure enough, that commenter had made the elementary error of failing to check to see whether one line item had been moved elsewhere in the budget -- as it had. In fact, funding had increased for the items in question. So here was my comment: A commenter (Jim Syar) accused Sarah Palin of reducing the special education budget by 62%. That is false. The special education budget actually increased by nearly ...

Sarah Palin Slashed Funding For Teen Pregnancy Programs
Crooks and Liars — Washington Post: ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation — “SP” — Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. ...

links for 2008-09-05
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Michelle Cottle: Palin's Handling of Other People's Pregnant Teens Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms... Dan ...

The Swift-Skirting of Sarah Palin
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Apparently the media wants to get even for the Swift-Boaters successful torpedoing of John Kerry in 2004 because they are by the dozens every day promulgating lies about the career and life of Governor Sarah Palin. I recently posted a piece on the lies, exaggerations and misbegotten assumptions of a Baltimore Sun columnist and it got me to thinking to try and gather one thread rebutting the media's ever evolving negative memes against this strong woman. From unproven claims of infidelity, to claims she is a book banner and a negligent Mother, the media have been smearing this woman daily since she stepped out onto the national stage. One recent Politico attack on Palin ...

Sarah Palin Sarah Palin Sarah Palin!
Fafblog — Well there's a brand new political superstar on the scene and she's tough as nails and the media won't leave her alone and she's a rough-and-tumble Alaskan hockey mom and why are they asking all these questions and she is the pure reincarnation of the invincible Anglo-Saxon frontier earth mother and stop picking on her! So maybe Sarah Palin doesn't have all that much "experience." Maybe she doesn't pay much attention to your fancy-pants "foreign policy" or "domestic policy" or "policy." Maybe she's "crazy" and "corrupt" and was picked by a "vetting process" that consisted of "tossing darts at a phone book in the middle of an all-night Ambien-and-Ketamine binge." But maybe that's just because ...

Rick Santorum, Gold-Star Feminist
Feministing — Oh, this is rich. The latest in a series of right-wingers to adopt a faux-feminist stance is Rick Santorum: SANTORUM: Sarah Palin is the Clarence Thomas for feminists. The civil rights community, the African-American community obviously should have rallied behind Clarence Thomas an his achievement, but they hammered him because he was a conservative. And the civil rights establishment was first and foremost liberal and then for the liberal rights of -- as liberals saw it, what blacks should have in this country. And the same thing with the feminist community. Because if there's anyone who has long been an ally of both the civil-rights ...

Elizabeth Shipp: John and Sarah's World
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Today, NARAL Pro-Choice America launched the first in its series of web videos that shows America just how extreme and radical the McCain-Palin ticket is when it comes to abortion, Roe v. Wade, and a woman's right to choose. And best of all, we have them saying what they believe in their own words -- no spin, no re-interpretation of what they said -- just the real McCain and Palin. Over the past couple of weeks, I've read a few of the blog posts from people who decry the fact that abortion has become a major issue in this campaign. They worry that the Democrats -- specifically the Democrat ...

The GOP Economic War Against American Working Families: BuzzFlash Part 3: The Struggle of Lower Wage Working Women
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... about Obama's policy on sex ed. They must know they can't win on the facts. Okay, so if Palin wants abortion illegal and abstinence-only education, one would think she'd do everything she could to support young mothers. Instead, she went out of her way with a line item veto to slash funding for an Alaska program that houses and assists unwed mothers. This is coming from a woman whose unmarried, 17-year-old daughter is about to make her a grandmother. So that's health. What about the other main issue for voters this year, the economy? Let's start out with the very basic idea ...