Alaska shall be as a citty upon a hill

America’s Governor, responding to a question that no one had actually asked:

I think OK, it provides opportunity, again, to do things right up here as the governor. And to make sure that, if those eyes of the nation are on the state, that we are responsible, we are just, we are fair, we are productive, all those things that this state already is but we have opportunity to be even more so. The eyes of the nation are on the state, we’re not going to let them down, we’re going to make sure that people know we can do things right up here.

Um. Yeah. About that…

To the degree that the nation has cast its gaze on Alaska, it’s been with bug-eyed disbelief that its voters may have actually re-elected Ted Stevens instead of, say, making a vest and hat out of his skin. Beyond that, I can’t imagine what sort of sustained interest the rest of the nation might have in the operatic gyrations of Alaskan politics. But Palin seems convinced that Americans — real Americans, that is, the pro-Americans who failed to elect her — are eagerly awaiting the arrival of those fungible commodities whose molecules we don’t flag, and that the state of Alaska is somehow going to serve as a government-in-exile for the Drill Now/Drink America’s Milkshake Party. Meantime, Palin is apparently unable to comprehend the simple fact that new resource development — ANWR, off-shore drilling, the Trans-Canada gas pipeline — won’t come online, if ever, until years after she’s been humiliated in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries.

I suppose the good news to draw from this is that in lieu of actual actual accomplishments, Sarah Palin will continue to entertain the nation until the expulsion of Ted Stevens supplies us with something else to talk about.