LGM Alaska Correspondent Eating Cheese Fries or Something?!?
By Apparently something incredibly entertaining is happening in Alaska. Where is Dave Noon??!?! WHERE IS DAVE NOON!!!!>!>11!!>>!>>>???
UPDATE (from davenoon): Jeebus! The Year of the Shit-Smearing-Crazy Governor continues. This is quite possibly the greatest birthday present I’ve received since — well, some notably cool stuff happened when I turned 21, but . . . Wow. I can only assume that Palin figured that Mark Sanford and Michael Jackson had already taken the more enthralling paths to news-cycle dominance and that just absent-mindedly setting fire to her political career would have to do.
From the sounds of it, Palin implied that ethics complaints and negative national press coverage were interfering with her duties as governor. The opposite, in fact, is quite likely the better explanation — her level of interest and engagement with Alaskan politics has been minimal, and her behavior over the past few months has been fitting for someone who views the job she has as a hindrance to the job she wants. She was a terrible, terrible governor after returning from the campaign trail. It’s hard to overstate how badly she performed in Alaska this year. She lost fights with the legislature over stimulus funding, the state budget, and cabinet appointments, and she fought against the residents state capital by pushing a succession of unqualified goofballs into line for an interim job as Juneau’s state senator. A lot of folks more knowledgeable about the situation than I assumed that she’d not run again next year, mainly because she’d be likely to face (and even possibly lose) a challenge in the GOP primary. It’s safe to say that no one expected this, but really — who’s complaining?