Typical of a Hack

Republican hacks like to point out that Sarah Palin is the most popular Governor in the United States. They also like to call Obama a socialist for his tax policies.

Here's the thing: Sarah Palin fought for an increase in Alaska's tax on profits of oil companies that do business in Alaska, and she sent $1,200 checks with the resulting revenues to Alaskans to help pay their rising fuel bills.

So, in summary, the Governor of Alaska increased taxes on privately-generated wealth and sent the proceeds to the citizens of the state, to help pay bills that were higher because that taxed industry was doing so well.

That's socialism.

Now, it ought to be fairly obvious that if the citizens of a state get an additional check in the mail for $1,200 and the Governor takes credit for it, that Governor's popularity is going to rise. Handing out checks makes a person popular. I'm sure Ms. Palin is popular for other reasons, but I've got to believe those checks are a big part of it.

Try asking a right wing hack about that.

I have tried asking Owen Robinson three times what he'd think if Governor Doyle raised taxes on our primary industry and wrote us checks from the resulting revenues. He has not had the nerve to respond.

Tonight I tried asking Brian Fraley. His response was, well, Bill Ayers.

That's what hacks do. If facts are problematic and cannot be answered to easily, then those questions are either ignored or a diversion is attempted.

It works on the other side too.

So again I ask, how do people live with the hypocrisy and cowardice necessary for hard-core partisanship?