Once upon a time, Sarah Palin actually had a job. She was elected governor of Alaska! And, for a few months at least, she often went to work and even made a brief effort to “help Alaskans” who weren’t named Palin. The primary legacy of Sarah Palin’s only actual full-time job was the increased taxes on corporate oil profits — especially “windfall profits” when oil prices skyrocketed. But Republicans in Alaska’s legislature have now killed the Palin tax hikes on Big Oil, so Alaska can now expect an $8 billion decline in revenue for its people.
Even Quitter Sarah’s replacement, her one-time lieutenant governor Sean Parnell, now says her tax hike on oil companies was a terrible idea. Parnell used to say he supported the slightly higher taxes on oil companies that despoil Alaska while extracting its natural resources — now he’s all for giving the oil companies whatever they want, because he finally remembered Republicans hate people, not corporations. [ADN]
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And the reason the unemployment rate went down today is because the benefits for the entire Palin clan have finally run out.
When do the fine upstanding citizens have to give their annual socialist state welfare checks back to the oil companies?
If you are an outsider visiting Anchorage when the bonus checks come out you might wish they would. These people know how to par-tay.
Starting in 3… 2… 1…
That photo looks like she has a stick up her bum.
Is that where she hides it when she isn't riding it?
She looks surprised, no? And anyway, I'm not so sure her hands are where we can see them. Is someone playing find the raspberry inside that big coat?
No, it's just a fetus. They hide out, there, while others are making their way through to clear room. It's like a storage closet.
Look. Taxing the big oil companies was like killing the goose that laid the golden egg. If you tax the oil companies they won't drill in Alaska where there's oil and infrastructure for moving it to port but in places where there isn't any oil. See how stupid that would be?
Hey, that's my Governor's reasoning in refusing to tax the the natural gas companies poisoning our water through hydrolic fracking; sure it may an unusually rich source of natural gas but no energy company would touch it if they had to pay one cent in taxes.
Fracking idiots.
If you're not nice to the oil companies, they'll offshore their whole operation to Somalia.
I hope thats on pay per view, I'd watch.
And they'll pay for it by cutting some useless thing, like teacher's salaries, medicaid or unemployment benefits.
Or rape kits.
*looks down at SexySmurf's comment*
SHIT.
Or close down the "Vista Views of Russia" State Parks.
Why would you want to preserve nature's beauty when there could be oil under that snow?
Palin: Quitter. Liar. Hypocrite. Incompetent. Coward. Fraud.
That aint no joke.
Unlikely to be mistaken for one either.
She ain't no joke,
She used to let the state smoke.
Now she slams it when she's done and makes sure it's broke…
Hey! You found the choir!
Thank G_d the oil companies have finally thrown free the shackles of Palinist soshulizt tyranny!
TAKE BACK ARE STATE! –Alaska Tea Party
State or oil colony? You decide.
Why can't it be both?
Governor Exxon approves this message.
So Joe Miller has to work now?
Depends on what your definition of work is.
Pension, my friend. Pensions and ag subsidies. This guy'll go back to Kansas if he has to.
They should make up for the loss in revenue by charging more for rape kits.
No joke either, that must be a major industry up there.
Don't you all understand that the oil companies can't keep making record profits unless they gouge the consumers and shirk their financial responsibilities to the US? Doesn't anyone think of the children??!!!
not once they're born
Who needs oil? Legalize meth! Alaska would make a fortune.
ANWR ==> Anhydrous NH3 Warehousing Reserve
1. Legalize meth
2. ???
3. Increased state revenues
The Alaska Reps had to scale back on those taxes, otherwise the oil companies would pull up and move stakes to other oil-rich states, like Maine, or Hawaii. Or Guam.
Alaska is Open For Business!
Just stay the fuck away from Rhode Island. Those people are monsters.
I am starting to think that instead of conserving oil we should just use the fuck out of it and end this fucking industry once and for all.
but of course, I can't actually afford gas, so someone else is going to have to…
This won't be good for the Alaskan meth industry but I’m the Meth lobbyist will get this corrected.
So now we can all look forward to all the "growth" that will be coming out of Alaska. Everyone knows that not asking corporations to pay their fair share leads to "growth". My anger at this bullshit is growing daily.
Whoa. This puts the Tea Party in a bind. They are against all taxes, but trashin' the pride of Wasilla is unAmerican. Sean Parnell also voted against Bristol when she was Dancin' with the Stars. Rat.
I was unaware of that vote. This changes everything.
I think you might be giving those fat fucks too much credit. First, there is no consistency to any of their…. well, logic, for lack of a better word. Then, of course, they would have to actually hear about this event, and I doubt that Faux will be covering it so the odds aren't good there. And finally, if confronted, all she'd have to do is toss up one of her word salad "mavericky… fiscal restraint… refudiate soshulist in WH…" bullshit and she'd be back in their good graces.
After realizing that I hadn't heard about this beast in any number of days, I came to the conclusion this morning that we are witnessing the early stages of her Lewinsky-fication.
You remember her, right? No? And that is my small bit of Ken antidote for the day. You're welcome, drop me a p on your way out.
So the grifter is going to be designing purses soon? Good times.
She could make silk ones out of her daughters' ears.
At least Lewinsky's open mouth did somebody some good.
ROTFLMAO!
I think Bill has better options than Mrs Palin's favors.
When will Sarah Palin do the right thing and, like Rep. Joe Barton (R-BP) before her, offer a long overdue apology to Alaska's beloved oil companies?
The tea party is dead, long live the paultards?
Who needs oil company revenues when you're clamped like a barnacle to the federal government's saggy teat?
So does this mean that Bristol is going to go to work for COYOTE in Alaska?
She'd be a natural fit.
Sean Parnell said Sarah had a bad idea?…..OHHHHHHH SHIT Sean, BLOOD fuckin' LIBEL!!!! It's on like Donkey Kong!!!! Enjoy getting surveyor marked in the head.
Whenever I read about The Queen Grifter goin' rogue, an image of beef curtains swinging to and fro pops in then out of my head, leaving me somewhat nonplussed for a moment or two. I guess what I'm saying is, please stop talking about That One going rogue.
Like a rogue elephant, and then Go Daddy-daddy can shoot her for her tusks, right?
While they are at it, can they eliminate those TV/film tax breaks so we never have to endure another Sarah Palin reality series again?
Finally, Alsakans are freed from the tyranny of the Snowbilly Socialist Job-killingTax.
Now they can all relax, get back in their helicopters and shoot some moose or Canadians.
BTW I think I found the evidence Andrew Sullivan has been looking for…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8UWISICJls&fe...
If they don't lower the tax, Ellis Wyatt will burn his oil wells again.
Don't you wish that she would just slide under a gasoline truck and taste her own arterial spray?
Is that what she calls giving Todd a BJ?
I seriously doubt that Todd and Sarah ever get together to make the "beast with two backs"
Speaking of hummers….
Nancy gave me a gift last night. It is two small branding irons with our initials on them. You use them to put your monogram on steak.
Couldn't you just see Jeffery, serving dinner to his boss and my asking, "Who is ready for another slab of hot B J meat?"
Monogram steak? That sounds pointless…
What? How do you heat up the branding irons so the image doesn't get lost in the general browning? Blowtorch? X-ray laser? Does that actually work? (I'm seeing a possible gift idea for my in-laws who already have everything).
Oddly enough, I was once half of a B&J. For public use, we preferred J&B.
Is it a backwards "B"?
THAT is poetry!
So her only real legacy was a SOCIALIST wealth redistribution tax, and now it's gone? hahahahahah
I am awash in cognitive dissonance after reading this. Sarah Palin (May the peace of Allah descend upon her) on one side, the oil companies on the other.
Is it OK to just blow them both up?
Both?
Sarah and (metaphorically) all the oil companies.
So, they're going to set up "virginity checkpoints", like DUI checkpoints? (But only for the women, of course.)
"License and your resignation, ma'am."
I'll apply for the "tester" person. You know like the guy who does the breath thing at the police station. I forget what's its called because I was smashed that night…And how.
This, of course, ties in nicely with the fact that the women who go through these virginity checkpoints will then have to buy their own rape kits!
The circle is complete!
But won't that destroy their "way of life"?
Thankfully this helps preserve her legacy of "everything in my orbit gets ruined."
The Wasilla Witch probably supports repeal of the tax that she once supported. Prime evidence of her schizophrenia. "Sarah, meet Sarah?" "Huh? Where you been, bitch?"
Wait'l she gets the Alzheimer's.
Maybe Lou Sarah did it.
Now now, there is the Wasilla Sports Costco thing she had grifted and that Wasilla will be paying for over the next million years… that's a legacy, isn't it? Sorta like a community organizer?
Even better than a community organizer, she left a stain on Wasilla that will last long beyond her years. And that lasting legacy will define Sarah for historians and future generations.
On land that the city did not own. That ever been sorted out?
All this so Track and Morlock could be watched by other kids parents while Sarah dicked around in her Walmart pajamas and watched reality teevee, wishing one day she'd be a romantic frontier star of a documentary travelogue.
Suck the land dry, rape the locals, crush all dissent, leave nothing unspoiled. Suck it, Europe–we'll colonize ourselves!
Without bothering with the "bringing the light of civilization" part.
Gonna be a long hard winter up there this year with meth rations.
Just wait until the meth famine hits and forces countless Wasillans to emigrate to the U.S.A.
You mean to Arizona, meth capital of the Lower 48. (See, Bristol was just leading the way.)
SARAH PALIN RINO
Yeah, her Tea Bagger following have got to be having a mental meltdown now. Their patron saint raised taxes on a corporation?
Her whole 'record' is ramping up taxes on corporations. The big box stores paved Wasilla's roads with gold. If they haven't been clued into her socialist activities by now, they are happy with meme she has successfully put out the last two years.
Isn't the state motto "Alaska — The Welfare State" since they get $6 from DC for every dollar they send in? I guess Uncle Sam will just have to make up the shortfall.
"Even Quitter Sarah’s replacement, her one-time lieutenant governor Sean Parnell, is a" complete douche bag and should be hung up by his tiny testes.
How can these "people" continue to suck the dicks of corporations? What? Oh… they're fucking Idiots… OK.
Back during her brief governorship, I happened to go on a cruise to Alaska. After buying the tickets, we were hit with an increased fee (tax) Alaska charges per visitor. She didn't seem to mind sucking at the teat of the tourists either.
In fairness, Republicans only hate people after they are born, and if they have no money.
… and if they refuse to become troops or residents in privately sourced prisons.
TAXES = INCOME
REPUBLICANS HATE TAXES.
THEREFORE, REPUBLICANS HATE INCOME.
I don't know how this happened, Sarah's impassioned testimony was uncharacteristically reasoned and supported by the numbers. . .oh wait, she didn't even show up – even via her home studio via Fox News to defend and progress her one of two limping legislative legacies incentivizing oil lust.
And how about AGIA? How's that pipeline to nowhere working for North America? Why did McCain pick her again?
Sean Parnell, aka Captain Zero, was a big law firm partner for Big Oil clients. His blood is made up of the black gold.
Spineless pieces of corporate shit.
It's funny (and profoundly depressing) 'cause it's true.
Though, wouldn't mind them spoiling the waters around Newport, the bastards.
Sorry to disappoint you dumbarses, but only the Alaska House voted to change ACES. The Alaska Senate won't even bring it up for a vote, so this article is actually a lie. I'm shocked. NOT!
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