Palin 'could face impeachment'... from WSJ

[LuckyTheDog]

Now, one of the bright new stars in the Republican Party has suddenly become tarnished. The state legislature this week voted to hire an independent investigator to see whether Ms. Palin abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper.

"This is a governor who was almost impervious to error," says Hollis French, a Democratic state senator. "Now she could face impeachment, in a worst-case scenario."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121746477267499109.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[elocs]

1. Wouldn't that be special? n/t

[sandnsea]

2. She fired the chief safety officer

because he wouldn't fire the brother-in-law. If I understand correctly.

[LongDistanceRunner]

3. she abused her office, plain and simple

[Cha]

4. Just surprised the wsj is printing

this up for public comsumption.

[NYC Liberal]

5. This is why you vet people.

Jeez! Who in their right mind would pick someone under active investigation for ANYTHING, by their own legislature? Whether it was justified or not!

McCain is obviously out of his mind.

[tinrobot]

9. They didn't even have to vet her past reading a newspaper.

The story has been public knowledge and in the news for months.

Perhaps they don't know HOW to read.

[NYC Liberal]

12. But they can read Wikipedia. We know that!

[merh]

6. Maybe no conscience or qualms with abusing office is part of the vetting

process, I mean, think about it, look whose shoes she hopes to fill. :shrug:

[merh]

7. I heard Cheney declined her invite to go hunting

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okay, I didn't hear that but I have to do something about the dupes, system glitch big time. :blush:

[merh]

8. McCain/Palin are tools of their party

see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6839158





again, just trying to do away with the dupes :freak:

[redqueen]

10. The guy she tried to have fired

used a taser on his son.

I'm not saying it's right that she abused her power... but this'll polish her maverick, do-good-even-if-you-have-to-break-rules image, and that'll only help her.

[roguevalley]

11. I wonder who is in charge of McCain's campaign, with this the pick. He

must be doing it alone or someone would have had lead time to go and check her out. If she was on the list a while, this shows how slipshod they were not to do this in advance back in the day when there was time. Tough stuff now.

[EC]

13. at the kid's request because he wanted to know what it felt like

so he put it at lowest setting...

[redqueen]

15. No way... really?

%&#*($@&

The spin on this shit in the M$M... fucking unreal.

[EC]

18. Still a stupid thing to do though

but according to the reports, the father figured the kid would just have someone else do it so he wanted to at least do it safely...

[LuckyTheDog]

20. Accused of that (nt)

[Wilms]

14. 'Cept, impeachment is off the table. n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

19. Impeaching a Governor for wrongful firing O.K. War based on lies not O.K.

x(

[Colobo]

16. Lovely!

[Fovea]

17. Wouldn't that be a kick

in the nuts to McSame?