There it is. Sarah Palin’s hand. The picture that launched a thousand stories. “She can’t remember what she’s talking about,” says the Left. “The poor man’s teleprompter,” Sarah herself calls it in her speeches, according to the latest in Vanity Fair, making indirect fun of Obama’s use of more modern technology. Personally, I enjoyed the word play, that “this was the hand penned by the hand of Sarah Palin.”
But did anyone read the damned thing? I mean, besides Sarah? Because there’s a lot written on that tiny hand.
It starts with the word ‘Energy’. This includes oil, which is taxed in her state to fill the Alaska Permanent Fund, specifically to send a check to every man, woman and child in Alaska, every year. 2009’s payout? $1305 to any resident who’d been there a year. Sweet.
I’ll just leave to the reader the exercise of listing all the ways this contradicts her attitude towards taxation, government support of citizens, government regulation of business…
The hand ends with ‘Lift American Spirit,’ a nice, content-free reminder about her big finish in whatever speech she’s giving.
It’s the three words in the middle that say so much, about her, and about the self-knowledge that the GOP is selling lies. That if they told the truth, they’d be done for.
The line originally reads ‘Budget Cuts’, but then ‘Budget’ is crossed out, and ‘Tax’ is written under it. Now, the message is ‘Tax Cut’. Why?
Because if the Republicans ever actually listed the programs, the volume of cuts, the level of national financial destruction that would be necessary to perform their advertised magic act of tax cuts combined with a balanced budget…well, it’s not that they’d never win another election. It’s that Jan Brewer would finally be proven right, there would be decapitated bodies in the deserts of Arizona…and the forests of Utah, and the swamps of Louisiana and Mississippi. Bodies of Republican officeholders and candidates, their FOX pundits, and all their hangers-on. (I’m talking to you, Grover ‘Sign the No New Taxes pledge’ Norquist, you lying, America-hating weasel.)
Did Sarah understand this? Of course not. She’s on the payroll now, she won’t be missing any meals or mortgage payments. She wrote ‘Budget Cuts’ and someone else said, “Are you nuts?!” and crossed it off, and told her ‘Tax Cuts’ is the party line, always.
Because if she stood there and told her adoring flock that Medicare is closed, and the Social Security checks aren’t coming, and the military retirement is cancelled, and so’s the mortgage deduction, they’d get damned grumpy. And if she told them that junior’s school would need to shut, and the playground is closed, and there’s no more unemployment insurance, all just so her new friends could have more tax cuts, and higher interest income from their bonds, well, they might come to their senses, and render her…well, just render her. You farm boys know what I mean.
This is the hand of the Republican Party, with a one-word change demonstrating the sleight-of-hand they pull on their followers every election.
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