Where Did Sarah Palin Go?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 22nd, 2011 4:36 am by HL
Where Did Sarah Palin Go?
It appears Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour has taken an “extended pit stop,” according to Real Clear Politics.
“Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska, where the skies are currently alight for over 19 hours a day and the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak.”
Another Sex Scandal Brewing on Capitol Hill?
The Wall Street Journal reports that a congressional ethics panel is investigating allegations that Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) sexually harassed a member of his staff.
The investigation began after a conservative group “filed a lawsuit as the legal counsel for Winsome Packer, a staffer on a commission Mr. Hastings headed. She alleged that she had been sexually harassed by the congressman and that he retaliated when she tried to report it.”
Hastings wouldn’t directly address the allegations in an interview: “Quite frankly your source has as much or more information than I do and I would suggest you rely upon them. It would be impossible for me in a paragraph or a page or two or a tome or volumes one and two to help you understand the dynamics of these events. I’ll leave it at that.”
More Say They Are Worse Off Than Under Bush
A new Bloomberg Poll finds that by a 44% to 34% margin Americans say they believe they are worse off than when President Obama took office.
Two-thirds say they believe the country is on the wrong track overall.
Nonetheless, the public “remains ambivalent about the Republican Party’s economic stewardship. Asked to rate Obama’s vision for the economy against that of the Republicans, poll respondents favor the president’s by 40% to 37%, though that is a deterioration from a 12-percentage-point advantage Obama maintained three months ago.”
