Hats Off To Governor Palin: GOOPER Of The Week
Stan Grimes
March 21, 2009
My sincerest congratulations go out to Governor Sarah Palin for winning this week´s GOOPER award. She has worked hard and deserves it. We all knew she would make the list eventually. Her need to obstruct and be an obstructionist far out weigh her desire to govern the good citizens of the great state of Alaska.
Governor Palin announced that she would not take Federal Relief money for education in her state. This money so kindly offered by our government includes money for Special Education and it just so happens that one of Palin´s children is a special needs child. I am fearful that Governor Palin´s dislike for the President overshadows her ability to think rationally.
I will give the good governor some credit. She at least accepted Federal money for areas such as increased unemployment benefits and Medicaid. But, I won´t give her credit for much more than that. Of course, Palin bemoaned that the education money wouldn´t last forever and that the state would have to pick up the programs' financial stability after or if Fed money runs out.
It was not that easy to come up with a GOOPER this week, not for the lack of candidates for sure. I was highly considering Joe the Plumber again, but he just won the award a couple of weeks ago. While accepting an award this week at the 2009 Gala and Dishonors Awards gathering, Joe decided to make more of a fool of himself by telling the participants of this ceremony, "God, all this love and everything in the room - I'm horny." Thanks for too much information Samuel Wurzelbacher (his real name of course). I guess he thought the world needed to hear this sexual confession. Aroused or not, Joe did not get this week´s award.
Also, I searched the directories of AIG for a candidate for my little award, but nobody was home. They must all be out spending their bonuses, which by the way have changed in total given. The amount went from 165 million and is now a cool 218 million. That´s right, the birds have even more money to stuff into their nests. Let me get this straight. The government gave AIG 182 billion dollars in bailout money and those lowly little executives only receive 218 million of the gift. Seems like a drop in the bucket to me.
Wow, the things I could do with just 218 dollars, or maybe 2018 bucks. My wife and I could pay our real estate taxes, if we still have a home, I could get a pair of those stretchy blue jeans I´ve always wanted. Or, I could download that Bruce Springsteen album I´ve been eyeing up for several weeks now.
No matter, Governor Palin my hat off to you for being my pick for GOOPER of the week. No one deserves it more.
Governor Palin announced that she would not take Federal Relief money for education in her state. This money so kindly offered by our government includes money for Special Education and it just so happens that one of Palin´s children is a special needs child. I am fearful that Governor Palin´s dislike for the President overshadows her ability to think rationally.
I will give the good governor some credit. She at least accepted Federal money for areas such as increased unemployment benefits and Medicaid. But, I won´t give her credit for much more than that. Of course, Palin bemoaned that the education money wouldn´t last forever and that the state would have to pick up the programs' financial stability after or if Fed money runs out.
It was not that easy to come up with a GOOPER this week, not for the lack of candidates for sure. I was highly considering Joe the Plumber again, but he just won the award a couple of weeks ago. While accepting an award this week at the 2009 Gala and Dishonors Awards gathering, Joe decided to make more of a fool of himself by telling the participants of this ceremony, "God, all this love and everything in the room - I'm horny." Thanks for too much information Samuel Wurzelbacher (his real name of course). I guess he thought the world needed to hear this sexual confession. Aroused or not, Joe did not get this week´s award.
Also, I searched the directories of AIG for a candidate for my little award, but nobody was home. They must all be out spending their bonuses, which by the way have changed in total given. The amount went from 165 million and is now a cool 218 million. That´s right, the birds have even more money to stuff into their nests. Let me get this straight. The government gave AIG 182 billion dollars in bailout money and those lowly little executives only receive 218 million of the gift. Seems like a drop in the bucket to me.
Wow, the things I could do with just 218 dollars, or maybe 2018 bucks. My wife and I could pay our real estate taxes, if we still have a home, I could get a pair of those stretchy blue jeans I´ve always wanted. Or, I could download that Bruce Springsteen album I´ve been eyeing up for several weeks now.
No matter, Governor Palin my hat off to you for being my pick for GOOPER of the week. No one deserves it more.
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