by Nicholas | I suppose everyone who reads it is going to be struck by one part of this New York Times article or another. Let me see. Secrecy...loyalty...cronyism...hmmm. Who does that remind me of? It's on the tip of my tongue. Let's see....Louche?....Douche?....no, that's not quite it. But close.
For what it's worth, here's one Brit's pick:
Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.
Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor, sought the e-mail messages of state scientists who had examined the effect of global warming on polar bears. (Ms. Palin said the scientists had found no ill effects, and she has sued the federal government to block the listing of the bears as endangered.) An administration official told Mr. Steiner that his request would cost $468,784 to process.
When Mr. Steiner finally obtained the e-mail messages — through a federal records request — he discovered that state scientists had in fact agreed that the bears were in danger, records show.
“Their secrecy is off the charts,” Mr. Steiner said. (NYT)
Yes, "secrecy" is one word for it.
I said that one was my favorite. But this too is choice:
In Wasilla, a builder said he complained to Mayor Palin when the city attorney put a stop-work order on his housing project. She responded, he said, by engineering the attorney’s firing. (NYT)
I'm agog that John McCain thought that this smiling, rosy-cheeked bargain-basement autocrat was a good pick for Vice President of the Free World.
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