Sarah Takes on Wall Street
The next time I say something negative about Sarah Palin and her Baghdad Bobs tell me to “go back to the Huffington Post,” please consider that they’re warming up to her over there:
Indeed, at times in her speech at the Tea Party Convention, Palin sounded like the second coming of Huey Long. “While people on Main Street look for jobs, people on Wall Street — they’re collecting billions and billions in your bailout bonuses,” she said. “And everyday Americans are wondering: Where are the consequences? They helped to get us into this worst economic situation since the Great Depression. Where are the consequences?” I was within an inch of singing along: “Yeah, where are the consequences!? You tell ‘em, Sarah!”
Well, it’s no wonder Arianna Huffington's on board with Palin's economic rhetoric. Game Change revealed that, during a McCain conference call about the financial collapse, Palin spouted “populist, anti-Wall Street cliches.” During her vice-presidential debate, she insisted that the ‘predator lenders’ were solely at fault for the problems we face. She absolutely loves the fact that “the people” own Alaska’s oil, as a “collective” resource — that’s why she supported a “windfall profits” tax against “Big Oil” and inspired a tome called “Sarah Takes On Big Oil," after all. And now, she has decided to side with Martha Coakley and Barack Obama against the idea that banks ought to be profitable again — which is even more baffling, in light of the fact that she supported the bailout in the first place! (What for, may I ask, if she doesn't want the banks to make money?)
How much longer can this woman get a free pass from economic conservatives?