Who knew the day would come when Pakistani leadership would have better things to say than 1st Lady Bush Part 2?

In a startling and brutally honest revelation, Sarah Palin says that the U.S. could be facing another Depression if a bailout plan isn't passed by Congress. While others have been pussyfooting around the issue, she finally sounds the horn on the Straight Talk Express and lets out the steam on the news we are afraid to utter.

Sarah continues to take NYC by storm with The Todd doing Daddy Duty with Trig and Willow and Piper. Upon shaking her soft and supple hand, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari gleefully remarked that "he now understood why so many in the U.S. "are crazy about" her.

Conversely First Lady Laura Bush loses all decorum and blathers this mess:

Laura Bush told CNN that she thought Palin had "a lot of really good common sense" and commended her executive experience. Asked if she thought Palin had sufficient foreign policy experience, the first lady said: "Of course she doesn't have that. You know, that's not been her role, but I think she is a very quick study, and fortunately John McCain does have that sort of experience."

Um. Why are people even addressing her and talking to her about things she doesn't understand? You want to ask her about her slutty daughters, children's books or being married to a monkey? Fine. Asking her about the Glory and Grace that is SP? Um: Big Mistake. Huge. Laura is so unwound and crazy - you can never trust her near a microphone. Her jealousy is so apparent in this comment. It's sad, really, when you think about it. Like, her life sucks and the only thing that makes her feel better is hating on someone younger, more beautiful and smarter than her.

I'm not saying Laura "Trim Your" Bush is ready for a prayer, but she's one comment shy of The List.

Palin-tology: What do you know?

I should get a diploma in Palin-tology....like one from a community college, online university or correspondence school.

"What are you studying this semester?"
"Man, I got Sarah-tistics. I can't figure out the math on this earmark. What about you?"
"I'm taking Palin-osophy. My study group and I are discussing what happens if one makes a decision and does blink. Would the world end? I'm also taking Palinish as my foreign language elective. My Palinish name in class is Krinkle Bearcat."

Before my wildest dreams become a reality, take the Palin-tology Quiz and see how you rank on Sarah subjects. I took this quiz and with a little bit more cramming, I will be on top of my game.

The Miss Congeniality of Alaska 1984 legacy continues

Putting all doubts about her foreign policy experience to rest, Sarah Louise met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai today. There was some drama as nosey reporters felt entitled to sit in on the meeting. None of your beeswax, MSM! Pictures and video ONLY.

After some back and forth with the subject some pool reporters were allowed to smell the Essence of Sarah before the private meeting began. Here is what was captured before her and Karzai got down to brass tacks:

An exchange clearly heard above the clicking of cameras involved Karzai's son, born in January 2007.
"What is his name?" Palin asked.
"Mirwais," Karzai responded. "Mirwais, which means, 'The Light of the House.'"
"Oh, nice," Palin said.
"He is the only one we have," Karzai said.

Was that some sort of snub towards, Sarah, Mister Karzai? What do you mean "he is the only one we have"? Of course most people feel inadequate when first meeting Sarah, so I can understand if the context of that statement meant "My wife is not as fertile as you,". Personally, I thought all men from his country had a shitload of children. Guess I was wrong.

Notice that Sarah doesn't openly mock his child's weird name. She diplomatically says "Oh, nice," which shows you how merciful and gracious she is. Can you imagine if that was Laura Bush sitting there when he said that??

There is word Sarah Palin will grace the presence of pop musician Bono in the coming days. She will be able to enlighten him on ways to use his fame to advance missions of peace and AIDS awareness. I'm guessing he will also be presenting her with framed lyrics of the song he wrote about her.

Sarah is so good, you can consume her

...or rather a glass of Palin Syrah, a dry, Chilean red. It's available in a wine bar in the San Francisco area. The wine's taste is described as "white pepper, madrone, dry" and is an organic import from Chile. Unfortunately sales of the wine have dropped since Sarah emerged into national greatness. Apparently the raging homosexuals and liberals take issue with anything Palinesque entering their bodies. Their loss.

Old Lady makes excellent case for the younger, beautiful Sarah Palin

Leading feminist Phyllis Schafly spoke out against "feminists" who keep directing their blind jealousy against Sarah. Some highlights from her San Fran Chron op ed:

But, no. Feminist anger against Sarah has exposed the fact that feminism is not about women's success and achievement. If it were, feminists would have been bragging for years about self-made women who are truly remarkable achievers, such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, or former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, or Sen. Elizabeth Dole, or even Margaret Thatcher. Feminists never boast about these women because feminism's basic doctrine is victimology. Feminism preaches that women can never succeed because they are the sorry victims of an oppressive patriarchy. No matter how smart or accomplished a woman may be, she's told that success and happiness are beyond her grasp because institutional sexism and discrimination hold her down.

Yes, Condi, Liz, Carly and Margaret are true bastions of feminist accomplishment. I admit that I have on more than one occasion asked that their Vag Cards be revoked, but now looking at things differently, maybe Phyllis is right. These women have worked to get to positions of power, status and wealth. What is so anti-feminist about that? Instead we hail leaders like Golda Meir, Mother Theresa, Gloria Steinem and Carol Mosely Braun as feminists for their work to eradicate racism, poverty and violence. How biased.

Feminism is all about the Blame Game. Somehow men, who control politics and the economy are the root of what is wrong with society today. Yes, it's always The Men who rape women and start wars. Look at all The Men who are in cabinet positions and heads of state. How narrow has our view become, ladies.

Feminists convey a notion of entitlement, as though they deserve special privileges today because of wrongs in past years that no one any longer can remember, such as women not having the right to vote. The bad attitude of victimhood is indoctrinated in students by the bitter feminist faculty in university women's studies courses and even in some law schools. Victimhood is nurtured and exaggerated by feminist organizations using their tactic called "consciousness raising," i.e., retelling horror stories about how badly some women have been treated until small personal annoyances grow into societal grievances. The feminists resent Sarah because she's the exact opposite of Hillary Clinton. When the liberal media sharpened their knives against Sarah, some chivalrous McCainiacs cried foul about media unfairness, but we didn't hear any whining from Sarah. Sarah has been successful because of hard work and perseverance, not because she's a woman, and she's not going to pull any crybaby act now. Sarah didn't need any Equal Rights Amendment, which Hillary is still promoting even though it was declared dead by the Supreme Court 26 years ago.

Exactly. Sarah has transcended her gender and succeeded. Sarah didn't need a small town to be a big fish, she could have been elected Mayor of New York City for chrissakes. And, Phyllis is right: all those horror stories of slavery, back alley abortions, the denial of voting rights and rampant acceptance of domestic abuse - while important parts of HISTORY - just aren't that bad today. At least not for me. I believe Phyllis when she says this because she was like, totally alive when women finally got the right to vote.

And Gloria Steinem is a whiner. (See Prayer List)

Kudos to Phyllis for pointing out the B.S. that women who are just plain jealous of Sarah are using in their hate campaign against her.

A kick in the vagina

It's already official here at the Palin Effect HQ that Kim Gandy and her army of Palin Haters aka the National Organization for Women have been placed on the Prayer List after offically endorsing Obama/Biden '08 and not Palin/McCain '08 last week.

This group agrees that the endorsement was a slap in the face to vaginas everywhere:

The New Agenda is concerned that NOW's recent endorsement of Barack Obama leaves many women in this country out in the cold," the nonpartisan nonprofit group said in a release Friday. "The endorsement seems all the more puzzling given the fact that the Republican Party is running its first female candidate for Vice-President, Gov. Sarah Palin, and the Green Party is fielding its first all-woman presidential ticket with Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente."

Exactly. This isn't about the issues, this is about a chromosome, dammit and obviously NOW doesn't get it.

Lose the shit-stained glasses and see Sarah Louise as the Glory and Grace that she is

I shouldn't have to spell out to non-Palinites why I love Sarah Palin so much. However, every day I read vicious, dirty attacks on Her Greatness and it breaks my heart that the country has stooped to such dastardly levels. Nevertheless, I find small slivers of light that shine through the Dusty Window of Injustuce Towards Sarah.

In this article by the WaPo, the things that I admire most about Sarah are center stage.

It was three days before the legislature was to go home, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was frustrated. The state Senate was thwarting a reduction she wanted in the fee for business licenses. So the governor's aides culled records at the state Department of Commerce for the e-mail addresses of nearly 23,000 Alaskan business owners.

Using the addresses, Palin sent a mass "special message" with her official portrait, the state seal and a backdrop of snow-rimmed mountains. "I urge you to contact your senator TODAY," she wrote, enclosing the phone number of every member of the state Senate.

Lawmakers and other critics were livid. The governor, they complained, had misused state records, violating people's privacy and flouting an ethics rule that forbids Alaska's state employees to use information to which they have access for personal or political benefit. Palin insisted she had done nothing wrong. And the legislature reduced the fee.

In response to complaints about her e-mails to business owners, Palin insisted that the Commerce Department records are public. "You just pick up the phone and ask," she told a news conference the day after this year's legislative session ended.

The result: license fees reduced by 50%. Sarah circumvented bureaucratic barriers and stood up for the Little Guy. And it worked. It's a style of governing called Getting Shit Done. I would argue that if more executives ran their states in this matter, the country would be an entirely different place. Another example of Getting Shit Done methodology:

A typical dispute occurred in January when Palin asked to deliver her State of the State address on the legislative session's opening day at 6 p.m., an hour earlier than the custom, because she had to catch a flight to attend the graduation of her eldest child, Track, from boot camp. When Green, the state Senate president, said the request would conflict with the chamber's schedule, the governor's office threatened that she might deliver her speech only to the House.

In the end, the legislature and the governor agreed on a 4 p.m. start for her 25-minute remarks. Still, Palin called a local radio show to express her displeasure. The
host, Bob Lester, sided with her. He twice said that Green, a survivor of breast cancer, was "a cancer" on Alaska's progress, and he called her a bitch. On an audiotape of the show, Palin is heard giggling at the expletive.

So what? She has a sense of humor. These people were being assholes: her son was graduating from boot camp for chrissakes. Renew your minds, people.

Bipartisan chorus of exultation:

"She has an incredible pulse on the public will," said Bruce Botelho, a Democrat who is mayor of Juneau, the state capital.

"She tends to . . . create a situation where legislators are cornered -- going against her would be political suicide," said John Bitney, who grew up with Palin, was her campaign policy director and became her first legislative liaison.

For all those women concerned about Choice:

Yet Palin has been less ideologically pure than the public image she has cultivated. An avowed fiscal conservative, she has increased state spending by about one-fifth since taking office. An ardent opponent of abortion, she did not fight for measures requiring parental consent and banning the procedure opponents call "partial birth" abortion -- bills the legislature ultimately defeated.

Sarah doesn't have time for bullshit pomp and circumstance. She's an avid multi-tasker:

Still, Palin struck some lawmakers as curiously detached from the process. In early March 2007, she invited the state Senate's leaders to her office for a preview of the pipeline legislation. To the astonishment of the five senators and their aides, she barely said a word for the hour. As staff members explained her signature plan, the governor was preoccupied with her two BlackBerries. "It was so bizarre. We all talked about it afterwards," said a legislative source, one of three participants in the meeting who recounted the governor's silence. "We all said, 'What was that? Was she even paying attention?'"

Haycox summed up a common criticism of Palin: "She seems as if she is incurious about the mechanism of government."

Haycox: ever heard the term "curiousity killed the cat? Yeah. Sarah doesn't need to be involved. She thought it up and has the right people on the execution end. There is nothing wrong being The Idea Person. Also, it's totally OK for politicans to shut the fuck up every once in awhile. Sarah didn't need to dominate the conversation just because she's the Governor. She's humble like that.

Furthermore, Sarah is not big into personal allegiances. Take this example:

Shortly after Palin took office, state senators were in an eight-hour ethics seminar when the new governor called an 11 a.m. news conference to unveil her ethics bill, borrowing from ideas Democrats had advocated for years, recalled Senate President Lyda Green (R), who represents Palin's home town and quickly became a nemesis. With the senators tied up in their training, the only people who stood with Palin before the cameras were a former Republican U.S. attorney and a former Democratic lawmaker. The news conference foreshadowed a pattern: Time after time, Palin's pursuit of her goals would trump her allegiances.

She's goal-oriented. What is so wrong with that? She's here to serve the people, not the Senate that represents the people. She's also outspoken. Apparently people have a problem with this since she has a vagina.

Last month, just before a vote on a ballot initiative to strengthen environmental restrictions on the proposed Pebble Mine -- an enormous project critics say would damage salmon-rich Bristol Bay -- she broke with a long tradition in which Alaska governors have not taken public positions on such citizen initiatives and announced that she opposed it. She had not alerted Rick Halford (R), an influential former state Senate president who had helped her get elected and had been an informal adviser -- and who was a leader of the pro-initiative forces. It failed.

Effective. Bamn. Next, Sarah not only trims the fat off her body, but the state budget as well:

After her first legislative session, she stunned allies by using her line-item veto to make unprecedented cuts in capital budgets for projects in their districts -- $231 million in all -- a particular surprise in a time of large budget surpluses.

"I remember when we were crafting the budget, there were discussions: 'Where is the governor at? What does she want the total size to be?' . . . We could never get a firm answer from her," Wielechowski said. And then, he said, she "whacked . . . without warning, really."

Wielechowski had been one of two Democrats who, incurring the anger of their party caucus, had spoken out forcefully on the Senate floor to support Palin on the pipeline and on an oil tax increase she also pushed through. But the governor cut capital funds for his Anchorage district, he said, by 95 percent. He was startled to discover that, at the same time, she had approved money for a kitchen in a sports complex in Wasilla and for bleachers and stadium lights at high schools just outside her home town.

Wielechowski is just jealous and now he has no Democratic friends. He thought it was going to be tit for tat back scratching, but this not how SP operates. Secondly, what's wrong with a kitchen and new bleachers for the kids? I've seen worse use of public funding.

I just don't get how anyone cannot see how fucking awesome she is. I mean, really. Who wouldn't do shit her way if they were in her peep-toed shoes?