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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified for two hours Friday in an abuse-of-power investigation that has been a distraction to her Republican vice presidential campaign. Palin's leadership was questioned this month in a stinging but largely toothless legislative report that found she violated state ethics laws by letting a family dispute influence her decision-making.

Palin is hoping the Alaska Personnel Board, which is running a parallel investigation, will clear her of wrongdoing. It's unclear, however, whether any conclusion will be reached before Election Day.
>> Anonymous
Lock that bitch up
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I agree
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agreed
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I concure
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I’d have thought by now that someone with McCain’s campaign would have given Palin a primer. But last week while campaigning in Colorado, a television reporter fired a question at her from third-grader Brandon Garcia. Just what does a vice president do? “They’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom,” she responded.

It was an interesting answer to what I’m sure Palin is portraying as a gotcha question from an 8-year-old. Wrong, but interesting.
>> Anonymous
can she go away a little faster?
>> Anonymous
Within the executive branch itself, the vice president has broad powers to manage national affairs and the workings of the federal government. The vice president can issue rules, regulations, and instructions called executive orders, which have the binding force of law upon federal agencies but do not require congressional approval.

The vice president is also responsible for preparing the Budget of the United States, although the Congress must approve it. The Office of Management and Budget assists the Vice President with the preparation of the budget. In the past, the Vice President has been able to impound funds that he feels Congress has spent unwisely. This power was taken away from the Vice President with the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 in 1974 after President Richard Nixon killed many legislative initiatives through impoundment. This act also created the Congressional Budget Office as a legislative counterpoint to the Office of Management and Budget.

As Second Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, the vice president may also call into federal service the state units of the National Guard. In times of war or national emergency, the Congress may grant the vice president even broader powers to manage the national economy and protect the security of the United States. These actions have been taken by vice presidents from Washington to today but are not powers granted by the Constitution to the vice president. In 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Act to severely limit the ability of the Vice President to conduct warfare without Congressional approval. Following the events of September 11, 2001, Congress has returned some of the war power to the President with the Iraq Resolution. The vice president does retain the sole right to authorize the use of nuclear weapons and is constantly accompanied by a special military officer who carries the "nuclear football".

Or at least that's what Cheney told Bush.
>> Or at least that's what Cheney told Bush. Anonymous
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/hr/ = old /n/
>> Drosophila Melanogaster 4 teh WIN Anonymous
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Christopher Hitchens takes the well-heeled (literally) candidate to task for recently denouncing fruit-fly research as a wasteful and unnecessary—not to mention “un-American,” since some of the research took place in France—expense( at a US Lab). Fruit flies, or Drosophila, will likely ring a bell for most readers—as they should, since they’re one of the great laboratories of all genetics research. As Hitchens points out, the fly can be easily grown in a lab and is a valuable research tool because it lives for a very short time, breeds vigorously, and displays plenty of genetic mutation in each generation.
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[S]ince Gov. Palin was in Pittsburgh to talk about her signature “issue” of disability and special needs, she might even have had some researcher tell her that there is a Drosophila-based center for research into autism at the University of North Carolina. The fruit fly can also be a menace to American agriculture, so any financing of research into its habits and mutations is money well-spent.
>> Anonymous
One of Palin's staff called her a "brainiac". LOL!

I read her IQ is 116. That raises her above mouthbreathers....barely.
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>>449761
The average is 105. Would you call the average person a mouthbreather?
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>>449798
>The average is 105.
>is 105.
>105.

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>> Anonymous
>>449761
there is no way it is 116. Although there certainly are a lot of idiots in America, she cannot possibly be smarter than over half of the people in the USA her age, so she cannot have an IQ over 100.
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try 100 for average and 100 marks a mouthbreather.
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>>449816

Sry but it's possible. Look around you on an average day and tell me you don't see dozens who's survival appears to ignore the odds against it.
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Frankly, I'm surprised she has the brains to get McCain's zipper undone.
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McCain's dick died years ago. She's lappin Cindy (old leatherface).
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geez and i didnt think /b/ and /n/ would even make it into here
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moot closed /n/ saying he didn't know how to moderate it. Moderate what? It was 98% self moderated and if he can't moderate /n/ wtf is he doing with /b/.