Over at the Weekly Standard, Stephen F. “Dick Cheney is stunning” Hayes is chatting with Sarah Palin. Stevo’s a definite Palinite, but, as he tells us, he’s not afraid to ask the tough questions:
I started by asking her about the question of the day–whether the federal government should bail out the Big Three automakers. She’d gotten the same question one day earlier from Wolf Blitzer and her meandering response to him was so vague that it suggested she knew very little about the issue. She noted that she was “listening closely to the debate” and that “there is a lot of information that even you and I certainly aren’t privy to.” If it had come two weeks earlier, it almost certainly would have spawned a new round of attacks from her critics.
I was interested to see if she’d studied up on the issue in the 24 hours since she was first asked about it, so I put the same question to her. She said she was:
not real enthused about looking at this next package if this entails additional dollars–beyond the $700 billion–and if it at all would suggest in this new proposal that these would be grants, not loans. And because Paulson just came out yesterday and again this morning kind of shifting gears on Americans in terms of what had just been proposed in the first bailout, it kind of lends some distrust to the solution here that’s being proposed. So we all need more information on what exactly is it this time–the second bailout package that would evidently be very beneficial for manufacturing, for the auto industry. If that’s important we have to consider it. But no more surprises. I think the surprises make the electorate distrust elected officials and their ability to appoint people who are to be looking out for the public’s interest.
Better.
Better? Stevo, if that’s “better,” you’re setting the bar so low that Bristol could jump over it.
Afterwords
Regardless, or irregardless, or disirregardless of the meanderingness of Palin’s answer, Hank Paulson is on notice: No more surprises, big boy, or you just might wake up one morning with moose antlers up your ass!*
*OK, that is one mixed metaphor, but the purport, I believe, is crystal.
