Sen. Barbara Boxer blasts Mccain VP pick – Sarah Palin
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Barbara Boxer writes: Two days ago, as two of our country’s biggest investment houses stood on the brink of failure, Senator John McCain told an audience in Florida that the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.” It sent cold shivers down my spine. The fundamentals of our economy are not strong. People are hurting. The income of average families has dropped while the cost of living has increased. Job growth under the Bush administration has been the slowest since Herbert Hoover. We lost 84000 jobs last month alone. And the fundamentals of this economy are strong? He sounded a lot like Herbert Hoover, who told America the day after the stock market crash that began the Great Depression that “the fundamental business of the country, that is the production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.” www.huffingtonpost.com Sarah Palin is beginning to seem like quite an unusual woman, and I’m not talking about her love of guns and “snow machines,” her faith, her family or any of the presumably non-elite attributes that we in the “elite media” are accused of savaging. Wrongly accused, I should add; reporters are doing nothing more sinister than trying to find out who she is, how she thinks and what she has done in office. You’ll recall that in her Republican convention speech, Palin burnished her budget-hawk credentials by claiming she had said “thanks but no thanks” to a congressional earmark that would have paid most of the cost. A quick check of …