Nixonian "We are not crooks" Bushite clones, Sid and Sarah, the hypocrites par excellence can't even get their mutual hypocrisies straight.

 

It should be embarrassing, but this mindless American Idol couple, the key actors in an Orwellian Alice in Wonderland saga, actually a nightmare for the United States, will keep polishing the turds and pumping out the cow pies to their adoring Republican zombie followers while ignoring logic, hiding Palin from media questions unless it's People magazine, and insulting the intelligence of the majority of the American public.

 

As Think Progress reports: "At a rally in Virginia yesterday with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) launched into one of his routine stump lines about earmarks, saying "We're never going to spend $3 million again to study the DNA of bears in Montana." "I don't know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue, but it's not going to happen again, joked McCain. Watch it:

"McCain's recitation of this canned line is ironic in the presence of his new running mate. As Politico's Ben Smith reported yesterday, Palin sought a similar earmark this year to fund research on the "genetics of harbor seals":

"We're not going to spend $3 million of your tax dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana," McCain has said during this year's campaign, referring to a study he's mocked for years of whether grizzlies need to keep their status as an endangered species.

Palin, meanwhile, has requested $3.2 million to be spent in part researching the "genetics of harbor seals," in one of the state's many requests for federal funding of research into Alaska's fauna.

"Perhaps if McCain wants to know whether the harbor seal study is "a paternity issue or a criminal issue," he could simply ask his running mate.

"Additionally, this isn't the first time McCain's efforts to make earmarks "infamous" have conflicted with Palin. CNN reports today that "McCain criticized two of his future running mate's hometown projects in broadsides in 2001 against congressional ˜pork-barrel" spending:

In a 2001 statement opposing a transportation spending bill McCain singled out for criticism about $3 million worth of those projects. McCain's list of "objectionable" spending included a $2.5 million road project for the town that then had a population of 5,500, as well as a $450,000 appropriation for an agricultural processing plant there.

"The McCain-Palin campaign defended the conflict in a statement, saying that "Palin was forced to work within the current system to obtain critical funding for a growing city." Somehow, projects that McCain once considered "objectionable" are now deemed "critical" by his campaign.