Palin was shocked at the premise of the question. "Really!?" she immediately replied, adding that the "suggestion there is that revenue should be coming into government at this time and that's not what should happen at a time like this." But later Palin dismissed any concerns about the federal government's lack of cash flow:

PALIN: We shouldn't worry about government having enough money, the government has plenty of money its a matter of how government prioritizes the expenditure of those public dollars.

However, today during a rally in Maine, Palin suddenly became worried about the government’s books:

PALIN: John has the backbone, he's got the backbone and the guts to confront the $10 trillion debt that the government has run up. We will balance the federal budget by the end of our term.

The simple fact is that there is no way McCain will be able to balance the budget by 2013, as he and his campaign have erroneously claimed on a number of occasions.

But Palin's claim that "we shouldn't worry about the government having enough money" echoes an assertion that Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly madein 2002, arguing that "deficits don't matter." Since then, President Bush has presided over the largest increase in the debt of any president in history and is looking at a record deficit of $482 billion for FY2009."

Meanwhile, McCain's Palindrone chicken is coming home to roost: "On Salon Radio this morning, Glenn Greenwald asked Harper's Scott Horton about his recent reporting on how Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol lobbied the McCain campaign to select Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the Republican vice presidential nominee. Horton explained that the McCain campaign is now regretting following Kristol's advice, calling the Palin pick a "total disaster":

HORTON: We've got a lot of finger-pointing going on within the camp, and I'd say there's a pretty broad agreement amongst a number of the senior-most advisors to McCain that the Palin pick is worse than disappointing. It's a total disaster, as one describes to me. And there is a sort of blame game going on there. [¦]

I would say the anger and irritation between a number of the senior people in the McCain camp and Bill Kristol is become really acute.: They view this man as the guy who gave them this albatross, Sarah Palin. I think there's a lot of real anger about it. There's also recognition that it's too late to do anything.

"Horton said neoconservatives are "now just proceeding to develop Palin as their candidate, as somebody they want to bring up in 2012, as the neo-con favored Republican." Last month, a former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, said, "She's bright and she's a blank page. She's going places and it's worth going there with her."

Remember when the Secret Service, on orders from Cheney, refused to turn over visitors' logs?  As Jason Leopold reported: "The White House lost an appeal to keep secret visitor logs containing the identities of evangelical Christian leaders who visited the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's home, according to an opinion issued Friday by a federal appeals court.

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected the Bush administration's claims that Secret Service visitor logs are the property of President George W. Bush and are not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The White House assumed control of the visitor logs when watchdog groups and the media sought access to the files.

"The panel of three appeals court judges essentially upheld a December decision by a U.S. District Court judge who said the visitor logs were public documents subject to the FOIA. They sent the case back to District Court Judge Royce Lamberth for consideration.

"The government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the Department of Homeland Security in 2006 for access to the records after the Secret Service ”on orders from Cheney” refused to process CREW's FOIA request. The Secret Service was formerly operated by the Treasury Department. It became part of the Homeland Security Department in March 2003."

Here is what the Secret Service is illegally doing for Sarah Palin: "Today in a Washington Post chat, Dana Milbank revealed that ”in a serious violation of their duty" ” the Secret Service is now preventing the press from interviewing attendees at McCain-Palin rallies:

I have to say the Secret Service is in dangerous territory here. In cooperation with the Palin campaign, they've started preventing reporters from leaving the press section to interview people in the crowd. This is a serious violation of their duty ”protecting the protectee” and gets into assisting with the political aspirations of the candidate. It also often makes it impossible for reporters to get into the crowd to question the people who say vulgar things. So they prevent reporters from getting near the people doing the shouting, then claim it's unfounded because the reporters can't get close enough to identify the person.

"Campaign staffers have also been locking journalists into a restricted press area in order to prevent them from writing "negative things." (HT: Romenesko)"

The Bush White House has even politicized the Secret Service.  What can you expect when the head of the DHS is Bush loyalist flunky, Michael Chertoff?  Disdain for the law is endemic in this criminal regime.