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  Date / Time: 9/19/2008 5:24 AM UTC

  Falling oil prices threaten state budget
  

   

  As we watch the lovely Sarah P. ziggin’ and zaggin’ to stall the Legislature’s investigation into whether she went over the line in summarily firing former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, consider this: She may be a lot smarter than anybody guessed. No. Really. Despite her being a journalism school graduate.

   

  

  Jenkins

  To quickly summarize her views of the past few weeks and get us all up to speed: I did nothing wrong. Hold me to account. I’ll cooperate. No, I won’t. You stink. You’re a hater. Oh, I’m a big-time vice presidential candidate now, I’ll investigate myself. I’ll have all my little friends sue to completely screw up the works and buy more time. Justice, schmustice. I do love earmarks. No I don’t. Yes, I do. Or, maybe not. I can’t remember. I have built a gas line. Honest. Have a cookie.
  
  If she can just derail the Legislature’s investigation for the next 47 days, she is home free and actually may get to move to Washington, D.C., and live huge. Parties. Receptions. Maybe she can have another kid and name it something like “Dome” or “Statue.” And what an absolutely perfect time for her to decamp. The giant fan is whirling, but there is nothing in it — yet.
  
  The rest of us? Well, we may not be so lucky. We’ll be stuck here, victims of, to put it kindly, Sarah.
  
  Her state budget is up. State spending is up. We’re giving away more money than the budgets of many small countries, all to pay for cargo ships full of gigantic TVs and booze. And oil? Well, the West Coast price of Alaska North Slope crude this week . . .

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