Troopergate: Just what we need - more impunity in our government

It's starting to look like Sarah Palin will fit right in at the White House. After all, we've become used to a government that ignores the law and gets away with it. And Governor Palin seems to be following suit.

By now you have probably heard of "Troopergate". It involves allegations that Governor Palin abused her power by trying to get the state's Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was involved in an ugly divorce and custody battle with Palin's sister. When Monegan refused, Palin ask him to resign.

A bipartisan committee of the Alaska state legislature has called for an independent investigation, which is currently in progress. But it isn't going so well. That is because Todd Palin (the governor's husband) and other witnesses are refusing to testify in the investigation.

This is so reminiscent of the Bush administration's refusal to let its own key players testify in investigations into their own misconduct -- Karl Rove, Harriett Miers, Josh Bolton, and whoever else.

Those who have sworn an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the law of the land seem to believe that they are somehow above it.

On election day, I hope the American people will decide that they've had enough of this.

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