Amazing and depressing

The local press organizations are actually able to perform the journalism on McCain and Palin the national media absolutely refuses to do:

The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They're still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin's subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects -- and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.

"I think that's when the campaign for national office began," said Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone -- because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.

So thanks to Palin, they are still building a 'Road to Nowhere' linking to the place where there is no bridge at all.

No doubt, this eventually will lead to the 'Bridge to Nowhere' being built, because we cannot just have a road going nowhere sitting there. And it will cost a fuckload more.

Yes, a reformer with results indeed.