GOP circus freak and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah ‘Talibunny’ Palin shit her knickers this week and abandoned her governorship of Alaska after apparently being informed that she is facing indictment for conspiring with an Alaska contractor to inflate the price of a Wasilla sports complex she championed there as mayor in trade for the supplies and building labor on her nearby home.

The a11news.com summarized today:

The embezzlement scandal involves the massive, $12.5 million sports complex that Sarah Palin pushed through during her last term as Mayor in Wasilla. Federal investigators believe the price of the sports complex was inflated to provide free building materials and labor for the Palin home being constructed nearby.

Stupid fucking twit Talibunny apparently thought she could keep it quiet that she diverted goods and services for private development a secret in a polity as small as Alaska. The contractor, Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) is one of the biggest in the state and, in truth, is probably hard not to do business with in a contract of this size. All the more reason to use caution in using them to boost public resources.

Max Blumenthal, meanwhile, is reporting on the Daily Beast that, “observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002.”

Yes, indeed, it appears that the Talibunny and her trained mute, Todd, might have gotten the interview this week and been told they are targets of a federal investigation they know is right on the fucking money. Oh, boo-hoo, oh, fuck, it’s not fair, not fucking fair! Jesus took away the presidency from Talibuny and now immense, unwashed killer bull dykes are going to be sitting on Talibunny’s face and messing up her hair.

Blumenthal explains why it was so stupid for SBS and the Palins to collude, given their relationship was so well known:

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.

Talibunny is going to do time. The whole planet will be watching this case and the US attorney general is going to get this one right and omit the silly shennanigans that doomed the Senator Ted Stevens case last year.

Boy, the Corner is a treasure trove today.  I noted Rich Lowry’s assessment in a thread.  But it’s not just him.  The vultures are well and truly out.  Lashing out for the disastrous veep run a bit late, I suppose.

Dana Perino (God help me, I’ve missed her):

If Sarah Palin was trying to make news today, she had odd timing. At a time when Farah Fawcett and Ed McMahon’s deaths paled — almost as much as another recently departed celebrity’s skin — into insignificance, perhaps she hoped her resignation on a holiday Friday would pass unnoticed. But that isn’t really her style, which makes today’s abrupt announcement seem more like a whim — a characteristic her detractors worried about during the campaign. 

But… a minority view from (hoo boy) Bill Kristol:

All in all, it’s going to be a high-wire act. The odds are against her pulling it off. But I wouldn’t bet against it.

Wait — Bill thinks this possibly is a good move?  Well, that seals it.  Nice knowing ya, Sarah Plain and Dumb.

More Corner goodness, post-jump.

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From Sarah Palin’s resignation speech:

In fact, this decision comes after much consideration, and finally polling the most important people in my life — my children (where the count was unanimous… well, in response to asking: “Want me to make a positive difference and fight for ALL our children’s future from OUTSIDE the Governor’s office?” It was four “yes’s” and one “hell yeah!” The “hell yeah” sealed it — and someday I’ll talk about the details of that…

We can’t wait to hear them. Did Trig vote the “hell yeah”?

Sarah Palin Resignation Speech [HuffPo]

Andrea Mitchell:

Talibunny to resign.

The question is … why? If she was going to challenge Murkowski she’d stay in office.

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From back when the Whackjob from Wasilla was running for VP:

Palin’s AIP involvement came out early on in Salon, but few seem to be talking about it now that Palin is back in the news big time. Why not?