I Am Not Making This Up: John McCain's Bad Judgment, Part XLII

What in the Holy Name of the One Who Is was John McCain thinking? I am not making this up:

Compassionate Conservatism, Palin Style: ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

Duncan Black writes:

Just think about this one for a moment. Palin is rabidly anti-choice, wanting it to be illegal in all cases except when the mother's life is threatened. This is a program which provides housing for teen mothers "in need of a place to live," presumably due to the fact that their parents and sperm donors are somewhat less than supportive. Despite this, these young women choose (that word!) to have their babies. And the program which might give them, and their newborns, a place to live is something Palin cuts the funding for. Maybe they can go live with the bears.

Comments

[Ken Houghton]

Dr. Black is nicer than I am. I would have finished that sentence as "Maybe they can go live with the bears, and be shot at from helicopters by Sarah Palin."

[Spiggle]

Seems to be not entirely accurate. Or at least overspun. The funding for existing programs was not cut: she cut the size of a one-off expansion grant from 5M to 3.9M. So claims http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/006281.html anyway.

[PSP]

Moral hazard. Can't make life easy for those pregnant teenagers. They must suffer for their sins.