Palin Budget Cutting-Folks-Off-At-The-Knees and Giving Herself the Keys to the Chevy

As reported in the New York Times, Palin's style of budget cutting has all the empathy of a Mafia don.

The mayor quickly fired the town’s museum director, John Cooper. Later, she sent an aide to the museum to talk to the three remaining employees. “He told us they only wanted two,” recalled Esther West, one of the three, “and we had to pick who was going to be laid off.” The three quit as one.

Budget problem solved.

But Slashin' Sara doesn't only cut costs. When it's important, she finds the funds for vital equipment like a new white Chevy Suburban for her own use.

Ms. Palin ordered city employees not to talk to the press. And she used city money to buy a white Suburban for the mayor’s use — employees sarcastically called it the mayor-mobile.

You have to admire such moxie. But you don't have to vote for it.