So they got the money but without the designation for the bridge to nowhere.
In fact, let's listen to Governor Palin talking about that famous bridge to nowhere.
The Bridge to Nowhere became such an embarrassing symbol of waste, Congress ultimately gave up earmarks.
But this bridge to nowhere economy, as some naysayers might call it, has one big immediate hurdle.
Her opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere is different because it became a centerpiece of the Republican presidential campaign.
And in fact, John McCain had picked up on the Bridge to Nowhere more than a year before that.
"Of course we want infrastructure - and this is NOT a 'bridge to nowhere' (that is so offensive), " she replied.
The Bridge to Nowhere went from the drawing board to the dustbin.
To put it bluntly, the "bridge-loan" (BIS originated or otherwise) envisioned by most G-7 partners, would represent a bridge to nowhere under current circumstances.
And Sarah Palin accepted the money, she did not build the bridge to nowhere because it was at that point a national laughing stock.
And one night, had a couple beers in me, and I got a little more creative and I came up with the term Bridge to Nowhere.
Palin also shares McCain's opposition to earmarks, opposing the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere, " a pet project of two titans of Alaska politics, Rep. Don Young and Sen.
Mr Bush, who has yet to use the presidential veto even when presented with absurdities like a bridge to nowhere in Alaska, should not tolerate any more follies.
And what happened is she never said no, but the money was eventually sent to Alaska but with the earmark for the bridge to nowhere taken out of it.
Last fall, he shut down an attempt by fellow Republicans to de-fund his state's infamous "bridge to nowhere"--a proposed piece of pork that would connect two barely populated towns--by threatening to resign.
Even if government could allocate resources fairly and oversee projects efficiently -- and Alaska's "bridge to nowhere" suggests strongly that it cannot -- public funding will never be deep enough to finance the infrastructure we need.
This was the guy, remember, who in 2005 offered an amendment to remove funds from a little thing he called the Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere" and to divert them to a vital bridge destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
And the mainstream media is certainly doing this now as well, have pointed out over and over again for instance that the Sarah Palin did not say, you know, thanks but no thanks to the bridge to nowhere.
Robinson argued that new money flows -- such as the "bridge loan" being contemplated by the G-7 through the multilateral Bank for International Settlements -- under current circumstances would represent "a bridge to nowhere" and end up costing Western taxpayers dearly.
But her claim to have opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska has been called into question, and she faces an investigation into allegations that she abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the Alaska State Troopers.
Senator JOHN MCCAIN (Republican, Arizona, Republican Presidential Candidate): I would rather build a bridge to nowhere and put it square in the middle of Sedona, Arizona than take money from teachers and farmers and small business owners to line the pockets of the Wall Street crowd that got us here in the first place.
In short, such a BIS transaction with Moscow would represent a bridge loan to nowhere.
The more people who point out that natural gas is a bridge fuel to nowhere, the closer we get to a clean energy future.
She used some of the money to build another bridge to almost nowhere and used the rest of the money for other things, but she didn't return the money to the government.
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