Going Nowhere Fast.

     Just say, "No?"

     Um, no...

     Let's just call Sarah Palin's repeated, rehearsed twisting of this bridge bullshit what it is:

     A lie.

     From Friday's L.A. Times:

     While seeking votes, Sarah Palin told Ketchikan residents she backed the 'bridge to nowhere.' As governor, she spent the money elsewhere and moved ahead with a $26-million road to the nonexistent bridge.

     The 3.2-mile-long partially paved "road to nowhere" meanders from a small international airport on Gravina Island, home to 50 people, ending in a cul-de-sac close to a beach.
     Crews are working to finish it. But no one knows when anyone will need to drive it. 

     That's because the $26-million road was designed to connect to the $398-million Gravina Island Bridge, more infamously known as the "bridge to nowhere." Alaskan officials thought federal money would pay for the bridge, but Gov. Sarah Palin killed the project after it was ridiculed and Congress rescinded the money. Plans for the road moved forward anyway. 
     Some residents of Ketchikan -- a city of 8,000 on a neighboring island where the bridge was to end -- see the road as a symbol of wasteful spending that Palin could have curtailed. Some of them even accuse her of deception.
     "Surely we won't have to commute on the highway if there won't be a bridge," said Jill Jacob, who has been writing and calling the governor's office for the last two years to protest the road. "It's a dead-end highway, a dead-end road." 

     That's how a lot of us feel about the prospects of Papa and L'il Maverick, too.