Palin Slashed funding for Program to Help Teen Mothers, Doesn’t See Irony

According to the Washington Post:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote in her line-item veto changes by hand in this copy of a 2008 spending bill obtained by The Washington Post. Her line-item veto slashed funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

(All of this coming after) Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant

After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska, a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.

According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."

Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.

Reporters asked McCain in November 2007 whether he supported grants for sex education in the United States and whether he supports President Bush's policy of promoting abstinence. "Ahhh, I think I support the president's policy," McCain said.

Wouldn't it be nice to go back to the Dark Ages? In fact, maybe everything we heard about the Dark Ages came from the liberal press at the time, which kept us from getting all the good news.