Sarah Palin has begun media promotion for her book, which complains about the media. She taped an appearance on “Oprah” in which she says she knew that her interview with Katie Couric went badly (though her book accuses Couric of “badgering” her). She’s also doing a Barbara Walters interview. Palin reportedly complains in the book about how she was handled by the McCain campaign. She also said that she was stuck with a $50,000 legal bill related to vetting as a vice president candidate, but the McCain campaign said it had no knowledge of that and didn’t think it happened.
On the same day that Democrats lost the New Jersey and Virginia governors’ mansions, the state-by-state push to limit taxes and spending lost momentum. Maine voters nixed a Taxpayer Bill of Rights measure 60 to 40 percent. Washington state voters defeated similar legislation 57 to 43 percent. In both cases, 
Critics have complained that President Obama is “dithering” on deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. But two classified cables sent to Washington, D.C., by the U.S. ambassador in Kabul illustrate how the decision isn’t as simple as some portray it. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, a retired three-star general who commanded U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2006-07, warned against sending more troops until Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government becomes less corrupt and more competent, the Washington Post 
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