ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A campaign spokesman says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won’t speak with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her public safety commissioner.

So, really, can we just take all the politicians, run ’em through a polygraph with the singular question, “Does your office place you above the law?” (maybe with a follow-up of “Do you really think you’re better than all those you’ve sworn to represent?”), and shoot everyone who either answers truthfully in the positive or gets caught lying?

Then again, a bucket full of valid moral superiority still won’t trade for a gallon of gas.