Oh, what a difference an election makes...

Well, well, well. It seems like anti-pork maven Gov. Sarah Palin, freed from the binds of running for national office and semi-responsible for running an actual state, is in Washington to suck at Porky's teet itself. Meeting with Sen. Mitch "Turkey-Neck" McConnell, she's lobbying (ooh, another Republican bad word) for them to pass the stimulus bill to get money for her state. What comes around, darlin'...

UPDATE: Apparently the great white hope for the Republican party blew off her own team (and not like you'd think she'd do):

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: When House Republicans planned their annual winter retreat, they extended an invitation to Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, hoping the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee would give a morale-building speech to the more than 130 Republican members of Congress gathered this weekend in Hot Springs, Va.

Retreat organizers tell ABC News that Palin politely declined, giving a perfectly understandable reason. According to the Congressional Institute, which hosted the conference, Palin said she simply could not make it to the retreat because pressing state business made it impossible for her to leave Alaska this weekend.

So where is Palin this weekend? She's in Washington, D.C., attending the super-elite Alfalfa Dinner.

"She lied to us," said a Republican at the retreat.

Aww, it's just that she's not that into you.