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Lisa or Joe
By Alex Gimarc
Alaska Standard Contributor
Senator Lisa Murkowski appears to be well on her way to fending off Fairbanks Attorney Joe Miller in the race for her reelection to the US Senate. The question before us as conservatives is whether or not we want Lisa Murkowski back in the US Senate; whether or not we can trust her to lead the repeal, defund, and disobey efforts intended to dismantle Fedzilla over the next six years.
Like it or not, the next decade is going to be critical for the very survival of this nation. I do not believe the citizens are going to long tolerate an intrusive, nasty, expensive, ineffective, and overbearing unconstitutional government in Washington DC. It will have to be starved of money. Entire agencies will have to be defunded and closed down. Tens of thousands of pages of rules and regulations will have to have their enforcement mechanisms defunded and then repealed. Power now centralized in Washington DC will have to be returned to the many states – sooner rather than later.
The question we must answer for ourselves as conservatives is who do we think is up to the task? Lisa Murkowski or Joe Miller? At this point I don’t have a good answer and am troubled by both candidates.
I personally like Lisa Murkowski. She is a fine lady who does listen to her constituents. She has shown great kindness to my favorite son. And she has served this state well since her elections to the Senate. But she is not a small government lady.
Her reaction to a call for repeal of ObamaCare was an observation we can’t repeal it unless we have something to replace it with. She has since July changed that observation. Given this gut reaction, can we trust her to defund everything in ObamaCare over the next two years of Obama in the WH? Nobody knows.
Instead of fighting the notion of carbon dioxide regulation as a solution to manmade global warming, she proposed in 2007 to tweak cap and trade legislation in such a way as to put federal dollars into Alaskan utilities. Playing along with the fraudulent notion of manmade global warming as a vehicle to pump more federal dollars into Alaska is not a solution. This year, she led the fight to remove the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, which is a very Good Thing. Can we trust her to lead the effort to defund the EPA over the next several years when they proceed with carbon dioxide regulation or any other unwarranted, illegal, and fraudulent regulations? At this point, nobody knows.
Finally, she co-sponsored legislation with Jeff Bingaman (D, NM) in 2009 that proposed to regulate energy efficiency of appliances in our homes. S 598 was an attempt to reach into our homes and inflict energy efficiency standards. Given that Senator Murkowski is nominally a pro-choice kind of lady and the argument from that side of the political divide is they want to keep government out of our bedrooms, what possible justification can she have for reaching into our homes and telling us what sorts of light bulbs, refrigerators, washing machines or microwave ovens we can buy?
On the other hand I don’t know Joe Miller at all and have never met him. Dan Fagan took him to task for supporting the horrendous tax increase in ACES. He says all the right conservative things, but is so far an unknown.
So I am in something of a quandary. Who do we trust to defund and defenestrate Fedzilla?
Lisa Murkowski? I don’t think so, as her gut reactions seem to be to massage what exists in an attempt to mitigate the negative impacts on Alaska. This will not get the feds out of our hair, nor will it decrease their power, authority or control over our day to day lives.
Joe Miller? Maybe, though he is an unknown.
The two advantages Lisa Murkowski has at this point are that she does know the game in Washington DC and has done well enough to become part of the leadership. And my experience is that she also listens.
Whomever conservatives nominate in August will have to go to Washington DC and vote no for six solid years. He or she will have to defund entire agencies, reject Marxist appointees, and repeal legislation and regulations. They will have to proactively move power and responsibility from Fedzilla back to the many states. And they will have to do it in the face of withering national press criticism.
Neither candidate has ever done such a thing in their life. It is up to us to figure out which one is ready, willing and able to do so. I hope we choose wisely.
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I too like Lisa but she has proven to be a RINO. Only now does she profess to be concervative. Well. if Lisa is really concervative she would not have to try to convince us. I say, let's vote for Joe and start fresh. If he blows it we'll just have to fire him too and get someone else.
By the way, don't forget that we have Beigach to deal with in 2014
I know enough about Lisa Murkowski and her liberal voting record that I have no problem voting for Joe. Surely he can't be worse. At least he mentions the Constitution once in a while.
Joe has faced combat.
End of statement.
Specklefoot - What exactly is your point? Yes, joe has faced combat. And?
When it comes to sticking up for an action, he won't back down or sugar-coat what has to be done. If you are talking about overhauling Washington, axing programs by the busload, and really making a difference in the way things are run, you are obviously not going to vote for Lisa Murkowski.
How do you reconcile your first sentence with Miller's ACES issue?
Yes he has specklefoot. And your point is? ????
Yes he has specklefoot. And your point is? ????