Anchorage Daily News reported yesterday that Sen. Lisa Murkowski "blasts the Pew Oceans Commission report as if it were an environmentalist plot to lock up Alaska fisheries" as a way of getting at her opponent, fromer Gov. Tony Knowles. She's labeled him an "environmentalist sympathizer." (Never mind that the Pew Commission in question included New York Gov. George Pataki, a bona fide Republican.) "In this case," says the story, "the much-maligned environmentalists are in the company of mainstream, credible analysts."
In another article today, Murkowski makes the stakes in this election refreshingly clear:
"Folks, with a Republican-led majority, we get it on the agenda, we pick up these seats, we have George Bush in the White House, and we get ANWR next year."
That's the goal? To "get" ANWR? And I'm wondering: Does this stuff work? How did environmentalists get "much-maligned?" No wonder Kerry is courting coal country and the environment has been almost entirely missing from the campaign rhetoric.
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I suspect maybe anti-environmentalist cheerleading does work, at least among Limbaugh dittoheads. I recall in the summer of 2003 Limbaugh crowing that under the Bush administration, there would be drilling for oil off the California coast. He thought this was exciting, great news, a real victory. Misery loves company? Misery wants to inflict misery on others? Misery wants ugliness nationwide? Go figure, 'cause I can't...
Posted on October 20, 2004 10:10 PM by Kit Stolz