Alaska's Murkowski calls earmark vote 'long on bravado, short on substance'

Miami Herald ^ | Wednesday, 12.01.10 | Erika Bolstad and David Goldstein

[Skeez]

[Lion Den Dan]

In a sane and constitutional world, states would not send money to the Federal government for redistribution. A state would build its own infrastructure etc. using its own funds.

[SueRae]

#1 earmark recipient - AK

[Doc Savage]

Having lived in Alaska and worked as a Game Biologist in Alaska, and having hunted in Alaska, I can say that hunting accidents are not rare. They do happen. You just never know. I certainly hope Murkowski isn’t a hunter, and if she is, I hope she is very very very careful.

[goat granny]

She would look much better in a burka...

[RexBeach]

This gal has quite a jawline. She always seems to look angry at someone.

[Eska]

Maybe if 98% of the land mass in Alaska wasn't controlled by the feds; possibly could work out that way. It didn't start that way, but sure ended up that way thanks to various Presidents & Federal designations that have locked up the state from any development.

Much more value in our resources than pennies from the feds.

[Rational Thought]

She always seems to look angry at someone.

That's because Liberals spend their lives acting angry.

[sport]

She is who the people of Alaska wanted in the Senate. If they are happy, that is what matters.

[Da Coyote]

“...I hope she is very very very careful...”

Sarc understood, but I hope she is not careful at all.

She is a supreme example of the scum that must be eliminated from public life is we have any hope of returning to a rational, civilized society.

[Redleg Duke]

She still doesn’t get it.

[sergeantdave]

“Much more value in our resources than pennies from the feds.”

Develop your resources and Alaska will be a very wealthy state. Get rid of EPA, Interior, BLM, Energy Dept. and other places where the eco-fascist snakes live and Alaska is on its way.

[dps.inspect]

So this is what the American experiment has come to... taking people's money and giving it to the most talented money grubbers, state senators...

[Spartan79]

Alaskans pay no state income tax or sales tax, and in fact the state usually sends out checks to residents, depending on how long they’ve resided in the state, as I understand it. If Alaska has “enormous infrastructure needs” as Murk claims, then it can damn well pay for them itself.

[andy58-in-nh]

She does get it - she still thinks we're idiots, and how can you blame her? The woman gets re-elected by a write-in vote campaign in a state where a plurality of voters are addicted to the government crack pipe.

These senators continue to treat us like children; in this case breezily dismissing our concerns about earmarks because the amounts involved are small relative to the federal budget.

Well, yes: that's entirely true. It is a small amount of money - for the government, that is. And it is a tiny fraction of the budget... but, then again, most bribes are small potatoes compared to what they are truly intended to purchase.

In Congress, senators of both parties are given these little baubles in exchange for their affirmative votes on budget items costing hundreds of billions of dollars to the taxpayers who are adjudged entirely too stupid to make the connection.

Attention, Washington: the last time we brought flags and signs. Next time, it may be torches and pitchforks.

[hosepipe]

Alaskan need to enact RECALL legislation..

[Lion Den Dan]

Maybe if 98% of the land mass in Alaska wasn't controlled by the feds; possibly could work out that way. It didn't start that way, but sure ended up that way thanks to various Presidents & Federal designations that have locked up the state from any development. Much more value in our resources than pennies from the feds.

I wholly concur. Solution: Get the Feds out of the land and resource business.

[SC_Pete]

MERCOWSKI is long of tooth and short of brain.

[Izzy Dunne]

the U.S. Senate on Tuesday couldn't quite keep itself from ending the practice altogether.

A totally bogus statement by the Herald, as the Senate rejected the earmarks ban.

[The Comedian]

In a sane and constitutional world, states would not send money to the Federal government for redistribution. A state would build its own infrastructure etc. using its own funds.

Guards! GUARDS! Arrest that man! He is speaking treason against the Royal Federal Oligarchy!

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