Senator Lisa Murkowski and Health Care article had me ...

Reading my Nov. 12th Anchorage Daily News, I realized that Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski had turned into her father, Frank, who was Alaska's US Senator for so many years, before becoming our least popular governor ever. Slowing down progress was very “Frank,” unless there was a pipeline involved. So it is with Lisa, who, at a Chugiak, AK “town hall,” said of the health care bill now in the Senate: “We can pull this thing back.” Sounds like Frank to me.
As for her town hall, the 150 – plus, mostly retired participants were apparently happy with their health care as is. Here’s why. Participant Ron Bauers proclaimed, “I think we have a pretty good health care system now.” Bauers probably has good health care. But what of the 46 million uninsured, or the 44,000 who die each year for lack of health insurance?
Also against the health care bill were Harry Young, whose years in the military allows him great health care, courtesy of the government, and Ed Singer, retired teacher, who undoubtedly has a government-paid health care plan himself.
Being like dad seems more important to Lisa than getting decent health care to Americans who don’t have a government retirement plan like her, her dad Frank, or most of her Chugiak town hall crowd.

Guilty...?

In two consecutive days (Sep. 19 and 20, old news I know), we got two Daily News opinion pieces, from two conservative columnists who tell us that race hate against President Obama from the right is a figment of the liberal imagination.
Mssrs. Goldberg and Jenkins discount racial slurs and code words since the Fall of 2008, including some from our own former half-term governor, pictures comparing America’s 1st Lady to a chimp, the president portrayed as a witch doctor (replete with bone-through-nose), post cards of the White House lawn as a watermelon patch, the unhinged ravings of Glenn Beck, culminating in the Caucasian-only, 70,000 strong bizzarro “9/12” T-bag Mardi Gras in D.C. I could show Goldberg and Jenkins some of the disgusting emails forwarded to me by Republican acquaintances in the south.
The list goes on, but Goldberg and Jenkins are having none of it, telling us instead that there’s no real evidence to support the charge of racism, and that it’s simply a plot by Democrats to stifle earnest dissent against Obama’s socialist agenda.
Neither Goldberg nor Jenkins will ever admit that to many white Americans, Obama has committed the heinous crime of being president while black.

Sorry I haven't posted for so long, but I've been in engrossed in our community theater production of Agatha Christie's SPIDER'S WEB. This is our final weekend for the run, and I hope to be blogging and writing letters-to-editors and commentarying at large again soon. Hope you missed me.

Sandy and Joe, Jose and Stella, are you ready for some sunshine and cervesa Pacifico?