By DAN FAGAN
Want to become an instant hero with the leftist media? Carry an “R” behind your name and slam our president.
CNN headline, June 5, 2020: “This Republican senator just admitted what we’ve all known about the GOP for a while now.”
The story, written by CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza, begins, “Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the quiet part out loud.”
Cillizza is referencing a quote from Murkowski after she was asked about former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ criticism of President Donald Trump over his handling of the police killing of George Floyd. Murkowski came as close as a politician can to admitting she’s been lying all along about how she really feels about our president.
“When I saw General Mattis comments yesterday I felt like perhaps we are getting to a point where we can be more honest with the concern that we might hold internally and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,” said Murkowski.
Cillizza pounced upon Murkowski’s stunning admission of dishonesty and lack of courage and used it as evidence that other Republican politicians don’t like Trump but are afraid to say so.
“What Murkowski is acknowledging here: that many of her fellow Republicans and presumably, her colleagues in the Senate, have long held deep doubts about Trump and his conduct, but have lacked the courage of their convictions to speak out about those worries,” wrote Cillizza.
Cillizza is half correct. Many Republican Senators have remained silent about their displeasure with Trump. But it’s not Trump’s perceived ineptness they don’t like. The opposite is true. Trump represents a clear and present danger to the Washington D.C. swamp.
Murkowski and other Republicans-in-name-only depend on the vibrancy of the swamp to maintain their power and influence. It’s Trump’s fearlessness and formidability in exposing and defeating the swamp that terrifies the Murkowski’s of the world.
Murkowski, emboldened by the Mattis defection, told reporters this past week she’s “struggling” with whether to vote for Trump in the fall. There she goes again. Coming up short in the honesty department. There’s no way Murkowski will ever or has ever voted for Trump. Even if she’s claimed to have voted for Trump, it’s irrelevant, since Murkowski has already confessed to not having the courage to “be more honest” regarding the president.
Murkowski is a prime example of how corrupt and incestuous politics has become in America. Remember her father, Frank Murkowski appointed her to his seat after he was elected governor in 2002. The elder Murkowski released a list of 40-names he would choose from to fill his seat made up of prominent Alaskans like Sarah Palin, John Binkley, Jerry Mackie, and Ben Stevens. But in the end, we learned the list was all a scam and Frank the Bank handed his powerful Senate seat down to his daughter as though Frank were King and Lisa were a princess. My friend Glen Biegel called it the most corrupt act in Alaska’s history.
Two years after the nepotistic appointment, Murkowski armed with the sizable and considerable advantage of incumbency was elected after no prominent Republican would dare challenge her.
Then in 2010, with Murkowski staunchly ensconced as a powerful swamp creature, conservative Joe Miller shocked everyone and beat her in the Republican primary.
But she beat Miller by 4 points in the general as a write-in candidate after the native corporations danced around the edges of campaign finance laws and dumped millions into Murkowski’s election efforts. The oil companies, lobbyists, the non-profit cabal, the health care industry, deep-state types, and anyone benefiting from federal government bloat and largess also poured in millions to help Murkowski return to the swamp.
Murkowski had become such a powerful swamp creature, state officials changed the election rules that year to benefit her. Murkowski’s name was prominently displayed on a list with other write-in candidates outside the polling place. That had never been done before.
Murkowski was also helped after the media abandoned all pretense of fairness and launched an all-out jihad against Miller. Swamp creature Alice Rogoff led the charge with her website the Alaska Dispatch. Rogoff would later buy the Anchorage Daily News and use it to install Bill Walker as governor.
Now that Rogoff’s no longer a player in Alaska, Murkowski will need another swamp creature to rise when she’s up for reelection in 2022.
Murkowski beat Miller once again in 2016 raising $5.8 million to Miller’s $600 thousand. That does not include all the PAC money spent on Murkowski’ behalf.
But Murkowski’s swamp creature ways are in great jeopardy in the era of Trump. Trump exposed the swamp and its nastiness and politicos like Murkowski now have nowhere to hide. Trump is extremely popular in Alaska and rightly so. He’s signed legislation to open ANWR, put a stop to the EPA fighting resource development at every turn, and the president has beefed up military spending bringing more troops to the state.
This past week Trump vowed to campaign against Murkowski in 2022.
“Few people know where they’ll be in two years from now, but I do, in the Great State of Alaska, which I love, campaigning against Lisa Murkowski, “Trump tweeted.
“Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing. If you have a pulse, I’m with you!” Trump added.
If Trump can help take out Murkowski, he’ll be doing Alaska and our nation a great service. Murkowski refused to approve the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme court. It’s one of the most important votes any senator has made in recent memory. With Murkowski voting present instead of yes, she loses all claims to being pro-resource development or pro-gun rights as these issues will ultimately be decided by the high court.
And remember, it was Murkowski’s single vote that saved Obamacare.
What’s most troubling about Murkowski for me is her bizarre allegiance to the death culture. She’s been an unflinching supporter of the abortion industry’s quest to end the lives of innocent and indefensible children living in their mothers’ womb. Hence Murkowski’s refusal to confirm Kavanaugh.
The swamp has been there for Murkowski for many years but, thanks to Trump, it’s lost some of its power. Hopefully, Murkowski’s days in office are numbered.
Dan Fagan hosts a talk show on Newsradio 650 KENI from 5:30 to 8 am.