To the victors go the spoils
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Lew Williams Jr., newspaper publisher and former UA regent, informs us in Sunday's paper how incredibly powerful the Republican Party is. Especially so, after the total bath Democrats took in the mid-term elections. To the victor go the spoils and of course, the gloat. That's a politico's nature and is right on par for the most circuitous of industrial greens.
Williams continues by telling us we can expect a truly formidable team effort at the national and state legislative levels with the inevitable goal of drilling in ANWR. Now especially, since the old war lords and their various family members, friends and good old boys are completely in charge of law. Except for some lingering opposition from, he says, "... some strong environmentalists in the Senate...." However, he goes on to tell us that under certain circumstances, even those heroically staunch voices will be weakened and finally muzzled.
Does all this begin to sound rather familiar? Is it reminiscent of something you've been hearing from the Bush administration regarding ANWR and our "national security" and the roll-over philosophy of the "do as I say but not as I do" and also known as, the unbeatable, unimaginative, corporate-energy agenda of the Republicans?
Well, Lew Williams happens to be so right this time. And what's more, since he appears to have enough unabashed confidence about it all to float a Gulf War oil, missile carrier, it indeed should be a great relief to all to have these true-blue Republican thoughts out in print where we can easily read and reference them.
Williams potently and sternly plows through other issues, too. Our PFDs, cruise-ship head-taxes, etc., all while citing numerous facts and figures like, well, like any ex-university regent can do best.
Here is a thought I'd like to end with: We of the minority coalition do have meaningful and perennial ways of actually subsisting, strategizing and harmonizing for yet another glorious spring-day in the total wildness of the wilderness.
Alan R. Munro
Juneau