Washington DC Adult Entertainment: Alaska Voters Punished Murkowski for Not Being Angry, Hostile Enough
Written on September 3, 2010 – 12:13 pm | by larrylibido
But she apparently was still just a bit too cooperative for Alaska Republican primary voters, who didn’t like her vote for the Wall Street bailout in 2008 (never mind that the Bush White House was desperate for the plan, worried that a bank implosion would lead to another Great Depression). In a Congress hampered by a Sharks vs. Jets standoff, Murkowski apparently just didn’t obstruct enough for angry Alaska primary voters, who nominated Tea Party movement-approved Joe Miller.
Murkowski was never a yeller, and showed a compassion and collegiality that is disappearing from the Senate. In 2007, former GOP Idaho Sen. Larry Craig was largely shunned by his colleagues, who were scandalized over Craig’s arrest for allegedly soliciting sex from another man in an airport bathroom. While other Republican senators treated Craig like he had cooties, Murkowski walked across the Senate floor and very publicly gave Craig a hug. It wasn’t a political statement, or judgment on what may or may not have happened in that men’s room. It was just a show of friendship and support for a colleague who was going through the worst time of his life.