Washblog

Poor Mini-Slade--- er, I mean Mike. First he says he is ashamed to be from Seattle and then he forgets that he is running to represent Washington State and not Alaska in the U.S. Senate. I guess he must not read the local newspapers or he would know that a majority of Washington voters oppose drilling in ANWR. Even Maria Cantwell's detractors on the left give her high marks for her leadership on that issue. And it's not just the environmental issue McGavick has a problem with. It's the whole alternative energy reality that he hasn't grasped yet. In a recent interview on KUOW's "The Conversation", he said that retrieving whatever oil may be in ANWR was important because oil was still going to be in our energy picture for a long time. Even George W. Bush has had to acknowledge that the United States and the rest of the world had better start shifting their focus away from fossil fuels. Maybe if Mike would pay more attention to the folks in the Washington delegation like Jay Inslee, he might learn a thing or two.

Of course there are other opportunities Mike might want to examine as long as he is in Alaska. He could try selling over-priced insurance to the local fishermen to cover their losses in anticipation of the next Exxon Valdez.

Peace,

Chad (The Left) Shue