The depth of the Trump deception in his speech didn’t stop Alaska’s Trump-loving leaders—Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Sen. Dan Sullivan—from claiming that Trump mentioning the gas pipeline means the pipeline is as good as built.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s response to the White House debacle is a model of what Sen. Dan Sullivan and other Republicans should be saying about Trump, but aren’t.
She said, “I am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to democracy and U.S. values around the world.”
Sullivan’s silence makes his position clear. He is right there with the Alaska Republican Party in agreeing with anything Trump says.
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This is the weakest argument ever made to justify the expansion of government by creating a new state ag department: “Look at the bottom of our state seal and you’ll see a farmer,” says Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
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While Sen. Lisa Murkowski recognizes the real danger created by Trump chaos, Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third are blindly cheering every dumb and reckless move by the Musk/Trump regime as brilliant and inspired.
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The oil industry has already cued its publicity people to recite text from the Fear and Loathing Anti-Tax Playbook handed down by oil company employees since the discovery of Prudhoe Bay: Any tax increase, no matter how small, will kill investment and ruin the industry, the Fear and Loathing playbook says.
These bills will not kill investment, though there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, along with the fear and loathing.
Read MoreThe challenge of finding ways to pay for an increase in education funding is not the impossible dream that Republicans in Juneau claim.
Compromises to establish a reasonable dividend and raise taxes would put the state on a stable footing, ending the era when a governor can introduce a budget with a $1.5 billion deficit and abandon his responsibilities.
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Republican legislators are hiding behind the Dunleavy Knows Best fraud, refusing to admit that the real reform Alaska needs is to decrease class sizes. The only way to decrease class sizes is to hire and retain qualified teachers. That requires more funding from the Legislature and governor.
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Anyone who issues a press release saying a Bible parable offers a valuable lesson for government is not separating the spiritual from the secular, but combining the two.
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‘The Bible’s parable of the talents offers a valuable lesson for government, as it does for spiritual life. The good and faithful servant is the one who takes his employer’s money and increases it, while the unfaithful one simply buries it in the ground. When it comes to America’s abundant natural wealth, we face a similar choice,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a press release printed by the Wall Street Journal.
The state sermon does not say anything about saving for the next generation or the generation after that. Or that the good and faithful servant could be a foreign mining company hoping to make a killing from public resources.
The reverend governor also didn’t mention the long-term value of leaving wealth in the ground that belongs not just to those alive now, but to all future Americans.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan is running for reelection in 2026. Holding him accountable means that his statements and actions, especially those in which he reverses his so-called positions to avoid offending Musk and Trump, need to be monitored and understood.
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