Gas line is no laughing matter, but Mia Costello is smiling

Somebody needs to tell Rep. Mia Costello and Sen. George Rauscher that the gasline is no laughing matter.

I bring this up because it appears Mia and George have been captured laughing, perhaps about the gas pipeline.

On Costello’s Wikipedia page, there is a photo of her smiling or smirking. It’s just possible she was guffawing about Glenfarne!

George is also suffering from laughing gas. On his official legislative biography, there is this photo of him with an ear-to-ear gasline grin!

For Alaskans concerned about energy security, jobs and the future of our economy, Costello and Rauscher are the last people who need a reminder that the gasline is no laughing matter.

The two of them, dismounting their high horses, called out some senators for laughing on Tuesday, offended by “an image that showed senators laughing together while questions swirled about whether the bill would ever reach the Senate floor.”

“Perhaps it was an innocent moment captured by a camera. But for Alaskans concerned about energy security, jobs and the future of our economy, this is no laughing matter,” the comedians said.

This is no laughing matter, they said innocently.

There is as little reason to assume the senators were laughing about the gasline in this photo as there is to believe Costello was busting a gut about LNG in her Wikipedia photo and Rauscher was amused by a FERC filing.

The senators were not laughing about the gasline, but about whether Costelllo and Rauscher would be offended enough to denounce facial expressions in a newspaper column. No. That’s a joke.

This incident is not as funny as the bill Costello introduced in 2020 to spend hundreds of thousands so that the number “10” could be an official name—still the dumbest bill of the century—but it’s on her top 10 list.

George and Mia concluded their grandstanding sermon by saying “Alaska’s future is no laughing matter,” doubling down on their insinuation that senators were laughing about a serious matter.

George and Mia should wipe the smiles off their faces.

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