Quitter 2.0 – Parnell Breaks Hockey Stick, Says ‘Puck You.’
And the crowd goes wild!
Remember when I compared the Resources Committee meeting of the State Senate to a hockey game, and said I thought that they ought to have a rule just like in the peewee leagues, where when one team is like 20 points up they just call the game so the other side can slink away and lick their wounds instead of continuing to endure the public humiliation?
Well, guess what? Even though that rule doesn’t exist, Bryan Butcher, Bruce Tangeman, and Co. have been recalled back to the locker room. That’s right – Parnell’s been reading his predecessor’s playbook. When the going got tough, he quit. Sean Parnell gave up. He sent the troops in without helmets, pads, or pants, and then when he didn’t perform well, he broke his stick and stomped off the ice.
The atrocious “Alaskans are Stupid” bill, also known as SB3001 has been recalled. It’s done. The stunned senators watched, as the other team, without warning, threw in the towel. This bill had been the primary reason for the special session, which cost Alaskans $30,000 a day. The legislature took a look at the bill, and did the complicated math:
If Proposal A sucks, and
Proposal B = Proposal A,
then Proposal B sucks.
For the first week, Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher had to do the unthinkable… answer questions from smart people. This was outrageous, and unacceptable to the administration, and so, on the 8th day, off they went – lock, stock, and puck.
“I am stunned that the governor quit on his own special session so soon,” said Sen. Hollis French, an Anchorage Democrat who has sharply criticized the governor’s proposal. “We’ve learned too much and made too much progress to suddenly just have the rug pulled out from underneath us by an unhappy governor.”
“It was way too early to pull the plug,” said Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, the influential co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who had pronounced the governor’s proposal “nonsensical.”
He does have a winning strategy for next time, though. His brilliant idea is to hope that after the November election, when the Senate meets again, the opposing team will suck even more than his team does. Because maybe, just maybe the public, who hates his team on this issue, will go out and vote for people who like it. He did the math too, only his was… fuzzy.
If people hate Plan A, and my candidates love Plan A, the people will vote for my candidates…
Hey… it could happen. Or so Sean Parnell believes.
But the legislature doesn’t get to go home yet. There’s one more thing on the table – HB9, the gasline bill which is also a stated priority of the governor.
Here we go again.
AKM, you’ve got it wrong. Your statement should be:
If people hate Plan A, and my candidates love Plan A, the rig the Diebold machines so my candidates win…
So, Parnell caved, hey? Hummm… The rumors that he actually took lessons about being a loser from the Alaskian Monkey Queen must be true ! HA!
Its only surprising that it took Parnell 8 days to quit. After all, he is well-schooled in the world of Palin and the Teabaggers. If challenged, don’t engage – just call names and yell louder. If still challenged, quit, play the victim and accuse your opponents of hating America. … More seriously, quitting is probably one of the few smart moves Parnell has made. He was getting his posterior handed to him. My guess is that Parnell’s clients in Houston and London called him and told him they were tired of getting pummelled in the press every day and to just cool it for awhile. I suppose that the efforts of French and others to resurrect work on the bill is just an effort to be sure they don’t get blamed for being obstructive. “Hey, we were willing to keep talking. It was that baby Parnell who quit and ran home.”
Hear here Millie
I don’t think Parnell is finished with this issue – suspect he’ll bring it back! Redistricting, in Alaska, has been done to favor the Republicans for this next election cycle. I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him! Get out and vote this year – it’s more necessary than ever on the local, state and national levels!
Let’s see. We draw redistricting lines that are illegal (Plan #1 and Plan #2) and then we hold a hatchet over legislators’ heads on spending for their districts. And if all else fails, we’ll break the seals and run out of ballots and send folks to other precincts in mass chaos for upcoming elections.
Maybe that will get the Guv a more favorable legislature???
I can’t stand my city’s mayor, but our governor is okay (so far). Alaska, GOT (progressive) V!!
Our Lt Governor, Bob Duffy, is the former mayor from Roch and we were sad to lose him, although the current one seems to be okay (so far). We keep consoling ourselves that Duffy can do more for Roch as Lt Gov than he could as mayor!
Can’t say much positive about your mayor, however. Well, maybe that he’s got the largest ego this side of Donald Trump! 😉
How can it be that (sub)Parnell has a 61% approval rating, according to a Dittman poll from a couple of months ago??
People have that “I don’t think he’s a bad person, he just does bad things” attitude. They need to get over that.
Also, Dittman seems to get the results he wants, which are sometimes at odds with Moore’s polls. It has been suggested that Dittman polls people from Republican rosters.
That’s true, Dittman’s polls haven’t been very comprehensive for some years now. Trouble for these pollsters is they can’t make a living without being funded by particular interests. Very very difficult to not be motivated by the hand that feeds you. Dittman moves with the right wing crowd. My guess is that you can knock off 10% to 12% of those numbers in order to achieve a more realistic view of what Alaskans think of Parnell.
Furthermore, if my instincts are correct, they tell me Parnell’s influence is waning with the average Alaskan who is becoming fed up with Big Oil throwing their economic weight around all the time, paying off their lackeys, like our Governor, threatening to punish us for not adhering to their desires and/or lecturing to us over programs that are not in our best interest, just like we are a bunch of idiots, similar to what they did to the people in Louisiana years ago.
Maybe we have to go back to square one with these folks. Might be a rough go but let’s get it right this time. It is our oil. The Sultan of Oman is a good one to look to and to emulate in this regard as he is a person wise to the Houston and London oil manipulators.
Dittman had prop 5 winning by a solid margin just a week before the election. Another of the major red flags.
Maybe they’ll dust off the vaginal ultrasound and Zimmerman wannabes bills.
Gonna pop me some popcorn!
These just get less and less special as the years go by, but this one is actually something especially weird…
Moose Pucky resembles that remark.