Lisa Murkowski's Biggest Reason To Oppose Brett Kavanaugh May Not Be Abortion Rights

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. The noise makers have always hated the pristine quietness of national parks.

During winter in Alaska snowmobilers have tried every excuse possible to take their smelly, noisy machines into Denali so they can chase animals, criss-cross the virgin snow with track marks, and "high mark" the mountains. The last reason I heard them use was that snowmobiles should be allowed because injured veterans are being kept from enjoying Denali NP. This is curiously similar to the arguments made to allow hunters to go to Santa Rosa Island -- part of California's Channel Islands National Park -- to kill deer and elk. They wanted to use wounded veterans as their"beard," claiming, "They've given so much for our country and now you want to deny them this small amount of joy?"

Ironically, the person in Congress pushing this scheme was Rep. Duncan Hunter. I wonder what he would have been championing had he been named "Duncan Shithead"?