Now K Street has its own senator: Lisa Murkowski

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Washington Examiner:

Now that she has apparently won re-election without the backing of the Republican Party, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is in debt to nobody -- besides the revolving-door K Street lobbyists and government contractors who financed her write-in campaign.

As her write-in votes surpassed the votes for Republican nominee Joe Miller this week, Murkowski asserted her independence from the party.

Murkowski told the press she feels liberated because she won "not because I came as my party's nominee but because a very, very wide range of Alaskans of all political stripes have stepped up and said 'you're the person we want to represent us in Washington.' " The Hill newspaper reported, "Murkowski said her 'backbone is stiffer, straighter' " from winning as a write-in.

And how is Murkowski standing up to the GOP bosses? By rejecting the party's earmark ban and promising to pork up spending bills with parochial, unauthorized pet projects that, no doubt, will help her political allies.

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Any "political allies" this woman has are as crooked as she is. Which says a lot, since she is the product of an upbringing in a corrupt political family. Her very presence in the Senate is due to her appointment by the former governor of Alaska, Frank Murkowski, to fill the balance of his term upon election to governor. He was so corrupt that when he ran for re-election in 2006 he lost the primary to an unknown small town mayor named Sarah Palin.