The Other Woman From Alaska
Newsweek
July 9, 2010
"Environmentalists don’t think Murkowski’s vote is worth the tradeoff of expanded drilling. 'That’s a pretty high price for green folks to stomach,' says Paul Bledsoe, an analyst with the National Commission on Energy Policy, an arm of the Bipartisan Policy Center. The broader green community has widely vilified Murkowski. Leading groups are also not pleased with Obama for what they see as the beginnings of unforgivable capitulation. But Obama, who claims not to read polls, is forging ahead. Wary of an even tougher legislative climate after the fall elections, a White House official, speaking on the usual condition of anonymity, admits the president is willing to go out 'on a serious limb' to get something done this year."
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