Sen. Murkowski Holds America's Boaters Hostage

Will Murkowski go down in history as the Good Fairy of the North who saved America's recreational boaters from an EPA regulation tornado...

OR

Will she be remembered as the Wicked Witch of the (North) West who sacrificed American boaters for her own political expediency?

America's recreational boaters remained political hostages
for the second week as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) continued to play hardball with
her senate collegues who want to stave off needless EPA regulations for them. The
junior Senator from Alaska wants commercial fishing vessels to come under the same rules as recreational vessels -- something which was long ago deemed unworkable
by Senate legislators who compromised and pounded out the wording of S. 2766, the
Clean Boating Act of 2008, during months of tense negotiations this spring. No one
doubts Sen. Murkowski's resolve, independence -- or political opportunism. If she
does not release her hostages soon, any chance of avoiding new bureaucratic EPA
oversight of recreational boating will be lost on Sept. 30th.  How will the
good Senator be remembered by American boaters?  BoatTEST.com once again invites its
readers to implore the Senator to reconsider her hold on "Unanimous Consent" of
S. 2766...her direct line is here.