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Is Alaska’s newest Senator OK?
By Rebecca Logan
Alaska Standard Contributor
“First Year Focused on Honoring Promises” appears in the Anchorage Daily News, with Senator Mark Begich listed as the author. My first reaction was to skip over it, knowing that reading it would probably upset me. I couldn’t resist the temptation to look at something that I knew would upset me, and now I’m not only upset, I’m concerned.
It would appear that our Senator has many characteristics of a serious mental illness.
Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a "psychosis" in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. From the article:
“My focus has been on delivering what I promised. . . jobs and keeping Alaska’s economy healthy. . . and protecting Alaskan’s freedoms and interests”
Senator Begich imagines that he helped to “create and protect about 8,000 Alaska jobs” by voting for the stimulus bill. What’s real? The highest unemployment rate in Alaska since 1992. What’s really real? His mismanagement of the city’s finances has forced the municipality of Anchorage to lose more than one hundred jobs already – more job loss is on the way.
Senator Begich imagines that he is the defender of our individual freedoms and interests. What’s real? Senator Begich voted for a health care bill that would drastically limit access for all Medicare patients in Alaska (like we don’t already have a problem with this issue), would add a huge tax to working families who have decent health care plans and would establish more than 200 commissions that would tell individuals and businesses what they had to do.
There’s more. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue.
“When it comes to protecting Alaska freedoms and interests, I haven’t been bashful to stand up to my own political party.”
This is becoming the mantra of Senator Begich- perhaps because he believes that if he keeps saying it – it will become true. Senator Begich had the perfect opportunity to stand up to his party and help all Alaskans by voting against the healthcare legislation – the local studies that had been done by groups like ISER gave great detail about the harm that would be caused in Alaska by the pending legislation. Senator Begich chose to ignore his constituents and the studies and toe the party line.
It gets better. People with delusional disorder experience non-bizarre delusions, which involve situations that could occur in real life, These delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. In reality, however, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated:
“Even though earmarking rules have been reformed. . . .” (perhaps he meant replaced by bribery, back door deals and extortion) and finally,
“As the Senate reconvenes this month, my highest priorities are keeping Americans safe, kicking our economic recovery into high gear, ensuring our children have essential skills they need to compete and elimininating the red ink that threatens future generations.”
You can always count on Will Rogers to put things in perspective “If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone ‘America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership’.”
Let’s not kid ourselves!!
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Begich's GAGA smile in the picture is that he soooooo admires the Chicago style of the con artist whose hand he shakes. He sees himself there in a few years.
What about lying and leaving Anchorage with a fiscal crisis?! Begich skipped that part about his heroic epic. Now it has come to light that not only did he give the MOA unions a sweetheart deal but he stole the reserves from the utilities... in the case of Solid Waste Services.....an account that had $16,000,000 as a partial reserve for closing the landfill when he took office now only has $1,000,000 !!!! I'll bet if you look at the other utilities you will find the same pattern.
a polite way to say LIAR? Where is the FBI?
I wrote to Senator Begich several times in the course of the health care debate. Each time it took his staff several weeks or in one case months to respond to me. Each time I asked him how he was going to vote on this issue. Each time he (or more accurately his staff) did not say how he would vote, but instead came up with something like thousands of Alaskans have no health care and the Senator was going to do something about it.
As bad as a government health care would be, there are still several years of mischief ahead where Mr. Begich can make our lives more difficult. God only knows what kind of problems Mr. Begich will create for us here in Alaska. He clearly does not represent Alaskans or our interests and we need to replace him with someone who does. The sooner this happens the better it will be for Alaska.
Thanks for saving me from having to duplicate every word that you have said.
This man has no constituency, only himself. I don't need a senator that represents himself. Stood up to his party indeed! A shameless disgrace!
Is America dead? I learned somewhere that a nation is defined by its borders, its language and its customs. We no longer protect our border. English is being supplanted by Spanish and other languages regionally and instead of American Irish, American African, or American South Pacific it is now Irish, African and South Pacific American. Our country should be first is all cases. Speaking English should be required and no government forms should be printed in any other language. If we can't protect our borders than what good are they. We are loosing our nation on all counts.
I do think Mr Begich is delusional,I dont think he cares what people think unless they agree with him!
I trully think the boy Senator is nothing but a toady for everything Obama,His email responses to me , a voter, could have been written BY Leahy,Boxer,or any other left wing progressive. He is not a moderate, and I cant wait to put money and time into defeating him in the next election, an eternity away in political years