Posted on 10/05/2018 7:58:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just minutes ago, in the middle of a rambling and semi-incoherent self-justification on the Senate floor, Lisa Murkowski announced that she was Montana Senator Steve Daines’s Plan B.
Daines, as I posted earlier today, was scheduled to walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding tomorrow. I have to admit I respect a man who has his priorities straight. In the comments we’d speculated on who might step aside on the No side of the equation. My guess was Jon Tester would do it as he’s in a tough race, he’s a no vote on Kavanaugh, and stepping aside could let him keep his no vote while building some goodwill with Montana voters.
As it turns out, Lisa Murkowski will fill that slot.
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Breaking: Murkowski will cast a present vote in the final tally as a courtesy to Senator Daines, who will not be present due to his to daughter’s wedding. “It will not change the outcome of the vote,” she says. “I hope it reminds us we can take very small steps to be gracious.”
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One can hope.
The ties that bind us as a nation have become dangerously frayed and the desperate attempt by Senate Democrats to scuttle Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination burned down a lot of trust on the Judiciary Committee where trust is all important. Hopefully, despite Murkowski’s preening, her collegiality and decency on this small issue will take root. But I’m not betting on it.
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She is a bad person and she knows it....
She’s “Alaska’s Folly”.
It is hard to believe that Daines could place his own little world above the fate of the entire nation. The man is dangerously stupid. Does not deserve anymore ever any respect.
She’s also a CHEATER!
A “present” vote is a COWARDLY VOTE!
Look at the BULLY FACE of ChiDiFi, and look at baby Lisa Crying! Geesh….what a FREAK SHOW the Senate is!
ChiFiSpy must have some serious dirt on Murkowski - the hatred is so clear in that photo.
btw, your tagline is 100% accurate.
May Piss Be Upon him.
She is a Never-Trumper and a RAT-RINO who saw an opportunity to pretend...if Kavanaugh couldn’t be confirmed without a yes vote by her, she would vote no...she knows how she would look to be the one to require Daines to fly away from his daughter’s wedding festivities and is only doing this because her “no” would be negated by his return.
It won’t work Lisa, say goodbye to the Senate in your next election.
“If Murk didn’t pair her vote the Senate couldn’t vote if the Dems all walked out.”
If I remember my parliamentary rules correctly, Mitch can order the sergeant-at-arms to arrest wayward senators and bring them back to the senate in handcuffs.
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