Posted on 07/19/2023 4:14:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is astounding how bizarrely distorted our 'representation' in the Senate has become.
Lisa Murkowski is the perfect mascot for Senate Republicans. She is a Democrat in all but name, an aristocrat who inherited her office, and a beneficiary of rigged elections. She has more in common with Nancy Pelosi than the average Republican voter, and every time Alaskan Republicans attempt to throw her out of office, Mitch McConnell's minions manipulate the rules to save her.
For McConnell, Murkowski is another beholden senator kept securely in his pocket who will vote how he wants on any given day. That might not be so bad (except for the good people of Alaska, whom she purportedly represents) if McConnell were not also an aristocrat who routinely betrays Republican voters. However, because his loyalties lie with President Xi, multinational corporations, the World Economic Forum, and his good friend Joe Biden, China Mitch uses the leash around Murkowski's neck only when he needs help sticking it to the American people. And oh, how Senate Republicans love to screw over the American people!
I mention this person because she and other backstabbing Senate Republicans (think John Cornyn, Mitt Romney, John Thune, etc.) got together to do their version of Festivus in July, during which they told The Hill how much they absolutely loathe normal Republican voters. "[O]ur party is becoming known as a group of kind of extremist, populist, over-the-top [people] where no one is taking us seriously anymore," Murkowski laments.
Our party? Alaskan Republicans tried to cashier your rear years ago, and you thumbed your nose at their wishes, ran as a write-in candidate, and got elected by Democrats. Instead of stripping you of your ranking position on choice committee assignments, Senate Republicans celebrated your "victory" over the actual Republican nominee...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The 17th Amendment many have changed the way Senators get into office, but it seems that their function hasn’t changed. Now, it’s obvious to me that Senators represent the major industries in their states more than anything else. Lindsey Graham works for Boeing Corp., Charles Grassley works for Archer Daniels Midland, Chuck Schumer works for Wall Street, etc.
They may supposed to be representing their states, but they do not. They represent their party or the hierarchy of their party who then represents the interests of the Uniparty.
What was or was supposed to be isn’t anymore.
Exactly!
“According to CQ Roll Call, she voted with President Barack Obama’s position 72.3% of the time in 2013, one of only two Republicans to do so over 70% of the time. In recent years, she opposed Brett Kavanaugh and supported Ketanji Brown Jackson in their respective nominations to the Supreme Court. On February 13, 2021, she was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial, for which she was censured by the Alaska Republican Party.”
“From 1989 to 1998, she was an attorney in private practice in Anchorage. She served on the Mayor’s Task Force for the Homeless from 1990 to 1991.”
“In December 2002, Murkowski—while a member of the state House—was appointed by her father, Governor Frank Murkowski, to fill his own U.S. Senate seat made vacant when he resigned from the Senate after being elected governor”
“Murkowski faced the most difficult election of her career in the August 24, 2010, Republican Party primary election....On November 17, 2010, the Associated Press reported that Murkowski had become only the second Senate candidate (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to win a write-in campaign, thereby retaining her seat....U.S. Federal District Judge Ralph Beistline granted an injunction to stop the certification of the election due to “serious” legal issues and irregularities Miller raised about the hand count of absentee ballots....On December 28, U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline dismissed Miller’s lawsuit. Governor Sean Parnell certified Murkowski as the winner on December 30.”
“On July 10, 2021, the Alaska Republican Party endorsed Tshibaka. Murkowski won reelection by beating Tshibaka in ranked-choice voting. Murkowski’s votes amounted to 53.7% after the ranked-choice tabulation.”
“According to GovTrack, Murkowski is the second most liberal Republican senator and, as of 2017, is placed by GovTrack’s analysis to the left of all Republicans except Susan Collins, and to the left of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski
Term Limits are a great idea.
Senate TWO 4yr terms, No Pension, and DONE.
The House THREE 2yr terms, No Pension, and Done.
Former House and Senate members (and ALL family members) BARRED FOREVER for working for, or being associated with ANY Lobbying group.
Does anybody think the House and Senate will vote for this? The people in Hell want ice-cream too.
THEN GET THE HE~! OUT OF POLITICS AND LET THOSE WHO...CARE... REPLACE YOU SO WE CAN BE THE PROMISED LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE.
I DO NOT LIKE WIMPS.
LOL! Like many leading Democrats Murkowski is effectively saying she needs a new electorate. She has forgotten whom she works for.
Gerrymandering, campaign finance reform, you name it - all these rules favor incumbents and make it harder to oust them. What is really needed are term limits, but the ruling class will never impose that upon themselves.
Gerrymandering, campaign finance reform, you name it - all these rules favor incumbents and make it harder to oust them. What is really needed are term limits, but the ruling class will never impose that upon themselves.
They’ve elected a dem governor more often than repub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Kentucky
Q: Why can’t Republicans get rid of the Turtle?
A1: Voters that continues to believe (R)N(C) > (D)NC @ all costs (faux dichotomy)
A2: Cultish electorate that *loves* getting stabbed in the back, time after time while bitching-n-moaning nothing ever changes (the ‘hold your nose & pull the lever’ club)
‘Cuz party ‘obligation’ while going over the cliff @ 30MPH is SOOoo much better than going over @ 90MPH ‘cuz....reasons
When you are only there for the parties and graft this is always the case when the heat gets turned up and the spotlights shine on your darkness......
The feds HATE the citizens.
Sounds like a very good example to discredit the legal positivism that reigns everywhere in society.
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