Posted on 12/25/2019 11:20:07 AM PST by karpov
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska expressed unease in an interview broadcast on Tuesday with the Senate majority leader’s vow of “total coordination” with the White House on impeachment proceedings against President Trump, a potentially significant crack in Republican unity.
Ms. Murkowski, a moderate with an independent streak, told Anchorage’s NBC affiliate KTUU she opposed “being hand in glove with the defense” and voiced other concerns as the Senate prepares to hold a trial over the two articles of impeachment that the House approved earlier this month.
Ms. Murkowski’s views could prove important. She rarely speaks publicly against Republican leadership, but when she does, she tends to stick with her positions, as when she opposed the confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and helped torpedo a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. She also tends to bring Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a fellow moderate Republican with her, and only a handful of defections would force the majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to switch course on the upcoming impeachment trial.
In the interview, Ms. Murkowski said she was “disturbed” by comments by Mr. McConnell that indicated he intends to work in concert with the White House counsel in planning the impeachment trial.
“In fairness, when I heard that I was disturbed,” Ms. Murkowski said. “To me it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense, and so I heard what leader McConnell had said, I happened to think that that has further confused the process.”
Ms. Murkowski said she felt that House Democrats had made a mistake in forging ahead with impeachment so quickly without potentially valuable testimony from top White House officials such as the former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, and Mick Mulvaney
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is she equally disturbed by the house democrats total coordination with the FeralMedia, democrat donars, and senate democrats?
Yeah, she’s disturbed alright.
They should have stopped at disturbed.
DiFi has her cornered again.
How utterly predictable.
Oh come on Alaska ,stop sending this Witch
IF you are wondering why the GOP Senate couldn’t care less about the ongoing CIA backed coup here is your answer.
She is angling for Trump to endorse her having seen Trump
endorse that other Dem in GOP clothing Susan Collins.
Primary her out of office.
How did I know it would be her?
I have been disturbed about a lot of things. Caring about whether this Senator is disturbed is not one of them.
I take it that Murkowski does not plan to stand in the way of the overthrow of the current administration by the organized crime family of House democrats.
Should never have let Alaska into the union.
Yup!!! Dam Dum DIMs!!! (Note: misspelled on purpose)
The Weak Sisters, Murkowski, Collins and Romney just LOVE the attention they are getting for being “on the fence”
If they lean too far towards Trump, the media won’t be camped out on their doorsteps any more with microphones at the ready for a quote they can use.
In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen articles about interviews with 2 of the 3
I think I can safely assume there will be one with Mittens coming real soon
“without potentially valuable testimony from top White House officials such as the former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, and Mick Mulvane”
Murkowski is owned by PP and the Alaska rats who cross over and keep her in. The GOP is to blame. They helped her win against their own candidate when she ran as a write in. She’s a likely vote with the rats. Notice she said nothing about the outrageous process the rats used to get their stupid impeachment
Primary her out of office.
If I recall correctly, she was primaried at one time, and lost the Republican primary. But she won that election as a write in candidate, against both the winner of the Republican primary and the Democratic candidate.
Fake news
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