Posted on 08/08/2026 7:20:40 AM PDT by libstripper
Todd Blanche's uphill battle to be confirmed as attorney general ended on Saturday with a 50-49 vote in the Senate, after President Donald Trump's former lawyer managed to win key Republican support.
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I’m impressed. The rats stick together. Why can’t we?
They’re different: Murkowski is a problem to be solved.
Collins needs every never-Trump vote she can get.
“Collins and Murkowski, of course.”
Fetterman also. So is Collins, who is the ONLY Republican that can win statewide in Maine, make New England, make that the Northeast, so bad for our side? Murkowski is a different story - she is a VERY SICK woman who probably went to college.
Prime time kabuki theater. Public drama while behind-the-curtain deals are made with the “holdouts”. For Murky, I think it was just the satisfaction of giving Trump the finger and issuing her little virtue-signaling screed without invoking his wrath like a failure to confirm would have done.
We genuinely need to have excess republicans take up residencies in Alaska and Maine. A small number could flip these remote states deep red.
Collins and Murkowski are Democrats in Republican costume. Why does the party bother with them. Republican work and money is spent to keep them in office only for them to vote against the Republicans.
how many times are we going to post this?
Not if elections can be stolen. And ranked choice makes that really easy to do.
We need the (R) behind their names in order to have the Speakership and Majority positions in committees.
Finally! 🙄
His rhetoric goes up and down but his face never changes.
He'll do us right.
These two and the three on the USSC...How can 5 women do so much damage...deliberately and with malice.
Murkowski is banking on the Democrats winning the Senate and then flipping parties. She's horrible.
All Democratic and independent senators voted against Blanche's confirmation. They are:
Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland
Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
Michael Bennet of Colorado
Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware
Cory Booker of New Jersey
Maria Cantwell of Washington
Chris Coons of Delaware
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
Dick Durbin of Illinois
Ruben Gallego of Arizona
Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Martin Heinrich of New Mexico
John Hickenlooper of Colorado
Mazie Hirono of Hawaii
Tim Kaine of Virginia
Mark Kelly of Arizona
Andy Kim of New Jersey
Angus King of Maine
Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico
Ed Markey of Massachusetts
Jeff Merkley of Oregon
Chris Murphy of Connecticut
Patty Murray of Washington
Jon Ossoff of Georgia
Alex Padilla of California
Gary Peters of Michigan
Jack Reed of Rhode Island
Jacky Rosen of Nevada
Bernie Sanders of Vermont
Brian Schatz of Hawaii
Adam Schiff of California
Chuck Schumer of New York
Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Elissa Slotkin of Michigan
Tina Smith of Minnesota
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Mark Warner of Virginia
Raphael Warnock of Georgia
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Peter Welch of Vermont
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
Ron Wyden of Oregon
Two Republican moderates joined them to vote against Blanche:
Susan Collins of Maine
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
No excuse for the Cow. I am not seeing Fetterman on the no list, so I am supposing that he abstained.
Rats are pack animals.
Hopefully Blanche can go after the criminals...in our legislative bodies....
This could be a first strike against the dem grifters who will try and impeach Trump if they gain the house. They will be too busy fighting the criminal charges against them.
Ever see the View? I know there are six on their panel, but one is usually a token conservative - so I only counted 5.
Republicans never shut Biden down like Dims have done to Trump. I wonder why.
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