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Breaking: Collins, Murkowski to oppose DeVos for Education Secretary
HotAir ^

Posted on 02/01/2017 11:44:45 AM PST by Java4Jay

That leaves McConnell and Senate majority whip John Cornyn with some heavy lifting to do. They either need to convince Collins and/or Murkowski to get back on board with DeVos, or make sure no one else disembarks before Pence can cast the 101st vote and keep Sessions in the Senate long enough to pull off this high-wire act. Stay tuned.

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To: Java4Jay

Murkowski is a hatchet-faced b!tch.


21 posted on 02/01/2017 12:03:20 PM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: DoodleDawg

Why not just abolish the whole Department?


22 posted on 02/01/2017 12:04:50 PM PST by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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To: wiseprince
Manchin .... What does WV say about this?

Manchin has voted for the rest of Trump's appointments and has made it clear he doesn't plan to filibuster Gorsuch. I highly doubt that voting against DeVos, as bad as she was during the hearings, will cost him anything.

23 posted on 02/01/2017 12:06:14 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Carl Vehse

We have a very strong, devout base of conservatives here in Alaska, with just a few corrupt GOP party leaders and Dems who cross over almost exclusively for Princess Murkowski.


24 posted on 02/01/2017 12:06:25 PM PST by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Java4Jay

It’s getting very boring to watch Collins pull her “independant” act to pander to Maine voters. She does this every cycle, always to the detriment of a perfectly fine nominee.

She pretends to be above politics, where in fact, she plays it to it’s most naked form. I really can’t stand her and her “holier than thou” act.


25 posted on 02/01/2017 12:06:39 PM PST by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: organicchemist
Why not just abolish the whole Department?

Wouldn't bother me at all, but that's a whole other discussion.

26 posted on 02/01/2017 12:08:36 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Carl Vehse

...and Arizona.


27 posted on 02/01/2017 12:11:00 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Java4Jay

I want them to pay. Dearly.

Alaska, Maine: get your fake Republican senators in line.


28 posted on 02/01/2017 12:11:10 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: Java4Jay

Just one big cat fight....


29 posted on 02/01/2017 12:11:29 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Timpanagos1

Oh! I thought there was a nickname out there I hadn’t heard yet.


30 posted on 02/01/2017 12:16:08 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Who ever dismantles the DOE and destroys the NEA is fine with me. No more Common Core and everything shifts to the local school boards. They are attacking to ONLY WOMAN on the cabinet. You can’t make that up. I say just close it down — Obama closed immigration control. We close unconstitutional federal intrusion in local education.


31 posted on 02/01/2017 12:16:16 PM PST by WENDLE (We need to move forward on our 100 new federal judges ASAP .)
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To: WENDLE

Collins and Murkowski??? Spit. Might as well have walked with your comrades in Washington recently; pussy hats in hand.


32 posted on 02/01/2017 12:18:00 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Java4Jay

Sean Spicer in his press briefing states that he is 100% certain she will be confirmed.

Looks like they are gonna delay Sessions vote and schedule hers first so he can vote and Pence break the tie.


33 posted on 02/01/2017 12:19:38 PM PST by hotsteppa
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To: WENDLE
They are attacking to ONLY WOMAN on the cabinet.

What are Elaine Chao, Linda McMahon and Nikki Haley? Chopped liver?

34 posted on 02/01/2017 12:19:40 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Carl Vehse

You know what they call Alaska and Maine? Uppa US


35 posted on 02/01/2017 12:19:40 PM PST by BRL
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To: BRL

Who is up for a Vote first Sessions or DeVos?


36 posted on 02/01/2017 12:23:34 PM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: Timpanagos1

Perhaps the Trump liaison to the Senate neglected to allow Collins and Murkowski to see their newly created “intelligence community dossiers”.


37 posted on 02/01/2017 12:24:35 PM PST by TheConservativeBanker
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To: SENTINEL

Alaska has a corrupt liberal Republican party just like the state of Tennessee and Mississippi. They behind the scenes undermine conservatives and will go public if they have to in order to stop conservatism. The Republican party corruption just isn’t confined to Washington DC.


38 posted on 02/01/2017 12:25:18 PM PST by sarge83
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To: Java4Jay

With Trump having controlled half of the vote in Maine,may be this vote will help to finally begin the close of Collins’ worthless career.


39 posted on 02/01/2017 12:26:49 PM PST by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Perhaps the Trump liaison to the Senate neglected to allow Collins and Murkowski to see their newly created “intelligence community dossiers”.


40 posted on 02/01/2017 12:28:05 PM PST by TheConservativeBanker
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