Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins broke with Republicans and voted with Democrats against the confirmation of Kash Patel to head up the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
However, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted in favor of Patel, who passed confirmation on a vote of 51-49 in the Senate.
Murkowski had not indicated how she would vote, and so her decision came somewhat as a surprise. To date, Murkowski has only voted against two of President Trump’s nominees: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Patel.
She wrote on X: “I will oppose Kash Patel’s confirmation to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s mission is “to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.” Mr. Patel and I agree the bureau has crept past that mission, become an increasingly political agency, and eroded the public’s trust. We have had multiple frank and open discussions about how best to restore that trust. I agree with Mr. Patel that it begins by getting agents out in the field, doing what they signed up to do, rather than sitting behind an administrative desk. My reservations with Mr. Patel stem from his own prior political activities and how they may influence his leadership. The FBI must be trusted as the federal agency that roots out crime and corruption, not focused on settling political scores. I have been disappointed that when he had the opportunity to push back on the administration’s decision to force the FBI to provide a list of agents involved in the January 6 investigations and prosecutions, he failed to do so. If confirmed, I wish a successful tenure at the helm of this agency, and will endeavor to work with him to help address issues in Alaska, improve Tribal law enforcement across the country, and make needed changes within the FBI. I truly hope that he proves me wrong about the reservations I have of him today.”
Lisa cannot “break” with Republicans, because she isn’t one, no matter how she registers herself.
Trump was elected with a mandate, and moved every single state towards the Right, and Lisa continues to be vociferously anti Trump. Lisa fights not only against Trump, but against the voters of this country.
She is NOT a Republican….
Exactly.
She’s probably worried about what he will find. Read Kash’s book “Government Gangsters” and you will understand why anyone who is corrupt needs to worry.
Murkowski always gives reasons for her stupid voting record. She voted for many unqualified mentally unstable O’Biden regime nominations. She does what she does out of pure hate, that would make her a great democrat.
Correct. EVERYTHING murky Lisa does is wrong, backwards, and upside down.
She is truly an embarrassment.
We told Lisa over and over that voting against Kash Patel would only prove that she supports the corrupt Deep State. Nancy and I now fear an FBI early morning raid at our home. Lisa has just completed the ultimate act of betrayal …….on her own parents. Now we have to leave Wrangell.
Frankie,
I can’t find our ferry schedule. Did you put it out in the garage with all of the other classified documents you’ve been hiding?
Just maybe, when she realizes she’s done damage to you and and the family, maybe she’ll wise up and start realizing all her mistakes.
KASH IS IN! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Why does Lisa hate Real Men?
Mr. Puk,
Please don’t bring this up at MRAK. I’m doing everything I can to save my own reputation. I couldn’t even run my noodle stand without Lisa butting in.
Glad somebody else has noticed that too. Perhaps she is a misandrist at heart.
Maybe she is one…..
I think you’re onto something here. She seems to stand on the side of all the woke issues. And she definitely cannot stand beside a strong man.
Pathetic. But this one thing matters not, for me. I resolved long ago that she will never again have my vote. And I still maintain that she should resign forthwith, so that Alaska will have two effective U.S. senators.
Murkowski lost my support and respect when she wouldn’t accept the results of the primary in 2010.
Nothing more than a condescending pile of biden malarkey…
Amen!
That’s where she earned the nickname “Lyin’ Lisa”.
She promised to support the winner of the primary…..until it wasn’t her.
Then the courts helped her run a fraudulent write-in campaign.
I will return the favor – – I will vote no on Murkowski.
Odd, I can’t figure her vote. She voted with the democrats on many of bidens radical picks. She should at a minimum switch party affiliations to the democrat party, a small step of honesty and integrity. Since apparently she has none, I won’t be holding my breath.
Time to remember how she voted for hegseth and Patel come election time!
Her departure from the political realm cannot come too soon. She needs to join the rest of the “Independent” legislators who all caucus with the DemocRATS. But she won’t; too many voters stick with party line and if they see an R or a D they vote their flavor.
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Bought and paid for, or blackmailed…Surely her sudden swing to the left (right after Feinstein corralled her against the wall in the now iconic photo during the Kavanaugh hearing, where Feinstein looked angry and Murky looked fearful), was due to one or the other. I hope that her abandonment of the Republican party (also her dark money funded push to inflict Ranked Choice Voting on us Alaskans) will be investigated, given its broad scope.
This really doesn’t matter anymore what Lisa thinks. The three extra Republican votes mutes her, Collins and Mitch. The Senate election was as big a deal as the Trump election in November. We really needed these three extra votes since there is three DIRP (Democrats in Republican Party).
Murkowski doesn’t care about the voters or what they want; she votes for herself about herself. Very hopeful she disappears from the ranks of conservative republican candidates at any level. If there’s any dirt on her I hope they find it and prosecute her to the full extent of the law.
Based on her continuing support for many elements of the Deep State, I have to wonder whether Ms. Murkowski fears getting caught up in some revelations and disclosures. The USAID implosion reveals the stunning misuse of appropriations by operatives pushing their own agendas and the worst kind of political corruption. Billions have likely circulated through NGOs to Leftists and Leftist causes. Is Lisa worried about that?
Me thinks that Ms. Murkowski may have a different definition of “success”.
What an embarrassment she is to Alaskans!!!!! Many of my friends and relatives who are not residents of Alaska question me about the RINO!!!! I have never voted for her and will never vote for her. Elmer Fudd will get my vote before she does!!
Despite RINO Murkowski’s hate for the most outstanding President we have ever had, Kash Patel is in. I have never voted for her, starting with her loss to Joe Miller in the 2010 primary. Alaskans have consistently voted for President Trump in his two elections to represent Alaskans. The least we should accept is a Conservative Republican Senator to support our Conservative President. It’s long past time to retire her from the Senate. P.S. Thank God for Nick Begich. I’m sure Don Young would approve of Representative Begich!
I am quite confused by her rhetoric “ to protect the people and uphold the constitution”…. The most important question is who is she protecting?
Very disappointing that congressmen and women cannot represent their constituents and represent their own interests.
Her only value is that she sits on OUR side of the Senate, which is huge. If Schumer was in charge of the Senate things would be very difficult for Trump to achieve. She is weary from being politically Bi Polar. She is a Democrats trapped in a very Moderate Republican Body. We need to be careful that our anger for her doesn’t cause her to FLIP OUR SEAT. Yes, she can do that to us for the next 4 years. If all she gets is Vitriol from us, then it would be easy for her lash out at us and switch over to the Democrats, where she will be loved and adored.
So Lisa must be primaried. Will the Alaska GOP finally do the right thing and help up remove this RINO or will they cave and pretend she cares about Alaska. She only seems interest in assuring that brown folks can abort their offspring. Of course she also has become very Rich some how. She has an estimated net worth of $1,499,011 in 2018. Current estimation is $2.9 Million. So she can retire to Florida with daddy that gave her the seat to start with!
She looks like a man, that is for sure! A slimy democrat male (XY chromosomes for you left-wing nuts!)
Murkowski was voting her values…her left leaning values. She should move to California or New York where she’d better fit with the majority of voters. Or just stay in the Swamp. I’m sure she feels welcome and comfortable there.
Sen. Mitch McConnell Is a true Statesman; Drill Baby Drill,l and let’s make Alaska and America great again!
Praise the Lord that there are enough Senate republicans to neutralize Murkowski and Collins.
S
Perhaps the FBI under Kash Patel will investigate Voter Fraud in Alaska? Perhaps they would find evidence of Voter Fraud in Alaska’s Voting System and maybe it would even involve some of Alaska’s politicians?
She helped me but has become a different person. Time to move on and term and age limits
Lisa is a loser. I wonder why she is so afraid of cash Patel??? Hopefully we are about to find out. Let the games begin.