US Sen. Lisa Murkowski is once again carving out a solitary path in Washington, this time over the sudden firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez. While most Republican leaders are echoing the White House’s call for “radical transparency” at the troubled agency, Murkowski instead suggested the ouster was proof that “politics are taking precedence over policy.”
“The firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez just a month after her confirmation, along with the departure of other high-level disease experts the day after her termination, raises considerable questions about what is happening within the agency,” Murkowski said. “Americans must be able to fully trust that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rigorously adheres to science-based and data-driven principles when issuing policy directives.”
But Murkowski’s analysis pointedly ignored the rationale provided by both the White House and Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican and medical doctor who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Cassidy, a physician and the first to lead HELP, has embraced the administration’s pledge to overhaul the CDC with accountability and transparency.
“The President and Secretary are right. We need radical transparency. We need to protect the health of our children. The two go together,” Cassidy said this week. “I am committed to the President’s vision, which is why the HELP Committee will conduct oversight.”
The president’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated the same message: “The President and Secretary Kennedy are committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the CDC … We’re going to make sure that folks that are in positions of leadership there are aligned with that mission.”
Murkowski interpreted it her own way. She struck a discordant tone, suggesting political interference but offering no specific evidence. While aligning herself with Cassidy’s call for oversight, she stopped short of embracing either the White House’s stated mission or Cassidy’s endorsement of it.
Her remarks underscore a familiar pattern: Murkowski frequently distances herself from both her party and the Trump Administration, always seeing the worst in all-things-Trump, often to the frustration of colleagues who see her equivocation as muddying the message at a time when Republicans are seeking clarity and strength on public health reform.
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Maybe(?) // Most Likely(?), Lisa doesn’t subscribe to the basics:
… Transparency
… Accountability
… Trust in Institutions – Agencies – Non.Elected Officials
… Healthy Society, including Children
It’s a shame our senior Senator is heavily infected with TDS.
I’m not sure what her future holds but, given her ‘poor’ performance, I’m hoping that Alaskans send her packing and heading for retirement … SOON!!!
dan sullivan is no different than lisa. They both lie so bad, we can never trust them. If it werent for killing babies, lisa wouldnt be in politics. She has no other ability.
Princess Pork just can’t work and play well with others.
Unless they are Democrats
Your Senator is an absolute idiot. I cannot classify it any differently.
Kenneth, truer words are rarely recorded on Must Read Alaska.
Lisa is either an Idiot or else she believes her fellow Alaskans are idiots.
Or both!
Kenneth, idiocy only explains one of the four legs of the squalid and rotten throne from which Princess Lisa reigns. The other three legs consist of:
1) Self-serving corruption,
2) A kneejerk pro-power-establishment (read: pro-radical leftist, pro-globalist) position,
3) Evil.
One cannot fully comprehend the statements, actions and voting record of the vile and loathsome Princess Lisa without taking into account all four aspects of her character.
Lisa is not a idiot. She knows exactly what she is doing. She has a lot of money behind her. She has to do what the Bush community and the moderate liberal democrats want. She knows as long as rank voting is out there, she cannot lose because she can win on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th round as all the D votes come to her. That is why the D’s put out candidates that can’t win.
“Americans must be able to fully trust that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rigorously adheres to science-based and data-driven principles when issuing policy directives.” Murkowski is right about that, for sure, but who could trust an agency that was so completely wrong about COVID? Trust the science? The science that gave us the 6 foot separation rule and the paper mask mandate? The science that led to the majority of Americans getting the mRNA death jab, a “vaccine” that was virtually untested for human use but a failure in every animal trial? The science that Big Pharma tried to lock away for 75 years so that we’d never know the truth? The science that kept morphing going from “the jab will protect you from COVID” to, eventually, “well, at least you won’t die alone in a hospital bed hooked up to a ventilator and shot full of Remdesivir.” And even that turned out to be a lie. If ANYONE has ANY trust left in Big Pharma, industrialized medicine, or these government agencies then they’re probably dumb enough to believe the BS next time also.
As my dear mother would say: Dumb as a shovel!
Murkowski hangs out with like crooks. She will always be on the side of illegal and corrupt politicians.
I Agree with Murkowski! It should be Policy over Politics!!
And the policy is if your not doing your job your fired
If her pious pronouncement was motivated by actual ethics, instead of TDS, I might agree with you Teri. If Murky was capable of understanding what what the President and the Secretary were doing, she would understand that she was actually agreeing with Trump. Policy is what we voted for when we voted for D.J.Trump.
And you definitely didn’t vote for science, that’s for sure.
cmam, you obviously do not understand the first thing about actual science.
But what science is NOT, first and foremost, is blind obedience to, and acceptance of, authority (particularly self-serving and sociopathically corrupt authority).
Your every pro-Covidian bleating is both laughable and contemptible.
And you did not vote for honesty and integrity
Not for fake science, disguised as what Democrats call. ……science. Democrats use brainwashing as a tool for teaching science. It works better, because independent thinking, common sense, and true logic produce the kind of science Democrats don’t believe in. And now, TDS is wiping out ANY semblance of rationality. Donald Trump is the real deal.
Commie man… yes we did vote for science, real science, not the political science of tyranny and totalitarianism as practiced by big pharma’s puppets at the FDA and CDC.
We did not vote for the ” science” of ” loud yelling at I large groups of protesters is just fine, and to be encouraged,but everyone else must be masked,, locked down, and 6 feet apart” , based on no evidence whatsoever. That’s not science at all, but catering to leftwing political groups
Consensus isn’t science.
Just ask CEO of NPR who said “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done” (I always wondered what exactly she is trying to get done…)
The CDC operated like a game of Marco Polo in a dark room regarding Covid. Their response seemed to be a mix of fear, politics and cluelessness. Then Murkowski is driven first by her illogical hatred of the president. A massive lack of common sense all around and we are supposed to trust any of them?
Of course she’s distancing herself from the White House.
It is way past time for her to be relegated to obscurity.
“Americans must be able to fully trust that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rigorously adheres to science-based and data-driven principles when issuing policy directives.”
Sorry Princess, that ship has sailed.
Lisa’s book has set a record for sales. 1100 books sold in two weeks. The worst debute’ ever for a seated US Senator.
In case the Princess has poor vision, along with her dislike of President Trump, she may wish to review her comments on at least one of those four CDC folks that resigned. Here is her opportunity to review.
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Cheers- AmJ
Amazingly, Deskalakis is an M.D. Numerous internet pictures also reveal him to be a homosexual Satanist who identifies as a “furry” (animal). He was a one man freak show. And this man was overpaid with our taxpayer dollars, as a top official at the CDC, to dispense advice about mental health.
Good riddance. I am glad that he “self deported” out of the CDC. Small wonder we have no trust or respect for that corrupted agency.
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One thing you have to almost admit is that Murkowski knows where the thin ice is. Too bad it’s in the middle of the river this time. I hope.
Wow, that picture shows a classic case of vaccine injury!
And the Cow just keeps on mooing into the wind.
Nothing shocking here. Lisa is bought and paid for. Lose confidence in the CDC? That happened long ago.
Maybe because she believes that science is actually a real thing? I can see why that would cause many on here to rend their garments.
Again, you know nothing, NOTHING about science. You only know how to abjectly bow before the sociopathic power establishment, and parrot its innumerable lies and propaganda bits.
I had an almost 30 year career as a wildlife biologist up here so yeah, I think I have more than a passing knowledge of how science and the scientific method works.
And yet you show precisely zero evidence of your claims regarding yourself in virtually every comment you have made here on MRAK regarding the tyrannical and anti-scientific Covidian control agenda and fiasco.
CMan,
Your definition of science is to tow the Democrat Party line by agreeing to a false conclusion, then buttressing with doctored and manipulated facts (supposedly taken at neutral locations ..lol …) then presenting a theory that comports with the politically expedient conclusion that you bought into before you even tested the data. This is the strategy Democrats use to gain a foothold at the government feeding trough. Wildlife biologists are some of the worst offenders. Since you have announced yourself as an old fart, your global climate change theorems weren’t at the forefront of testing 30+ years ago. Today, it’s all about climate change at the universities. Most of your type are locked into Democrat politics. Little surprise here, as your postings reveal your compromised nature. I read a lot, hunt, trap, fish and commune with nature…….for over 50 years in Alaska. But I don’t buy into the Democrat’s BS.
Your entire retort was pure gibberish. It’s like English isn’t your first language. Wildlife biologists are some of the worst offenders? Was does that even mean?!
Sam,
That’s a classic putting the cart before the horse definition of Democrat logic. That’s how young minds approach science at the university level today. Not their fault that they are being brainwashed. Check Cman’s logic for proof. They’re all a bunch of backwards facing idiots.
Who was your employer? What was your official title, role and assigned duty station?
I am dubious.
Over the course of my career I worked for private biological consulting firms, also ADF&G, the FWS and BLM.
Cman is just a big bag of wind. Wildlife biologists blame the endangerment of species on man-made climate change, which is barf-bag reasoning. Any fool can make a 30-year career by tracking squirrels or putting thermometers into the rectums of hibernating bears. This clown is drawing a pension for utter goofiness and a waste of taxpayers money. Nothing to be proud of, hence Cman’s intense defensive rants. Moving on……
so commieman, can men have babies? What is a woman?
I mean you are an expert in biology, perhaps you can enlighten us all!
BTW, RFK jr is representing people, harmed by the Drug Lords of pharma and their disciples who bleat “science”.
You really should bone up on what has been taking place the last 40 or so years, culminating in a research thing called gain of function.
I am dubious of cman’s claims here, and of anything he/she/zeh/quiggle has to say in general.
It is the nature of radical leftist extremists to cheat and to lie, always in pursuit of their total control agenda. They are sociopaths, pure and simple, and cannot be trusted under any circumstances.
Ah, and now the cat is out of the bag!
Thank you, Rick Sinnott, for unveiling your true identity here. I should have known from the arrogance, the kneejerk pro-establishment opinions, the radical leftism, and the specious claims to a scientific background, that you were Rick Sinnott from the start.
Cman the moose poop inspector.
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I’m not Rick but I worked with him on occasion. A very nice man. I could care less whether you believe me or not. As I’ve consistently stated on here, you seem like a very angry and malicious human being. I don’t owe you any justification on anything. You seem very entitled. Not once have I ever read one positive post by you on here. All you have is vitriol. You must be a very unhappy person.
I am very unhappy when confronted by arrogance, dishonesty and disingenuous lies, as well as the kneejerk parroting of pro-establishment propaganda. All of which you have consistently provided us, in spades.
If you sense unhappiness from me, YOU (and those like you) are the cause of it.
Lisa knows less about science than she does about Alaska
She a grifting hack
RINO activism strikes again. It’s amazing how consistent her position is. She is voting against the Republican position, about 95% of the time. She sure doesn’t disappoint. Yay Democrat policy and position. She’s your girl! Just remember a RINO has got to get paid!
Can we just go back to the PMS version? This menopausal crank doesn’t make any sense and isn’t happy unless she’s in the middle of controversy. She had no idea who the fired functionary was until that firing offered Murkowski the chance to once again place herself at the center of everyone’s discontent.
Just because you’re fomenting controversy doesn’t mean you’re actually working. Political theater and political accomplishment are different.
Ask Lisa how she got her job.
On occasion, even I have to remind her, Jim. She couldn’t pass the bar exam for years. She had nothing else going forward in her life, so I had to rescue her. Made her a US Senator……instantly.
So I gave her the top job, only because I could.
Without me, she would be cleaning living quarters at Prudhoe Bay like she did in 1984.
And why did Princess oppose the bill requiring release of the Epstein files?? It failed in the Senate51-49!! I d say she’s hiding something like that her hate object Trump isn’t in it, and if released,it would be there as a talking point