Murkowski lauds Energy and Interior nominees, stays tight-lipped on Hegseth for Defense

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski took to X/Twitter to let the public know she had a favorable discussion with Interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum and Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright.

She said she has “Great conversations” with the two “about the future of energy, resource development, and innovation in Alaska and around the country. Both have spent considerable time in Alaska and will be great partners who recognize energy as a good thing and a national asset.”

But for the second day, she made no comment about her Tuesday meeting with Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, who visited her to earn her support when his confirmation vote comes before the Senate. Murkowski has a pattern of believing unfounded accusations against men, as she did when she refused to vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She and Sen Susan Collins of Maine are Trump opponents and may be the key votes to sink Hegseth’s nomination.

Although she briefly told reporters she had a good exchange with Hegseth, Murkowski didn’t put anything down in writing about it, and refused to answer their questions about whether she will vote for him to lead the Defense Department.

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  1. Well, it’s basically and simply a package deal … you support ‘all’ of the nominees and reap the rewards. If not, then you run the risk of less rewards. It’s time for Lisa to compartmentalize her emotions and start acting in the best interest of Alaska and Alaskans!!!

  2. Whatever her opinion is, she will do as she is told.
    What a Feckless Representative we have here….totally negates anything that Sullivan will go for.

  3. This is Lisa’s political head-fake to make everyone think she’s being reasonable. She’s not. There’s zero chance that she will approve Hegseth. Too Trumpian. And once the lies about sexual impropriety and truth about (scandal!) a tattoo came to light, it was all over for Lisa. Question comes down to how many (D)ems voted against any of Biden’s cabinet picks? Zero. Lisa will vote against Hegseth. I’ve been listening to her establishment buddies bitch, moan and white about Hegseth within 5 minutes of the announcement. Lisa has become the Liz Cheney from Alaska. She needs to be Liz Cheneyed…

  4. Suzanne, can you please put a different picture of Lisa up? I’m so tired of seeing that picture.
    Can’t wait to put her name up instead of that ugly picture?
    We sure need to get rid of her, but I am so tired of looking at her picture every time she’s on the news.

  5. Senator Murkowski is on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committees so it is appropriate to comment on nominess before hearings. She is not on the Defense Committeee, so it is not surprising she would not comment on a nominee that may not make it out of committeee hearings. Senator Murkowski is not a sh-t stirrer and is noted for following Senate protocol.

    • Frank says: “Senator Murkowski is not a sh-t stirrer and is noted for following Senate protocol.”

      Tell that to Judge Kavanaugh and Donald Trump. I think you are more than normally confused. Cheers –

    • If she deviates from the incoming administration, alaska will pay, and she will be primarried. It will suck for alaska in the wait, yet her removal will be worth the wait. GOP I’d not the uniparty, chamber of commerce, Globalist, RINOs anymore.

  6. Simply evidenced by her voting record, Murkowski is the callused tool of Pelosi, as was Peltola. Her body language dictates a moral decay, combative to the citizens of Alaska. She clings still to the ‘woke’ fumes.

  7. The Constitution has a provision to impeach Senators for treason bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. It has never been done for a senator. However, there doesn’t seem to be a problem to impeach a certain president twice. Once even when that president was out of office. No one would think Senator Murkowski is worth the time or effort to impeach.

    Basically, Senator Murkowski is not particularly bright (bar exam, 3 times?). She is steeped in self righteousness and totally driven by TDS in pathological proportions. She uses the ‘Republican brand’ when it’s useful but will support the democrat for Congress for Alaska. Senator Murkowski claims to be a Reagan Republican. She fails to realize that the political landscape has entirely changed since then. America as we know it is fading away. She is seemingly incapable of understanding the ‘realpolitik’ of situations. The needs of Alaska are secondary to her ‘needs’.

  8. Unless you vote 100% with Trump, you are a traitor to most in this comment group. What they want is one party/person rule like in North Korea and call it “conservatism.”

    Do nothing that might upset the Dear Leader.

      • Weird even the blue dog dems voted trump. He united the people with common sense. You are lost in what a grass root movement is under way. MAGA is united people of common sense, which you lack.

    • Oh, Lord, cman, you project your own base belief system, that unless you vote 100% with Biden, you are a traitor to most in this comment group.

      Supporters of Trump come from a vast myriad of belief systems, from conservatives to libertarians to blue dog democrats to original LGB warriors to every religious group to every individualist supporting group known to humankind.

      You, upon the other hand, belong unto a very specific group of cultists that believe within a singular theology of ideology that cannot be separated from reality, which is thus.

      Your rigid, and unforgiving theology, cannot allow a single differentiating thought or presentation that differs from your own core belief.

      You attack every individual that you believe that should belong within your ‘convent’ that has dared to stray from your reservation.

      Any individual that happens to occupy a space as a minority that exhibits an individual thought process is suddenly considered a ‘turncoat’ or ‘traitor’ unto the ‘Cause’….

      Well, cman, what is the ‘Cause’?

      From where I sit, your ‘Cause’ is EXACTLY like North Korea. Envelope YOUR belief system, with NO exceptions, or be castigated as an enemy of the hive.

      Keep your hive, cman. It will certainly fail once it is shown for what it is, and it collapses from within.

  9. Remember that she thought Harland was a good enough pick to vote for. That was such a fine judgement for Alaska!!!

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