Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, stopped by a Daily Caller reporter in the halls and asked about the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees, said she is not going to commit to any of them at this point and that the confirmation hearings were just getting started. It’s “premature,” she said, although in a hearing for Energy secretary nominee this week, she seemed to be enthusiastic about Chris Wright.
“I love the fact that you’re a self-described energy geek,” she said to Wright during his Energy Committee hearing.
Murkowski said she being deliberative and is now doing what she does best: “Which is learning a lot.”
In 2021, Murkowski voted in favor of 19 of President Joe Biden’s nominees out of the first 21 confirmations that came before the Senate by March of that year.
For example, she was the only Republican senator to vote for Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general.
Opposing Gupta were senators like Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who said at the time that Gupta was a liar: “Ms. Gupta has been misleading and deceptive in many of her answers to our questions on many important issues like qualified immunity, the death penalty, things like defund the police, but in the case of legalization of drugs, including drugs like heroin, she’s frankly lied to each of you and the whole Committee.”
Gupta, a hard leftist ideologue, lasted from 2021 until February of 2024 in the Biden Administration.
Murkowski also confirmed the Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, who has spent the past four years pushing gender mutilation of children as a government policy.
Lisa needs to bend the knee like Susan Collins has or face being primaried.
I would believe that bridge has been crossed! Too, I believe she has read the room and can see the end of the tunnel and it has a Senatorial ‘train defeat’ coming at She/Her/Me.
The only thing Murkowski is trying to learn is how she can help the left. Like so many RINO’s her vote is far too often influenced by whether or not Trump wants it. I hate that she’s forgotten that her job is to do what’s best for ALL Alaskans versus what’s best for the people who “make sure” she gets reelected.
What is missing is how the opinions of Senator Murkowski’s constituent’s, who she represents, opinions factor into her decision making. It would be good to know.
As we all know… they don’t really factor in much, if at all.
FLM she is an embarrassment to Alaska and Alaskans.
Let’s hope we can vote her out and keep her out.
Voters need to wake up and see what she’s really doing to us and how much it’s costing you as a US tax payer for her policies.
Didn’t have to learn so much about Biden’s appointees. Weird…
Of course she won’t. She needs the DNC to tell her why to object.
Princess must be deeply in love with Trump to hate him this much.
She didn’t learn shit about Biden’s nominees, yet she happily voted for them. She is a democrat pretending to represent Alaska. She represents the Washington DC sewer and herself.
Lisa learned if she did as the Democrats instructed, financial gains could be had. She got millions from her Uncle Joe, where all that money went is a good guess. We know the big guy gets 10%.
She probably won’t even vote WE NEED HER GONE
We all wonder, what’s it take to learn? 🤔
IMO …
She’s the top “R” that deserves to be made an example of.
Maybe she wants a Presidential pardon first.
Can’t believe I used to vote for her.
“Still learning” is Lisa speak for waiting to see if her vote will be pivotal and if so, what she can get in exchange?
Having no solid philosophical beliefs makes her vote especially useful when close votes come up.
Uncle Ted was a master at leveraging his vote. The difference is that Ted leveraged his vote for the benefit of Alaska or the Nation. Lisa’s isn’t quite so committed to either.
She committed to being a detriment to Alaska and the nation, just like her Democrat bosses
I’m confused. Can’t Lisa be forced out of the Republican party so she can re-brand as the Democrat she truly is?