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Home Front: Politix
GOP senator ‘disturbed’ by McConnell’s impeachment stance
2019-12-26
[NYPOST] GOP Sen. Cocaine Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski
... representing K Street ...
said in a new interview that she was "disturbed" over Mitch McConnell’s comment that he would work in "total coordination" with the White House during the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate.

"And in fairness, when I heard that I was disturbed," Murkowski told KTUU, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage in her home state of Alaska.

"To me it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense, and so I heard what leader McConnell had said, I happened to think that that has further confused the process," she said during the interview, which aired Tuesday.

Democrats have slammed the Senate majority leader, calling on him to allow witnesses and asserting that his pro-President Trump stance won’t result in a fair trial.

Murkowski is one of only a handful of moderate Republican senators who might break from the party’s strong support of the president, though Trump was expected to survive his impeachment by the House, as two-thirds of the GOP-led upper chamber would have to agree to give him the boot.

Unlike pro-Trump colleagues, such as McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
who said they were ready to vote and don’t need to hear any witnesses, Murkowski said she would not "prejudge" the case against the president.

"For me to prejudge and say there’s nothing there, or on the other hand, ’he should be impeached yesterday,’ that’s wrong. In my view, that’s wrong," she said.
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Lisa Murkowski: 2018-10-11 FBI Chief Says Kavanaugh Check Was ‘Limited' but Met Standards
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Mitch McConnell: 2019-12-24 Somber MSNBC Panel Hits Panic Button Over the McConnell-Trump Judicial Confirmation Record
Mitch McConnell: 2019-12-22 How Trump Won 2019
Mitch McConnell: 2019-12-19 Pelosi hints at postponing the sending of articles of impeachment to the Senate.
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Lindsey Graham: 2019-12-15 'Tell us what you found': Lindsey Graham invites Giuliani to testify about Ukraine trip in Senate
Posted by:Fred

#13   Sorry for the dupe entry.

It’s been known to happen.... once or twice a week. We don’t always catch them before someone comments, and then afterward it’s about the conversation.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-12-26 22:23  

#12  Opportunist looking for being the powerful swing vote ’ho star (Pelosi Lite). As an Alaskan I find it disgusting.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-12-26 18:21  

#11  Oop ! Saw this just now. Sorry for the dupe entry.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-26 13:41  

#10  The old joke:

Eskimo Inuit mechanic: "Looks like you blew a seal..."

Eskimo Inuit snow machine owner: "Let's leave my personal life out of it..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-26 11:26  

#9  The Snow Blower feels an affinity for Hoover
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-26 10:53  

#8  NeverhumpHer.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-26 10:30  

#7  In trials in the real world, jurors can be voire dired out of the jury for bias and other reasons.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-12-26 10:30  

#6  Murkowski seems to be disturbed by everything Trump. Nevertrumper?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-12-26 10:26  

#5  luggage that looked like a floor covering textile

B, that's up there with when I refer to "that Russian game with one pea in the wheel."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-26 09:41  

#4  and probably the appointee from Georgia as identifiable limp noodles in the GOP senate column.

Yes, that wealthy young lady from Normal with the luggage that looked like a floor covering textile.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-12-26 09:28  

#3  Since McCain and Flake left, we have Droopy, Murky, Sasse, Mittens and probably the appointee from Georgia as identifiable limp noodles in the GOP senate column.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-26 09:25  

#2  Murkowski, DELIRIOUS TW?T? IMO
Posted by: ranture   2019-12-26 05:49  

#1  As disturbed as she'll be when primaried?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-26 02:17  

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