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Murkowski NOT stripped of committee leadership position
CNN ^

Posted on 09/22/2010 12:07:35 PM PDT by roses of sharon

Washington (CNN) - In a surprise move, Senate Republicans decided not to remove Sen. Lisa Murkowski from her top position on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Wednesday, according to several Republican senators who refused to explain their decision.

Republicans had indicated as recently as Tuesday she was likely to lose her seniority on the committee as penalty for her write-in candidacy in Alaska.

A GOP source in the room tells CNN, despite anger towards Murkowski, the conference decided not to even take up the question of the Senate Energy Committee post because "there was a sense that she's resigned her leadership post, she lost her primary, she will probably lose her race, and she'll be gone. She will not be ranking [Republican] because she will not be here."

This, despite strong words from colleagues like Sen. John Cornyn a day earlier, who was among many Republicans who predicted they would remove her from the committee post.

Sen. Murkowski resigned her position as vice chair of the GOP Conference Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: murkowski; murkowsky; rinopurge; rinos; rinowar; rinowars; vichyrepublicans
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To: Lauren BaRecall

Him, Boehner and Steele - all three losers.

I hope enough tea party candidates are elected to remove these cretins.


41 posted on 09/22/2010 12:43:48 PM PDT by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization)
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To: roses of sharon

Moocowski’s name should always be misspelled.


42 posted on 09/22/2010 12:44:43 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: roses of sharon

If they don’t fix this fiasco quickly, I they all should be thrown out of the leadership.

What the hell good is a “leadership” that refuses to lead.

And leading means that you punish traitors to the party.

What? They’re just being polite to a fellow senator? Well, you aren’t polite to traitors. And she sure as hell hasn’t been polite to the party that gave her all that power and pork for so many years.


43 posted on 09/22/2010 12:45:52 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: NeilGus

You have a good point Neil....other news orgs have been reporting also, with no denials, so far.


44 posted on 09/22/2010 12:48:50 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: roses of sharon
You are missing the point. Somebody said, Do you want to strip Murkowski. And everyone else answered OH HELL NO.
45 posted on 09/22/2010 12:49:35 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Can’t imagine that she filmed any of them in the bedroom. It’s just that they lack the stomach for principled action on anything.

Now it could be that since the State of Alaska was cleaned up, that the graft has moved to the feds with Murkowski the contact to the oil companies, an indispensable player in the chain of oil company donations to the Republicans. That would explain why they were so anxious to get up there and bend the results of the election in her direction. Just a guess.


46 posted on 09/22/2010 12:50:00 PM PDT by excopconservative
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To: cranked

These folks have been so used to hanging out with Hillary and her emasculated brethren that they are now too interested in keeping up with the
Jones when it comes to hoarding power,
which requires no caJones.


47 posted on 09/22/2010 12:51:00 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: roses of sharon

Remember this come 2012 and 2014, the RINO hunting has only begun. Grahamnesty has to go. Sad fact is that we have to wait until 2014.


48 posted on 09/22/2010 12:51:14 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (If I weren't afraid of the feds, I would refer to Obama as our "undocumented POTUS")
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To: roses of sharon

FUGOP


49 posted on 09/22/2010 12:52:59 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: ZULU

Yep, the power of the ballot and contributions.

They STILL don’t get it, though.


50 posted on 09/22/2010 12:53:30 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Paladino is a rock star!)
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To: rfp1234

So we can’t count on Murskowski for the 41st vote, but we were supposed to count on Castle for the 51st?


51 posted on 09/22/2010 12:55:42 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: GonzoGOP
Somebody said, Do you want to strip Murkowski. And everyone else answered OH HELL NO.

Thanks. That makes sense. I had thought our party leaders had gone wobbly on us again or something silly like that.

52 posted on 09/22/2010 12:56:22 PM PDT by McGruff (Rebellion is Brewing! Just Vote the Bums Out!)
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To: Retired Greyhound
Yea, me too!

Mike

53 posted on 09/22/2010 12:58:55 PM PDT by MichaelP (Democrats are the party of Special Re-education)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw; All

Per my conversation with Reptile Senatorial Camp cmte. staffer

Loser Lisa has been removed from the committees she was on and is not w/ the Reptile senate campaign committee as of 2:48 CST today.

I did ask them to update CNN while they were at it.

I would guess from the failed DADT and DREAM ammendment fail she may still be cacusing w/ the reptiles but she’s not on their committees

woerm


54 posted on 09/22/2010 12:59:04 PM PDT by woerm (student of history)
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To: roses of sharon
This is pretty significant evidence for Codevilla's case that the defacto "two-party system" in the US is a fraud. Instead, in practice, establishment Democrats and Republicans comprise a single party that represents the Ruling Class, and they take care of their own. When the goobers in the Country Class misbehave by nominating one of their own, mainstream Republicans can't help but display their contempt. If the Republican Party truly shared the interests of the Country Class, Mookowski would be expelled from its caucus and, in the unlikely case that Moocowski were to win, the Republicans should refuse to re-admit her to their caucus. (See also thier shabby treatment of O'Donnell.)
55 posted on 09/22/2010 1:01:28 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: roses of sharon
seriously... LEAVE HER ALONE until she is gone, otherwise the witch just might start voting with the dems for DADT and who knows what else out of spite.
56 posted on 09/22/2010 1:01:42 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Skepolitic

Did you hear him on the radio yesterday? He was wonderful, I had never heard him before.

I don’t usually purchase political books, but this one I certainly will.

It felt so good to hear someone voice what we are all thinking!


57 posted on 09/22/2010 1:06:02 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: Skepolitic

Musogsky...McClowsky...Mwokursky....


58 posted on 09/22/2010 1:07:00 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Cicero

(from the WSJ moments ago)

In a rare triumph for Senate traditionalists in this anti-establishment year, Republicans Wednesday decided not to punish Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) by stripping her of a powerful committee post.

Senate Republicans, angered by Murkowski’s decision to run for re-election as a write-in candidate after losing the Republican primary, met behind closed doors to consider demoting her from her post as top Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, a prized perch for her resource-rich state.

But with the committee unlikely to conduct any further business this year and the act seen as largely symbolic, Republicans decided not to add insult to her injury at the hands of Joe Miller, the tea party-backed candidate who beat her in the primary.

“We all respect the system, and she still is a Republican senator,’’ said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah.) after the closed party caucus. “It’s just a matter of good taste. We decided to keep the status quo as long as she’s a senator.’’


59 posted on 09/22/2010 1:12:28 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: roses of sharon
Murkowski to Senate Leadership = Verruca Salt to her Father
Murkowski: I wanted to be the first to find a Golden Ticket, Daddy!
Senate Leadership: I know, angel. We're doing the best we can. I've got every volunteer in the Capitol and in Alaska hunting for you.
Murkowski: All right, where is it? Why haven't they found it?
Senate Leadership: Lisa, sweetheart, I'm not a magician! Give me time!
Murkowski: I want it now! What's the matter with those twerps in the Republican Party?
Senate Leadership: For five days now, the entire flipping Senate staff's been on the job. They haven't done anything else since the primary. They've been working the flaming telephones from dawn till dusk!
Murkowski: Make them work nights!

60 posted on 09/22/2010 1:13:07 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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