McConnell 'optimistic' about Kavanaugh vote after lunch with Collins

The Hill ^ | 10/05/18 | TAL AXELROD

[LostPassword]

> “I believe we are dealing with issues right now that are bigger than a nominee,”

I wish politicians would be honest. Just say

“The only issue i care about is abortion and Kavanaugh is unacceptable.”

[1Old Pro]

Murkowski’s ‘explanation’ wasn’t even literate. It made no sense.

Sounds about right for her.

[bert]

The multiple labia blurr the words

[Governor Dinwiddie]

One thing that should now be clear to anyone, is that a female Republican senator can not be counted on in the fight. There are female senators and Republican senators, and in nature it is impossible for both to coexist in the same body.

Let this be a warning over flipped Dem, Hyde-Smith in Mississippi. She has cocked-up the race big time. This is looking like a repeat of Alabama, a real stinking mess. Well at least in Mississippi there is a chance of a later runoff.

If Hyde-Smith wins, it only means another member of the Weak Sister Club.
 

[Lurkinanloomin]

“I believe we are dealing with issues right now that are bigger than a nominee.”
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The bigger issues that she is referring to are the 30 million people they invited here against the will of the citizens and the open border.

The most important thing to Bush League Republicans is stopping President Trump from restoring the rule of law and shutting down the Cheap Labor Express.

[squarebarb]

“Makes no sense.”
the only thing she is concerned about is her social standing with all the Alaskan leftist women lawyers, 1,700 of them, who demanded she vote no. with a lefty and most professional politicians, social standing is everything. Your social status is your very life, it seems. That’s why she’s incoherent because she isn’t stating the real reason. She wants to stay in the Rich Girl’s Club. Constituents be damned. Being rich and elite is your whole world.

p.s. Sarah Palin wasn’t in the club.

[squarebarb]

Sorry, posted to the wrong thread! This was about Murkowski’s statement on why she is voting no.

[jyo19]

Whatever her price was it had to be worth it to not need Murkowski.

[Electric Graffiti]

And at dinner, is she going to change her mind again?

We need drug testing for ‘our’ politicians

[jyo19]

I have often wondered why Sarah never ran against this awful woman. She would have cleaned her clock for Senate.

[bigbob]

I have to hand it to Mitch if he's kissing that old hag's ass...

[Lurkinanloomin]

One thing that should now be clear to anyone, is that a female Republican senator can not be counted on in the fight. There are female senators and Republican senators, and in nature it is impossible for both to coexist in the same body.
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And then there are conservative Senators.
We have about 4-5 that side with the citizens and the rule of law.
All of them do wear R jerseys, but not all Republicans are on our side, male or female.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s all it took, for Mitch to buy her lunch?

[kingattax]

Laz wouldn't even hit THIS skank !

[Lurkinanloomin]

I really wish President Trump had not endorsed and done the rally for her, she is a swamp creature.
We can’t drain the swamp if he keeps endorsing them.
I am hopeful smart Mississippians think for themselves and vote for McDaniel.

[kingattax]

youre right... rambling BS !

[loveliberty2]

Perhaps without knowing or understanding why, Murkowski is correct that this decision is bigger than being about one nominee, this decision may very well be about reclaiming and restoring the very "soul" of the nation.

The Soul Of America's Constitution

America's Founders knew that it takes more than a perfect plan of government to preserve liberty. Something else is needed - some moral principle diffused among the people to unite and strengthen the urge to peaceful observance of law. They recognized that the raw materials of a free government are people who can act morally without compulsion, who do not willfully violate the rights of others, and who love liberty enough to demand that government's power is very limited. They used the word "virtuous" to describe such people. Defined by Webster, "virtue" is "a conformity to a standard of right," but whatever word is used to describe it, such a moral standard is the necessary fountainhead of a free society. The Declaration of Independence referred to "Nature's God," the "Creator," the "Supreme judge of the World," and "Divine Providence" Our nation's founders came together, voluntarily, to create a limited government to secure for them and posterity their God-given rights to life, liberty, and property. Such liberty, they believed, rested on three great supports:

1. Natural law and unalienable natural rights granted by the Creator,
2. A written constitution to assure a government of laws, not of rulers, and
3. VIRTUE among the people - the best defense against tyranny.

Their own words are eloquent reminders of their devotion to this belief:

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.... It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." - George Washington's Farewell Address

"We may look up to Armies for our defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored." - Samuel Adams

"Virtue must underlay all institutional arrangements if they are to be healthy and strong. The principles of democracy are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted!' - John Adams

And Alexis de Tocqueville, the French statesman who traveled across America in the 1830's and wrote a two­-volume study entitled "Democracy In America," observed:

"It cannot be doubted that, in the United States, the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of a democratic republic; and such must always be the case, I believe, where instruction which awakens the understanding is not separated from moral education which amends the heart." - Tocqueville

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Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5

[McGavin999]

Yes it is, I just checked it.

A great ad would be Murkowsi thinks it’s OK to destroy a mans reputation just because a woman says so, guilty or not she thinks men should be punished. Is this who you want representing you?

[Beatthedrum]

Paid protesters singing we shall overcome around her office. What a joke, after all the proof that Ford is a liar..

[goldstategop]

Mitch the Bitch sounds optimistic. McTurtle can count the votes. Its done.