Posted on 12/23/2010 5:46:08 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Lisa Murkowski isnt gunning down caribou on national TV like that other famous Alaskan, but the Republican lawmaker is going rogue in the Senate just weeks after staging the most stunning back-from-the-dead political win of the 2010 cycle.
Murkowski is already showing a fierce independent streak, becoming the only Republican to cast votes for all four items on President Barack Obamas wish list: a repeal of dont ask, dont tell, a tax cut compromise, the START treaty and cloture for the DREAM Act.
The lame duck votes capped a strange political odyssey for the Alaska Republican one that started Aug. 31 when she conceded the GOP primary to tea party-backed Joe Miller, continued when she resigned her leadership job in September and ended when she waged Alaskas first successful statewide write-in bid to retain her seat.
Now, she heads back to the Senate with a fresh six-year term without owing much to either her home state party establishment or her Washington leadership.
Murkowskis willingness to defy Republican top brass after a bitter fight to keep her seat may mark a pivot point in her career as she emerges as a real maverick foil to Sarah Palin, the conservative idol who put Alaska politics on the national map. And while conservatives who helped oust Murkowski from the GOP ticket in Alaska may howl about her being a Republican In Name Only, Murkowski could enjoy a powerful perch as a much-sought-after moderate in an almost evenly divided Senate.
She's a person who makes up her own mind, does what she thinks is right and always keeps the concerns of her state at the forefront, moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told POLITICO of Murkowski, adding that the Alaskan was an important ally in helping to overturn DADT.
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She’s a person who makes up her own mind, does what she thinks is right and always keeps the concerns of her state at the forefront, moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told POLITICO of Murkowski, adding that the Alaskan was an important ally in helping to overturn DADT.”
Her “credibility” is further enhanced by this comment from the ultimate RINO, Susan Collins.
Can the people of Alaska somehow remove her from office?
She’s a person who makes up her own mind, does what she thinks is right and always keeps the concerns of her state at the forefront, moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told POLITICO of Murkowski, adding that the Alaskan was an important ally in helping to overturn DADT.”
Her “credibility” is further enhanced by this comment from the ultimate RINO, Susan Collins.
Can the people of Alaska somehow remove her from office?
Exactly. She’s a DemonRAT so let her join go her own kind.
We need a constitutional amendment providing for the recall of senators (I don’t think one is necessary for reps, since their term is only two years). This is far from the first instance of a senator betraying those who voted for him/her right after election, since they know they now have six years before they must face the voters again, and most of our nitwit voters will have forgotten early betrayals almost six years in the pazt.
Of course, the prospect for such an amendment garnering the necessary votes in the Senate to go to the states is exactly zero.
She might well be an Obamabot now, but not because she voted to continue the Bush tax cuts. I don’t think Zero won that one.
Time for Murkowski to make the switch to the DhimmiRat Party. Of course, that assumes she has the intellectual integrity and character to be honest with the voters of AK.
An endorsement from Collins is much like an endorsement by algore...
V.B. Murkowski - vindictive b!+ch.
Yes, if you compare the 2004 and 2010 results, you see half of Dem voters going for the write-in versus about 30 percent for Pubs. Her total vote is about 58 percent Dem and 42 percent Pub.
Independent?
In dee Democrat party, you mean.
Switch Lisa Switch!
She should be kicked out of the GOP. She should not be given a choice.
Sickening. McConnell and the rest of the spineless R Senators had better wake up or we won’t gain control of the Senate in 2012!
Murkowski: FUGOP!
Unfortunately we'll have to wait until 2014 to toss Linda from office.
I still think her win was pretty fishy. How does someone who can’t even get the nomination from her own party win as a write-in? I suspect massive voter fraud.
Shes’ not a rogue she’s a Democrat.
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