Posted on 10/05/2018 11:05:55 AM PDT by reaganaut1
SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI: I did not come to a decision on this until walking onto the floor this morning. I have been wrestling to really try to know what is fair and what is right, and the truth is, that none of this has been fair.
This hasn’t been fair to the judge, but I also recognize that we need to have institutions that are viewed as fair and if people who are victims, people who feel that there is no fairness in our system of government, particularly in our courts, then you’ve gone down a path that is not good and right for this country. And so I have been wrestling with whether or not this was about qualifications of a good man or is this bigger than the nomination.
And I believe we’re dealing with issues right now that are bigger than the nominee and how we ensure fairness and how our legislative and judicial branch can continue to be respected. This is what I have been wrestling with, and so I made the — took the very difficult vote that I did.
I believe Brett Kavanaugh’s a good man. It just may be that in my view he’s not the right man for the court at this time. So I have taken my vote here this morning, I’m going to go back to my office and write a floor statement that is more fulsome and have the opportunity to have that.
But this has truly been the most difficult evaluation of a decision that I have ever had to make, and I’ve made some interesting ones in my career.
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Come on, Alaska. Is this really the best you can do, sending Ted Stevens liberal daughter to the US Senate?
A bull moose would have more sense.
So, he’s a good man, and this process has been unfair to Kavanaugh. But having those opinions, she votes no, because of some amorphous larger issues at play??
So then, if liberal radical activists cause enough uproar, we will reject a good man for the Supreme Court, so that the anarchists will allegedly be placated about our courts being fair??
What am I missing? Does this reasoning make sense to anyone?
She stole her Senate seat from the Tea Party. She is a corrupt tool. Primary her as soon as possible.
Turtle Power - ACTIVATE!
All the Retired Hippies in Alaska told her to ?
She just got re-elected in 2016, so she is going to be around for awhile.
My guess is the Turtle is doing what he can to confirm whether he has 50 and doing what he can to ensure that he does. Flake said yes recently, Sasse this AM. The cow a few minutes ago not a certain no, yet, and then there is Collins. I wonder if he has any backdoor commentary with Manchin or any of the other POS dems. Or maybe Trump can arrange for two or three of the dems to have a jail appearance and they cannot vote!
White house just noted they are confident he will pass. Really out on a limb there or do they know something??
She can pull this crap because she’s not up again until 2022. There’s no method for recalling a U.S. Senator. She figures that this will be long forgotten in 4 years, and meanwhile she can feel good about herself as the scrappy heroine of the feminist left that she’d like to be (but usually can’t since she represents Alaska).
Mitch and the Bush League Republicans saved her when she lost a primary so she could vote for amnesty.
It’s unlikely anything will happen to her for this as long as she is still a vote for amnesty.
If she honestly believes her no vote, she is an evil woman.
All of the above.
Makes sense
The following is a brief, but important, excerpted portion of a Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon delivered by Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, a Black Ohio State Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in the Year 1876, after the end of the Civil War. The Sermon may be read at the Library of Congress, African-American Section.
"Withdraw from Christendom the Bible, the Church with its sacraments and ministry, and Christian morality and hopes, and aspirations for time and eternity; repeal all the laws that are founded in the Christian Scriptures; remove the Christian humanities in the form of hospitals and asylums, and reformatories and institutions of mercy utterly unknown to unchristian countries; destroy the literature, the culture, the institutions of learning, the art, the refinement, the place of woman in her home and in society, which owe their origin and power to Christianity; blot out all faith in Divine Providence, love, and righteousness; turn back every believer in Christ to his former state; remove all thought or hope of the forgiveness of sins by a just but gracious God; erase the name of Christ from every register it sanctifies—in a word annihilate all the legitimate and logical effects of Christianity in Christendom—just accomplish in fact what multitudes of gifted and learned minds are wishing and trying to accomplish by their science, philosophy, and criticism, and what multitudes of the common people desire and seek, and not only would all progress toward and unto perfection cease, but not one of the shining lights of infidelity would shine much longer. Yes, the bitterest enemies of this holy and blessed religion, owe their ability to be enemies to its sacred revelations - to the inspiration and sublimity of that faith which reflects its glories on their hostile natures. They live in the strength of that which they would destroy. They are raised to their seats of opportunity and power by the grace of Him they would crucify afresh; and is it to be thought that they are stronger than that which gives them strength? Can it be supposed that a religion which civilizes and subdues, and elevates and blesses will succumb to the enmities it may arouse and quicken in its onward march? Are we to tremble for the ark of God when God is its upholder, and protector, and preserver?” - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876Link to Original Library of Congress Copy of Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett's "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" delivered in 1876, here.
“Murkowski is married to Verne Martell.[118] They have two children, Nicolas and Matthew.[119]”
Poor boys
This woman is as dumb as that box of rocks senator from Hawaii.
This woman believes that a woman should be believed and a man is always guilty. Will any man in Alaska ever vote for her again?
Whiny bitch needs to be voted out!
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