Despite McConnell's orders to GOP Senators to vote against Gupta one says, umm, no

[yaesu]

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ICYMI:
Despite McConnell's orders to GOP Senators to vote against Gupta this morning
GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski voted with the Dems to advance the nomination of Vanita Gupta
VP Harris' tie-breaking vote wasn't necessary

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski will vote on Wednesday to confirm highly qualified Vanita Gupta to the No. 3 position at the Justice Department, blowing up her party’s effort to mount a united front in opposition.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good for Murkowski. YES. n/t

[yaesu]

2. Love to see cracks in McTurtles shell. nt

[CrackityJones75]

3. She is still in the hole deeply.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. You betcha! I love to see those cracks too. ♥

[Salviati]

12. On the other hand...

Along with susan collins, you can always count on their votes when you don't need them. I'll wait to praise them for their independence when they vote in a manner that actually matters.

[quakerboy]

33. I mean, good for her image

shes happy to play along when its not actually important for her to do so. It helps with the re-elections, see.

When her vote would actually be important? Not so much.

[gratuitous]

5. Uh oh, Mitch

If your caucus isn't frightened of you anymore, your grip on power could be slipping. Murkowski today, who will not toe your line tomorrow?

[riversedge]

6. Put yourself out to pasture Mitch.

[MagickMuffin]

7. I was wondering who voted with the Dems

Much appreciated Sen. Murkowski.

May you continue to do the right thing and ignore MoscowMitch's demands.

[Volaris]

8. I mean, what does he have to threaten her with...?

A Trumper primary opponent?

That's not likely. First, Mitch probably wants LESS of those people in his caucus. Secondly, she's already demonstrated that she can win a general election as an independent write-in candidate...NOT something to blithely throw away if she's MOSTLY gonna vote with Mitch's side MOST of the time.

Lisa is one of the few people in the Republican Party that can pretty much tell Yertle to go get fucked when she needs to. And both of them know it.

[wryter2000]

9. Did she ever switch back from Independent to Republican?

I remember she was primaried by a Tea Party idiot and became an independent. Did she ever switch back. It would sure be nice to have her caucus with us.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Murkowski is not just a Senator

She's the Senator-daughter of a Senator. Hoping she is trying to resurrect a Senate her dad would be proud of. Her dad probably served at the same period as Joe Biden!

[ailsagirl]

11. How encouraging to see someone say NO to him😁!

[Botany]

13. "She was confirmed by the Senate on April 21, 2021. "

From wiki:

Vanita Gupta (born November 15, 1974)[1] is an American civil rights attorney. She is the president and chief executive officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. From 2014 to 2017, she served as the principal deputy assistant attorney general and head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she was the chief civil rights prosecutor for the United States.[2]

Formerly, she was a civil rights lawyer and the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she oversaw its national criminal justice reform efforts.[3] She has also served as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Throughout her career, she has drawn support from a wide range of liberal activists, as well as progressive law enforcement figures, for building support for policing and criminal justice reform.[4][5]

On January 7, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Gupta to serve as Associate Attorney General.[6] She was confirmed by the Senate on April 21, 2021.

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. While I'm glad that she has the courage and the forthrightness to vote for a good candidate,

I am willing to bet she will again disappoint us, somewhere down the road.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

23. Well, a few of our own do that sometimes

And I’m glad they are free to do that, though I might not be happy when they stop us from passing important legislation.

[monkeyman1]

15. moscow mitch like's Russian money !!! what a pos !!

[Traildogbob]

16. And the GQP and McConnell

Still bitching about lack of bipartisanship. Fuck them. Plow the legislation through.

[Indykatie]

17. Murkowski Needs to Become an Independent and Caucus with the Dems n/t

[Deminpenn]

18. This

nt

[Under The Radar]

19. Come on Lisa, might as well switch parties.

Trump is having her primaried, JR is holding rallies against her in her home state. Why stay at a party that doesn’t want her?
If she switched just to an independent then Joe Manchin has no power.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. Agree with above......

She and a few other Republican Senators have been declared TOXIC by the Republican party. The Repubs are already campaigning against them, so let the Dems talk them into at least becoming independent, or come over to the dem party and help us pull this country out of a nose dive that Trump and Republicans perpetrated on the entire U.S. Population......

They have nothing to lose.........

[True Blue American]

40. Trump has yet

To help anyone win. The 2 Senators from Georgia are a good example.

The Republicans need more Lisa Murkowski’s and less troubled Susan’s and Marsha Blackburn’s.

[Under The Radar]

41. If there were a political party draft or free agent signing period

I will certainly take Lisa and Susan Collins and leave you Marsha Blackburn.
Blackburn’s only power is that she isn’t afraid of going on live TV lying and spewing any talking point given to her. She has no remorse for the hundreds of issues that she has been proven wrong on and will never apologize.

[True Blue American]

44. Susan comes on, she is troubled

Then votes the party line

[FakeNoose]

20. Thank you Senator Murkowski

[UTUSN]

21. May she *survive*!

[orleans]

22. see senator snoozy the pearl clutcher--if lisa can do it then what the fuck is wrong with you? nt

[cstanleytech]

24. Keep in mind people that at heart is still a Republican and voted in lock step with them

the majority of the time.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

25. women politicians are sooooo much better than dudes. *

* Exception, Susan Collins.

[Celerity]

27. ...

[SleeplessinSoCal]

28. they don't use their women skills. they appeal to the worst of man.

[ShazzieB]

34. Who are the two men in the pic with Kim Reynolds?

Just trying to figure out what was going on there. The others are a little more obvious.

(The last one, omg, gag me with a spoon! I mean, they're all awful, but celebrating the Confederacy the way those two seem to be doing is a special kind of sick.)

[Celerity]

35. the white nationalist scum Steve King and his hired help Dave Ehler. King was Reynold's

campaign co-chair.

here is the King tweet with the pic

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Nothing says "civil discourse" like Steve King as your campaign co-chair

https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2017/11/01/nothing-says-civil-discourse-like-steve-king-as-your-campaign-co-chair/

“There is no civil discourse left and it is really sad,” Governor Kim Reynolds said yesterday, adding, “We ought to be able to debate ideas because that’s how you get to consensus.” Reynolds lamented the “vitriol” that dominates the current “vicious” political climate.

Today the Reynolds/Gregg campaign announced that Representative Steve King will be a co-chair. A written statement described the governor as “humbled by the endorsement” from a “strong defender of freedom and our conservative values” who is “independent, principled, and is fighting the good fight in Washington, D.C.”

You can posture as a consensus-seeker, or you can brag about support from a walking highlight reel of mean-spirited and dehumanizing rhetoric. Not both. Yesterday’s mini-lecture on civility stemmed from a reporter’s question about a memorable recent sound bite from Reynolds: “the liberals are unhinged and they are out for us.”

“Unhinged” liberals became an instant catch phrase on Iowa Democratic social media feeds. Within days, RAYGUN had rolled out a new t-shirt design for self-styled “TOTALLY UNHINGED” liberals promoting “accountability, a cleaner environment, equal & fair protections for all people.”

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Reynolds warns ‘liberals are unhinged and…out for us” (AUDIO)

https://www.radioiowa.com/2017/10/21/reynolds-warns-liberals-are-unhinged-and-out-for-us-audio/


AUDIO of speeches from Eric Greitens, then Reynolds 26:00

http://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/GreitensReynolds.mp3

[Dan]

26. Seems like the GOP Senate only needs one member in their party

Cause Mitch does all the thinking for the group.

[JI7]

29. McConnell needs to die already

[drmeow]

38. I keep wishing

but I think he's Voldemort and we need to find all his horcruxes first.

[Lucinda]

30. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Hekate]

31. Excellent

[Hassler]

32. No surprise how "moderate" Susan Collins voted.

[yellowcanine]

42. To be fair, she might have had " concerns."

[UCmeNdc]

37. The bottom line is more Republicans should vote with the Democratic side if the proposal is good for

the American people. The GOP's concept of voting "No" on everything hurts the average American in so many ways.

[bdamomma]

39. Ms. Gupta

so qualified. I am so glad she was confirmed.

[augyboston]

43. One GOP Senator with some guts!

Tip my hat to Murkowski because she knew that Gupta is imminently qualified and there is absolutely no good reason to vote against this nominee.

Unlike not so moderate Susan Collins from my home state, who shows once again she has not an inkling of bi-partisanship or moderation in her being. She is a total fraud!

Also; with the history of what transpired in 1999 in Tulia, Texas, why didn't John Cornyn recuse himself from Gupta's hearings???

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/racist-scandal-lurks-in-background-of-cornyn-obstruction-of-gupta-nomination-to-doj-109058117615