Lisa Murkowski: 'It Makes No Sense To Make This Attack On Women'

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

Lisa Murkowski: 'It Makes No Sense To Make This Attack On Women'
The Huffington Post | By Luke Johnson
Posted: 04/ 5/2012 5:25 pm Updated: 04/ 5/2012 5:25 pm


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"It makes no sense to make this attack on women," she said at a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon, according to the Homer News. "If you don't feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters."

She also said that she would continue to support funding for Planned Parenthood, adding that the courts have affirmed a legal right to an abortion and she stands by that.

Murkowski criticized GOP presidential candidates for not condemning Rush Limbaugh for calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute," which he later apologized for. Fluke was rejected as a witness before a panel on the Obama contraception mandate chaired by House Oversight And Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) last February. (She spoke Thursday to HuffPost in a Q&A.)

"To have those kind of slurs against a woman … you had candidates who want to be our president not say, 'That's wrong. That's offensive.' They did not condemn the rhetoric," she said.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/lisa-murkowski-war-on-women_n_1406923.html

[Blue_In_AK]

1. And yet .... she voted for the Blunt amendment.

Lisa is a pro at talking out of both sides of her mouth, which is how she convinced so many good Democrats in Alaska to write her in in 2010. We would have been so much better off with Scott McAdams who makes his positions clear and sticks to them.

She received a lot of grief from her female constituents when she came back here after the Blunt amendment vote. Now she's trying to atone. Too little too late, Lisa.

[freshwest]

5. Ahh Ha! Thanks.

[DocMac]

7. She's trying to correct the fatal flaw

that a bunch of Republicans are making. She may well be the only Republican that understands the damage done.

I think she is too late. Anyway, when you vote Republican, expect the worse.

[cstanleytech]

16. I dont buy that she is trying to correct anything.

Because to be honest if the vote was taken again today I suspect she would vote exactly the same if ordered to.

[roguevalley]

22. I called all her offices and yelled loudly. "SELF LOATHING TOOL!!!!!"

I really can't stand her, Blue. Truly. What is the problem with women in politics here sometimes? I want Diane Benson in office.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Yeah, we missed a golden opportunity in 2006.

I don't think Diane has the heart for it anymore after all the abuse she took from the Party.

[tanyev]

2. Wow, she must have really gotten a lot of grief for voting for the Blunt Amendment.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Oh, yes, she did.

[polichick]

26. And she deserved it - kinda late now to point fingers at others.

[SemperEadem]

3. well...

didn't you vote FOR Roy Blunt's mess and then turned around and regretted it after the fact?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=69009
Murkowski Regrets Voting For Blunt’s ‘Religious Conscience’ Measure: ‘I Have Let These Women Down’
By Igor Volsky posted from ThinkProgress Health on Mar 6, 2012 at 10:33 am

Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski told a local newspaper yesterday that she regrets her vote for the so-called Blunt amendment, the GOP’s alternative to President Obama’s rule requiring employers to provide contraception coverage as part of their health care insurance plans. Under the amendment, which the Senate tabled with the help of just one Republican, employers would have been empowered to deny coverage of health services to their employees on the basis of personal moral objections.


“I have never had a vote I’ve taken where I have felt that I let down more people that believed in me,” Murkowski told the Anchorage Daily News’ Julia O’Malley, claiming that the amendment’s language went “overboard”:

“If you had it to do over again, having had the weekend that you had with women being upset about the vote, do you think you would have voted the same?” I asked.

“No,” she said.

[Siwsan]

6. Lisa needs to pick a side

I'd love to think she's having a crisis of conscience about which side she throws her allegience towards. How any non self-loathing woman can align herself with the rethugs is beyond my ability to undertand.

[Politicalboi]

8. And don't forget the

Log Cabin Repukes who are also self loathing. I can't understand it either.

[saras]

9. She picked a side - YOUR side - and now you're bitching about it? WTF?

She not only admitted she was wrong, she is working actively to make amends. WTF more could you ask?

I'd vastly prefer over some politicians I could name who TALK liberal at first and then vote with the right-wing when it comes down to the backroom deal. And I could name a shitload of them and make a lot of people unhappy i.e. the Patriot Act is, was, and always will be inexcusably evil, MUCH worse than the Blunt amendment, and I don't know of ANYONE who voted for it who is seriously working to get it dismantled. It was written by fascists, implemented over a lie, it's profoundly corrupt, and it didn't and doesn't work.

If you want her to switch back to the other side, keep ragging on her for doing this. If you want her to get more sensible, compliment her when she's sensible and rag on her when she's wrong. Is it that much harder than ragging on someone because it's fun?

[jtuck004]

10. +1 n/t

[MarianJack]

14. Agreed.

I am no fan of Murkowski's but she is trying to make amends for her stupid assed vote. The fact that she did it after getting a lot of grief for her blunt vote does illustrate that she has the capacity to listen. This is a quality that has been very rare in recent republican circles. I know that I will disagree with her much more often than I'll agree, but if and when the republican party ever decides to again embrace sanity, she may be what their new face looks like.

And if she's ever on a national ticket, as much of an improvement over sarah palin(comparison) she may be, I very much look forward to not voting for her.

PEACE!

[cstanleytech]

17. If I believed she was sincere and that she wouldnt vote the same way if she was ordered to

if the vote was taken today I would agree but the fact is I just dont believe she is sincere.

[roguevalley]

23. since you don't have a clue about her past and how she does this ALL THE TIME

I would suggest that you check her out more. This woman is on the 20 most corrupt members of congress for years and she votes this stuff all the time. She hasn't changed a hair. She is just trying to do damage control. When it comes time to do it again, she will. She didn't pick our side. She's working her own side as usual. She isn't making amends. She doesn't believe she is wrong. She is just trying to make fires go away. She will do it again.

[tibbiit]

33. correct

We need to vote on deeds rather than words. Indeed she is trying to make the fires go away.
tib

[roguevalley]

38. I know. the media makes her out as some kind of brave stand taker. I could hurl. :(

[Marrah_G]

28. I agree- and more gop females politicians need to speak out.

They also need to start talking to their male co-workers, one on one, about this escalating war on women.

[tibbiit]

32. I live in ak

She talks out of both sides of her mouth. You can NOT trust any Repuke to not vote with their party despite what they say or the remorse after the fact. Good for her for speaking up now. But I want to see her speaking up when it counts, and since she is a republican that will NEVER happen.
She is my senator and I call bullshit on her.
She will have to prove herself and that she can never do. She would be voted out of office in alaska.
tib

[CreekDog]

34. You're way off base, the OP didn't attack her, they posted a story

[Blue_In_AK]

35. I, too, live in Alaska

and Tibbit and RogueValley are absolutely correct. Lisa is just doing damage control. She picked up a lot of Democrats and Independents in 2010 (because everyone was so freaked out by Joe Miller and too cowardly to vote for Scott McAdams) by promising to be independent, and foolishly people here believed her. Instead, she has voted almost 100% with Mitch McConnell. She's really good at voting with the party and then coming back later and saying that it was a tough decision or if she had it to do over again, she'd vote with the Democrats. I don't believe a word she says.

[provis99]

37. her next vote is going to be with the Republicans, too.

she has been doing this for decades.

[southernyankeebelle]

11. How hard was that for her to say? She should of said it before and I think it may be to late.

[BigDemVoter]

12. Murkowski needs to shut her pie hole. . .

Until she abandons that mysoginistic party she belongs to.

[Arctic Dave]

13. You are a vile, two faced POS Murkowski.

You made your bed on the issue, now you have to sleep in it.


Don't forget her vote AGAINST the Lily Ledbeder act (Equal pay for women)

[Blue_In_AK]

19. You bet, Dave.

Other commenters on here who are patting her on the back mean well, but they don't know what a duplicitous two-faced b***h she is. I still haven't forgiven her for 2010. Scott could have taken that election if she had accepted her loss in the primary.

[Marrah_G]

29. Maybe she finally had a wake up call

One can hope.

I would like to see every female GOP member leave the party.

[Arctic Dave]

30. She has a history of voting against women.

She is just backtracking to save herself.

[Marrah_G]

31. You are probably right

I don't understand women in the GOP any more then I understand GBLT or non-christian, non-jewish people in the GOP... It's a party that seemingly hates so many different groups of people that I find it shocking that it survives at all.

[Tx4obama]

39. She voted FOR the Lilly Ledbetter Act - she was absent for the Paycheck Fairness Act vote.

See here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=528288

Please let's try to not spread the wrong information.

Happy Holidays

[timesup]

15. All Republicans must be getting a remotely controlled shock device on their 1st day in office.

Just a theory, but constantly voting together on stupid shit is ridiculous and mighty suspicious.

That many people can't even agree on a topping for a pizza.

Trying to cover up the fact you have been zapped into line after the fact, just makes you
look like an idiot.

Darrell Issa has to go, what a selfish tool.

[Dawson Leery]

18. No Lisa, you are running scared as the Republican Party has declared war on women

and did not expect such push back, to which you in the GOP have no way to fend off.



Ms. Murkowski herself declared war on her fellow women when she voted for the Blunt Amendment.

[PatrynXX]

20. if she really wants to make a point

she'll turn democrat.

[koniagwarrior]

21. Bogus News, I was there...

Well, I have to say, I attended the luncheon with my wife and grandson.

The conversation reported here, never came up even once during the hour that she was there. One must better find a more reliable source for their news. I read the article from here, http://alaska-native-news.com/state_news/5091-senator-murkowski-attends-homer-s-first-annual-senator-lisa-murkowski-is-coming-to-town-luncheon.html?p=3 and it was way more accurate of the luncheon there.

I am not GOP but, I was however interested enough to attend. My only chagrin to the luncheon was the chicken was dry and Murkowski did not allot enough time for questions.

I also have the digital recording of the entire event.
Email me at:
[e-mail] for a copy.

[greyl]

25. You should probably remove that email address,

and post what you have in the Video & Multimedia Forum.

Unless you're trying to get spam and/or a collection of email addies, that is.

edit: Also, there are many conversations that happen before, during, and after Chamber of Commerce meetings, so I wouldn't take your not being present for her quote as indication that she didn't say it.

[Blue_In_AK]

36. Interesting article, Koniag.

I would assume that you are Alaska Native? Do you think that maybe she tempered her comments somewhat in Homer and tried to sound more independent because of where she was? Everyone knows that Homer is a liberal little enclave in this red state. She sure couldn't come out guns blazing against the affordable care act, women's rights and whatnot as easily in Homer as she could have in Wasilla, for example. Just a thought.

Why did the Native corporations throw all their support to Lisa instead of Scott McAdams? How do you see the conflict between tne Native corps and the tribes?

[Marrah_G]

27. I am not sure how any female GOP politician could continue to be a member of that party

They might not want to become Democrats, but perhaps they should consider becoming independants.