Lisa Murkowski goes rogue

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Lisa Murkowski isn’t 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 Obama’s wish list: a repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” a tax cut compromise, the START treaty and cloture for the DREAM Act.



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[SpiralHawk]

1. Hell hath no fury...

..like an entity forced to overcome the foul indignities of TeaBaggery (R).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Like The New Lisa A Lot

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[Gman]

3. Don't fall too much in love

she's a (traditional) Republican at heart. That is, she's fiscally conservative and can be somewhat socially moderate at times. But she's not the flat out nuts Republican like everyone else in her party. She's a lot like her dad.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I Can Live With Fiscal Conservatives If They Really Are Fiscally Conservative

At least they make for honest opponents...

[SpiralHawk]

6. Love? No. Not going there.

A republicon is a republicon is a republicon, as my Pappy used to say.

'nuf said.

[vaberella]

7. Traditional republicans can have progressive beliefs and she's one. nt

[CanonRay]

8. At this point "not nuts" is a high recommendation

for a Republican.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. she's been crowded to the center by the likes of

Bachmann, Palin, Brewer, Angle, and O'Donnell.

I suspect she looked in a mirror, and asked herself, "Do I want to be a crazy as them?" After the mirror broke, she had her answer.

[Hawkowl]

19. So she's left of Obama then?

Except the fiscally conservative part, eh?

[vaberella]

4. Is that Scarlett Witch? I always found her problematic in the comics. n/t

[Teaser]

10. why?

her powers sucked, true...

[SpartanDem]

11. The GOP now has their Lieberman

just like Joes is/was she's pissed at the base for trying to take her out and you watch she's gonna do more things to poke them in the eye.

[stevenleser]

12. Yup, I was thinking the same thing.

Again, the lesson is, if you are going to try to take out one of your own, you better take them all the way out.

[Arkana]

13. Good for her.

Whatever it takes. She's so pissed at the national GOP for tossing her overboard that I think she's going to be taking it out on them for a long time, and I don't blame her.

[ladjf]

14. The Republicans pissed her off when they tried to throw her under the bus.

[Canuckistanian]

15. Well, the GOP chose that wolf-freak over her

Why should she be loyal to THEM?

Maybe she'll team up with Bernie Sanders from time to time. Now THAT would chap their ass, wouldn't it?

[butterfly77]

16. Don't get...

republiCONNED again...

[DailyGrind51]

17. When will we see a "D" after her name?

[sammytko]

18. first female president?? n/t