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applegrove

(118,600 posts) Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:58 PM Jul 2017

Lisa Murkowski, a Swing Vote on Health Care, Isnt Swayed

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/us/politics/lisa-murkowski-health-care.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/LxiOJfwHH5?amp=1

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As President Trump pressed her and her fellow Senate Republicans last week to fall in line behind a repeal of the Affordable Care Act in the interest of party loyalty and protecting the Republican brand, she felt compelled to speak up.

“With all due respect, Mr. President,” she said, according to some of the people at the private White House lunch, “I didn’t come here to represent the Republican Party. I am representing my constituents and the state of Alaska.”

Mr. Trump did not appreciate the pushback. Ms. Murkowski was one of just two members of her party to vote against a critical procedural step on Tuesday. Afterward, Mr. Trump voiced his displeasure on Twitter: “Senator @lisamurkowski of the Great State of Alaska really let the Republicans, and our country, down yesterday,” he wrote Wednesday morning. “Too bad!”

But it may be that it’s too bad for Mr. Trump, because he picked on someone unlikely to be rattled by his attack or by accusations that she deserted her fellow Republicans. Ms. Murkowski already survived a political near-death experience in 2010 when she lost a primary race to a Tea Party challenger and was essentially abandoned by the Republican Party.

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Lisa Murkowski, a Swing Vote on Health Care, Isnt Swayed (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2017 OP

Dear Mr. Fake President, BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #1

Yo, sTrumpet? You can threaten whatever you like. raven mad Jul 2017 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)

1. Dear Mr. Fake President,

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Jul 26, 2017, 11:47 PM

Jul 2017

You are incorrect. She is helping to keep what's left of our country afloat. So fuck off SIR!
Sincerely,
A very displeased citizen

raven mad

(4,940 posts)

2. Yo, sTrumpet? You can threaten whatever you like.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Jul 27, 2017, 03:06 AM

Jul 2017

But be aware that Lisa has the major support of Big Oil, Big Military, Big Mining, et al.......... you won't like bringing a slingshot to a gunfight.

And thank you, Lisa. Let's hope the sTrumpet challenges OUR mama bear (even us dems who never voted for her will have her back). Oh, and if only Chad Carpenter (cartoonist of below) had given the ski jerk orange hair..............

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