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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMurkowski: Republican Senators only felt shutdown "urgency" when going through airport security
I came to the conclusion a long time ago that none of these are a good idea, said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, one of the handful of Senate Republicans who broke from Trump and the broader party strategy. What I have heard from our conference is a greater number of voices that are saying, Hey, this does not work so well. This is not a tool that we should be using.
Yet Murkowski noted that in a party lunch on Friday, some Republican senators said they never really felt the urgency of the funding lapse, except perhaps when they were going through airport security.
It was stunning to me, Murkowski said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-hope-we-get-some-common-sense-republicans-reeling-from-political-damage-cause-by-shutdown/2019/01/26/d50b87d4-2189-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html
Yet Murkowski noted that in a party lunch on Friday, some Republican senators said they never really felt the urgency of the funding lapse, except perhaps when they were going through airport security.
It was stunning to me, Murkowski said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-hope-we-get-some-common-sense-republicans-reeling-from-political-damage-cause-by-shutdown/2019/01/26/d50b87d4-2189-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html
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Murkowski: Republican Senators only felt shutdown "urgency" when going through airport security (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2019
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It's better she's there in the GOP to steer a few to sanity every now and then.
Ligyron
Jan 2019
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JI7
(89,252 posts)1. scumbags
lilactime
(657 posts)2. Did she forget what party she belongs to?
watoos
(7,142 posts)10. She may not be a 100% member of the Putin/GOP party.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Oh boy,great Campaign material.
You just no this is going to surface umpteen times in the next week.
DarthDem
(5,255 posts)4. I Appreciate Her Candor
Would she just switch parties already? She's an institution in Alaska by this point (or at least, she and her father are in combination) and I feel as though she could stay in office as a Democrat. Alaska seems to be more open to Democrats than in the past.
Does anyone remember if she's pro-choice? I feel as though she is.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)5. She is pro choice
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)11. It's better she's there in the GOP to steer a few to sanity every now and then.
Divide and conquer.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)6. Many things are stunning to Murkowski.
This among them.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)7. So if tRump pulls this again we know what to do.
If he wants to shut down the government, just shut down the economy real quick. No air traffic control, no TSA, etc. Hit the politicians where it hurts and things will change..
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Enoki33
(1,587 posts)8. Typical Repug behavior, until something personally affects them.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)9. Don't be stunned lisa. These are your political colleagues.
You chose to lie down with flees.