Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for
Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for
Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Trump's megabill but urges House to return it for fixes, citing Medicaid cuts and tax impacts on Alaska.
Well it's obvious she wants to be seen as a loyal GOP supporter or Trump with her 'yes' vote, but still wants the bill to be delayed. Having the house delay the bill makes her look like a loyal lapdog for optics, but secretly wants changes and can blame someone else for the bill being delayed instead of having the delay blamed on her vote
Coward
secretly wants changes and can blame someone else
So many of these Republicans are fully aware that the bill will break the back of the healthcare industry in their states. None of them want to stick their necks out for it, though. The mega-donors will forgive them in the end, but the primary voters are only going to hear "You're a Secret Democrat for voting against MAGA".
She always has that confused puppy look.
Gee if only there was some other way she could express her opposition to the bill. Some kind of voting process...
It was a 50/50 vote, if she would have voted no, it would not have passed the Senate
Exactly!
I am honestly suicidal over how blithely these ghouls are playing with our health and safety. Every day, I read a new article about how some white dipshit from the fringes of InfoWars and Christian grifting thinks that he knows better than my fucking doctor. I should just start treating my congresspeople like doctors and start mailing samples of my piss and shit to their offices. After all, they're the ones making my medical decisions.
Don't kill yourself.
But if you do, maybe consider making it worth it and becoming a hero/legend to the rest of us. You may take this to mean whatever you think it means.
While I understand you may have meant that as a figure of speech, I also don't want to shrug what you typed off either. Politics can be very stressful, and the challenges in our life can feel completely overwhelming at times. If you are truly feeling hopeless, please reach out for help. If you're in the US you can call 988. If you're elsewhere please reach out to a friend, emergency services, or even a stranger. The world is a better place with you than without you.
Second this!
Lisa Murkowski is another useless cunt talking out of both sides of her mouth. The only thing she’s truly afraid of is being primaried.
Alaska Pop (2024): 740,000
Now I'm not saying you can fit many monsters in closets and under beds...
You know what'd be absolutely priceless though?
Murkowski's reluctant "yes" vote underlines the fractures within the GOP over the bill's $3.3 trillion price tag and its sweeping policy changes.
No, no it does not. What it underlines is the sure and certain collaboration and capitulation of the GOP to whatever the hell trump wants, guaranteed. Any whining and complaining about the harm the bill will do is strictly performative, nothing but the clapping flippers of barking seals that will ultimately do exactly what they've been told.
Shit like this and the willingness of the news media to frame it like that is the reason people describe politics as kayfabe. And why they aren't exactly wrong to believe that.
Coward
Goddamn cocksucking motherfucking donkey raping shiteater of a senator. Am I wrong?
No you are not.
Also a right cunt of a coward.
Yes you are wrong. How dare you drag the donkey into this
Not wrong but you skipped the other 49
99?
No, Cartman, you’re not wrong here.
If only there was something she herself could have done to stop it. Like single-handedly, one act that she could have easily chosen to stop this whole damn thing.
But alas, there was clearly nothing.
What the actual fuck.
Not quite the same level as McConnell filibustering his own bill after the Dems supported it, but it's close.
She is more centrist than most Republicans, but she's still afraid of being primaried.
What a fucking shitheel
A truly inspiring example of leadership in action.
Leadership inaction
One explanation is that they don’t understand just how unpopular the bill is apt to be when it takes effect. Many Republicans rely on party-aligned media for their news, and these sources have mostly cheered the bill while ignoring its downsides. Both chambers of Congress have rushed the bill through with minimal scrutiny, shielding members from exposure to concerns. Even the White House seems unaware of what exactly it’s pressuring Congress to do. Yesterday, when a reporter asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the megabill’s proposed tax on wind and solar energy, she appeared totally unfamiliar with the measure and punted the question. (The tax provision was later removed.)
Passing the buck. Coward. You're a US Senator. Act like it.
(though I guess these days cowardice is exemplary of Senate behavior).
Also, I'm totally sure Walz would've cast the tie-breaking vote for such a shit bill, isn't that right couch sitters / stein voters? Try not to fall for the right-wing wedge driving disinfo ops next time please... If there is a next time.
Edit: Tankies, gullible Stein voters, accelerationists, nilhists, couch-sitters, vatniks -- whatever you are -- complaining below. Try your best not to feign too much concern over the passage of this and subsequent damage the GOP is doing. You don't get a say here since obviously you believe Harris would've done the same, like (checks notes) booting millions off medicaid that will according to experts lead to 50,000 deaths annually. Some would argue such people who asserted a BoTh SiDeS fallacy are complicit in those deaths.
Now if you're willing to admit your mistake, then welcome back.
Try not to fall for the right-wing wedge driving disinfo ops next time please..
You say as you push more right-wing disinformation.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
The Democrats wanted Trump to get elected which is why they threw the election in favor of him by running on a platform of watered-down Republicanism. These are the same people that passed Trump's budget bill earlier this year, which retroactively made all of his illegal executive orders legal, and who just voted against impeaching Trump. They want these tax cuts for the wealthy and all the other abhorrent, vulture capitalistic shit just as much as Republicans do.
Take off your blinders already and stop supporting fascists.
Hahaha bystanders observe the absurdity of this claim. Talk about a non-sequitur.
I'm all for shitting on AIPAC Dems, but all this proves is that right-wing disinfo ops convinced people like you to amplify their bullshit and sway larger swaths of people. So good job parroting right-wing disinfo when you could've done hard work actually telling people what Harris was without question the better candidate on a multitude of issues.
Maybe less drinking right-wing kool-aid and more door-knocking.
disinfo ops
Just saying, this destroys any point you might have had. Genocide isn't Russian disinformation.
I said right-wing, not Russia. Try again, maybe?
But now that you mention it, the MUh boTH sides false equivalence fallacy is textbook Russian IRA troll farm tactics though. No surprise Republicans are in bed with Russians I suppose.
BTW, that you fixated on this destroys any credibility you may have had.
With the way this bill is moving through the process, I am surprised we have not heard of any democrats slipping in provisions.
But I guess expecting democrats to do anything resembling opposition is a bit too much to ask for.
They tried, but any additions or removals required a vote they lost every time. They of course could have used all their interns time making a list of amendments to be voted on, and then space them out for as long as the GOP kept trying to cram this shit through even though nobody is happy with it.
This is a new level of low.
Real pissed my senator is being a dumbass.
Americans- you deserve this bill.
May your “peaceful protests” continue to embolden the Nazis.
Gre, wonder what would have happened if some people sat it out in protest. Hint. Hint.
Stupid fucks
ANOTHER clear indication that they have no idea what they are doing.
