Well that act of pretending to grow a spine didn’t last long for Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
After having said the other day that she didn’t support the process for replacing Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court so quickly, she has now “qualified” that statement.
Now she’s limited her “outrage” to opposing the “process,” but says that doesn’t mean she won’t end up voting for the nominee if a vote is held before the election.
“I do not support this process moving forward,” Murkwoski said. “Now, having said that, this process is moving forward with or without me.”
“I know everybody wants to ask the question, ‘will you confirm the nominee?’” Murkowski said on Capitol Hill in comments reported by Alaska Public Media. “We don’t have a nominee yet. You and I don’t know who that is. And so I can’t confirm whether or not I can confirm a nominee when I don’t know who the nominee is.”
Looks like another case of SusanCollins-itis, whereby the only opposition any Republican like Collins (or Murkowski) can ever come up with to some of the Republican Party’s most outrageous acts of hyper-hypocrisy is to express some kind of “concern.”
Now that she’s expressed her concern to cover her bases of trying to create the illusion of independent-mindedness, she apparently feels she can fall right back in line again, like she always does.
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