**Breaking** on WAPO ALERTS: Murkowski opposes witnesses

[hlthe2b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/impeachment-trial-live-updates/2020/01/31/9a853bbe-4415-11ea-b5fc-eefa848cde99_story.html?itid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar

BREAKING: The Alaska Republican is one of four GOP senators who have been heavily courted by Democrats to join them in supporting new evidence in President Trump’s historic trial. Democrats are expected to fall short of a majority in a vote on witnesses later Friday.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

On edit and with a hat tip to Dennis Donovan in comments below, see this tweet with her reasoning! WOW!~

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. Shocked!!!

[guillaumeb]

2. Kabuki theatre.

Nothing more or less.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

7. She is 3ft 2in tall

No spine

[guillaumeb]

10. Welcome to DU.

And she has no hope of growing a spine.

[katmondoo]

3. Will Alaskan's agree with her?

[Jose Garcia]

21. Trump beat Hillary there by almost 15%

[Miles Archer]

4. SHOCKING, just SHOCKING I TELLS YA! n/t

[TeamPooka]

5. All Republicans are Trump. We need to vote them all out in Nov.

All that we can anyway.
Full electoral purge in November.

[RobertDevereaux]

30. Yes, anywhere and everywhere on the ballot.

Booting all remaining Repug Senators will take also the 2022 and 2024 elections.

[BeyondGeography]

6. A make-good for her Kavanaugh stance

Sad.

[BeckyDem]

8. yea, these are the people we are suppose to work with and find reasonable.

[RhodeIslandOne]

9. Fucking fraud

LOL, she’s an embarrassment

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. F@$k, just when I was liking 50-50

[DeminPennswoods]

12. This what Matthews predicted yesterday, if there weren't 4

defections, then there would only be 2 on the theory that no one wanted to be the 51st vote or the 50th vote. I don't think getting the pass to vote yes on witnesses helps Collins, though, because now it's obvious her "aye" vote was going to be meaningless.

[Dennis Donovan]

13. Her stated reason was devastating though

Link to tweet

[RhodeIslandOne]

15. WTF

Someone get a cross and hoist her phony ass up on it.

[hlthe2b]

17. WOW WOW WOW! THIS above!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. Translation : "Don't hold my treachery against me, please!". nt

[DeminPennswoods]

20. Have to admit she's being honest

Just like Alexander said last night the he *stipulated* the facts are true, but doesn't think they are an impeachable offense.

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. That has got to be the dumbest fucking thing I've read today.

And that's saying a lot! I read Rubio's statement.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. Sure, because each and every one of them is an irredeemable scumbag. nt

[2naSalit]

22. +1

[saidsimplesimon]

16. Of course she does.

Giving cover to her "friends across the aisle"? I am very disappointed. Do you hear me Senator Sinema? I made my call early this week, nothing, nada.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. The thing I don't get about Murkowski is that the AK Rs

beat her in the primary and she had to run as a write-in - and won. She could easily serve as an I just like Sanders and King do. She is not beholden to McConnell or any other GOP'r one bit. She is to Alaska as the Casey's are to Pennsylvania.

[hlthe2b]

32. I wonder about this too.

[D_Master81]

23. In other words

My party doesn’t care about any evidence so why should I have to sit through these hearings anymore?

[maxsolomon]

28. She's got a point.

She (& Lame-ar) admit the House's case is accurate and Trump did it. Witnesses aren't necessary to prove anything except the outrageousness of the Abuse of Power.

Which they don't think rises to the level of removal.

[cry baby]

25. She is unwilling to stand up. She has laid down for the Russian tank

to roll over her as it has rolled over all of them.

Fuck her!

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. Translation: We fucking suck, so I'm okay with us sucking even more.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. What a worthless POS!!

[Sunsky]

29. How about looking in the mirror

By voting no on witnesses, you have failed. You Lisa. You've failed the voters in Alaska. You have failed your country.
Even if the majority of Senators fail, you didn't have to follow suit. You could have chosen the brave route and take a stand against what you claim to believe is unfairness, but you chose to be a coward.

[Bayard]

31. And this is supposed to help, Lisa?!

"I have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the Senate. I don’t believe the continuation of this process will change anything. It is sad for me to admit that, as an institution, the Congress has failed."

Is this the statement you're going to run on next time?

[woodsprite]

33. The media has to be full of idiots to have this actually be a surprise to them.

We knew. We were holding out some hope she would have grown a backbone or some balls, but DU knew.