Discussion: Murkowski Says She Supports Resolution To Disapprove Of National Emergency

system1 · February 25, 2019, 3:06pm

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maximus · February 25, 2019, 3:06pm

Ok, that’s a start. Now how about rounding up some of the other GOP sheep?

jonney_5 · February 25, 2019, 3:11pm

I believe you were a write in candidate Ms Murkowski…

Care to join a different caucus?

Or perhaps we’ll talk in Jan 2021

sniffit · February 25, 2019, 3:11pm

House Dems pass basic, “clean” emergency termination resolution.

A few GOPers grumble they’d support such a thing.

McConnell allows amendments from Trump KKKult sycophants, who insert poison pills.

Senate version fails.

justruss · February 25, 2019, 3:17pm

“I want to make sure that the resolution of disapproval is exactly what I think it is”

Sounds like you are looking for an out so you can say you were for it but be against it.

This straddling positions must hurt after a while on the inner thighs.

maximus · February 25, 2019, 3:18pm

There’s always Susy “slightly concerned” Collins, right?

coimmigrant · February 25, 2019, 3:35pm

Murkowski and Collins are disappointed to find that rather than being written in the passive voice the resolution states that Trump exceeded his executive power and violated the Constitutional powers of the Legislative Branch. They would have supported a clean resolution that did not assign blame but the Democrats turned this into a political hit job. They cannot in good conscience support such a personal attack on the office of the president.

arc_of_the_universe · February 25, 2019, 3:49pm

Careful Lisa. They’ll primary you! … What’s that? They already did? And you survived? … Maybe some other Republicans should similarly liberate themselves.

kiwi · February 25, 2019, 3:54pm

Yep, funny how that example is almost always forgotten and the Sanford example always remembered when excuses are being made for GOP chickenshittery.

castor_troy · February 25, 2019, 3:55pm

I love the poetry of legal language…

arc_of_the_universe · February 25, 2019, 4:01pm

What you wrote is patently false. This is the entirety of the wording of Castro’s resolution:

Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, pursuant to section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622), the national emergency declared by the finding of the President on February 15, 2019, in Proclamation 9844 (84 Fed. Reg. 4949) is hereby terminated.

That’s about as “clean” a resolution as could be written and most certainly is not “a political hit job.”

jaybeeraybee · February 25, 2019, 4:02pm

Did not assign blame? Trump has been trying to create one confrontation after another requiring someone in Congress to act like they’re a separate co-equal branch of our federal government. Regardless of the language used, the simple act to repeal the emergency declaration is a direct personal attack on the Office of the President, just like his dictatorial declaration is a direct personal attack on the Congress.

And these are the same Republicans that continually undermine every norm of legislative conduct to allow themselves more and more unfettered power at the President’s bequest. No, a direct rebuke is exactly what’s needed.

demosthenes59 · February 25, 2019, 4:09pm

Even if the Dotard later vetoes it, and it’s upheld, the Resolution passing both the Senate and the House is strong evidence to reviewing courts the Congress recognizes this isn’t an emergency. This is a strong sign to the Supreme Court’s 5 GOP justices that they have some political cover to do the right thing and preserve the Constitution.

It’s really sad that a political argument may be important.

alyoshakaramazov1 · February 25, 2019, 4:09pm

McConnell will likely allow 4 R’s to vote for it.

Anyway, they will all go on record, voting for the right of the next Democrat president to declare a national emergency based on the fact that their car won’t start. Or not.

Their choice.

Bring it on!!!

robaruba · February 25, 2019, 4:28pm

Come on over, Senator, the water is warm!

birdford · February 25, 2019, 4:31pm

But, Lisa, what about all of those swarthy mustachioed rapists and murderers pouring over the border into Alaska?

bobatkinson · February 25, 2019, 4:37pm

That’s not what will emerge from the Senate when poison pills are added as has been posted upstream. It’s no longer cynical to know that McConnell will totally rewrite the bill that came out of the House so that GOPers will have an excuse to not vote for it.

dicktater · February 25, 2019, 4:38pm

I took his comment to be snark…what their press offices could say to give them an ‘out’ for voting against Pelosi’s resolution.

emiliano4 · February 25, 2019, 5:09pm

Your thinking is spot on.

I am also looking for some RNC and GOP malfeasance brought out by the SC and other LEOs so as to get the GOP corruption to the forefront.

I have indicated this before, but even on this site, there is very little attention paid to GOP Blackmail and other motivations besides “The Base” in laying the basis for the GOP corruption itself. A 180 degree shift in the Ukraine policy by the RNC…McConnell’s submarining Obama in the summer of 2016. And there is more…

So far the only spotlight on the GOP Senate is what they can do to harm us as opposed to the real danger they are in from Law Enforcement.

I do not like to go into a fight wailing about what “I don’t have” or using gallows humor to make it seem as though the writer of the humor is somehow “above it all”.

Trump’s destruction of this country would affect all people. Even the ones not POCs

arc_of_the_universe · February 25, 2019, 5:09pm

Perhaps. But that would be quite the opposite of what @coimmigrant wrote. She or he claimed that the Democrats didn’t produce have a “clean resolution” and “turned this into a political hit job.” Perhaps @coimmigrant was being snarky.