On the eve of the vote on whether the Senate should call other witnesses or simply acquit President Trump of the Democrats' impeachment case, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, decided to virtually announce that she would vote with the Democrats. She is saying she is very curious about what John Bolton has to say but has hedged on witnesses Republicans may want to call, such as Hunter Biden.
Murkowski knows that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has the votes to shut down the trial by one means or another. So, she is the last chance the Deep Swamp has to force an extended trial which, swampers hope, will save the skins of officials facing federal felony charges for espionage against Trump's campaign.
The swampers also know that angry Republicans are poised to overcome senatorial swampers among them and screw the intelligence swamp six ways from Sunday by demanding major revisions -- or else: no dough re me. The swampers believe that with Trump severely damaged, Republicans will run away from the Swampers in a general rout, thus again ensuring the supremacy of the security gurus.
Murkowski obtained her Senate seat through the influence of the swamp-like GOP system once run by her father Frank Murkowski, a former Alaska governor and longtime U.S. senator.
The fact that Murkowski is so much more forthcoming on the eve of the vote implies a desire of her and her intelligence system associates to prod other "undecided" GOP senators to imitate her "courageous" stance.
Republicans charge that the Bolton testimony flap is "another Kavanaugh," in which Democrats tried a sleazy maneuver, empowered by the liberal media, to smear Bret Kavanaugh out of his nomination to the Supreme Court. Murkowski played a similar game in the Kavanaugh hearings.
Murkowski knows that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has the votes to shut down the trial by one means or another. So, she is the last chance the Deep Swamp has to force an extended trial which, swampers hope, will save the skins of officials facing federal felony charges for espionage against Trump's campaign.
The swampers also know that angry Republicans are poised to overcome senatorial swampers among them and screw the intelligence swamp six ways from Sunday by demanding major revisions -- or else: no dough re me. The swampers believe that with Trump severely damaged, Republicans will run away from the Swampers in a general rout, thus again ensuring the supremacy of the security gurus.
Murkowski obtained her Senate seat through the influence of the swamp-like GOP system once run by her father Frank Murkowski, a former Alaska governor and longtime U.S. senator.
The fact that Murkowski is so much more forthcoming on the eve of the vote implies a desire of her and her intelligence system associates to prod other "undecided" GOP senators to imitate her "courageous" stance.
Republicans charge that the Bolton testimony flap is "another Kavanaugh," in which Democrats tried a sleazy maneuver, empowered by the liberal media, to smear Bret Kavanaugh out of his nomination to the Supreme Court. Murkowski played a similar game in the Kavanaugh hearings.
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