Lisa Murkowski

More than likely he will be.

And then with the retirement of McConnell and with Collins losing, that opens the door for Lisa Murkowski there to be the ranking member of the full committee and more than likely because she's got a tough reelection in 2028, she will take the chairmanship of the SACD as well.

So, Laser, you can correct me to 100% there.

Now, I agree with everything.

And if you still have a 60 vote requirement, then every single thing you want to do is going to require scrapping for those last four Republican votes.

And even if you think Murkowski plays along, and even if you think Fetterman doesn't defect, the other moderates just got their asses handed to them or retired, right? Like, who are you going to make a deal with? I'm not just talking on immigration, on anything.

Right.

I'm so tired of this assumption that the House will pass something and then in the Senate it will get watered down into oblivion.

Is how does what happened on Tuesday change the behavior of the elected Republicans who come back? And particularly in the Senate.

And will we see moderate Republicans in the Senate? Because there are still some who aren't named Lisa Murkowski of Alaska who might work with Democrats because there's nothing more clarifying for an elected official than seeing your colleagues from your party.

get a beat down like they just did on Tuesday.

So I wonder how much will self-preservation change the behavior of...

They have approved mandating U.S. citizenship to vote.

This is also a rebuke of Rhino Lisa Murkowski.

She opposed the Save America Act.

And Alaska voters have delivered this in this most recent election, voting at nearly 70% of total voters disagreeing.

But it obviously ignores the fact that we have this pattern nationwide where local cities and municipalities are specifically inviting non-citizens to come vote in local elections.

This will stop that from happening in any city in Alaska.

So the outcome stands in sharp contrast to the position taken by Alaska's senior Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski.

She did not want the Save America Act passed, and that would have required documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and photo identification to cast a ballot.

we've had this in the past.

Dingle, Murkowski.

Oh, sure.

Oh, absolutely.

You know, it was like family.

I mean, I think Murkowski's the daughter, right? I mean, not a great candidate, but she won.

Dingle was the wife, right? Wasn't their husband.

Yeah, yeah.

I think people are very happy with her, but I think that it's just how you get in there.

I mean, people, people still complain about, you know, Lisa Murkowski being appointed to the Senate.

Right.

Like she's won election.

Lastly, just in terms of mapping this out, at this juncture after that midterm you mentioned, I don't know that it's clear that the Republican Senate would go all the way along with it in kind of a hurried, bum-rush, lame-duck way.

So if you're talking about a Murkowski or a Collins, there's every likelihood that they'd say, no, we're not going to go along with maintaining the 6-3 conservative edge in the Supreme Court during a lame duck approval.

So from everything I can tell, which means I'm probably missing something fundamental, but from everything I can tell, it looks like this is just not going to happen for either justice.

It's been over four years now since the Supreme Court case that involved the original Roe v.

I did not expect Alaska, though, to be in play, which is great.

I also see that Lisa Murkowski is somehow now supporting a Democrat.

I mean, she's such a mess.

But now Maine, I think, is solid.