Murkowski's getting ready to flip on health care.

[RandySF]

Says she won't rule out voting for the "skinny bill". Looks like the threats against Alaska worked.

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. ...and he'll block any projects ANYWAY if it serves his purposes at the time. nt

[DK504]

2. This is how traitors and thugs work.

They can't let anything stand on it's "merits".

[global1]

3. We Need To Flood Murkowski's Office With Calls & E-Mails.....

She needs to know that the majority of American People are on her side and I'm sure that the People of Alaska are on her side as well.

She talked tough the other day saying that she's secure in her position for another 5 1/2 years.

She needs to take a stand here and not fall prey to Trump's bullying. This is the only way to deal with a bully and that is to stand up to him.

She can't cower now and cave. We need to call her and make sure that she knows that we're with her.

[still_one]

4. I would be surprised if these thugs didn't get anything thing through the Senate

[cynatnite]

5. Maybe, but she also said this...

For her part, Murkowski said Tuesday that she was not deeply concerned about pushback from Alaska Republicans about her vote.

"I base my votes on what I believe is in Alaska's best interest," she said. "So I know that there are those who wish that I would be more in line with following the party platform, but I don't think it should come as any surprise that there have been occasions that I have not followed the lead of the party."

Here

[dalton99a]

6. They'll sweeten the pot to make sure

[a kennedy]

7. Damn it.

[loyalsister]

8. I'm beginning to think

that some progressives look forward to these scenarios. In hopes of being right, having more legislative cruelty to use against republicans, or to insulate themselves from the anger and sadness. My guess is that these are good intentions behind it, but I don't understand why people dig in with negative expectations with the near delight I sense when I encounter defeatism.

[DarthDem]

9. Link?

These defeatist posts sometimes seem to lack the same, for whatever reason.

[chowder66]

10. It seems to me that Republicans are easily bribed and if so what other kinds of bribes

have they taken?
It's not as if they stand for the constitution, their constituents and our country as a whole.
So that leaves me to question if there are any republicans at all that will not and have not taken a bribe from anyone inside or outside of politics. If she takes this one, then I will assume she has taken others unethically or even illegally.