Murkowski Tries (But Fails) To Sink Blanche Confirmation

The competition to see who the most shallow, feckless Republican in the U.S. Senate can be tight. But somehow, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski always finds a way to come out on top.

The Last Frontier State’s senior senator announced on Friday that she will be joining her pal Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in opposing Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination. In typical Murkowski fashion, her reasons ranged from utter incoherence to outright dishonesty.

In one breath, she praises Blanche as someone who “comes across as decent and capable.” Then, in the very next, she insinuates that he would abandon those attributes by going back on his decision to rescind the now-defunct anti-weaponization fund after his Senate confirmation.

Perhaps the most egregious part of Murkowski’s diatribe, however, is the part in which she laughably claims that the “politicization” and “even weaponization” of the Justice Department “did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it” (emphasis added). Put another way, the mentally deficient queen of the North believes that acquiring justice and accountability for the DOJ’s past abusers is equivalent to the weaponization those same abusers undertook in their jihad against Donald Trump and Republicans.

It’s total and complete nonsense.

Fortunately for Blanche, a last-minute voice of support from outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., seems to give him enough votes to be confirmed to the position full-time. But for Murkowski, the incident shows yet again how she is nothing more than another Republican In Name Only (RINO) with a personal ax to grind.

Consider, for instance, that the Alaska senator had no problem voting for Merrick Garland’s attorney general nomination. The Biden-appointed Garland would go on to weaponize the DOJ like no AG before him. Under his tenure, the department attempted to imprison Trump ahead of the 2024 election, 2020 election protestors, pro-lifers, and other faithful Christians; spied on several of Murkowski’s GOP colleagues; and targeted parents protesting unscientific Covid restrictions and racial indoctrination at school board meetings.

Murkowski also notably voted for Antony Blinken as secretary of state; Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary; Miguel Cardona as education secretary; and Janet Yellen as treasury secretary. Much like Garland, these appointees come with their own laundry list of scandals and destructive policy agendas, as The Federalist previously reported.

When it comes to judicial nominations, Murkowski infamously caved to the left’s despicable propaganda campaign against Brett Kavanaugh by declining to support his Supreme Court confirmation. Meanwhile, she was one of the few Republican senators to side with Democrats in backing Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the high court a few years later.

On the policy front, Murkowski has often aligned with her radical Democrat colleagues to oppose efforts backed by her constituents and other GOP voters. Since Trump’s return to office, she’s opposed the SAVE America Act; helped Democrats kill a bill amendment stopping taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood; attacked the administration’s deportation agenda; and attempted to salvage Biden-era “green” energy bailouts, to name a few.

Murkowski is not a “principled” lawmaker in the slightest. She’s a self-interested political opportunist who loathes the Republican base and the president, loves the spotlight, and who only won reelection because her allies changed Alaska’s election system to her benefit.

This leaves Alaska voters with a choice to make: They can either send her into much-deserved retirement in 2028, or continue to be represented by someone who hates their guts and everything they believe in. By every measure, it’s not a hard one to make.