I'm not particularly enamored of the term "RINO," an acronym meaning "Republican In Name Only." It's too often used to describe "any Republican who disagrees with me on any single issue." A political party is going to have some spectrum of opinion on any given issue; as George Patton reportedly said, if two people agree on everything, one of them isn't necessary.
But boy, howdy, if Alaska's supposedly-Republican Senator, Princess Lisa Murkowski, doesn't deserve the appellation "RINO," then nobody does. Her latest departure from GOP positions? Opposing the SAVE Act.
A Senate Republican who has routinely broken from the GOP and President Donald Trump announced that she wouldn’t support efforts to pass voter ID legislation.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said in a post on X on Tuesday that she would oppose forthcoming legislation that would enact more stringent election integrity laws backed by both Trump and conservatives in the upper chamber. Her opposition underscores a reality many in the Senate already acknowledge: without extraordinary steps such as nuking the filibuster or support from Democrats (a non-starter), the effort is effectively dead on arrival.
Her opposition to much of anything favored by the Trump administration can be relied upon. Princess Lisa generally pans anything Trump-sponsored, Trump-related, or Trump-adjacent. She's nothing if not predictable.
Murkowski panned a pair of bills — the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, dubbed the SAVE America Act, and the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act — two voter ID and election integrity proposals making their way through the House.
She noted that when congressional Democrats "attempted to advance sweeping election reform legislation in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have federalized elections, something we have long opposed."
"Now, I’m seeing proposals such as the SAVE Act and MEGA that would effectively do just that. Once again, I do not support these efforts," Murkowski said.
Did you get that? She doesn't support making it necessary to prove you are who you say you are while registering to vote or actually voting.
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As far as nationalizing elections - horse squeeze. These bills don't do anything that isn't clearly authorized by the Constitution for Congress to do. Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution states very clearly:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
The only thing forbidden for Congress, in the regulation of the actual elections, is the places of choosing Senators, an issue that went away with the 17th Amendment, after which Senators were directly elected instead of appointed by state legislatures - and that was a colossal mistake, if you ask me.
Alaska has two big tasks ahead of us: Getting rid of ranked-choice voting and primarying Princess Lisa Murkowski. And the one will follow from the other, as sure as morning follows night.
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