Live updates: Murphy calls his Rubio confirmation vote 'a mistake'

[Polybius]

Source: The Hill

President Trump’s public debacle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky halted hopes for a signed minerals agreement while dividing the world — and Washington — over their support for them both.

Long-simmering tensions between Trump and Zelensky exploded into the open during a heated Oval Office exchange that will have ramifications for the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and all of Europe.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called his vote to confirm Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was in that meeting with Trump and Zelensky, “a mistake” in a Sunday interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Donald Trump on an issue like this,” said Murphy.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/5171459-live-updates-trump-zelensky-clash-government-funding-doge-cuts/

[pandr32]

1. Too late.

[mahina]

7. No thank you. He said he made a mistake. He knows more now than he did then.

He has been working his heart out for this country, left right and center, especially during this crisis. You know- the people and the constitution.

[Cha]

12. Sen Chris Murphy has done a lot of Good.. There's No

Need to use that Language on him.

[niyad]

3. JFC chris, wherever would you get a stupid idea like that?

[stillcool]

5. just curious...who did you vote for?

[Marthe48]

6. Oh, Senator Murphy

Take off your rose colored glasses. It doesn't do any good to see a silk purse when it is only a pig's ear and doesn't know how to be any other thing.

You are welcome to see your idealism as a distant goal, but right now, you are in a battle where your enemies will put a shiv in your belly and laugh as your guts spill out.

They are the bad guys. They aren't anything else and won't be anything else. Resist!

[mahina]

8. He did say he made a mistake. He knows more now than he did then.

Rough situation, changing scenario. Rubio was not this man earlier, to my sorrow. I always thought he was an opportunist; maybe that is assumed.

[Marthe48]

9. felon made fun of him

(Little Marco) Instead of standing up to felon, rubio caved. Not only caved, but joined the dark side. I can't imagine anyone with courage and self-respect acting like this. I didn't see rubio make any progress in growing a spine.

I can't respect any person who sacrifices his honor-- for what? He will never realize the visions in his head.

[mahina]

11. To be clear I respect Murphy.

thanks for your response.

[Marthe48]

14. I respect Sen. Murphy too

I wouldn't want anyone to think I didn't.

[kacekwl]

37. He is a

Senator and presumably a educated man who somehow became completely stupid for just a minute. A blind uneducated man could see what was going to happen. Every one of trumps appointees lied during their confirmation hearing. Every one.

[CTyankee]

25. Murphy is a good guy, my senator. He's a decent guy and I'm proud of him.

Maybe he just knows how to pick his fights. I give him the benefit of a doubt.

[Irish_Dem]

30. I know, the naivety and denial is stunning.

Hard to believe anyone thinks a GOPer will do the right thing.

[BaronChocula]

10. Dear Sen. Murphy,

What history of Rubio standing up to the rapist were you going on to vote to confirm? If you asked me I could have told you to vote nay and I never even met the guy.

[Wiz Imp]

13. You all do realize, don't you? that even if every Democrat voted against Rubio's

confirmation, Rubio would still be Secretary if State? Murphy should be given credit for acknowledging he made a a mistake, (even though that mistake didn't really impact anything).

[Cha]

15. Exactly.. Thank You!

[Wiz Imp]

38. It remains amazing to me that people think reflexively voting against every nominee

just because, no matter the consequences is good strategy. There's a reason that never happens in either party - that is not their job. I'm sure these critics can cite every single vote each Democrat took in Trump's first term and believe anyone that didn't vote against everyone should have been primaried and removed. I would guess they also think most Republicans voted against ALL of Obama's and Biden's nominees. They'd be shocked to learn the truth in both cases.

I choose to be very happy that every Democrat has made ALL the correct votes in every situation where it mattered.

[Scrivener7]

23. A unified voice of opposition is important during a coup.

[choie]

32. That's not the point, is it?

Whether rubio would have garnered enough votes without the Dems, the Dems should have known better. MUCH better. And has Scrivener said, a unified voice is important against a coup.

[travelingthrulife]

34. They should have voted against all of them.

That would simply be doing their job. None of these people were qualified.

[Clouds Passing]

16. Why would you think that? Siwwy rabbip twix are for cons.

[Rebl2]

17. Yes it

was. NO democrat should have voted for him. I don’t know why they thought little Marco would stand up to trump. Marco is a silly little man.

[flashman13]

18. Oops! My Bad. Can I get a do over?

[erodriguez]

19. No shit.

[AllyCat]

20. Voting for ANY of Krasnov's appointments was a mistake.

It’s why we kept calling and asking you not to vote for them. But, bipartisanship.

[BidenRocks]

21. Cut the red wire or the green wire.

Wrong choice. Never support magats or goppers.
I gave you more credit. You didn't vote for Tulsi or Kennedy, did you?

[samsingh]

22. i truly hate when these people admit to a mistake

that anyone with a brain would anticipate.

it's stupid and not ok.

[samnsara]

24. when will they learn????

[sop]

26. Senators confirmed Rubio because he was in the Gang of 8 and he always held mainstream foreign policy views.

They didn't expect Marco to be such a simpering, sniveling coward.

[2naSalit]

28. He's never been...

Anything more than an understudy for lindsey fucking graham.

[travelingthrulife]

35. Well, that would not conform with anyone's experience of Rubio.

We saw his lips firmly adhered to Trump's Rump and we have seen him lying repeatedly.

[2naSalit]

27. Ya think?

JFC

[marble falls]

29. His remorse cuts no mustard with me. He's got fleas.

[choie]

31. Gee, really?

You thought rubio would stand up to trump? I can't believe you're that naive.

[travelingthrulife]

33. A mistake that should not have been made. Not one vote should have been given to

those Cabinet members. All are unqualified.

[SheltieLover]

36. Murphy isn't old ennough to know voting R is always a mistake with consequences?