Lisa Murkowski talks to the press shortly after she voted, quietly, "aye" on Trump's tax bill.

[ShazzieB]

35. I don't think that is what she wanted to do.

That's one of the worst things about this, imo. Call me a credulous fool if you must, but I don't think she is one of those for whom "the cruelty is the point." I don't think she really wanted to vote in favor of this bill but was likely threatened and manipulated into it by means of which we are not fully informed. Sure, they threw a few extra crumbs to Alaska in return for her vote, but I really don't think that's the only reason she did this.

The fact that she caved and voted "aye" on a bill that I'm sure she doesn't fully support is more disturbing to me than the votes from all the obvious sociopaths in the Senate. I'm very disappointed in her but also horrified to see how much power the GOP is able to exert over its members.

I think the GOP slogan is "When they (the Democrats) go high, we go low. When the Democrats keep going high, we go lower and lower, even if it means tunneling under the ground."

I don't think beating them at their own game is the answer, because no matter how low the Democrats were to go, Repubs would be willing to go much, much lower. I'm not sure we want to find out just how low the party would be willing to go in service to Trump.