Mario Piperni.com: Lisa Murkowski catches the big one

One of Pres. Obama‘s biggest supporters in the Senate in the past week is not even a member of his own party: she is Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).

Murkowski supported the president’s position on the Senate’s four biggest votes since last Wednesday.

She and fellow Alaska Sen. Mark Begich (D) voted in favor of the tax cut compromise and to invoke cloture on New START treaty, the Dream Act and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Both senators also voted in favor of the final repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on Saturday.

No Senate Republican voted for all four bills other than Murkowski.

The senior senator from Alaska, who became a national figure this year when she defeated attorney Joe Miller (R) with her write-in campaign, has actually been a more reliable vote for the president than 18 members of the Senate Democratic caucus since Dec. 15.

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