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(34,195 posts)
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:16 AM Oct 2021

Sinema portrays herself back home as bipartisan

WASHINGTON — The mailers on behalf of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., being sent out to homes across Arizona paint a picture of a renegade politician who delivers results.
"Independent Leader." "Straight Talk." "Bipartisan." "Just like John McCain." "Ask her to keep fighting."
"Kyrsten Sinema reached across the aisle to pass The Infrastructure and Jobs Act," says one mailer obtained by NBC News, adding that because of Sinema's leadership, "Arizona will receive" $110 billion to boost roads and bridges, enhanced broadband access and more.

But some Democrats with deep pockets are already plotting to replace her in the party primary if she doesn't change course and get behind Biden's agenda. Sinema allies say her critics shouldn't be surprised given her track record in the House, when she voted against Nancy Pelosi to lead the Democratic caucus and showed a tendency to break with her party.

Democrats have grown nervous by reports in The New York Times* and Politico* that Sinema has privately said she won't support ... the party's plan to lower prescription drug costs by letting Medicare negotiate prices. Biden told House Democrats behind closed doors Friday that he has spent "tens of hours" speaking with Sinema, according to Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., who was in the room.

"I don’t have any sense of what the hell she’s doing," said one Democratic operative based in Arizona who supported her 2018 campaign and asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. "She’s pissing off all the activists," the operative said. "If this fails, there is going to be anger like I’ve never seen before."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sinema-plugged-iconoclast-arizona-she-threatens-biden-s-agenda-n1280600
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*As Sinema resists the budget bill, she is set to raise money from business groups that oppose it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/sinema-fund-raiser-social-climate-bill.html

*Sinema tells White House she’s opposed to current prescription drug plan
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/kyrsten-sinema-biden-drug-pricing-prescription-plan-512907

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qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
5. She'd still likely caucus
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:22 AM
Oct 2021

With Dems.

I doubt she'd give McConnell the gavel.

It would just be more honest a position as opposed to being a democrat solely because it's the only party that will have her. She very clearly doesn't feel any loyalty to the party or sense of obligation. It's a tool to achieve power.

brush

(53,467 posts)
6. She pulled a bait and switch act. She got elected as a Dem and switched once...
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:50 AM
Oct 2021

once she got elected. A Trojan horse.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
8. At this point I think 'Karen' would be a better fit for her.
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:54 AM
Oct 2021

No disrespect intended to honest Karen's.

But if the meme fits use it.

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
15. What she claims to be, and what she is, is totally different,
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 02:05 PM
Oct 2021

She's just another politician bribed by the wealthy to keep them from paying taxes by funding her, and her campaign for her vote. She, like Manchin, are frauds.

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