Sen. Sinema defends bipartisanship at McConnell Center

[Jenny von Westphalen]

Source: Associated Press

Sinema plays an outsized role in defining what’s possible in Congress. One of two moderate Democrats in the 50-50 Senate, her willingness to buck the rest of her party has limited the ambitions of President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

She is a staunch defender of the filibuster, a Senate rule effectively requiring 60 votes to pass most legislation in the 100-member body. Many Democrats, including Biden, say the filibuster leads to gridlock by giving a minority of lawmakers the ability to veto.

She said the filibuster should be restored for areas where it’s been eliminated, such as judicial confirmations.

“Those of you who are parents in the room know, the best thing you can do for your child is not give them everything they want,” Sinema said. “And that’s important to the United States Senate as well. We shouldn’t get everything we want in the moment. Because later, upon cooler reflection, you recognize that has probably gone too far.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/arizona-kentucky-mitch-mcconnell-kyrsten-sinema-5ad2752a337b3586b1638277750e79f8

[Walleye]

1. So she is calling her Senate colleagues children, who need parental supervision. JFC

[Botany]

2. Please we need a massive blue wave this Roevember in order to make that bi-polar egotist no longer

... relevant. Sinema is a one term wonder and knows it too. So she is making it so that when
she is out of office she will be very rich and on the boards of pharmaceutical, big health care
companies, and right wing colleges and never have to do any real work again. Except to fly
to Hawaii or Europe or Aspen for the companies yearly meetings. Or visit Pepperdine or Hillsdale
college for a few days a year.

[LiberalFighter]

3. She is clueless.

[True Blue American]

6. I do not think so after watching her on the floor.

The day the gun bill came out, she was all over the floor, talking to Republicans, then announced she was for the bill. She is smarter than I gave her credit for.

[LiberalFighter]

20. And if the Senate gains two additional Democrats?

What committee or sub-committee will Schumer assign her?

Sub-Committee on Deodorants.
Sub-Committee on Civil War Cannons.
Sub-Committee on Joe McCarthy.

[True Blue American]

4. I have been watching Senema

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On the Senate floor. She is down there talking to all the Republican men, including Mitch, friendly.

I do believe she is responsible for getting some Republicans to sign ion. It is clear she is smoozing them, so do not knock it. She is a stand out on the floor with her loud sun dresses and white tennies. Kind of a good cop, bad cop.. Manchin is the bad cop!

[rpannier]

25. I've been watching her on and off the senate floor

This is the woman who went back to Arizona and wouldn't meet with any constituency other than those at a fund rasing (she said she had no time to meet anyone -- she made time for them)
She won't meet with people who worked hard to get elected (many she has known for longer than 4 years) to explain herself
She is pleased with herself for helping undermine President Biden's financial agenda
She is a cancer and, if she was helpful in that one bill, it doesn't make up for the rest of her time in the senate feathering her nest

[LittleGirl]

26. I'm just pissed at her

I will never vote for her again.

[Raster]

36. I campaigned for Sinema. I donated to Sinema. I voted for Sinema.

I regret each and every one of those actions. I will work to defeat Sinema in 2024.

#PrimarySinema #ArizonaDeservesBetterThanSinema

[LittleGirl]

37. Ugh, sorry about that. nt

[madamesilverspurs]

5. She's clearly of the opinion

that we don't know the difference between bipartisanship and feathering one's own nest.

If she can't be gone, she can be made irrelevant. Let's do that.


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[True Blue American]

7. Nope, Senema

Is helping get the bills passed.

[keopeli]

19. What 'bipartisan' bills was she instrumental in getting passed? Only "bipartisan" bills count.

[True Blue American]

28. The gun bill for one. The I frastucture bill.

Not sure about the CHIPS bill. I was too busy to watch but after a few times of watching her go straight to Republicans it was clear what she was doing. After being on the floor coaxing Republicans she went right to speak that she was backing the gun bill.

Now, I Have no idea how she treats her constuents, I know she sucks up to her wealthy donor’s and her poor taste in clothes on the Senate floor is atrocious, Senema is stuck on herself, that is clear.but I do know she helped get those bills passed, although she also killed some good parts. It takes those kind of negotiations with do nothing Republicans.

I am moderate, you win some, you lose some, come back to fight another day.

[True Blue American]

30. The gun bill for one. The I frastucture bill.

Not sure about the CHIPS bill. I was too busy to watch but after a few times of watching her go straight to Republicans it was clear what she was doing. After being on the floor coaxing Republicans she went right to speak that she was backing the gun bill.

Now, I Have no idea how she treats her constuents, I know she sucks up to her wealthy donor’s and her poor taste in clothes on the Senate floor is atrocious, Senema is stuck on herself, that is clear.but I do know she helped get those bills passed, although she also killed some good parts. It takes those kind of negotiations with do nothing Republicans.

I am moderate, you win some, you lose some, come back to fight another day.

[rpannier]

24. I'll be happy to see her primaried

And sent off to the congressional dustbin of history

[nakocal]

8. Sen Sinema is NOT a moderate

She is a whoever gives her the biggest bribe (aka campaign contribution) Senator. Almost every Democratic Senator is a moderate. The problem is that the media and the republican party are to the right of fascists.

[nakocal]

9. Does not know the difference between being tough and being miserly

“Those of you who are parents in the room know, the best thing you can do for your child is not give them everything they want,” Sinema said.

The republicans would starve children if it would make them an additional fifty cents.

Sinema is a lying idiot who is just in it for the money. The Democratic senators represent more than 60% of the country.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. She won't get re-elected again, so she only has one thing to do -- sell out for the most cash.

[Justice matters.]

11. "she has limited the ambitions of President Joe Biden" AS IF

his "ambitions" were for himself and not the American people...

Fighting climate change is one of the "ambitions of President Joe Biden"

What in a world is a strange wording...

[True Blue American]

12. Senema voted for every bill

The Senate passed standing on the platform when he signed the bills. You guys need to watch the Senate floor when they are passing bills instead of pundits.

I changed my mind when it became clear she was talking up the bills with Republicans.

[Justice matters.]

13. Democrat Sinema in spotlight as obstacle to Biden economic agenda

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrat-sinema-spotlight-obstacle-biden-economic-agenda-2021-09-30/

The Arizona Democrat's private huddling this week with Biden and his aides comes as her opposition to the size of a $3.5 trillion social spending proposal has become a key obstacle to Democratic efforts to lock down support for one of the pillars of the president's domestic agenda.

Big deal. She voted for less than half of that.

[True Blue American]

29. A biased

Article does not prove anything to me. That is why I quit watcjing pundits and started watching the Senate and House votes.

[qazplm135]

14. she also said she and McConnell had "shared values"

which is a bit purge inducing.

All she is doing is prepping the scene for an attempt at an independent run because she knows she can't win as a Democrat next time around.

[Turbineguy]

15. To Republicans, bipartisanship means

"submit to my will"

[moose65]

16. You speak the truth!

And Sinema is full of shit.

The filibuster doesn’t encourage bipartisanship. Republicans aren’t interested in bipartisanship. The filibuster has been used by Republicans to block every possible bill that Democrats have tried to pass.

[czarjak]

17. Weasel Wisdom

[keopeli]

18. What was the compromise Sinema? Bipartisan means compromise. What did we get? NOTHING!

[SharonAnn]

21. Right, bipartisanship doesn't mean surrender.

[ancianita]

22. Rachel shredded her tonight as a persistently pernicious ignoramus.

[ramen]

23. This is the most concise summation of her that I have seen:

https://www.theonion.com/and-i-want-your-tie-too-says-sinema-giving-biden-co-1849316331

[burrowowl]

31. Love the Onion!

[pecosbob]

27. She's toast

[SKKY]

32. Bipartisanship would be fantastic if we weren't the only ones playing that game...

...Because I agree with her to a point, but when the other side's only measure of success is how much of our stuff they can block, that's hardly bipartisanship.

[dlk]

33. Sinema is a conniver who craves the spotlight and isn't above trolling her Democratic colleagues

I doubt she'll be re-elected and she's grabbing all the cash she can while she can.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

34. Can't wait until she loses the primary in 2024 to a loyal Democrat, who

will go on to win her Senate seat.

Democrats in Arizona, and across the nation, will "get everything we want", with whipped cream and a cherry on top

[Raster]

35. Already in process!

#PrimarySinema #ArizonaDeservesBetterThanSinema

[lees1975]

39. She will be beaten by any Democrat who runs,

most likely Congressman Rueben Gallegos. And he'll take the seat and she will be done.

[Ladythatvotesblue]

38. Sinema

Is a Horrible Senator. She is in it for her own payday. Not representing the folks that sent her there. Hope the damage she does to the country will be as little as possible before her constituents kick her to the curb!

[Omaha Steve]

40. Kick