Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) reportedly told House Democrats this week that she won’t support Democrats’ sweeping reconciliation package until the bipartisan infrastructure bill passes, according to Reuters.
Then she can go to hell along with Bidens agenda? Nobody appreciates her obvious bullshit.
In software this would be called a deadlock.
Then I guess neither will get passed, because I don’t think any one trusts you at this point Kyrsten.
So she is tanking her own bill too. 0 dimensional chess.
Damn, I read that wrong and got happy
I’m (slowly) learning never to get happy when I see Sinema’s name in a headline.
“Assures” is giving people the wrong first impression in this headline. Maybe go with “informs”?
Performance Art is secondary to people in the trenches. This will get done and if there are sour grapes, we need to pick up more seats in both Chambers of Congress.
This makes sense in this context - when we have two supposed Democrats at war with the entire rest of the party. Damn!
Ultimatums are made for the BeltWay Boys to ca-ching$$$$$ all the way.
This is negotiation, not war.
Welcome. Thoughtful comment.
Kyrsten, sweetie, you already passed the BIF.
Sinema just gave the rest of the Democrats no reason to pass the bipartisan bill until they hold the vote on the reconciliation bill and it passes. There’s just no way progressives will trust her to pass the reconciliation bill based on her word…they will hold her feet to the fire until the reconciliation bill is through the Senate. We just have to wait and see how long it takes for that to get through the head of the two “moderate” senators…eventually they are going to have to relent or else they will block the entire Democratic agenda.
Can Sin-enema be recalled or deported or arrested or censured or something??? She’s a fucking dingbat. I’m so sick of her antics. She’s making the rest of the Democratic Party appear incompetent. She needs a good investigative reporter to find out what’s going on behind the scenes. Is someone paying her to gum up the works? I’m highly suspicious of her behavior.
‘The United States Constitution does not provide for recall of any elected federal official.’
https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall
Seems appropriate that she’s wearing a snake-skin dress.
Yawn. No news. What is important is an ironclad, ENFORCEABLE, agreement. For example, we can always pass the BIF, schedule a vote for BBB the next day and then have Biden veto BIF if Sinema welches.
In some ways that might even be preferable - pretty clearly both Manchin and Sinema seem to feel that their hands were strengthened by the fact that BIF has already passed the Senate.
The basic issue seems to be the moving target that are Manchin and Sinema’s positions. My suspicion is that they’ve returned to stall tactics because they got snookered on the top line negotiations when the party decided to lower the cost be reducing duration rather than cutting anything.
In other words, the thing they want most out of these negotiations isn’t any particular policy or dollar figure. Like their Republican colleagues, they want to “own the libs”.
I’m guessing she decided to go au naturel
No to all
Next q please
The state party overwhelmingly (over 80% of the vote) passed a resolution disapproving of her actions on reconciliation, promised a no-confidence vote if she doesn’t vote for it. None of that has any practical repercussions, though it probably means the party is going to be quite happy to promote her inevitable '24 primary opponent.