Ya hafta understand Arizona. Folks here, especially Mesa and rural parts of the state are deeply conservative and have been voting for Goober majorities in our State House and Senate since 1969. Conservative good… Democrat anti-American and full of those “brown people” is the mind set.
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Finchem has also won the “Least Hetero Sam Elliot Impersonator” competition three years running.
“Sinema” would be a killer name for a porn site.
Seedy-ROM: dirty movies on disc
Telling a group of people to change their behavior or you’ll see to it that they get exactly what they want is no basis for successful negotiation, Kyrsten.
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This was the first time in this Congressional term where Sinema has indicated support for actual legislation instead of bland to inscrutable statements about Senate procedure. It’s a good sign.
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Not hard to wonder if both she and Manchin are enjoying this “kingmaker” role they’ve fantasized themselves into with all the subtlety of a nail gun to the foot.
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I voted for Sinema, and was glad when she beat that bitch Martha McSally, but if she doesn’t get her shit together, I may just vote for whoever is her opponent.
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I don’t think mammalian cells typically do well in a total vacuum.
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And deeply ignorant.
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Yep. Made a trip to Prescott yesterday to visit my 102 year old mother who, BTW, is more progressive than many on this platform. As soon as one leaves major urban areas, however, one returns to 19th and early 20th Century perspectives out of phase with current realities. Not just conservative, but laced with ignorance and a determination to keep life that way. The ranching community where I grew up outside of Prescott never made it through the New Deal. We only had telephones, the crank kind, because ranchers strung the lines from town along fence posts. Some sort of lesson there, perhaps, for not leaving people behind?
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Seriously anybody believe a 50 plus year old lady with purple hair?
She’s 44 (born in July 1976) but point taken.
There is a certain narcissism that seems to affect the thin edges of the curve.
Most folks can’t name their own representatives but yet they know the names of some reps who are perpetually seeking national recognition.
I look at what the persons says and the positions they hold and not hair color, hair length or their age. Sinema holds the super majority to pass a bill is a good thing while at the same time saying HR1 is a needed bill. That is “bothsiderism”. She knows she needs to keep the goobers here in AZ happy as well as democrats. In Arizona that is a near impossibility. And believe me, when I say Goobers I really mean it. Sinema supports the filibuster, I do not since the House gets along with a simple majority. The super majority is supposed to be a catalyst to “bipartisanship” by giving the minority a bit of a say. But McConnell has turned it into a tool to screw the country by screwing anything democrats want to do for the good of the country. Mitch see the filibuster and super majority as methods of power and that is all that fucker cares about. Sinema sits on the fence hoping to get noticed.
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A characteristic of most all politicians is their love of getting noticed. They run to any camera or microphone especially of free of a cost to their campaign coffers. It does not matter the party affiliation, if there’s a camera available a pol will pontificate for that audience, Gaetz is an excellent example of this. Sinema and Manchin have been around a while and understand what the unspoken rules are. Gaetz doesn’t give a shit who he offends. He revels in the role of the school yard bully. I think is career in DC will be a short one.
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There is nothing moderate about enabling minority rule, which is what a filibuster does.
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Does Sinems want to sit on the ethics committee and no where else until 2024.
Edited to correct a date.
More likely because it is not being presented as part of the Democratic agenda for fairness. If any Republicans want to vote for it or add good ideas, great. Otherwise bipartisanship be damned as a fraud on the people.
Intoxicating stuff for a freshman
Biden could have passed their paltry $600 billion and they STILL would have voted against it. This is how they roll. The republicans extract concessions from Democrats only to vote against the eventual bill anyway. How many times do we need to see this movie?
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