Senator Krysten Sinema, the new Congressional 'it girl' (or 'it person')

By artappraiser on Wed, 09/29/2021 - 5:41pm |

Link is to "Sinema" trending on Twitter; AOC is so yesterday. Lots of interesting opinions and reactions. She is either self-aggrandizing for personal gain or representing a new political paradigm or both. I start with The Onion, because they are the wisest as usual. A few more examples I found of interest in the first comment.

Nation Doesn’t Understand How Someone As Cool As Kyrsten Sinema Could Fight For Corporate Interests https://t.co/sZTkrVXGst pic.twitter.com/8lrlpuQc64
— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 29, 2021

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Arizona Democratic senator Krysten Sinema has faced backlash at home and among progressives for her moves against Biden’s domestic agenda. https://t.co/x1pnolYJ76
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 29, 2021

nice kicker to the NYT story on Senator Sinema https://t.co/L0dueHdl12 pic.twitter.com/nfCiYoMGol
— Faiz (@fshakir) September 29, 2021

John McCain was a “maverick.” Kyrsten Sinema “betrays her party.” https://t.co/BSGAyP4wBZ
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 29, 2021

I feel credentialed in Sinema’s kind of white ladydom. My sense is she rides this till the wheels fall off out of casual generalized spite. https://t.co/zZJn0bT2Tk
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) September 29, 2021

America’s gaslight gatekeep girlboss, @SenatorSinema, would drink the tears of suffering American workers as long as they’re in a $2000 wine bottle
— Cam (@cameron_kasky) September 29, 2021

Why are we discussing Kyrsten Sinema's style?
After writing a 4k piece on her in May,I want to know why, when she is THE most educated senator with 5 degrees including an MSW,JD & PhD, AND she's been homeless, a social worker and a defense attorney, why she is now...the flouncer. https://t.co/CiPqMGaDTD
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) September 29, 2021

Sinema didn’t run as a moderate. She is a former Green Party member, a former social worker, is openly bisexual & LGBT, and ran on a progressive platform.
— Andy the Dog (@andrewcockerpoo) September 29, 2021

Sinema held a private fundraiser yesterday with business lobby groups that are terrified of Biden's corporate tax hikes. The kicker? They wrote checks up to $5,800 for a 45-minute meeting with the senator.

Explains a lot.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 29, 2021

Q: What do you say to progressives who are frustrated they don’t know where you are?

SINEMA: “I’m in the Senate.”

Q: There are progressives in the Senate that are also frustrated they don’t know where your are either.

SINEMA: “I’m clearly right in front of the elevator.”
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 29, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/29/2021 - 6:02pm

Where's David Brooks & Tom Friedman when we need them?

$3.5 trillion over *ten years* versus $2.1 trillion in one year (2019).
The dishonesty. Oh the dishonesty. https://t.co/qFIO0xyLD8
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 29, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/29/2021 - 10:32pm

Some people end up giving off airs because they believe their most vehement critics to be idjits, and sometimes they are right:

These headlines about Manchin & Sinema have absolutely nothing to do with Citizens United, which had zero impact on direct campaign donations, let alone politicians’ personal finances. https://t.co/1P58mpwr3U
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 09/30/2021 - 11:41pm

Noah Smith & Matt Yglesias:

It's true. Kyrsten Sinema is really bad. https://t.co/bLWrzfBhvC
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) October 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 1:21pm

Sinema supported drug price negotiations. Now she opposes them. Here's the mailers from a Phrma front group currently going to voters in Arizona. https://t.co/mTh0UwHkhj via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2021

2/ In most cases, people get political giving wrong. The dollars follow the positions, not vice versa. Sinema is the case that validates the cliches.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 1:37pm

The dollars follow the positions, not vice versa.

I get that that's true but what we don't know is how many decide on a position knowing that if they do the dollars will follow.

by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 5:40pm

Our system sucks that way in general in so many ways.

For a different example, I do mostly buy the campaign finance argument that if campaigns are much shorter and publicly funded, a lot less people vote less based on personality, celebrity, role model and all that stupid crap that gets us in trouble and more on whether the person sounds qualified to do the work. It should be like a job interview, not like long-haul advertising building a brand for a product like a pickup truck, skin moisturizer or an airline.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 6:02pm

EXACTLY:

I don't understand what leverage she has. Manchin, I get. But Sinema has a higher approval rating among AZ R's than D's, which is meaningless since they're still not going to vote for her. She's already become a pariah, blowing up the Dem agenda wld be political suicide..Huh?
— Gwydion (@Mannanan6) October 1, 2021

Excepting that she may be thinking that in the future Arizona R's may actually vote for her, no matter which party (or none, like Bernie, he is still an "I' as far as the Senate goes) she runs under.

Especially if one considers what many have studied about the changing voting patterns of the demographic labeled "Hispanic" by the census. And the conservatively minded retiree population in AZ is quite large still?

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 5:15pm

Senator Mark Kelly does not like the bathroom protesters," either:

Senator Sinema works hard on behalf of Arizonans every day and this is not the way to handle disagreements. These actions were completely inappropriate. https://t.co/lfvIKQRwGl
— Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) October 4, 2021

but Rudy sees a great opportunity:

Biden today said it was “part of the process” for Democrat activists to follow Senator Kristin Sinema into the Ladies Bathroom to harass and threaten her.

What process is he talking about?

Fascism, socialism or communism would embrace such a process.https://t.co/jGXPWz2NEX
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 5, 2021

Seems to me that pretty much proves those who said it was counterproductive to be right.

edit to add a p.s.: Rudy is taking Biden's comment out of context, OF COURSE. Look it up, Biden was basically saying inappropriate shit like that was what many national politicians unfortunately have to deal with unless they have 24/7 Secret Service protection. He wasn't defending it!

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 1:01am

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