Posted on 12/15/2021 8:28:52 PM PST by TexasGurl24
Amid congressional Democrats’ pivot to federal voting legislation, placing President Biden’s Build Back Better plan on the back burner for now, moderate Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema has doubled down on her defense of the filibuster, indicating that she won’t vote to kill the mechanism to help her party pass the measure.
With the negotiated $1.7 trillion climate and social-spending package paralyzed in Congress, the Democrats have moved on to the voting bill with urgency, hoping to enact it before the end of the year and to destroy the 60-vote requirement in the process. Standing firm in her long-held opposition, Sinema so far still refuses to blow up that Senate procedure, encouraging her colleagues to find other innovative ways to advance the legislation instead.
The Arizona senator “continues to support the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, to protect the country from repeated radical reversals in federal policy which would cement uncertainty, deepen divisions, and further erode Americans’ confidence in our government,” Sinema’s spokesman John LaBombard told Politico.
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Lol!
It hasn’t been a good day for the moron class. Just this morning they were claiming BBB was a done deal.
The when that crashed and burned, it became “Schumer is going to pass HR 1, guaranteed.”
Lol.
It seems Manchin and Sinema are working as a team. He’s focusing on the Build Back Bankrupt bills and she on the filibuster. Together they may save the country.
For your interest.
Schumer may rasid Nancy’s liquor cabinet.
Raid
That's why you got Warren whining about the need to pack SCOTUS, the Dems can't win legislatively.
“I really believe that at least a good quarter of Senate Democrats are privately telling Sinema & Manchin to go out there and oppose this.”
Then that 1/4 are worse than traitors. They are cowards as well.
Like the one-eyed man in the land of the blind, they look pretty good in contrast to the AOC-Pelosi-Schumer Democrat party. If there is to be a center-left split these two will drive it.
Thank you Senator Sinema. Democracy is mob rule by another name (50% + 1 tells the other 49.9% what to do). It is two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for lunch. We have built in protections like the Electoral College (to stop tyranny of large states over small ones) and the Senate filibuster, to name just two. We are a Constitutional (or Representative) Republic. It’s in the Pledge!
It shouldn’t have to come down to just two people to save the country, but that is where we are.
um, did you rasid her liquor cabinet? Lol- j/k- my dyslexic fingers are always hitting the wrong keys, so i shouldn’t joke lol
And sadly it’s two democrats we are basing our hopes on- Sad days indeed-
No worries! These day, a lot us may be hitting the booze with the animated turnip in the White House.
lol- animate turnip- i like thta one :)
Good. She’s only into adding debt then.
And remember how some conservaties didn’t vote in the Georgia Senate runoffs, because the GOP candidates were too liberal to suit them? And they were angry about Georgia voting procedures and decided not to vote? That’s part of the reason we are at this point.
Senator Sinema has nice boobies
This is kind of amusing. But think about it: Why throw in with the other 49 (and Klownmala) when you can get so much attention by doing this?
Maybe Sinema is better than the assistant Democrats.
Now that I said that i guess will should expect Romney to cross the aisle (and hog some attention for himself).
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