Posted on 12/09/2022 4:20:47 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Friday she had switched her political party affiliation to independent, leaving the Democratic Party just days after it won a U.S. Senate race in Georgia to secure 51 seats in the chamber.
"I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“...Sinema, in a separate Politico interview published on Friday, said she would not caucus with the Republican Party...”
Not good. Republicans need to offer her something.
Well well well... Love to have been a fly on the wall when Schumer was handed that letter.
ALRIGHTY THEN...Wonder if a plain brown paper bag was involved?
We need our own Soros. Oh, wait...
So they barely have a majority. BWAHAHA. LOL
Wow
Great! So now the senate has three independent democrat senators?
She will be the power player, great move for her!
wow....maybe manchin will follow suit...and change the balance of power
Bernie has company now.
Interesting but I wouldn’t get too excited since she is pushing her amnesty. Even if Manchin did the same thing we still have our old reliables, Romney, Murkowski, and Collins to vote with the Rats when they need them.
Manchin will do what is best for Manchin.
He comes up for re-election in 2024.
After he got screwed by Democrats on the pipeline in WV for his vote, who knows what he will do. But at the end of the day, you can be sure the only thing that will motivate him is what will best serve him, not the country.
It really doesn’t change anything. She’s caucusing with the Democrats. Her status is no different than Bernie Sanders or Angus King who are the same way. This is just a cheap re-election tactic for next year. Next news item.
Makes no difference at all.....Dem’s still have about 54 votes on their side of the Senate, with Romney, Collins, Murkowski, and Graham voting with them (among others).
She’s still Deep State’s.
So she’ll still caucus with the dems?
Sanders & Sinema. Who is #3?
She’ll still caucus with the Democrats, the Democrats control which committees she gets to be on.... this changes nothing except that we now have three liberal stooges in the Senate (Sinema, King, Sanders) who are all really Democrats yet call themselves “independent”.
In reality, they are all as “dependent” on Democrats as they ever were, and in Simema’s case is simply a calculated move (with full Democrat support) to increase her chances of re-election and nothing more than that.
Only the GOP’s abysmal performance in the Senate races in 2022 allows this political transvestite to follow her “conscience” and pretend to leave the Democrat party. If she was the deciding vote, this little charade would never have occurred.
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