Posted on 10/04/2021 11:52:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
While taking questions at the White House on Monday, President Biden was asked for his thoughts on the recent harassment of Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).
Sinema was harassed by activists while teaching a class at Arizona State University and subsequently chased her into a bathroom and filmed her while inside.
Protesters followed Sen. Sinema into the bathroom at Arizona State University to confront her on Build Back Better and immigration pic.twitter.com/NDSmeu0h2M
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 3, 2021 Manchin, whose D.C. residence is a houseboat docked in Washington Channel, was accosted by activists on kayaks.
Lobbying @Sen_JoeManchin, on his yacht, from kayaks in the Potomac. pic.twitter.com/VwHsPaBSzk
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) October 2, 2021 "I don't think they're appropriate tactics but it happens to everybody," Biden said of the targeted political harassment of sitting U.S. senators. "The only people it doesn't happen to are people who have Secret Service standing around them, it's part of the process," he added.
Joe Biden claims that Senator Sinema being followed into a bathroom by activists and harrased is "part of the process" of being in public office. pic.twitter.com/nBOzuiRyTx
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) October 4, 2021 While Biden didn't say whether that "process" is convincing holdouts in his party to cave and switch their positions or something else, his half-hearted attempt to say that the actions taken against Sinema and Machin were "inappropriate" only served as a wink and a nod that targeted harassment of Senators not going along with his agenda is unavoidable and apparently normal.
In a statement Monday morning, Sinema slammed those who targeted her. "Yesterday's behavior was not legitimate protest," she said in a statement. "It is unacceptable for activist organizations to instruct their members to jeopardize themselves by engaging in unlawful activities such as gaining entry to closed university buildings, disrupting learning environments, and filming students in a restroom."
Statement Following Events at ASU on Sunday pic.twitter.com/4d3BF9P8CO
— Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema) October 4, 2021 Biden's wink and nod to harassing activists, predictably, did not go over well.
Ok this is shameful. How in an age of “me too” do you “meh” a female official being followed into a bathroom and filmed for explicitly coercive purposes?? https://t.co/sfvSu5eIvZ
— Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) October 4, 2021 No, Joe Biden, chasing a woman into a bathroom for not voting a certain way is not "part of the process."
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 4, 2021 Back in Jan, Biden told staffers that he would “fire you on the spot” if you didn’t treat others with respect.
When asked about the tactics of activists harassing Sen. Sinema in bathroom he very softly criticized and downplayed as “part of the process.”pic.twitter.com/IroUgc4URZ
— Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) October 4, 2021 Being filmed in bathrooms is part of the process https://t.co/NXGoHdQL1Q
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 4, 2021
hummmmmm wonder if there are any cameras in a place like that?
Accidentally turned off..................
That was AZ Dems of the past. They don’t nominate moderates anymore. Far-left or forget it.
Dear (Dem) Senator,
Since hounding senators when they use the toilet is “part of the process”, according to President Biden (whom you endorsed), I’d like you to send your bathroom schedule so I can talk to you.
I have a long list.
The border
Afghanistan
Your tree equity bill
Your indiscretions
Your China connections
Your failure to “follow science” (vaccinations, climate, abortion)
Your endless pursuit of “political science”
Your failure to comprehend who really pays when you raise taxes and raise minimum wage
Your inability to understand crime and punishment
Your failure to defend, instead of misinterpret the US Constitution.
There’s more. But…
Do you have a healthy bladder?
Whoops! Didn’t know Sinema is a leftist DemiKrat, and the protesters were even further left!
No Good Guys in that incident.
The Crackpot fake president will SURELY SECURE SINEMA’S SUPPORT NOW.
The man is a genius at diplomacy.
A Moderate is defined by their votes.
So far, she’s a moderate.
Using the ACU ratings as an example, she’s a click to the right of the ultra-far left, meaning instead of 100% leftist, she’s an 87% leftist. That’s still not a “moderate”, that would be within sight of 35-50% Conservative. Even Manchin really isn’t one, getting a paltry 26% in 2020. The two most “Conservative” Democrats in the House in 2020, which were Collin Peterson (MN) and Ben McAdams (UT), both got a 19% and an 18% rating, still on the leftist fringe. Both were also defeated for reelection.
For another AZ example: Sen. Dennis DeConcini got a 34% lifetime Conservative rating from the ACU. On one occasion, he voted as high as 60% in 1982 (a reelection year, of course), though with the ascent of the ultraleftists demanding lock-step votes, his record went from sensible to loon by his last term, 45% in 1991 to just 4% in 1994. Even at that, he’d be WAY too far to the right to get nominated today.
But, in any event, even Sinema’s 86% leftist rating isn’t sufficient for the moonbat base. Moderate ? No. Her option will be to switch parties or to out-left the moonbats by 2024, but I suspect they’ll neither forgive nor forget her apostasy against this beyond-obscene spending bill.
If Sinema truly ran into trouble getting renominated, she could try to pull a Lieberman: become an Independent but still caucus with the Dems. Though it might not work as well if it turns out the bulk of the Dem vote goes with whoever the Dems nominate and the Republican vote largely stays with the GOP nominee.
The difference is that “Lucy van Pelt” Lieberman managed to sucker “Charlie Brown” CT Republicans into supporting him for one last term over ultra-Stalinazi Red Ned Lamont, despite the fact he had a nearly 99% leftist rating and gave them absolutely nothing in return.
If she runs as an Indy while maintaining her mostly-leftist (87%) rating with the Dems running an even more pure Stalinazi loon, that just guarantees any Republican with a pulse wins.
Bla, bla, blahhhhhhhhhhhh...
You just want to bang her.
You know as well as I do it’s not the total number of bills but the perception on WHAT bills she supports and doesn’t.
And I’m telling you as an Arizonian, she is NOT perceived here as a far leftist, and quite the contrary, she is viewed as a “DemoKKKrat we can work with” who is no less preferable than McTurd.
Perceptions are everything.
Nyetski.
Exactly.
Perceptions are one thing, the reality is often another. Especially when you consider where folks are getting their information from.
Da, tavarish!
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