Sinema emerges as Senate dealmaker amid progressive angst

[riversedge]

Sinema emerges as Senate dealmaker amid progressive angst


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/561510-sinema-emerges-as-senate-dealmaker-amid-progressive-angst?rl=1


By Jordain Carney - 07/04/21 12:00 PM EDT



Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is leaning into her role as the Senate’s newest dealmaker amid rising pressure from progressives who are increasingly irritated over the centrist’s support for the filibuster.

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She won an early victory with the bipartisan infrastructure deal endorsed by President Biden, a moment that allowed her to hit back at skeptics. The deal, she said, “shows that when a group of people who are committed, with shared values, to solving the problems and challenges our country faces, we can use bipartisanship to solve these challenges.”

The Arizonan’s role in the talks is her highest-profile negotiation but not her only bipartisan effort. She is also involved in minimum wage and immigration talks and helped broker a deal last year between then-Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that smoothed the way for a coronavirus relief bill.

It’s the sort of work that leans on Sinema’s deep ties with GOP senators, cultivated since she joined the chamber in 2019.

“She was really the chair of the operation and moved things forward and pushed both sides on various issues to get to a middle ground,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), adding that Sinema was a “can-do person, and I like working with a can-do person.” ........................

[aocommunalpunch]

1. Romney is cool with Sinema.

Did I miss anything? Oh, and progressives are angsty. Unrec.

[secondwind]

2. So now Democrats today are not can-do folks??

[WA-03 Democrat]

3. Wow

I did not know Sen. Sinema was such the deal maker. Passing and leading the entire infrastructure bill through Senate. What, she didn’t. They haven’t even voted on it. Oh yeah this reads like a paid puff piece. Couple of key facts left out.

This was the best quote from The Hill (Of bullshit):
“I think the way that she has positioned herself and the corner she has backed herself into if she doesn't move is not sustainable. ... She is just not accepting the reality of today’s Senate,” said Eli Zupnick, a spokesperson for Fix Our Senate.

[brush]

10. Agreed. Such bs from "The Hill". And the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and I give it to him...

grudgingly, was Manchin's achievement not Sinema's. Manchin made that happen. IMO Sinema, a former Green Party member, still follows that party's agenda which is always to help republicans defeat Democrats.

She's in over her head.

[Takket]

4. "Sinema's deep ties with GOP senators, cultivated since she joined the chamber in 2019"

Surely the author realizes the absurdity of this sentence?

Sinema's position right now is of the person that just sat down at the poker table with some grizzled old sharks. Miraculously she has managed to "win" a few hands and is now up a few thousand dollars and throwing even more money on the pot. Seriously. 2019? She's being played. When the chips are down on voting rights she's going to come up empty, and all those "cultivated" relationships are going to slam shut in her face in Jan 2023 when McConnell is back in control and shuts down the Biden presidency for good.

[BradAllison]

6. She's a fucking lightweight

She may not know it, and meanwhile The Hill writing this stan fiction for her is nauseating.

[CrispyQ]

8. An excellent analogy! I agree with every word. -nt

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

5. Sinema is being duped by the repugs

The repugs are only pretending to want to negotiate. Their goal is to dupe Sinema and Manchin into wasting a lot of valuable time.

[JI7]

7. She is not some naive innocent in this.

[Nexus2]

11. The GOP plan seems clear.

They're looking to run out the clock until their supposedly ordained return to power during the midterms, playing supposedly reasonable or obstructionist as needed.

[BlueJac]

9. I dislike her a lot.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. I wonder how much Sinema paid The Hill to run this puff piece? Nt