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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSinema slams delay of infrastructure vote: 'Inexcusable'
Good-faith negotiations, the Arizona centrist argued, "require trust."
"Over the course of this year, Democratic leaders have made conflicting promises that could not all be kept and have, at times, pretended that differences of opinion within our party did not exist, even when those disagreements were repeatedly made clear directly and publicly," Sinema said in a statement.
Canceling the infrastructure vote further erodes that trust. More importantly, it betrays the trust the American people have placed in their elected leaders and denies our country crucial investments to expand economic opportunities, Sinema continued.
In August, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed through the Senate in August in a 69-30 vote. The bill sought to provide funding for "traditional" infrastructure such as repairing bridges and roads. The bill was negotiated by President Biden as well as Senate moderates from both sides of the aisle.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/575026-sinema-slams-delay-of-infrastructure-vote-inexcusable
RandySF
(58,799 posts)SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)Deep State Witch
(10,425 posts)She's one of the reasons they're delaying!!!1
Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)She has no self-awareness and seems to like to say things just for the sake of being negative.
brush
(53,776 posts)legislation in decades, as she had to rush home to AZ for a fundrai...er ah...doctor's appointment.
What a joke she is. Her main concern is not for the people or the success of her party, it's for her own re-election.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)I guess that's why she's so in favor of the Physical Infrastructure bill, gotta rebuild all those bridges she's burning...
brush
(53,776 posts)Good turn of phrase.
Celerity
(43,343 posts)Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)primary opponent faster than a New York minute.
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)dalton99a
(81,475 posts)OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)bamagal62
(3,257 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,599 posts)bluewater
(5,376 posts)DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)This unserious menace isn't qualified to look up the definition of "trust" in a dictionary, let alone criticize party leaders about trust.
Celerity
(43,343 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)niyad
(113,284 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)End of discussion.
Beetwasher.
(2,971 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)you communicate your anger PRIVATELY.
At what point are we going to have ANY requirement that Sinema acts like part of the team?
We ended yesterday with a great feeling and sense that we were going to come together on some sort of compromise.
Explain to me why Sinema couldn't let that sit for 24 hours before dropping a turd in the punchbowl?
Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)She is a total loose canon, trying to get a handle on her.
Exactly, she had to come in right away and kill the buzz of the great day yesterday.
I can guess why she did that, but would like more information first.
There are only so many explanations for her behavior.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)she's pushing a brand. She wants to be the maverick with ovaries. She seems to think that shitting on her party is the path to long term success.
She's not a Democrat, Manchin is a Democrat. A very conservative one who does a lot of stuff I can't stand, but you don't see him out there saying this stuff.
She has one goal, power. She's decided the way to get it is to be the lone wolf maverick like she thinks McCain was, except McCain was mostly a loyal republican. He picked his spots. She does not.
Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)Claiming some sort of victim status, she was done wrong by the big bad Dems?
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)most of what she does is performance art.
Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)And now the drama, pretending she was wronged by her Dem colleagues.
Maybe she should go to Hollywood, she would fit in better perhaps.
Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)crickets
(25,969 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,662 posts)I'm having a hard time keeping up
bluewater
(5,376 posts)Painting both Sinema and Machin into more of a corner.
But, of course, both senators still have plenty of room to be mavericky.
XanaDUer2
(10,662 posts)I can barely keep up sometimes
Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)Sinema and Manchin's plan crashes and burns after a key miscalculation
Multiple reports confirmed that the president's message was clear. The bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in August isn't going to pass the House until there's a deal within the Democratic Party on the reconciliation bill which includes a slew of tax increases and social program spending that progressives are demanding.
What this means in the short term is that the more conservative Democrats including Sinema and Manchin, but also some House members such as Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey aren't getting their way. They wanted the bipartisan infrastructure bill to pass the House and become law before the formal negotiations began on the reconciliation package.
Manchin, Sinema, and Gottheimer seemed genuinely surprised that their plan didn't work. But there's no reason for shock. The congressional progressives and the Democratic leadership made clear from the start that they viewed both bills as an inseparable pair the "two-track process," as it was called. Everyone was aware of this despite Manchin's later claims of ignorance. This process was the reason progressives tolerated the conservatives' efforts during the spring and summer to work extensively with Republicans to get bipartisan agreement in the Senate on the infrastructure bill.
https://www.rawstory.com/manchin-sinema/
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)Yet Biden made clear he would only sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill if Congress also approves a larger measure focused on "human infrastructure" programs like subsidized child care, home caregiving and climate change that only Democrats support.
Who could that possibly be over Biden's left shoulder?
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)Said the arsonist.
Takket
(21,563 posts)and in your mind every time you see Sinema, replace it with McConnell. And tell me that statement doesn't read EXACTLY like it could have come from McConnell's talking points memo.
It reads exactly like a Republican talking point statement.
Ollie Garkie
(186 posts)That I forgot to laugh!
G_j
(40,367 posts)approach
ColinC
(8,291 posts)She knows damn well what she is doing is inexcusable and threatening the well being of millions of people. Sociopath.
Celerity
(43,343 posts)@kyrstensinema
We need to make health care more affordable, lower prescription drug prices, and fix the problems in the system not go back to letting insurance companies call all the shots. #AZSen
Link to tweet
A Pro-Biden Super Pac even ran adverts for her in summer 2021
BUT THEN...................................
Sinema tells White House shes opposed to current prescription drug plan
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/kyrsten-sinema-biden-drug-pricing-prescription-plan-512907
Big Pharma, medical firms donated $750K to Kyrsten Sinema then she opposed drug bill
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/big-pharma-firms-donated-750k-to-kyrsten-sinema--then-she-opposed-bill/
also
soooooooo
she can spare me the whingeing about good-faith
(and I have not even brought up all the other lobbyist and corporate money that she has raked in and how she now opposes most of the Biden tax increases to varying degrees)
It is all working out SO well for her.............
her numbers with AZ Dems: Favourable 17%, Unfavourable 65%
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/27/2054753/-Sinema-s-unforced-errors-have-cost-her-big-time-with-Arizona-Democrats
budkin
(6,703 posts)She is beyond the pale.
moondust
(19,979 posts)reinforces progressives' distrust that the reconciliation bill will get passed if they would just hurry up and pass the infrastructure bill first.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)I say she's a GOP plant.
SunImp
(2,224 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)This is beyond surreal.
She is as mentally ill as TFG