After all the disappointment we suffered this week, we can take some comfort in the fact that Kyrsten Sinema’s career in electoral politics is already over. Dead Senator Walking. Yes, she’s done a lot of damage, and it’s going to be difficult to remedy. It’s three years to 2024, and she can do more damage. And being a Green at heart, she probably will. But none of that, none of her hijinks, none of the game-playing to come, can change her electoral fate. In political terms, she’s already Dead Senator Walking. Up until this morning, the delightful part of it was that she doesn’t even seem to realize it yet.
Ms. Sinema's recent Instagram selfie, wearing a cap, drinking a pink drink from a straw, and prominently displaying a gold "F*** You" ring was such an end-stage display of self-centered immaturity. I hope you're right that this "Senator" who shows zero principles, zero compassion, and zero idealogical coherence has zero political future.
Well, I too hope you are correct in your analysis. First Mark Kelly must be re-elected. "Cinema" has crashed as far as democrats are concerned whether in Arizona or nationally. But "Mansion" has also done dumb with regard to the child care tax credit (he does not want an 'entitlement' mentality! - with children's lives on the line - terrible. Given the state of his state as deep red with dems hanging out in small clusters here and there, he maymove over to the r's in order to get re-elected. OR expecting that r's will support him anyway as an r in d clothing, he'll run as a dem and keep thwarting a political agenda a majority of Americans want, need, and should have. After all, he needs to stay at the center of the economic action for the benefit of his son and daughter and all their fingers in various pies of oil, gas, and pharmaceuticals. I'm hoping for Warnock and Kelly to pull it out in 2022. If people can understand the real danger the nation faces maybe they'll stop handing their votes over to a party (gop) that has Fascism on its mind but can't quite spell it clearly. They're spelling the word conservative, but that's not what it is.
Hear, hear, TC! You tell her what's what! But, while " Dead Senator Walking" sounds good, she hasn't felt the pangs of wanting to be forgiven ... not yet, at least!
I fear that in her usual unprincipled and attention desiring way, she might jump to the other side of the aisle just to stick a finger in everyone's eye, just because she can, and just because she's drunk on hubris...also dumb.
I'm holding you to this, TC! Plus, and you may have said this in another way, but another reason she could not make it as a Republican is though they may have loved her for stabbing her own party in the back, they certainly can't ever trust her not to do the same to them in the future.
Did you think that TC was intoxicated while he repeatedly threw Sinema against the wall? Are her kishkes hanging out? (kishke is Slavic in origin, and literally means "gut" or "intestine.") Wikipedia
In case you haven't had enough, here's some more.
'Arizona Democrats Have Turned on Kyrsten Sinema'
'Just 8 percent of her party’s voters view the senator favorably. What could she be thinking?'
'Polling data can be hard to parse, and it’s never smart to extrapolate the views of an entire population from the results of a single survey. All the same, by any measure , it appears that Arizona Democrats are not too pleased with the job performance of their senior senator.'
'You rarely see this rapid a turning-on-one’s-own in party politics. Over the past year, in Civiqs polling, Sinema went from a 50 percent net favorable rating among Arizona Dems to a 72 percent net unfavorable rating.'
'Other recent polls have also turned up ominous, if slightly less disastrous, results for the senator.'
'Arizona Dems aren’t being capricious. They seem to be paying close attention to what’s going on in Washington: The two major inflection points on the chart coincide with Sinema’s vote in March 2021 against including a minimum wage hike in the COVID relief bill and her May 2021 decision to skip the Senate’s vote on establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.'
'She’s siding with the GOP way more often than she needs to—and according to Civiqs’ tracking, she’s even 20 points under water with independents, who flipped on her in early 2021 around the time she signaled her opposition to raising the minimum wage in the COVID package'
'That’s not the weird part. We should expect that party-registered voters would care that the senator they elected is repeatedly tanking their party’s agenda at a rare and precious moment when they control both chambers of Congress in addition the White House.'
'The weird thing here is that Sinema, who could stand to lose a Democratic primary if she runs for re-election in 2024, doesn’t seem to care. Usually, legislators’ positions on issues are informed by some combination of their own beliefs, the interests of their donors, and those of their constituents. So what are we to make of the fact that, at a crucial turning point for U.S. democracy and a record low point in her standing among the people who put her in office, Sinema opted to derail the Democrats’ voting rights legislation? Does she have some deeply held personal attachment to the filibuster, an institution whose history she can’t even get right?'
'Right now, Sinema’s future prospects look a lot more like Flake’s than McCain’s, albeit on the other side of the aisle.'
'One often-repeated theory is that Sinema simply doesn’t intend to run for office again and may see her future in lobbying. But U.S. senators don’t usually dash for that door after just a single term in office. Recently, journalist Amy Siskind claimed that Sinema hopes to run for president in 2024 as a straight-down-the-middle candidate, and she’s establishing a legislative history to back herself up. It seems almost too bizarre to be true—but then again, so does the rest of her behavior.' (Slate) See link below.
I agree with almost all of your sentiments and appreciate the verve and attitudes with which you express them. Sinema deserves all that anybody can throw at her, and it deserves repetition for the next three years. But you should also give credit to John Marshall at TPM for this.
Ms. Sinema's recent Instagram selfie, wearing a cap, drinking a pink drink from a straw, and prominently displaying a gold "F*** You" ring was such an end-stage display of self-centered immaturity. I hope you're right that this "Senator" who shows zero principles, zero compassion, and zero idealogical coherence has zero political future.
Well, I too hope you are correct in your analysis. First Mark Kelly must be re-elected. "Cinema" has crashed as far as democrats are concerned whether in Arizona or nationally. But "Mansion" has also done dumb with regard to the child care tax credit (he does not want an 'entitlement' mentality! - with children's lives on the line - terrible. Given the state of his state as deep red with dems hanging out in small clusters here and there, he maymove over to the r's in order to get re-elected. OR expecting that r's will support him anyway as an r in d clothing, he'll run as a dem and keep thwarting a political agenda a majority of Americans want, need, and should have. After all, he needs to stay at the center of the economic action for the benefit of his son and daughter and all their fingers in various pies of oil, gas, and pharmaceuticals. I'm hoping for Warnock and Kelly to pull it out in 2022. If people can understand the real danger the nation faces maybe they'll stop handing their votes over to a party (gop) that has Fascism on its mind but can't quite spell it clearly. They're spelling the word conservative, but that's not what it is.
Thank you, T.C., for this clear-eyed and vivid portrait of Ms. Enema! I am feeling more than a little schadenfreude. May it be so!
Hear, hear, TC! You tell her what's what! But, while " Dead Senator Walking" sounds good, she hasn't felt the pangs of wanting to be forgiven ... not yet, at least!
I fear that in her usual unprincipled and attention desiring way, she might jump to the other side of the aisle just to stick a finger in everyone's eye, just because she can, and just because she's drunk on hubris...also dumb.
Sizzlin skewer on the spit, TC. Satisfying summary.
Her Russian fan club must be scrambling to find her some back alley support. As I’ve said before, what a puta. Pfffft.
I'm holding you to this, TC! Plus, and you may have said this in another way, but another reason she could not make it as a Republican is though they may have loved her for stabbing her own party in the back, they certainly can't ever trust her not to do the same to them in the future.
Did you think that TC was intoxicated while he repeatedly threw Sinema against the wall? Are her kishkes hanging out? (kishke is Slavic in origin, and literally means "gut" or "intestine.") Wikipedia
In case you haven't had enough, here's some more.
'Arizona Democrats Have Turned on Kyrsten Sinema'
'Just 8 percent of her party’s voters view the senator favorably. What could she be thinking?'
'Polling data can be hard to parse, and it’s never smart to extrapolate the views of an entire population from the results of a single survey. All the same, by any measure , it appears that Arizona Democrats are not too pleased with the job performance of their senior senator.'
'You rarely see this rapid a turning-on-one’s-own in party politics. Over the past year, in Civiqs polling, Sinema went from a 50 percent net favorable rating among Arizona Dems to a 72 percent net unfavorable rating.'
'Other recent polls have also turned up ominous, if slightly less disastrous, results for the senator.'
'Arizona Dems aren’t being capricious. They seem to be paying close attention to what’s going on in Washington: The two major inflection points on the chart coincide with Sinema’s vote in March 2021 against including a minimum wage hike in the COVID relief bill and her May 2021 decision to skip the Senate’s vote on establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.'
'She’s siding with the GOP way more often than she needs to—and according to Civiqs’ tracking, she’s even 20 points under water with independents, who flipped on her in early 2021 around the time she signaled her opposition to raising the minimum wage in the COVID package'
'That’s not the weird part. We should expect that party-registered voters would care that the senator they elected is repeatedly tanking their party’s agenda at a rare and precious moment when they control both chambers of Congress in addition the White House.'
'The weird thing here is that Sinema, who could stand to lose a Democratic primary if she runs for re-election in 2024, doesn’t seem to care. Usually, legislators’ positions on issues are informed by some combination of their own beliefs, the interests of their donors, and those of their constituents. So what are we to make of the fact that, at a crucial turning point for U.S. democracy and a record low point in her standing among the people who put her in office, Sinema opted to derail the Democrats’ voting rights legislation? Does she have some deeply held personal attachment to the filibuster, an institution whose history she can’t even get right?'
'Right now, Sinema’s future prospects look a lot more like Flake’s than McCain’s, albeit on the other side of the aisle.'
'One often-repeated theory is that Sinema simply doesn’t intend to run for office again and may see her future in lobbying. But U.S. senators don’t usually dash for that door after just a single term in office. Recently, journalist Amy Siskind claimed that Sinema hopes to run for president in 2024 as a straight-down-the-middle candidate, and she’s establishing a legislative history to back herself up. It seems almost too bizarre to be true—but then again, so does the rest of her behavior.' (Slate) See link below.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/poll-only-8-percent-of-arizona-democrats-view-kyrsten-sinema-favorably.html
Sounds true.
I agree with almost all of your sentiments and appreciate the verve and attitudes with which you express them. Sinema deserves all that anybody can throw at her, and it deserves repetition for the next three years. But you should also give credit to John Marshall at TPM for this.