Senator Sinema a little too happy for poverty wages to remain

[Nevilledog]

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I'm from AZ, and I'm not amused by this.....either the vote or the little dance.

[bullimiami]

1. I dont get her at all. How her background resulted in this current posture is baffling.

[Trueblue1968]

11. WELL,,,,, thank goodness My Oregon Senators don't behave like she does.

[Celerity]

30. Unfortunately 1 of mine (Feinstein) is w/ Sinema & Manchin in blocking the ending of the filibuster

Arfffff

[DSandra]

2. Seems like someone is paying a higher price for her vote than Democrats...

[PatSeg]

28. It kind of looks that way

[magicarpet]

3. Sinema was mimicking McCain with the thumbs down jesture,...

... in full camera view at the front of the clerk's desk. As McCain did during the big vote down of the Obama ACA that Mitch and trDump wanted to badly trash, but McCain prevented it from happening.

McCain achieved great notoriety for having done this in such dramatic fashion. Sinema wanted to stand in the same spotlight of notoriety,.. hoping to burnish and polish her Senate career, as was done by John McCain in the well of the US Senate.

Her little dance was the celebration of high drama she employed like McCain,.. but Sinema's high drama was far less noble purposes. Her thrill was denying low wage folks no minimum wage increase that they need so badly. Where as McCain provided assurances lower income people could retain affordable medical health insurance coverage for themselves and their families that otherwise they could not afford the high costs of insurance coverage.

[magicarpet]

6. McCain's thumbs down.....

[Mike 03]

12. Nice analysis.

I wish that had been a thumbs down on the filibuster.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Look at meeeee!

[onecaliberal]

5. This needs to be shown to the people who voted for her thinking she was going to do what she said.

She lied.

[wellst0nev0ter]

26. This needs to be shown to Schumer

who personally recruited this turncoat.

[bearsfootball516]

7. So. When was the last time a sitting Democratic senator lost a primary challenge?

[kcr]

8. I hope that costs her n/t

[Trueblue1968]

13. i agree with you and i hope she gets yelled at by all her constituatents

[Mike 03]

9. There's no shortage of poverty here in this state

We have many Native American reservations, poor health care, hospitals that don't function that well, many uninsured, etc...

As she well knows.

[Nevilledog]

10. Almost 900k people in AZ impacted by this vote.

[Mike 03]

17. Thank you for the information. That is a breathtaking number.

Sinema really frustrates me. I was thrilled beyond words when she won her senate seat.

I just don't know anymore...

[roamer65]

14. If she gets primaried, that will be a TV ad.

Dumb move.

[leftstreet]

15. You'd expect this from a TrumpHumper

Is she copying Boebert and Greene hoping for a little attention?

ugh

[smirkymonkey]

16. I'm sorry, but that disgusts me.

Democrat or not. It's appalling.

[Celerity]

29. And yet I predict a swarm will instead somehow blame the so-called 'far' left for all of it. NT

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. I was told we absolutely had to hold the senate. Huh.

[Silent3]

27. We do have to hold the Senate. But not, apparently, to do great things...

...but merely to prevent worse things from happening.

A unsatisfying victory at this point, only made better when compared to the very dismal alternative of McConnell being in charge.

[RandiFan1290]

19. What a disgusting display.

I am grateful to have Senators like Bernie Sanders fighting for me.

[vsrazdem]

20. AZ minimum wage is currently 12.15/hr. So she is clearly not doing it

for her constituents, as we voted to increase the wage 3 years ago. For what reason is she doing this?

[Mike 03]

21. This was the DU OP that finally got me off my ass to write to Senator Sinema

about the filibuster and HR 1.

In the past, my letters have been mostly favorable.

I hope others let her know their thoughts too, and that someone in her office reads her email.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

22. Disgusting.

Nothing else to say.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

23. Can't say it, because I might get banned get banned if I do. nt

[madaboutharry]

24. Immaturity in the Senate is apparently bipartisan.

Dignity is lost on some people.

[jalan48]

25. Congress is becoming more like high school student council every day.