Kyrsten Sinema's run out of excuses: Supreme Court leaves Senate Democrats with little choice

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Amanda Marcotte
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The latest SCOTUS strike at voting rights is about letting Republicans cheat @SenatorSinema out of her Arizona re-election. She may not care about saving democracy, but why does she love the filibuster more than her own Senate seat? I have theories.

Kyrsten Sinema's run out of excuses: Supreme Court leaves Senate Democrats with little choice
Kyrsten Sinema may not care about saving democracy — but why doesn't she care about saving her own Senate seat?
salon.com
10:16 AM · Jul 2, 2021

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/02/kyrsten-sinemas-run-out-of-excuses-supreme-court-leaves-senate-democrats-with-little-choice/

Is Kyrsten Sinema a troll?

There's been disturbing signs in the past that the senior senator from Arizona gets cheap thrills by provoking outraged reactions from her fellow travelers in the Democratic party. Most notably, of course, there was the time Sinema threw a cute little cursty while voting against a minimum wage raise she claims to "support," predictably drawing thousands of angry responses. She then released a photo provoking large swaths of Democratic voters at the height of their anger at her unwillingness to vote to end the filibuster Republicans use to block all meaningful legislation. In the photo, Sinema is seen flashing a ring that reads "f*ck off" with a smile. And then, in a move any 4chan user would envy, she dramatically increased the rage-sputtering on the left by declaring it "sexist" to be mad at her for any of this.

Sinema again pulled her signature gaslighting move — piously claiming to support legislation while actively blocking it — after the Supreme Court upheld a racist voting suppression law in her very own state on Thursday:

Again, it's worth wondering if Sinema is simply trolling here.

She knows full well that Republicans unanimously blocked voting rights legislation from even being debated in the Senate just last week. She also knows she and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia are the only two Democratic senators who refuse to strip this near-absolute veto power away from Republicans. Being a co-sponsor of the bill is a meaningless gesture when she is the person keeping voting rights bills from even being debated in the upper chamber.

*snip*