Sinema Trolls Reporter When Pressed On Progressives' Frustration

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Sinema Trolls Reporter When Pressed On Progressives’ Frustration

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Sinema Trolls Reporter When Pressed On Progressives’ Frustration

Amid her continued reluctance to give an acceptable topline on the reconciliation bill, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) dodged NBC News’ Frank Thorp‘s question when asked about progressives’ frustration over her refusal to offer specifics on what she would like to see in the package.

“I’m in the Senate,” Sinema told Thorp.

After Thorp pointed out that there are progressives in the Senate who are also frustrated with her because they “don’t know where you are,” Sinema once again dodged.

“I’m clearly right in front of the elevator,” Sinema told Thorp.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/we-have-no-idea-whats-gonna-happen-either-bloggin

And THAT is one of the key people obstructing President Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda once again just trying to be a bit too "cute".

[ColinC]

1. i'm surprised she didn't try to feed them cake

[wryter2000]

2. Troll is the operative word

Someone here used it to describe her in the past. Manchin is obviously enjoying his time in the spotlight, making himself sound like the "reasonable, bipartisan" one. Sinema is merely trolling us.

[msongs]

3. she strikes me as being a frivolous and/or vacuous person

[BlueIdaho]

4. She's obviously busy

Preparing for her next career because she sure isn’t taking this one seriously.

[WHITT]

5. Not Cute

[brush]

6. It's becoming apparent that she pulled a fast one. She campaign as a progressive focused on...

climate change/environment and now may as well be in McTurtle's caucus.

It now seems she's a Trojan Horse planted in our party.

[Demguy81]

7. I'm assuming no

But, is there any way for Schumer to kick her out of the Democratic caucus?

I somewhat understand Manchin's schtick. He has to show some sort of fight to play well as a D in WV, but he at least knows when to sit down and deal.

On the other hand, I think Sinema is a sociopath, who really enjoys seeing people suffer. At this point, I'm willing to give up D control of the Senate if we have to spend another 1.5+ years of placating this obvious unstable and demented person.

We already had to deal with an unstable maniac in the White House for 4 years, please let's not do this again.

[ZonkerHarris]

10. Kick her out and hand the senate to Mitch? Really?

[Demguy81]

12. Why not?

It's sure not doing any good right now. Plus, it's likely going to lead to a bloodbath next year if we constantly have to deal with the bad faith negotiations.

I'd argue that staking out and drawing a line that Democrats actually have to be Democrats would lead to a much better strategic outlook than 1 year plus of R control of the Senate.

[ZonkerHarris]

14. This site is about supporting Democrats, not handing the Senate to the Republicans

[Efilroft Sul]

8. We don't need her unserious behavior for dealing with serious problems.

Christ, we got the frigging Republicans for that.

[ZonkerHarris]

9. Follow up question: Do you think Arizona voters want these word games you're playing now?

[Corgigal]

11. She's an embarrassing woman,

who isn’t acting like a serious adult. I guess she’s just counting down the days on her calendar until she starts her new Mitch McConnell job, for real money. She knows she can’t be re-elected.

[Red Mountain]

13. Pretty funny

flippantly messing with people's lives.

A laugh riot.

[budkin]

15. She's bought and paid for

It’s sick.

[FlyingPiggy]

16. To which he should respond, "why? To go down bc you are clearly not on the up and up"

Or are you just gonna run away from hard questions?