Sinema almost walked out on Biden last year in a tense exchange over Build Back Better

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...During a meeting with Democratic moderates, Biden revealed that Sinema had set her Build Back Better spending limit at $1.1 trillion — roughly one-third less than Sen. Joe Manchin's $1.5 trillion price tag.

Sinema appeared "visibly angry" at Biden for revealing details from their personal talks, Burns and Martin write. Biden aides had "feared that if Sinema drew a public red line at $1.1 trillion—a miserly sum by liberal standards—then the party would erupt in open war."

The authors wrote: "'Mr. President," she said, 'that was a private conversation.' Sinema began to stand up. She asked Biden: 'Do you want me to leave?'"

The president rushed to soothe tensions with the holdout. "If Biden resented her theatrics, he did not say so in the moment," Burns and Martin write. "He could not afford to lose her vote."...

https://www.businessinsider.com/kyrsten-sinema-build-back-better-plan-spending-book-2022-5

Kind of wish she had. That would have put one more nail in the coffin of her career as a "Democrat".

[bucolic_frolic]

1. That would have put one more nail in the coffin of a Democratic Senate

and Biden's immediate ability to pass legislation.

Really is an overblown right wing talking point from a right of center publication.

[brush]

3. Not really, she helped torpedo the bill. It never passed because of her...

and Manchin. That's no talking point. When you're so inflexible and can't get with your own president's agenda, what are you doing?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Yes, really. It would have flipped the Senate to Republicans.

[brush]

7. You might be misunderstanding. Are you reading her asking "do you want me to leave?"...

as leaving the party? IMO it was asking if he wanted her to leave the meeting.

[brush]

2. Disappointing to hear. The Party's chance to make a huge improvement...

in ordinary peoples' lives is at the mercy of a couple of...I don't know what to call them.

[unweird]

10. Disappointments, that's what you call them

Probably what their mothers would call them too

[brush]

11. Can't go too far. I've been alerted on recently for stronger words...

on those two. I don't want to get put in time out.

[Botany]

4. Sinema's job is to block Joe Biden for getting anything done and she will get 10s of millions of ...

... $s after she leaves office in 2024. She is bought and paid for by the rich and the pharmaceutical/medical
insurance industry. We need to make her irrelevant after the '22 elections.



BTW I think she is bipolar.

[WiVoter]

12. I Know We Need Her As A Dem (Manchin Too)

But I wonder why in their own minds they chose the Democratic Party.

[gldstwmn]

6. Ruben Gallego would make a great replacement for her.

[FBaggins]

9. "A miserly sum by liberal standards"

Not when compared to the current amount of $0.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. If Dems lose the senate, Sinema and Manchin must be expelled from the caucus. Nt

[Baked Potato]

14. Senate is a good gig when 50/50. Real seller's market. Nt

[11 Bravo]

15. Sinema doesn't walk, she flounces.

[KarenS]

17. that flounce and courtesy,,,,

is something I can never 'unsee' and I always remember it while seeing a video or picture of her.

[Takket]

16. How the hell is Biden supposed to propose a bill without saying what her number is?

[peggysue2]

18. Sinema has turned into a prima donna

Both she and Manchin need to be made irrelevant by adding seats to the Senate, so we can get the people's work done.

[MyOwnPeace]

19. B*t*h and moan as much as we want......

what you have said is the ONLY practical way to resolve this stalemate. It'll pull the rug out from under those two &%*%$#?^! "democraps" and get things moving for our party - AND our country!