Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Privately Blew Up Biden Nominee Needed to Enact Regulatory Agenda

[chuluma]

Source: The Intercept

ARIZONA SEN. KYRSTEN SINEMA was the one to scuttle President Joe Biden’s choice to head the obscure but all-important Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to sources familiar with the standoff.

The office was created to help speed — or, more accurately, make somewhat less torturous — the process of writing regulations, which requires input from the public, legal reviews, and coordination among a variety of agencies. The office will be crucial for implementing the Inflation Reduction Act, particularly its climate provisions, and with the House and Senate not guaranteed a Democratic majority come January, it could play an outsize role in carrying out Biden’s agenda.

The Biden administration began vetting Ganesh Sitaraman, a law professor at Vanderbilt University, in 2021. On August 24, in a piece criticizing the Biden administration for dragging its feet, Politico reported that Sitaraman’s potential nomination ran into trouble amid concern that “he couldn’t win support from the moderate Democratic lawmakers needed to secure confirmation.” In fact, two sources close to the situation told The Intercept, Sitaraman was on the cusp of being publicly nominated in early spring when Sinema informed the White House of last-minute hesitations, wanting to slow down the process. The sources were not authorized to speak publicly.




Read more: https://theintercept.com/2022/08/26/kyrsten-sinema-biden-oira/

[BlueIdaho]

1. How do I hate thee, let me count the ways...

Time for her to walk the plank 😡

[Pisces]

5. I'm with you! She's doing as much damage as she can. There is no way she is running again.

[PatSeg]

15. Yep and that's why she doesn't care

what people think. She probably has some cushy job lined up for when she leaves office.

[Gore1FL]

2. I am surprised it was done privately.

Usually she is in “LOOK AT ME!” Mode.

[chuluma]

4. She may have hoped no one would find out

Didn't work out.

[Lemon Lyman]

3. Ugh

I can't believe you can run as one candidate, and legislate as another...esp considering senators serve 6-year terms. Someone could (or in the case, has) run as a lefty lefty, and govern as a righty righty.

I'm not for recalls as repubs use them (we couldn't beat you before so we'd like another chance at it). But when someone is the opposite of who they claimed to be...

[Novara]

8. Citizens United

"I can't believe you can run as one candidate, and legislate as another."

It's been obvious her entire career that she will only do the bidding of her corporate donors because THEY will work to keep her in office, not her constituents. Her constituents may get tired of her act and vote her out, but then she'll be rewarded with a comfy guaranteed golden ride from one of the donors she was most loyal to while in office.

That's how it works since Citizens United.

[agingdem]

6. Middle school mean girl Sinema is so toxic

her partner in "bipartisan" obstruction, Joe Manchin, privately negotiated the Inflation Reduction Act without her and dared her to fuck it up...

[OhioTim]

7. Make Her Irrelevant

I see us picking up senate seats that would make her and Manchin irrelevant. Then primary her.

[calimary]

11. Definitely! More Dems in the Senate will cut her power and importance.

[mucifer]

26. Only if we keep the gerrymandered house

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Sitaraman used to work for Elizabeth Warren

Is this just petty revenge?

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Money.

Saved some greedheads some seriously big bucks.

[justhanginon]

13. Corporate callgirl. They call, she "dances".

[2naSalit]

23. +1

[spudspud]

14. Given her behavior and the viable opponent in the upcoming primary...

it will be very interesting to see whether she actually has the gall to try to seek re-election.

[Snackshack]

16. I Have Zero

Respect for this woman. When she first came on to the scene in Az everyone was thrilled with her as a candidate. She did a very good job of pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. I don’t think she ever really intended to govern as a Dem, I think she was always a Republican at heart and was a plant by the gop. Both her and the magnanimous Manchin need to go.

I hope the senate results will allow the Dems to finally kick both to the curb. 🤞🤞🤞

[Raster]

17. I campaigned for Sinema, donated to Sinema and voted for Sinema.

I want my time, my money and my vote back.

Sinema. Is. A. Huge. Disappointment.

#ArizonaDeservesBetterThanSinema #PrimarySinema

[JohnSJ]

24. You realize she used to be registered with the Green Party?

[onecaliberal]

18. I wish there was recourse for all the people she lied to.

This cancerous sack of shit is only in it for herself.

[czarjak]

19. Just being The Good Mormon?

[Lunabell]

20. Soon, her vote will be irrelevant.

And she can just go ahead and join the rethuglican party.

[OMGWTF]

21. We need to make Sinema and Manchin irrelevant. Fuck 'em both!

[LiberalFighter]

22. Guess who won't receive financial support from the Democratic Senate PAC?

Or receive access to voter database?

[LittleGirl]

25. I feel conned

I will never vote for her again. I will vote for her primary candidate when it comes. She has four more years! Ugh.
I really hate that woman.

[mopinko]

27. fyi, the intercept is a shitty source.

lotsa putlers propaganda in there.
not saying this isnt accurate. it might be. but i wont believe it just cuz the intercert sez so.