I Can’t Wait Until Krysten Sinema Is Irrelevant

The Arizona senator was trolling her Democratic colleagues in remarks delivered at the McConnell Center.

“Not everyone likes me,” Senator Krysten Sinema joked with the audience following remarks made at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville.

At least she knows.

Still, she obviously doesn’t care whether she’s liked or not.

After all, the Democratic Senator was there for her “friend,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Speaking on their friendship, Sinema said, “While we may not agree on every issue, we do share the same values.”

What might those values be? I’d assume money, greed, power, and in the pursuit of each, recklessness, thoughtlessness, and obstructionism. And that’s just top of mind.

Sinema offered other values, which understandably, might stoke laughter in those familiar with both.

“Our pragmatic approach to legislating. Our respect for the Senate as an institution. Our love of our home states, and a dogged determination of our constituents.”

McConnell is a man who embraces being referred to as the “Grim Reaper.” Someone, who immediately said after the first Black president of the United States of America was inaugurated, that he wanted to make him a one term president. And when he failed in that, he successfully blocked one of his Supreme Court nominees from getting a hearing. Worse, he’s already teasing doing the same thing to President Biden.

Only would Krysten Sinema, who nearly blew up one of Biden’s signature pieces of legislation for the hell of it, find a politician who operates like that to be pragmatic. She is the person that infamously voted down on a minimum wage hike in the most cartoonish and obnoxious way imaginable. Much like Senator Joe Manchin, she is a narcissist and obstructionist that clings to archaic Senate traditions because it benefits them.

No wonder McConnell likes her so much, saying in his introduction of her that she is the “most effective first-term senator” he’s seen during his 37 years in the Senate.

“She is, today, what we have too few of in the Democratic Party: a genuine moderate and a dealmaker,” McConnell claimed.

“As you can tell,” McConnell noted, “I have a very high opinion of the senator from Arizona.”

While I know not to take Krysten Sinema seriously, her smugness and active trolling are no less irritating.

“I have an incredibly unpopular view,” Sinema told the crowd in Kentucky. After saying she supported requiring 60 votes to pass legislation in the Senate, she claimed that she wanted to go even further.

“I actually think we should restore the 60-vote threshold for the areas in which it has been eliminated already. We should restore it,” Sineam argued.

“It would make it harder for us to confirm judges,” she explained. “And it would make it harder for us to confirm executive appointments in each administration.” In her mind, this would force compromise and lead to “more of that middle ground in all parts of our governance.”

As silly as that sounds, it’s her admonishment of people that know better that is most grating.

“Frustration” with the filibuster, Sinema explained, “represents solely the short-term angst of not getting what you want. And those of you who are parents in the room know that the best thing you can do for your child is not give them everything they want.”

Says the woman that holds up legislation to make sure her donors can avoid paying taxes as much as possible.

Some people continue to express shock at Sinema’s actions as Senator.

Among them include Keith Olbermann, who apparently used to date her.

In response to her comments floating around the internet, the former ESPN and MSNBC anchor tweeted, “When we dated, in 2010–11, Kyrsten was a legit progressive, far to my left. Now she has embraced the Political Industry where there is only process, not policy, and never people.”

Yes, she’s a fraud and a sellout, but this isn’t breaking news. She tipped her hand years ago, and is only now growing more irritating. If you cling to a Senate rule referred to as a Jim Crow relic for personal gain, it tells me everything I need to know about you. It says even more when you try to speak sanctimoniously about a tool for white supremacy.

I don’t care if Krysten Sinema wears clothes that make her stand out in a Senate full of old white men, she is not that interesting.

She is a liar and a fraud.

She’s also a coward.

Sinema is the same senator who has not held one public meeting with constituents in Arizona. She claims to fight so hard for Arizonians but won’t meet any of them in person. Who wants a parent analogy from a deadbeat like that?

I find Krysten Sinema to be annoying, but not naive.

I imagine what actually motivates her support of the filibuster is that it allows her to command more attention than she otherwise would get as a U.S. senator. Should the Democrats gain a seat or two after the midterm elections, Democrats could conceivably have enough votes to eliminate or at least dramatically alter the filibuster. Then she could no longer garner so much press for obstructing the agenda of the leader of her party.

It sounds like she’s still hoping they lose.

In the Q&A portion of her McConnell Center speech, she said, “As you all know, control changes between the House & the Senate every couple of years. It’s likely to change again in just a few weeks.”

Congressman Ruben Gallego, who has been encouraged to primary challenge Sinema, echoed the sentiment, tweeting: “I mean you could be out there helping our candidates @SenatorSinema But my sense is that you would actually prefer the Dems lose control of the Senate and House.”

She could, but she won’t, opting instead to hang out with her “friend” Mitch McConnell and lecture Democrats about working with bigots, sexists, and obstructionists currently in a personality cult themed around Donald Trump.

No wonder so many people can’t stand her.