Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) announced Friday she’s no longer a Democrat. She’s not going to caucus with Republicans and won’t say whether she will with Democrats, plus she gets to keep her committee assignments. It seems like the best of all possible outcomes for a principled person, but will others follow her flight from partisan extremists? Sen. Joe Manchin…phone your office.
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12 replies on “Sen. Sinema Declares Independence from Democrats: Will Others Join Her Flight from Extremists?”
This is the SECOND video I couldn’t listen too. Bill’s mike is garbage on these vids. I know Bill says, when these glitches arise, “Oh I didn’t know” or “there was a tech snafu” and then jokes about this being the best produced programming on the internet…OK ha ha… joke is old…how about we just FIX the issues and stop making mistakes…
Many’s the slip twixt the cup and the lip.
Don’t be fooled by Sinema. She voted TWICE to impeach President Trump. This is a ploy. There is no independent party and by becoming one she will not have to compete in the primary. She said she will caucus with the Dems and keep her Dem committee assignments. RED Kabuki-herring! Who believes she is suddenly not a Communist democrat anymore? The fact of who she REALLY is is in a video of her talking to her voters after she was elected. She made fun of AZ voters, laughing about how she had fooled them! I will never forget that disclosure. It’s been buried on the internet. Clever twit!!
Sinema, like so many others with a ‘d’ after their name, knows full will the GOP is the better party for the American people in this day and age, but will never join the Republicans because she also knows, full well, the second she as much as hints at that she will be nothing more than just another target of the newest version of the democrat media klan and they will destroy her.
The only potential upside of this is that now the dims will run somebody against her in the next senatorial election in AZ. In which case, she will split the vote, and a conservative just might win. Depending on who counts the votes, and controls the voter rolls of course.
Bill’s hopeful appeal for a sensible middle-ground part of moderation is cute. Power is the only driver of politics. Power is more easily obtained undiluted. The reason the Left is going hard left is that this will end up being the “takers” voting to get more from the “makers”. We’re already over 50% takers, the only reason we haven’t gone hard left is Christianity, morals, and the Constitution. That’s why the Left is anti-all of those things.
Yah, his dream is cute. However, a quick look at Australian politics tells you that does not work. Ultimately, they have to form coalitions to get anything done. So, I have to vote for your bill that allows guys in girls bathrooms to get you to vote for my bill to fund the military. Just doesn’t work.
Now, in the mix here what was lost was the discussion of RINO’s. The republicans have several who already consider themselves independent, and caucus with the dims as much as the R’s. Romney, Collins, Murkowski (who even ran as an independent last time), and others who are retiring.
So, yah- Sinema is still a leftist in most things. And she will keep her committee assignments because they can reliably count on her to do their bidding.
Ultimately, the real solution is to repeal the 17th amendment (my dream) and get us back to the constitutional republic where senators are appointed ONLY to represent their state’s interest. And appointed by the states themselves. That amendment alone has had more to do with our downfall than any other. Some might add the 16th, but I would argue this was the worst thing to happen in American history.
We should make a list of “Worst things that happened in American (Constitutional/Bill of Rights/Supreme Court) history.”
1)16th, 17th, and 18th Amendments
2)Johnson’s Civil Rights Act
3)Roe v. Wade
4)Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Kelo v. City of New London, Korematsu v. United States
The 12th amendment in 1804 is, essentially, the reason we have two political parties. Before the 12th amendment, we just voted for President and the person running for President with the 2nd most votes became Vice President.
After the 12th Amendment, the President and Vice President were voted for separately. This gave political parties much more power because the candidates for President and Vice President could align themselves and run as a single “ticket”. That way, the winning presidential candidate would not have an opposing party Vice President.
Since this only works for the President and Vice President, that is the reason we, essentially, have a two-party system instead of many parties like most other countries.
Yes add the 17th amendment to that and you see the brilliance of the founders that has since been destroyed. Imagine Joe Biden having to have Donald Trump as a VP, and he acts as he SHOULD as President of the senate- which is appointed by the states. Talk about gridlock It would be LOVELY. How’s that for your 51st vote? That position would also control committee assignments, and which bills get taken up. I love gridlock.
My friends that are Dems are still (symbolically) voting for Bobby Kennedy. This despite Bobby Kennedy having very little in common with the radical Left that’s running the Democratic Party. I’d like to think that smart, moral people would run from the left in droves. Smart and moral is a reach for politicians, though.
… and sadly both Bobby and his brother Jack (John Fitzgerald) would not be welcome aside from the fact of their names in the modern Democrat Party. Yet people cling to them even today decades after they were both murdered.
My Grandfather lived through the Depression and was a Roosevelt Democrat. My Mom was a ‘hereditary Democrat’ the bulk of her life. Despite the fact that she was so Pro-Life that she would travel to Washington D.C. to march in Pro-Life protests.
I told her that it was HER Party that was responsible for murdering tens of thousands of babies yet she still clung to the Democrat Party because her father, my grandfather, was a Democrat and would be devastated if one of his children changed parties.
After Grandpa died the 700 Club became available to my mom, who was a very religious person, and she started watching that program. I was visiting her one day and watched it with her. There was a lot of political content on that show that particular day so I asked my mom …
“Do you agree with what they’re saying?”
She said “Absolutely”.
I said “But mom, these are things I’ve been telling you for decades. So you believe Pat Robertson when he says the same things I’ve said but you don’t believe me.”
I could see the gears turning and the virtual smoke coming out of her ears. She voted Republican in main ever after.
Getting people to switch parties may be veritably impossible. Bill’s right about the “brand” thing. I work in IT and there are brands I simply will not buy because of past problems with their products (Seagate and Sound Blaster being examples that come to mind immediately.) Every time I’ve thought “Well they can’t be as bad as they used to be or they wouldn’t still be in business and as popular as they are.” and bought them — I’ve been disappointed. I simply will not buy those brands anymore no matter what.
That’s what people think of the Republican and Democrat “brands” too.