lpetrich
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We’ve Solved the Mystery of Kyrsten Sinema | The New Republic - "Two new magazine profiles attempt to explain the Arizona senator. Here’s our own theory."
First mentioning her and Joe Manchin about Build Back Better back in 2021. JM made it very clear what he wanted -- "he wanted pork for his home state, protections for its environment-destroying industries, and to make sure nothing changed too much or too fast." KS was another story altogether.
From The Atlantic, "She says she’s guided by an unchanging set of “values”—she mentions freedom, opportunity, and security—that virtually all Americans share." Also that she's "practical", doing everything case-by-case.
TNR: "This is both plausible and a bunch of nonsense." and saying that her votes are done for "freedom, opportunity, and security" "is both Beltway pabulum and something that Sinema may earnestly believe."
Not exactly what AOC puts in her Twitter bio:
First mentioning her and Joe Manchin about Build Back Better back in 2021. JM made it very clear what he wanted -- "he wanted pork for his home state, protections for its environment-destroying industries, and to make sure nothing changed too much or too fast." KS was another story altogether.
Then mentioning the recent profiles of her in The Atlantic and The New York Times. "The biggest takeaway from both, however, is simply that she is running." This may explain her recent willingness to talk to the news media.She favored loud, garish dresses that somehow only made her seem more unpredictable. She didn’t explain herself to the press or to her constituents. Her voting record largely made no sense. She would block anything for any reason. She didn’t want to raise the minimum wage in a Covid-19 relief bill but never said why—and instead killed it by cosplaying as John McCain. She stalled passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate bill, because she was worried about the repeal of the “carried interest loophole”—even though she had never previously uttered those words during a legislative session. She spent months stymying the administration’s “Build Back Better” bill without ever saying why.
From The Atlantic, "She says she’s guided by an unchanging set of “values”—she mentions freedom, opportunity, and security—that virtually all Americans share." Also that she's "practical", doing everything case-by-case.
TNR: "This is both plausible and a bunch of nonsense." and saying that her votes are done for "freedom, opportunity, and security" "is both Beltway pabulum and something that Sinema may earnestly believe."
Not exactly what AOC puts in her Twitter bio:
In a modern, moral, & wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. % People-Funded, no lobbyist. She/her.