Her antics have cost her the support of Arizona Democrats, and she won’t be saved by the Republicans lionizing her for “saving the Senate.'
Sinema among pals? Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Throughout much of 2021, left-of-center political analysts often asked themselves, What is Kyrsten Sinema’s deal? As she battled all year against simple Senate passage of the Build Back Better legislation, and against the filibuster reforms needed to enact other Biden priorities like voting rights, it became quite the parlor game.
All this Democratic angst, some believe, will be countered by Sinema’s new Republican friends. And when she made her final stand in defense of the filibuster clear, GOP joy overflowed. Mitch McConnell said she had “saved the Senate as an institution.” Meanwhile, back home in Arizona, the same polls showing Democrats despising Sinema showed Republicans beginning to admire her, as The Hill reported:
Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Texas violated voting rights law during redistricting, retiring state GOP senator saysA senior Republican state senator with redistricting experience said he believes his party violated federal voting laws when it drew new boundaries for state Senate District 10 in the Fort Worth area.
Read more »
Pennsylvania court strikes down expansive mail-in voting lawA statewide court says Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting.
Read more »
Cohabitation Is Rising GloballyWhy more unmarried couples are living together, and what it could mean for society's future, by ElyakimKislev
Read more »
A ride malfunction was my best-ever Disneyland experienceSomething went wrong, and it became a completely new show.
Read more »
OBJ to Von Miller Last OffSeason: ‘Don't Come to Cleveland’When Von Miller daydreamed out loud last offseason to Odell Beckham Jr. about the two playing on the same team one day, possibly in Ohio, his friend had a simple answer
Read more »