Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is on her way out of the Senate, and if her latest post is any indication, it sure seems as if she’s holding a grudge against her former party for throwing her under the bus.
After finding herself battling far-left lunatic Ruben Gallego in the primary, Sinema was all but forced out of her position having no real path to victory. Unfortunately, Gallego ultimately defeated Republican candidate Kari Lake and is now waiting to be seated in January.
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Why did the Democratic Party turn on Sinema? It all comes down to the filibuster. While the Biden administration and Democrats in the Senate wanted to nuke the filibuster to pass their radical wish list, she stood in the gap, maintaining that doing so would destroy the Senate as an institution.
So you can imagine the soon-to-be former senator was not impressed by Sen. Chuck Schumer’s sudden post-election interest in “bipartisanship.” She took to social media to drag him.
Spot on. Schumer doesn’t get to call for bipartisanship the moment he loses after spending the last four years ramming through various left-wing lunacies on party-line votes. Had he gotten his way, the filibuster would have been destroyed and even more terrible policy would have passed, including adding new states in an attempt to cement a permanent majority. Sinema has all the moral authority in the world to call out his nonsense on her way out the door.
Naturally, the liberals in the replies weren’t too happy with her dig. Overall, I don’t think they are taking their election loss very well.
They are so mad, and I’m here for every second of it. When they start bringing up slavery, which was a Democratic Party institution, by the way, you know things are rough. Still, I’d love for one of these people to explain to me how Sinema got Trump elected. She didn’t run for reelection, allowing Democrats to go as wild and crazy as they liked. That’s what got Trump elected, not the preservation of the filibuster.
I’ll be honest. I’m going to miss Sinema. Yeah, she’s a liberal who I disagree with most of the time, but she was a throwback to a type of senator we need more of, not less of. The thirst for power can blind and convince people that if they just push a bit farther, they’ll have their utopia. That’s never going to happen, and the filibuster remaining is good for the country.
The less Washington gets done, the better for everyone involved. We don’t need a Congress that can make sweeping, dramatic changes to the nation based on winning an election by a few percentage points. That’s how you end up with internal unrest under the tyranny of the majority.
It may not be a popular position on the right given we just won a sweeping victory, but strengthening, not removing the filibuster is the right move. There’s nothing the government can do for me that is that important. I’d rather the behemoth stay out of my way more often than not, and the moment the filibuster ends, it’s never coming back. That’d be very bad news the next time Democrats take power. Republicans should use their current leverage to ensure that can’t happen.
