WTF Is Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?
It\u2019s bad enough Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat, turned down the minimum wage hike with that oh-so-cute thumbs down. Now she\u2019s threatening to derail the whole Democratic agenda, insisting on archaic Senate rules that give Mitch McConnell and the Republicans outsized power.
\u201cI think is a lot of people feel that this groovy, bisexual Senator should be voting in a groovy way and not like a terrifying conservative,\u201d Molly Jong-Fast says on the latest episode of The New Abnormal.
\u201cDo you see a world in which Democrats can get her on board for filibuster reform?\u201d she asks Senate veteran Adam Jentleson.
\u201cI definitely think that,\u201d Jentleson answers. \u201cI think she's miscalculated a little bit. I don't think she can afford to be out as far to the right as she is right now. Even [centrist West Virginia Sen. Joe] Manchin has started to shift a little bit. And so she's kind of out on a limb.\u201d
\u201cJoe Manchin can say, I am the only Democrat who can hold this sea, it's me or a Republican\u2026 and that's valid,\u201d Jentleson adds. \u201cHe's generally a pretty reliable vote for most of the things we want to pass. He can be very frustrating, but it's literally him or a Republican\u2026 Sinema cannot say that she's the only Democrat who can hold that seat. There are other credible Democrats who could run in a primary and win the general election.\u201d
Sinema\u2019s fellow Democrat, Sen. Mark Kelly, is up for reelection in just two years. \u201cFor him to win, he needs to accomplish a lot of things. He needs to be able to go to voters and say, here's what we did,\u201d Jentleson adds. \u201cAnd so I don't think that Sinema can, can tell Mark Kelly to go jump off a bridge... It's just untenable to say, \u2018I'm going to stand in the way of all the things that Democrats want to do because of my love for the filibuster\u2019 in a purple state. I don't think this is a long-term sustainable position.\u201d
Then, former Stockton, California mayor Michael Tubbs talks about his push for universal basic income. And The Daily Beast\u2019s Diana Falzone takes us inside Fox News, as staffers there lose their minds in the face of a challenge from an even crazier conservative network. \u201cThey\u2019ve dug in their heels. And now they're going to give the viewers what they want, which is this red meat of cancel culture of Dr. Seuss of Mr. Potato Head,\u201d she tells Jong-Fast. \u201cThings will get even more, as the staffers say at Fox news, \u2018Foxifized,\u2019 which is the war on Christmas, the war on men. There\u2019s always a war going on.\u201d
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