Krysten Sinema’s “independence”

[twofbyc]

Poll: Sinema Would Get Crushed As an Independent in 2024 — New York Magazine

Worse yet, she’s so weak that she might not even be able to execute a threat to throw her Arizona U.S. Senate seat to the Republicans.

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Memo released says she allows 30 minutes for constituents once a week on Wednesday; I think about four or five times that much for massages.
They say her only real constituents are Wall Street and K Street. She cannot disappear fast enough from our lives to suit me.

 

[AWRTR]

If Lake is the nomi

Poll: Sinema Would Get Crushed As an Independent in 2024 — New York Magazine

Worse yet, she’s so weak that she might not even be able to execute a threat to throw her Arizona U.S. Senate seat to the Republicans.

apple.news

Memo released says she allows 30 minutes for constituents once a week on Wednesday; I think about four or five times that much for massages.
They say her only real constituents are Wall Street and K Street. She cannot disappear fast enough from our lives to suit me.

if Lake is the nominee whoever the Democrats nominate will win unless they can find someone wilder than Lake and that will be hard.

 

[Tidewater]

Poll: Sinema Would Get Crushed As an Independent in 2024 — New York Magazine

Worse yet, she’s so weak that she might not even be able to execute a threat to throw her Arizona U.S. Senate seat to the Republicans.

apple.news

Memo released says she allows 30 minutes for constituents once a week on Wednesday; I think about four or five times that much for massages.
They say her only real constituents are Wall Street and K Street. She cannot disappear fast enough from our lives to suit me.

A meteor hitting Mos Eisley ("wretched hive of scum and villainy") would be a sign of divine blessing.

Folks in DC act like they are the best of us, when in fact, they are the absolute worst of us.

 

[twofbyc]

A meteor hitting Mos Eisley ("wretched hive of scum and villainy") would be a sign of divine blessing.

Folks in DC act like they are the best of us, when in fact, they are the absolute worst of us.

Agree 1000%; but are they all that bad before they get to DC? Or does the corrupting influence of money and power just do what it does best?
I just have a hard time believing voters (as gullible as we are) would knowingly elect such people across the board; surely there are pockets of voters somewhere who elect, at least at that time, decent patriotic Americans…? Or is the corruption so deep our government and elections are beyond “redemption “?

 

[Tidewater]

There have been some I respected. Paul Wellstone (Democrat from Minnesota, for example). Kind of lefty for my views, but he seemed to have integrity. He died too young.

 

[Tidewater]

I just have a hard time believing voters (as gullible as we are) would knowingly elect such people across the board; surely there are pockets of voters somewhere who elect, at least at that time, decent patriotic Americans…? Or is the corruption so deep our government and elections are beyond “redemption “?

It is the magic of our "first past the post" two-party system. I will overlook incredible faults in "my guy" in order to defeat the other side, rationalizing all the time that if I do not overlook "my guy's" faults, "the other guy" will be even worse.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Agree 1000%; but are they all that bad before they get to DC? Or does the corrupting influence of money and power just do what it does best?

I think most seeking office at that level do so for the power.

I also believe there are some idealists who think they'll get to DC and change things for the better, work for the people, etc, but they either last one or two cycles before quitting / being replaced or they become what they went to DC to fight against in the first place.

 

[Tidewater]

I think most seeking office at that level do so for the power.

I also believe there are some idealists who think they'll get to DC and change things for the better, work for the people, etc, but they either last one or two cycles before quitting / being replaced or they become what they went to DC to fight against in the first place.

For that reason, I would favor one term for public office and a lifetime prohibition on ever going to the District of Columbia thereafter (to prevent a revolving door of ex-congressmen becoming lobbyists).