Tag: Kyrsten Sinema

Wake Up, Progressives: You’re Lucky to Have Kyrsten Sinema

Commentary Brian Murray knows just how fierce an opponent Arizona’s Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be. The Republican strategist saw his candidate lose to Democrat Sinema in their 2012 race for the House. Calling the experience “unpleasant,” Murray admits his candidate, Vernon Parker, was flawed, but “flawed candidates win all of the time. Kyrsten, however, was…


Sinema Says She Won’t Switch to Republican Party

One of the moderate Democrats in the U.S. Senate said this week she won’t switch parties. “No. Why would I do that?” Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) said during an interview with Politico. Sinema has faced harsh criticism from some fellow Democrats. A handful have said she’s already a Republican. The critics argue the first-term senator…


Police Recommend Charges Against Four Over Harassment of Sen. Sinema

Police officials at Arizona State University have recommended to prosecutors that they charge four people over the harassment of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) at the school earlier this month. Activists, including some with a group called Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), confronted Sinema in Tuscon on Oct. 3. They harassed her and illegally…


Brown Shirts Harassing Sen. Sinema: A Preview of Progressive Tyranny

Commentary Progressive zealots have been waging a war of intimidation and harassment against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because of her resistance to the proposed Biden/Sanders/Pelosi $3.5 trillion spending bill. In addition to the infamous incident of Sinema being filmed going into a public restroom stall and being harangued while taking care of nature’s business, she…


Biden Believes Confrontation of Sinema in Bathroom ‘Absolutely Unacceptable:’ Psaki

President Joe Biden thinks protesters illegally confronting Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) in a bathroom in her home state is not acceptable, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday. “While, of course, we all agree—and as Sen. Sinema said herself—the right to free speech and to protest is sacred to our country, he believes that…


Sen. Manchin Mans Up to Budget Insanity

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), as well as Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), are the only Democrat senators standing in the way of President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion dollar “Build Back Better” proposal. I analyze exactly what is in the spending proposal and why Manchin is representing his constituents and sanity itself. Hosted by the two-time Emmy-nominated actor…


Activists Follow Sinema Into Bathroom and Demand Action on $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill

A group of progressive activists followed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) into a bathroom at Arizona State University on Friday to confront her over her opposition to the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act and demand she take action. The incident came just days after Sinema on Sept. 30 doubled down on her position not to support the Democratic leadership’s…


Activists Harass Sens. Sinema, Manchin Over $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill

Activists have harassed Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in a bid to get them to support a mammoth spending bill. At Arizona State University on Friday, a group of so-called progressive activists followed Sinema into a bathroom as they confronted her over her opposition to the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act and…


Biden Meets With Sinema, Manchin to Talk Election Bill, Infrastructure

President Joe Biden on Monday met with two Democrat senators who have so far refused to support some of the more radical party priorities, including an election bill that would federalize major components of elections. Biden convened with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in the afternoon at the White House. According to a White House official,…


Sen. Sinema: Filibuster ‘Protects the Democracy of Our Nation’

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday defended the filibuster as an essential tool and confirmed she will not vote to abolish it. The filibuster “is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation, rather than allowing our country to ricochet wildly every two to four years back and forth between policies,” Sinema told reporters…