Dowd: Sinema Stars in Her Own Film

WASHINGTON — Just like the original Sphinx, the Phoenix Sphinx is blocking the way until those who would move ahead solve her riddle:

What does Kyrsten Sinema want? And why doesn’t she stick around to explain it?

Somehow, we have gotten ourselves in a perverse situation where Sinema and Joe Manchin rule the world, and it’s confounding that these two people have this much sway. As Hemingway wondered in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” what are those leopards doing at this altitude?

Sinema and Manchin are now directing what Joe Biden gets to do and deciding how his presidency will be defined. Some Democrats even worry that the recalcitrant pair could be helping Donald Trump vault back into the White House.

The duo has created such havoc on the Hill — with the fate of the whole country riding on what mood they’re in — that congressional reporters have come up with Bennifer-style nicknames for them, including Manchinema and Sinemanch.

Democrats were irritated at Sinema — again — on Friday. Even as Biden traipsed up to Capitol Hill to try to rescue his F.D.R. dreams, Sinema flew back to Phoenix in the middle of nail-biting negotiations on the scope of Biden’s social policy bill.

Her spokesman said that she had a doctor’s appointment for a foot injury, but The Times reported that she was also slated to play footsie with donors at her political action committee’s dinner at a fancy resort.

The Times’s Jonathan Weisman got hold of an invitation to another fund-raiser for Sinema this past week with five business lobbying groups, many of which are fighting against the social policy bill.

“People who want to think they can understand her or get to her, let me tell you, you can’t,” one politico in her circle told me. “It doesn’t work that way with her. She doesn’t think in a linear process, like ‘OK, will this impact my re-election?’ She just beats her own drum. When she leaves in the middle of something and says, ‘I got stuff to do,’ it’s because she has plans. Sometimes, she’s just more interested in training for an Ironman. More power to her, man. It’s like watching a movie.”

“The Greta Garbo of Congress,” as one top Democrat called her.

Sinema rarely gives interviews and shuns the scrum of reporters at the Capitol. But she is not shy about drawing the spotlight, whether she is swathed in fur stoles, bedecked in pink, purple and mint-colored wigs, bedazzled in glittering stilettos. It is hard to believe that the Senate had a nutty sexist ban on sleeveless outfits on the floor. But the mandarins quit worrying about it for members once their colleague blithely turned the hallowed marble halls into an iconoclastic catwalk. Sinema’s more conservative — and monochromatic — colleagues were agog at her stylings when she first ascended to the Senate — a moment when she was celebrated as the first openly bisexual senator. And they were appalled this past year when her fashion statements included presiding over the Senate in a pink sweater reading “Dangerous Creature” and when she put a picture on Instagram, following her defiant thumbs down on a $15 minimum wage, sporting a hot pink newsboy cap, matching oversized glasses and a ring that expressed the sentiment “Kiss off,” but in a more vulgar way. (Remember that this is a town so strait-laced, it was a sartorial scandal when President Barack Obama donned a tan suit.)

Kristin and Manchin are two pigs at the trough.

These people are recruited from a portal for out of work "entertainers".

Who the fuck is Dowd?

Someone please kick this bitch in the snatch.

R7 = Which one?

[quote]Her spokesman said that she had a doctor’s appointment for a foot injury

donald got to Kristin all right, even to the extent of her growing copycat bone spurs on her foot.

A cabal of losers.

So, through international conduits, Kristin is actually working for the republicans. Well then I don’t feel crazy anymore. It totally makes sense.

“What has caused the former social worker and Green Party champion who grew up in a gas station, a left-winger who supported Ralph Nader for president, to shift from progressive stances to more conservative ones? Is she unmoored in her politics, simply being opportunistic? What is the principle that is leading her to obstruct the party of her own president, who really needs a win right now?”

She grew up in a gas station?

Did the foreigners find her homeless and then recruit her?

She reads ‘spook’ to me.

“She doesn’t do interviews, she doesn’t answer questions, she speaks in vagaries, she doesn’t explain the core reason she’s opposed,” one member of the progressive crew on the Hill told me. “It’s hard to look at her actions and not conclude that the donations are part of the story. If she’s here to fight for corporate power and lower taxes for the wealthy and get more money for pharma executives, be on the level and say it.”

Filthy, lying cunt.

She’s a narcissist, not a GOP or foreign plant. Everything she’s doing is designed to garner attention. She doesn’t care whether that attention is good or bad.

From the comments:

“She was valedictorian of her high school at 16, graduated college at 18, and went on to receive a Masters of Social Work, a law degree, and a Ph.D. in Justice Studies with a thesis on the Rwandan genocide”

She’s not some goofy flake. She is an operative from the Green Party. Why are we just hearing about this? Was there no vetting? People thought the pink hair made her a liberal?

The fate of every american sets in these two peoples hands and they are dirty. We are in for some painful times. The rethugs got it all. The Supreme Court, Congress, over half the states, governors and AGs. They have law enforcement and on and on.

All thanks to propaganda and misinformation.

Her look is not flattering. She dresses randomly like an actor using props.

Fuck Sinema and then Dowd.

[quote]She grew up in a gas station?

Not just a gas station — she and her family were squatters in an abandoned gas station with no heat, electricity, or running water. When she told that Extra Sad Tale to one reporter, she felt the need to point out that the only comfort of modern life the gas station had was a functioning toilet.

The reporter asked how the toilet worked if they didn’t have running water. She refused to answer.

[quote]Filthy, lying cunt.

Again, which one?

You're confusing me.

She and Meghan McCain text each other when they csn't sleep. That is all anyone needs to know about her.

So this lady is a Republican. How was she allowed to fake being a democrat. Their is no recourse for this? No recall? Can they sue her for fraud?

What liberal do you know that texts McCain?

Keep digging DL. I guess we will have to vet her ourselves.

The gas station thing sounds like a lie? Maybe she was born in another country and then trained to be an asset.

HISSS

MoDo is not a fan of Our Glorious Queen

She is Reason Number Sixty Eight Why Trump Won!!

HISSSS!!!!

HISSSS!!!!!

HISSSSS!!!!

R24 McCain is not just vehemently Republican; she is vehemently anti-Democrat. She is entirely tribal in that way and she would not befriend this woman if she didn't tell McCain she's a wolf in sheep's clothing. No way.

And didn't actually win an election was installed on a technicality.

There has got to be a way to stop this. There is always a way.

I hate her.

[quote]She grew up in a gas station?

"...born in the wagon of a traveling show, mama used to dance for the money they'd throw..."

Not buying it. I think she grew up in the bloc and was recruited.

America is in a word of hurt when a too-powerful Senator has a name like a 1970s Times Square grind house.

Does anyone think Joe is running the White House?

She dresses like someone who has never seen America before would think a liberal would dress.

There is something very Kabuki theater with it all.

Sinema is the perfect example of why people with. history of undermining Democrats should not then be allowed to run as Democrats.

Take that shit to Facebook,bitch.

Listen up, people. Don’t vote for anymore of these unknown “democrats” that pop up out of nowhere. Vet them better. Look into their past.

Yang is one I’m suspicious of.

The not giving interviews is a red flag. She can’t keep her lies straight.

She's a Trojan horse from Arizona. Meanwhile, Joe Biden just made Cindy McCain US ambassador to the UN...

We can't piss them off too much. If either becomes a Republican everything is doomed.

But they already are republicans. So why cling to false hope?

GREEN PARTY: Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say

Green Party Torches Hillary Clinton For Claiming Jill Stein Is ‘Totally’ a Russian Asset

[quote] There has got to be a way to stop this. There is always a way.

Perhaps INTENSE national - and international? - scrutiny and pressure could be a start.

Hound Sinema and Manchin relentlessly: social media phone calls, letters, e-mails, journalistic articles, etc. Put them directly in the spotlight. There are only two of them and millions in the USA....billions of people worldwide.

And uncover as much info about them as possible. Discover their donors, their habits, their preferences, etc. They sound super shady. If so, air this out!

Reveal everything about them to the global populace....

US Green Party's Jill Stein targeted in Russia inquiry

She was an anti-Trump asset, based on her voting record. She voted to convict him and she voted against the border wall. She vited against a bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks, voted to cease military actions against Iran and for COVID relief.

She voted to renew the PATRIOT Act and Fisa, however.

R44, oh we are totally doing this. Lots of retirees on here can help.

I think the connection to the Green Party and the internal cabal that goes with it is a good start.

This wretched, murky party have gotten away with so much like Tulsi and Jill yet the media ignores the connections.

Hills was right about everything else going way back to speak openly of a vast right wing conspiracy.

Yep. Hillary said Trump was "wittingly or unwittingly a puppet of Putin."

We didn't need Mueller's confusing report. He said that he found no evidence Trump wittingly conspired with Russia, but that Russia supported Trump's candidacy because hos being president benefited Russia.

Hillary told us sooner and more clearly. She is a wonky politician but she also knows her shit.

R46 you have to keep in mind the sophisticated nature of some of these operations. I don’t know if she is a spook, but the Green Party connection is a major red flag. That alone is a lot of smoke.

But what I do know is that these operations are very sophisticated like what the federalists (koch) was able to do with the Supreme Court. A few of the conservative justices will vote along with liberal issues but NOT for the ONES THAT COUNT (they save those for the shadow docket).

They don’t really care if gays get married but the rethugs want to own the country and turn it into an oligarchy. This is not a movie. This is real life. The rethugs want this so badly and they are very very close. They are intertwined now with international oligarchs. That is a huge change in the last two decades.

Working together, they keep the interest of the cabal going, while throwing a bone to the liberals and others who make enough noise. It’s not about all this religious crap you hear that is a cover for power. What they want is power and money and the laws on their side. Or no laws at all.

There is a name for this type of operation but the name escapes me. But essentially you “allow” so much “progress” but really the cabal is patting you on the head and distracting you while they pick your pocket of other rights and protections and enrich themselves while you’re feeling positive about the “progress”.

Also it’s so that people can go “but she voted for this….” It’s a tactic that is just confusing enough to work.

What she left out of her story was that while the building was originally built as a gas station, by the time her family lived in it, it was part of her grandparents’ property and had been renovated.

When one of her relatives set the record straight, she seemed to forget her tales of building fires on the cement floor to cook food and said something like, “but it was a gas station at one time, and people aren’t supposed to live in gas stations.”

By that logic, no one should live in converted stables, lofts, or any building that has ever been repurposed.

Win some fucking senate seats in 2022, so this pair becomes irrelevant.

Winning seats in the Senate in 2022,will make them irrelevant. Of course, so will losing even one seat.

Was Jim Jeffords "staring in his own film", when he switched parties in 2001? HMMMM? Huh???

The left said, in their usual vacuous style, that it was a "profile in courage" and "brave" for doing so. Oh and he switched from Republican to Independent. That switch changed CONTROL of the Senate from Republican to Democrat.

Now, the same soulless entities who praised Jeffords so profusely, are bitching and crying about two Senators WHO ARE STILL WITH THEIR PARTY!

TOO....DAMN.....BAD! You mindless sheeple need to be sent to slaughter.

"sheeple", a term used exclusively by worthless magats. That thing is making terrorist threats.

[quote]She dresses like someone who has never seen America before would think a liberal would dress.

Yeah, like what a Russian troll would put out there as exemplifying "kooky" liberals.

R56 <---- A stooge who walks around in their pajamas all day long.

R55., r58. Worthless magat.

R56,,R59 <----- Worthless (Oh how I want to use a word the begins with "F" and rhymes with "magat" ) .

Just to highlight my poetic skill, if nothing more. 🙄

The eff word is fuck. Fuck off magat.

This “movie” would be classified as a an espionage thriller.

I being nice friendship with the wintsome Senator ladie. But I slap her on the head if she touches vajeene!

LOL The New York Times pitchbot account totally called this.

But really, Sinema is to the bisexual community the way Caitlin Jenner is to the trans community or Perez Hilton is to the gay community: a complete shitstain on humanity setting their community back a thousand years.

That is hilarious ^.

Does is often described as snarky but really she is more flippant.

*Dowd

Jill stien called and wants her life back.

Tulsi Gabbard is on line 2.

I love that LDS Romney Republicans have started putting her in the same category as ex-Mormon porn stars now when they’re trying to keep their kids from leaving.

It’s always been this person and that person who ODed/died in a drunk-driving accident plus a long list of porn stars, but I’ve seen a couple of forwarded emails naming KS as an example of unfulfilled ExMo womanhood.

If I’ve seen two, there must be a lot more out there. The funniest part is, she was never mentioned at all until she started wearing the wigs. That was a bridge too far.

Voters confront her and she doesn’t answer, hides in the bathroom.

“Just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don’t support what you promised us.”

Remember when her team said criticism towards her was sexist?

Hiding in the bathroom like the POS she is.

They should've flushed her down the toilet.

R48 Ever hear of the Clinton Foundation aka the Clinton's retirement fund it's been investigated several times? Donations dropped over 200% after Shrillary lost the 2016 election. Donors were clearly concerned with buying influence rather than helping to curb dysentery in Africa; Chelsea's pet project.. The Clintons are corrupt as fuck!!!

Primetime for datalounge needed. Again. Let them pay two bucks to post their maggotry.

Fuck Erin Burnett and her bullfrog neck. Before the commercial it was, "Coming up: Ambush! Activists chase Kyrsten Sinema into a bathroom. HOW did it come to something so low??" Then the segment came on and she was oh-so-very concerned about "ANGRY!" protestors "chasing" the poor dear, which was "ugly" and "not okay."

AC is covering it next; let's see how that goes.

Answer the questions your constituency put forth to you. Don't cower in the bathroom like a child. Woman up.

Anderson Cooper:

"Coming up next: how far is too far to go in the name of confronting elected representatives on issues? Should politics stop at the bathroom door?"

While running through a pre-programmed array of shocked facial expressions he said, as if in utter disbelief, "as she walked into the bathroom, one of the protesters then followed her while another one [italic]continued to video the exchange![/italic]

Then he feigned horror that they would record something like that order to "show themselves as activists, which they are." Huh?

Ana Navarro brought up a few weak counterpoints while S.E. Cupp acted like she had just been forced to watch a snuff film. He asked what if Trump supporters had chased Nancy Pelosi into a bathroom and then went into a spiel about how it's creepy when people show up in front of his house; it's creepy when people walk into a bathroom behind someone; it's creepy when someone is standing outside a stall: it's creepy when people stand in a doorway; it's all just creepy, creepy, creepy.

These people.

Did he mention it was her campaign staff?

She deliberately ran into the bathroom to avoid her constituents. It is not as if she was interrupted midstream.

That didn’t even look like a bathroom. It look like they were in a teachers lounge. They didn’t know where she was running to.. What bathroom do you know has carpet? She led them on a goose chase.

Serious question, did she spend a period of time overseas at anytime in her “career”?

I've always assumed she didn't have an ideology and was just motivated by media attention.

What's most outrageous about chasing Sinema into the bathroom is what SInema was wearing when she was chased into the bathroom.

Mr. Blackwell, we need you now more than ever!

Was she chases? It seemed more like she was hiding in the bathroom to me.

I don't see anything weird about it. She simply retreated to her natural habitat.

[quote]She simply retreated to her natural habitat.

You said it, R89, she retreated to an actual shit hole!