Amid rumblings that the White House might renew talks with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) over President Joe Biden’s sweeping Build Back Better (BBB) plan several months after the senator tanked the legislation, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is proud to announce that she’ll be staying true to herself as a major obstacle in the negotiations if they do get resurrected.
During a luncheon hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Arizona Biltmore, a luxury resort in Phoenix, Sinema promised business lobbyists that they can still count on her to try to gut BBB like she did before.
“What I can’t tell you is if negotiations will start again or what they’ll look like,” the senator said, per the Arizona Republic. “But what I can promise you is that I’ll be the same person in negotiations if they start again that I was in negotiations last year.”
Sinema reassured the lobbyists that they have nothing to fear as far as a corporate minimum tax rate in BBB goes; she’s still opposed to it and any other tax policies that “would put a brake on any type of economic growth or forestall business and personal growth for America’s industries.”
Though it was ultimately Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) who blew up the BBB negotiations with the White House in December, Sinema had similarly stonewalled the legislation with her opposition to raising corporate taxes — both Democratic senators handed the GOP a massive gift.
Now Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is scrambling to ensure Manchin stays the course.
“There’s some indication that Sen. Manchin may be flirting with another version of it. I hope not,” McConnell said during an event in Kentucky on Tuesday, according to NBC News. “We’re doing everything to discourage him from that.”
She first ran for office as a member of the Green Party, the main purpose of which is to damage the prospects of Democrats to get elected and to get anything done once they’re in office.
Nothing has changed.
Of course senator curtsy will stand firmly behind moscow mitch and the corporatists of the republican cult as she proudly proclaims her resistance to Democratic values and Biden’s popular agenda.
I have always felt that the Green Party types are a bunch of phoneys.
Just ignore the attention seeking loon - she’ll be irrelevant after November, anyway. Unfortunately.
Sinema is the Tulsi Gabbard of Joe Manchins