Sinema Leaving Democratic Party

The day after Walker lost.

Now this woman, a Democrat in name at best with and office carpet to ceiling of purple and lavender, is leaving the party.

Now, I'm not one for conspiracies, and this would be more along the lines of an evil plan, but you can't convince me some top party officials haven't been helping her ready her sword so she could fall on it with great fanfare.

This is the last-ditch attempt to retain some measure of power. It's ugly, it's cowardly and it's a good day now that we're free of the one-eyed jack.

Truer words are rarely spoken.

I have been paying attention to Sinema's career for 15 years. I don't think there is another politician currently active that more closely aligns with my political views than Sinema. She started out Green Party, but ran as a democrat because the chance of her winning as Green Party was Zero. Nothing has changed. She has run as a democrat simply because it has been her best chance of winning.

To my knowledge, all Independents who hold office won their first election as a major party and then switched to independent once in office. This really is no different than Bernie Sanders. The fact that so many Democrats seem to be POed of her switching to independent is a glaring spotlight on exactly what is wrong with American politics today. SHE is not changing. Only the box that is checked on her voter registration. She is still much, much more aligned with the Democrats than Republicans. Warnock's win gives her the freedom to do this without pissing of democrat leadership to much.

Democrats are mad at her for not voting to end the filibuster, and for questioning the scope of spending bills. The latter is what *every* senator needs to be doing, regardless of party. We do it for our own household budgets - I am sure few of us go to a car dealer and say to the salesman "whatever you want to sell me is fine with me". It's not like the government has extra revenue to throw around. As for the filibuster - voting to end the filibuster is how we wound up with such partisan SC justices. Had the GOP won back the senate with 51 seats, a vote to end the filibuster could have come back to bite the democrats real hard.

It depends on whether she caucuses with the Democrats or not. Bernie Sanders and Angus King are both independents, but sine they caucus with the Democrats, that affects their committee assignments.

You could see who this woman was right out of the gate. She had the resume and check the box attributes to convince and then it all changed once she got a taste of the spotlight.

Isn't it her only chance to stay relevant? She won't get any reelection as a Democrat in her state with her records this far.

This happens in the UK too - politicians change party after they have been elected. For me, it's cowardly and deceptive to the electorate so any politician doing it should be forced to immediately re-contest their seat. She was elected as a democrat and democrat activist will have campaigned for her. Some of these politicians are deluded enough to think that they have a popular vote beyond the party label. In reality, most of them really don't.

I am not familiar with her but I think she was one of the 'moderates' obstructing Biden's Build-back better bill and ensuring it had to be watered down. So maybe this is the best label for her politics. Perhaps, the dishonesty lies in that she benefitted from standing on a party ticket in the first place, She was always against the program.

Oh no, what a major loss! Such a loyalty-driven candidate and truly progressive person

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She's a uniquely horrible person. Her oddball clothes and glasses were the first sign.