Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t care one bit if she wins re-election, according to a new book.

“I can go on any board I want to. I can be a college president. I can do anything,” she said.

Sinema told Romney said she saved the filibuster and the Senate and that’s “good enough for me.”

  • Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
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    Her and manchin publicly argue that getting rid of the filibuster would allow republicans to gut the social safety net when/if they take control of government. I think that’s a bad argument though because there’s always another election and if Republicans did do that then votes could put Democrats back in power to restore and/or improve everything.

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      I guess we could flip flop on stuff like that but the folks screwed over during the interim are going to have a really bad time.

      Of course that’s also assuming some Democrats aren’t convinced (💰) to go along and we never get these program back. And if we do then we lose them again when the Republicans manage to up their voter suppression & gerrymandering game.

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      if Republicans did do that then votes could put Democrats back in power to restore and/or improve everything.

      Except it takes a lot more time, effort and money to rebuild something than it does to destroy it.

      As the Bigen administration is currently experiencing.

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        That’s true. I guess that I think it’s worth the risk. The filibuster has basically brought to a halt any major legislation on a variety of matters. I think not doing anything could be worse.