Kyrsten Sinema’s Delusional Exit Interview: The Arizona senator believes she single-handedly saved the U.S. Senate.
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Kyrsten Sinema’s Delusional Exit Interview: The Arizona senator believes she single-handedly saved the U.S. Senate.
by thenewrepublic
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Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate career was hampered by the fact that she clearly just wanted to be the personal valet to hedge funders and the private equity industry on Capitol Hill.
> The Arizona senator, who’s best described as a dull person’s idea of an interesting person
She’s totally your coworker who wears lime green glasses. You know the one who makes obnoxious tarts that taste like shit every time there’s a pot luck? The one who drinks out of mason jars at work for some reason?
> “I don’t care. I can go on any board I want to. I can be a college president. I can do anything,” she apparently told Mitt Romney. “I saved the Senate filibuster by myself. I saved the Senate by myself. That’s good enough for me.”
Her gameplan has been what it’s appeared to be. She did massive favors for special interests and has high-paying jobs waiting for her as payment.
She says nothing about helping her State or representing her voters. Being re-elected is irrelevant. This was a stepping stone to getting rich.
But if remarks attributed to her in a new book by McKay Coppins are any guide, she seems sanguine about her future and determined to go out with her trademark delusions of grandeur. As Insider reported this week, Sinema makes a cameo in Coppins’s Romney: A Reckoning, in which she’s totally not mad about her dim reelection prospects. “I don’t care. I can go on any board I want to. I can be a college president. I can do anything,” she apparently told Mitt Romney. “I saved the Senate filibuster by myself. I saved the Senate by myself. That’s good enough for me.” She is, sadly, correct about her chances of cashing out. But the idea that she “saved the Senate” raises a rather obvious question: “From what, though—and for who?”
Beyond the fact that Sinema’s claim to have been the sole savior of the filibuster is significant Joe Manchin erasure, depriving the West Virginia senator of the recognition he’s earned for hurting West Virginians, children, and the planet, she’s incorrect on the merits: You can’t simultaneously be a Senate institutionalist and support the filibuster, which is a parliamentary aberration that flies in the face of the Framers’ designs. The fact that so many have come to think of it as some sort of legitimate Senate tradition is the constitutional equivalent of the Mandela effect, where people end up convinced that their false memories, such as the famously incorrect collective belief that Sinbad starred in a movie called Shazam!, are real.
> “I don’t care. I can go on any board I want to. I can be a college president. I can do anything,” she apparently told Mitt Romney. “I saved the Senate filibuster by myself. I saved the Senate by myself. That’s good enough for me.”
The cringe is strong with this one
> “I saved the Senate filibuster by myself. I saved the Senate by myself. That’s good enough for me.”
The value of books and quotes like this is immeasurable because it reminds us that genuinely bad faith actors are experts at self-deception. They genuinely believe themselves to be the good guys and nothing, least of all the voters, will ever dissuade them from that view.
It’s the most dangerous thing about them.
But what’s really terrifying is when you realize it’s nearly impossible for you to know for certain that you aren’t one.
Grandiose sinema thinks highly of herself. When pawns think they are kings
Hubris anyone? Single-handedly saved the US senate? Delusional is more like it.
I don’t think it should surprise anyone that Sinema has an ego bigger than a barn. I mean just look at that costume she wore to the State of the Union this year – bright canary yellow with enormous puffed out arms (hard for cameras to miss). She was right up there with MTG!
She lied to get the position.
She betrayed her voterbase *and* the state of Arizona to serve the interests of the oligarchs.
She has no achievements to offer, nothing she championed, she only served to obstruct real progress (rotating through that responsibility with Manchin).
She’s nowhere near as vile as most Republicans but they are certainly cut from the same self-serving cloth.
Nothing about (gesturing widely) any of this reads as “savior”.
She voted down a minimum wage raise. I hope she burns in hell
You gotta love that every comment is about how she set herself up for a better life and nothing about how she actually helped the people of Arizona.
Just because she says something doesn’t mean she believes it. That’s possibly true of anyone, obviously, but she’s proven that it’s true about her.
She doesn’t necessarily believe a word she says, she just says what serves her purpose at the moment
No mention of civic duty, desire to represent her constituents or her state in the federal government. She was exactly who everyone said she was, a shill for special interest groups. Where are the people in our democratic republic who want to take part for the good of the nation?
It’s easy to be the hero of your own story.
She’s been watching too much Star Wars… and clearly the worst ones.
She’s a sociopath. Does huge amounts a damage in care of both-sides-ism, and now she’s going to get 1 vote for her next senate bid. I look forward to never hearing her name again.
Perfect example of how ego and self enrichment corrupt politicians… this is why there should be a law banning former public officials from lobbying, serving on boards or high level executives positions for a few years after leaving office . Using your connections to continue furthering yourself and the interests of your organization right after office while your former constituents get fucked and left to hang out to dry
She’s too stupid to be on any corporate board.
She burned all her political bridges except with a few conservative Democrats who have no real power outside of tanking legislation to be of any use as a lobbyist.
She’s repulsive to the majority of the Democratic party which makes her completely useless in Democratic administrations.
Delusions is exactly correct.
>The Arizona senator
believes she single-handedly
saved the U.S.Senate
Good Lord! Like, from what? Apparenly no one but her knows.
This article does not give me warm feelies. She was clearly a high school mean girl. She just had a bigger pool to bully the last few years.
She’s almost barely better than [Trica Cotham.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/us/inside-the-party-switch-that-blew-up-north-carolina-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=X3V8_yVPNYpDQKecEmdj8jkx_cgm2EnVbWp5AiD_K9Ktj9dlNWZwW3ICmWo72dcK5FEmwTwK56rCfuQEaabkEKj4oPsuyp9OAOOHJV9rsnZvuAH_sqzn1c9PWc9yTUBfSmPEG_QM8KLd4qTSVETvoM4kuxsrCUb-2DAcKELDOI3Zv3KCctPUjeZGQLJ1diRzW9IYISNCaNx7mSkrP2oT2o6h9H9VboLepZQCh_0s24gxAUJKR4unxjPsEZcmkR5DlNwjsNhpGkCVCK6XwIMnTi7P4SBIgESIiNvf05qVvyHmPryvauSYBE-K7P9iFMvtBpG9kQ62TjMqG6xsovBNvKKjUZnxXefrWhXomUl9sNqPrtTPKcDODqQwrV2dzXRjARU&smid=url-share)
The most nakedly corrupt senator we have.
All she saved the Senate from is helping the lower classes.
I really wanted her to be better. As an out bisexual woman, she could have been a hero. But she turned out to be the opposite of that.
She went in with a net worth of $32,500 and came out a multi-millionaire worth $15,000,000.
She took care of herself and no one else.
To the people of Arizona, make sure this clown doesn’t get anywhere near a position of power again. PS the rest of the country
She single handedly blocked the democrats from getting effective legislation passed..
What a gross disappointment she turned out to be.
She’s is a narcissistic drunk who spends all her free time drinking wine and shopping for clothes. She got elected to get wealthy and get connections.
She’s a fucking bought a paid for polotian. She didn’t do anything but favor special interests, so when she got out, she had a high paying job waiting for her.
These people running the country only care about themselves and their families.
They are like fuck the majority.
It would be great if we could stop bringing in people that are manufactured for these jobs.
We are more or less voting in robots that keep doing the same shit year after year.
These people are groomed to goto Harvard and groomed to be a lawmaker. Then they don’t do their jobs to help the mob.
They do what’s best for the people that lead now and that groomed them.
Something extra foul about the It Girls from the 90’s. Of course she’s the hero. Main Character Syndrome defined.
I personally was certain Sinema was a plant the moment she declared herself an “Independent”.
“I can do anything” becoming a public comment is going to hurt her professionally though. And it’ll be hilarious.
I don’t think she thinks that. I think she’s just saying what she’s paid to say.
Sinema is a moron
A grifter that is just more legal than Santos
She stood in the way of HR1 passing. She will always be an enemy of democracy.
“***I*** can do anything……that’s good enough for ***me***”
“***I***…***me***”
When people tell you what their priorities are, believe them.