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If Schumer has any balls he'd remove her from all committees. She's fucked Ds which this stunt to serve only herself. Fuck her and the Rs who bought her.

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“Although, Politico reports that the party is struggling with a response to Sinema’s stab in the back. I'd recommend a simple “ouch!” followed by “hey, fuck you!" but I'm no political expert.“

I think we need up the response a bit. As someone who plays a lot of video games where you need to break free of zombies or some space horror grabbing and doing nasty things to me, I get annoyed when my character just gives a little shove to their enemy. You just took a bite out of me; I should be bashing you in the face or something a little more intense. In this case, I think a(with votes) elbow to the face would be an appropriate response to a back stab.

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I get that. Iirc, more people identify as “independent” today than with any particular party. But “independent” often appears to be more virtue signaling than a statement of political independence. Most people end up voting right or left, with an occasional vote for an incumbent of the other party who’s not particularly offensive to shore up the Indy cred. Like voting for a Charlie Baker in MA.

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Dems to Gallego.

Virtue-signaling suburban Republicans and "independents" to Sinema, peeling those who would not vote for Gallego anway away from the Republican candidate.

Looks good to me...

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My good Arizona friend says, "Greg Stanton' should get the call- former Phoenix mayor. She has worked with him before and says he's great...

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LOVE THE QUIRKy-NESS!!! SO COOOOOL! just kidding, she's an asshole.

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Sinema is just admitting she is a lame duck senator and this announcement is meant only to signal and expand her pool of potential post-government employers. She will be a talking head for news media, think tanks, corporate boards, academia but probably right-side brain damage research foundations.

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Manic Pixie Corporate Senators (MPCS) will always break you heart.

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Trump has huuuuuuuge baggage. He's facing serious legal difficulties over the next few years. His party's power politicians secretly despise him. He's old and out of shape and a lobber of grenades that blow up his party's chances whenever he wants.

She's a narcissist, too, but she screwed over the Dems, over and over. What supportive actions has she taken, beyond helping to get judges confirmed? Never mind. The Dems must need her for something over the next two years. That's why they're wary of withdrawing support right now. It's imperative that Biden get all kinds of people confirmed for government jobs and get more sane judges onto federal courts. I think they must still need every possible vote.

We don't need a self-serving saboteur in that senate seat. Many of us will withhold $ if it means that $ goes to Cursed'n'Sinister. They should do the absolute minimum to help her, unless they can offer her a diplomatic mission to somewhere pleasant. I say, go Ruben, go!

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For the next 23 days, the DNC and DSCC should treat Princess Cinnabum with kid gloves, if not like royalty. At least until Katie Hobbes is inaugurated. Not that it would surprise me at all if she resigned before then, just to spite the DP by allowing still-Governor Doug Douchey to appoint her interim replacement.

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No one should prop this woman up for anything. She's straw and dung wrapped up in clothes 20 years too young for her.

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is it because Hobbs isn't governor yet?

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if being quirky is your sole qualification, you're not qualified for anything

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that is an ad that writes itself right there

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The only thing she needs to be is fucking irrelevant. I don't care how she is made so, just that she is irrelevant.

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In fairness, I think a lot of independents voted for her, expecting her to be all mavericky like this.

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