Thread by @DempseyTwo

Sen Kyrsten Sinema’s objectively hypocritical approach seems very Republicany. Why? When she was shoulder to shoulder with John Cornyn, I began to worry she was a plant so I took a wee look.

All plants need sunlight. 🧵👇🏻

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Sinema was the lead sponsor of a bill called S1967, the “Childcare Expansion for Military Families Act of 2021”. Her bill provides construction of child development centers. But she won’t support the Build Back Better Act which provides universal pre-k and other child provisions?

Sec 3 of Sinema’s Bill reads: ‘Education and Infant And Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Services for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health’, but she doesn’t support the Build Back Better Act that would expand healthcare to children?

Sen Sinema also sponsored S1399. It is the ‘Homecare for Seniors Act’. It does what it says on the tin. It allows for Seniors to receive assistance at home such as bathing, cooking etc so they don’t have to go nursing homes. Well, that is in the Build Back Better Act.

Recently Sinema left Washington to visit her podiatrist in Arizona. As a triathlete, I imagine the running takes its toll on a foot. Lots of people need a podiatrist. Diabetics need podiatrists. The Build Back Better Act includes expanding healthcare.

Why did I spend an entire tweet on something as trivial as a doctors appointment? Two reasons. One is Senate Bill S. 2203 ‘Expanding Access to Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2021’ (Sinema co sponsor) and Senate Bill S. 2787.

S.2787 is a bill sponsored by Republican Doctor Senator Bill Cassidy. It is to clarify the role of podiatrists in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 🤔
Remember all those debates we had about wether or not the term in the law should be physician or podiatrist? Me neither.

Sinema has not yet stated what she wants. Based on the bills she sponsors, it seems she wants what the democrats want. But maybe she hasn’t told us what she wants because McConnell hasn’t told her what she wants. McConnell only ever wants obstruction. In Sinema, he gets it.

Sinema has said she wants to be a ‘Maverick’ in the Senate. This is an obvious attempt to elevate herself and align herself to another Senator from Arizona, John McCain.

John McCain was the last Republican. Until trump said he liked people who don’t get captured, he was the Republican flag bearer in the Senate. He became persona non grata when he gave the thumbs down to the repeal of the ACA and from there, he was done. Excommunicated. Canceled.

The image of McCain throwing the thumb down, was him turning his back on where he knew the GOP was heading. This was not the act of a maverick, but of a patriot. Sinema recreated this image for herself when she defeated the $15/hr min wage.

This too was not the act of a maverick, but of a person playing dress up trying to create a false equivalency. It is the act of someone who is doing the work of the opposition. And that is how the GOP saw what McCain did to them.

Sinema is now playing the role of the Senator that defies their own party. She thinks this makes her look independent to her voters just like McCain, but she is trying to pull the wool over their eyes just like McConnell.

I don’t have any direct evidence that Sinema is a plant to work for the GOP and to undermine the Democrats majority, their agenda and ultimately lose the 2022 midterms for them, but there is evidence of her working against her own bills.

And FWIW, in 2013, according to the Federal Election Committee, Krysten Sinema was in a joint PAC with Tulsi Gabbard. 🤔

It’s time we ask Sinema why she is behaving in this manner. It isn’t because she is a maverick. She is not contrarian to the party to help preserve our rights. So why? For whom? It might be time her constituents give this podiatrist supporter the boot.
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