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Sinema and Manchin at Davos high-five blocking filibuster reform [1]
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Date: 2023-01-18
Kirsten Sinema was really in her element, schmoozing with the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, despite never having had a town hall with her own constituents.
“We still don’t agree on getting rid of the filibuster,” Manchin said before they turned to each other and high-fived.
“While some would say that there were reluctant folks working in Congress in the last two years,” she said, gesturing at herself and Manchin, “I would actually say that was the basis for the productivity for some incredible achievements that made a difference for the American people in the last two years.”
Sinema was pushing back at fellow panelist Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker (D), who criticized the senators for their pushback to some of President Biden’s agenda.
“[Biden] has worked with some reluctant members of his own party,” Pritzker said, motioning toward the side of the stage with Manchin and Sinema. “But we have gotten things done for the United States at the federal level under this president.”
Sinema called the filibuster an “important guardrail for the institution” and dinged Democrats who argued the U.S. would “not have any more” free elections without the voting rights package, saying the country had free elections in 2022 without the legislation passing.
“One could posit that the push by one political party to eliminate an important guardrail in an institution in our country may have been premature or overreaching in order to get the short-term victories they wanted,” Sinema said.
Sinema defending the filibuster at Davos in front of some of the wealthiest people in the world did not sit well with liberals on Twitter. Her choice of sweater – a rather shaggy shawl of some kind – seemed to feed the progressive narrative that the senator has reached a comic book-level of villainy.
x "If the Mayor refuses to pay the ransom, I, Lady Sinema, will shrink all of Gotham City! Bwahahahahaha" pic.twitter.com/yEfbivAE3d — Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 17, 2023
x At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) high-five over their opposition to eliminating the filibuster. pic.twitter.com/T9C4Ezd5OR — The Recount (@therecount) January 17, 2023
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