filibuster

Last fall, Arizona Democrats pledged to reprimand Sinema and consider withdrawing support if she did not support filibuster reform. They have now followed through on half of that pledge.

Biden is turning to voting rights as an avenue to advocate for a change to filibuster rules – but not for LGBTQ rights.

“Cuff your jeans, grab your iced coffee, take your SSRI, and sit sideways in your chair,” the activists organizing the phone bank said. “We’ve got to let Sinema know that representation isn’t colorful wigs and great eyeliner.”

Biden may have set unrealistic expectations for the passage of the bill, but the real problem lies in the Senate.

House Republicans were caught privately bragging about how much they love and support the out senator. “Call Kyrsten Sinema and say thank you,” Santorum said.

“I wasn’t out of the closet when I was knocking on doors for Kyrsten Sinema. I believed the lies that Sinema told to get elected, that she would look out for us.”

The trap that Democrats keep falling into is thinking of the Republican Party as a normal political entity. It is not.

Manchin, along with out senator Kyrsten Sinema, not only thinks bipartisanship is possible, but that Republicans are going to defect from the party line to collaborate on Biden’s agenda. Have they not seen Charlie Brown?

If Sinema refuses to go along, she will have the odd distinction of being a sponsor of the Equality Act and the person who singlehandedly ensured its failure.

Thanks to arcane Senate rules, Democrats need ten Republican votes to pass the Equality Act. That’s a very tall order.