{"id":1214209,"date":"2022-01-13T13:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214209"},"modified":"2022-01-13T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:20:08","slug":"in-fiery-speech-sinema-says-eliminating-filibuster-will-worsen-the-underlying-disease-of-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-fiery-speech-sinema-says-eliminating-filibuster-will-worsen-the-underlying-disease-of-division\/","title":{"rendered":"In Fiery Speech, Sinema Says Eliminating Filibuster Will \u2018Worsen The Underlying Disease Of Division\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-fiery-speech-sinema-says-eliminating-filibuster-will-worsen-the-underlying-disease-of-division%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214209&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema spoke out against increased political division during a more than 15-minute floor speech in which she also repeated her pledge not to eliminate the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran for the U.S. Senate <span id=\"subtitle11129\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"11129\" data-start=\"8878530\" data-end=\"8880801\">rejecting partisanship,<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle11132\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"11132\" data-start=\"8880801\" data-end=\"8882969\">willing to work with anyone to<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle11135\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"11135\" data-start=\"8882969\" data-end=\"8884903\">help Arizonans build better and<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle11138\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"11138\" data-start=\"8884903\" data-end=\"8886506\">more secure lives,\u201d she said, while bemoaning polarization. Sinema, along with Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, have both been clear that they will not vote to lower the 60 vote threshold required for passing most pieces of legislation, even as President Joe Biden and others have called it a tool of segregation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/12\/mitch-mcconnell-responds-joe-biden-segregation-speech\/\">blasted<\/a> Biden\u2019s assertion in a Wednesday floor speech, calling the remarks \u201cincoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. The debate over the 60-vote threshold shines a light on our broader challenges. There is no need for me to restate its role protecting our country from wild reversals in federal policy,\u201d Sinema said of the filibuster. \u201cAmerican politics are cyclical and the granting of power in Washington, D.C. is exchanged regularly by the voters from one party to another. This shift of power back and forth means the Senate 60-vote threshold has proved maddening to members of both.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/kamala-harris-filibuster-republicans-mitch-mcconnell-letter-elections\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Harris Shares Her Doubts Over Filibuster Roughly Five Years After Demanding Republicans Keep It)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sinema placed recent fights over the filibuster at the feet of Democrats, whose \u201cincreased use of requiring cloture for judicial nominees under president George W. Bush led to similar tactics by Republicans under president Barack Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2013 decision by Senate Democrats to eliminate the 60-vote threshold for most judicial and presidential nominations led directly to a response in 2017 by Senate Republicans, who eliminated the threshold for Supreme Court nominees. These shortsighted actions by both parties have led to our current American judiciary and Supreme Court, which as I stand here today is considering questions regarding fundamental rights Americans have enjoyed for decades,\u201d she continued, in an apparent allusion to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-in-case-challenging-roe-v-wade\/\">case<\/a> Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women\u2019s Health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinema accused politicians \u201cwho spen[d] their career in party politics\u201d of thinking that \u201ctheir respective party alone can move the country forward.\u201d This mindset leads to \u201cpolicy inextricably be[ing] pushed from the middle towards the extremes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema also blasted leading Democrats\u2019 strategy of \u201cpush[ing] party-line changes \u2026 in an equally divided Senate\u201d and with the \u201cHouse of Representatives \u2026 nearly equally divided as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTensions are raised within the country, and traditional nonpartisan issues are transformed into partisan wedges. We must address the disease itself, the disease of division, to protect our democracy. And it cannot be achieved by one party alone. It cannot be achieved solely by the federal government,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Arizona Sen. 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