{"id":1214641,"date":"2022-01-13T16:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214641"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:04:33","slug":"left-wing-twitter-melts-down-over-sinema-defending-filibuster-killing-dem-election-overhaul-knife-in-the-heart-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-twitter-melts-down-over-sinema-defending-filibuster-killing-dem-election-overhaul-knife-in-the-heart-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Twitter Melts Down Over Sinema Defending Filibuster, Killing Dem Election Overhaul: \u2018Knife In The Heart Of Democracy\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\">36<\/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%2Fleft-wing-twitter-melts-down-over-sinema-defending-filibuster-killing-dem-election-overhaul-knife-in-the-heart-of-democracy%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=1214641&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--><p>Left-wing Twitter users had a collective meltdown over the news that moderate Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) would not support amending or abolishing the Senate filibuster, effectively killing the pair of Democrat-backed election overhaul bills currently stalled in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In a floor speech in the Senate chamber Thursday morning, Sinema <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kyrsten-sinema-will-not-support-changing-the-filibuster-much-to-democrats-dismay?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\">announced<\/a> that while she supported the voting bills themselves, she would not break the filibuster in order to ram them through the Senate on a party-line basis. \u201cThere\u2019s no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There\u2019s no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy,\u201d Sinema said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week\u2019s harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what is the legislative filibuster, other than a tool that requires new federal policy to be broadly supported by senators, representing the broader cross-section of Americans\u2026 Demands to eliminate this threshold from whichever party holds the fleeting majority amount to a group of people separated on two sides of a canyon, shouting that solution to their colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese bills help treat the symptoms of the disease, but they do not fully address the disease itself. And while I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division affecting our country,\u201d Sinema added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sinema Delivers Senate Floor Remarks on Voting Rights, America\u2019s Divisions, and the U.S. Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/72zAFWDPjO\">https:\/\/t.co\/72zAFWDPjO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorSinema\/status\/1481675660133347328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sinema\u2019s comments led her name to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Sinema&amp;src=trend_click&amp;pt=1481678033245425667&amp;vertical=trends\">trend<\/a> on Twitter, as left-wing users reacted bitterly to the speech and immediately began hounding Sinema for effectively scuttling the voting bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinema delivers the Senate\u2019s stupidest speech by a Democrat in an edge of tears voice to give childish words a melodramatic effect,\u201d MSNBC host Lawrence O\u2019Donnell tweeted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sinema delivers the Senate\u2019s stupidest speech by a Democrat in an edge of tears voice to give childish words a melodramatic effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lawrence O\u2019Donnell (@Lawrence) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lawrence\/status\/1481681680146452480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c@SenatorSinema just put a knife in the heart of Democracy. My heart breaks how easily she was bought to support the Republican coup,\u201d MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance tweeted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorSinema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorSinema<\/a> just put a knife in the heart of Democracy. My heart breaks how easily she was bought to support the Republican coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalcolmNance\/status\/1481681207788253192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do the staff of @SenatorSinema not resign at the shame of being handmaidens to the death of Democracy? Are they actually Democrats or are [they] Trump lobbyists?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How do the staff of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorSinema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorSinema<\/a> not resign at the shame of being handmaidens to the death of Democracy? Are they actually Democrats or are e Trump lobbyists? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kE8tIzZsRL\">https:\/\/t.co\/kE8tIzZsRL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalcolmNance\/status\/1481682207680905218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unbelievable that one person can destroy this country. Vote her out,\u201d wrote co-host of \u201cThe View\u201d Joy Behar.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is unbelievable that one person can destroy this country. Vote her out. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sAqksu27Qs\">https:\/\/t.co\/sAqksu27Qs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joy Behar (@JoyVBehar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyVBehar\/status\/1481692856653950983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say this as her former friend and the person who first gave her national television exposure on @msnbc: @SenatorSinema needs to resign or be removed from office immediately. Rather than decreasing \u201cdivision\u201d in this country her action guarantees it,\u201d tweeted disgraced former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I say this as her former friend and the person who first gave her national television exposure on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@msnbc<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorSinema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorSinema<\/a> needs to resign or be removed from office immediately. Rather than decreasing \u201cdivision\u201d in this country her action guarantees it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFVXlbg5LA\">pic.twitter.com\/fFVXlbg5LA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithOlbermann\/status\/1481684750523895808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyrsten Sinema won\u2019t eliminate the filibuster, effectively killing our voting rights legislation,\u201d Democratic Ohio Congressman and Senate Candidate Tim Ryan wrote. \u201c50-50 isn\u2019t cutting it. We have to expand our majority if we want to abolish the filibuster and make real progress. If we win Ohio, we\u2019re virtually guaranteed to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kyrsten Sinema won\u2019t eliminate the filibuster, effectively killing our voting rights legislation.<\/p>\n<p>50-50 isn\u2019t cutting it. We have to expand our majority if we want to abolish the filibuster and make real progress. If we win Ohio, we\u2019re virtually guaranteed to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRyan\/status\/1481696055469223942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of other responses can be found below:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m not kidding about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyrstensinema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kyrstensinema<\/a> \u2013 it\u2019s all about race. If you\u2019re wondering what the \u201cSinema secret\u201d is, that\u2019s it. Black people. There\u2019s no real mystery here. Plain old bigot. Occam\u2019s razor. The mask is off.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Watson (@tomwatson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomwatson\/status\/1481681516866543620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorSinema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorSinema<\/a>: \u201cy\u2019all little voting rights is cool, but the racist relic of the past is my jam! Go filibuster, go little rockstar.\u201d (Basically)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bakari_Sellers\/status\/1481692327156539392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kyrsten Sinema is a monster.<\/p>\n<p>A grotesque, opportunistic, lying monster.<\/p>\n<p>Now lying again as she takes to the floor to say she will not allow a carve out to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing Twitter users had a collective meltdown over the news that moderate Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) would not support amending or abolishing the Senate filibuster, effectively killing the pair of Democrat-backed election overhaul bills currently stalled in the Senate. 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