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The most damning indictment of the national Democratic Party these days is that Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are relegated to their own little island.
© Provided by Washington Examiner More than a half-dozen other Democratic senators should be showing the modicum of legislative caution and fiscal sanity that Manchin and Sinema are demonstrating in talks on federal spending. They all campaigned, falsely, as supposed “moderates,” and they represent “swing states” that are relatively evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. In these states, voting records far from the center make it far harder for senators to be reelected.
When even left-of-center media mavens acknowledge that President Joe Biden’s agenda has been one of “utter radicalness,” an even semi-reasonable senator could pursue some liberal policy preferences while insisting that Biden trim his sails. Yet, 48 of 50 Democratic senators, and an even smaller proportion of the 220 House Democrats, are fully on board with Biden’s dangerously extreme spending bills. It is astonishing that only two of 50 Senate Democrats can see that obligating nearly $7 trillion in new spending (in 10 years) on top of $5.7 trillion already doled out in COVID-19 relief, on top of what before the pandemic was about a $5 trillion annual budget for regular government operations, all when the national debt load already is the highest in U.S. history, could risk an outright economic collapse.
Even if these Democrats can’t do simple arithmetic, can’t they see the worrisome return of price inflation? And can’t they hear the frustration in response? How can they be so politically tone-deaf as to risk being blamed for even higher inflation if Biden’s plan passes? Do they really want to be so associated with the Bernie Sanders/socialist wing of the party that voters rejected during the 2020 Democratic primaries?
Let’s name these senators who shame themselves via their own radical positions.
First-year Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado campaigned for president in 2019 by insisting that he was “running to save capitalism.” As governor, he fought in favor of the fossil-fuel industry. He first made his mark as an entrepreneurial small businessman. And he represents a state that, as recently as 2016, gave less than a majority vote to the Democratic candidate for president. What happened to Hickenlooper’s quasi-centrism?
Rookie Sen. Mark Kelly, Sinema’s Arizona colleague, is up for r-election already next year. Arizona voted Republican in 16 of the 17 presidential elections before last year, and it went Democratic in 2020 by an infinitesimal three-tenths of a percent. A former naval aviator, astronaut, and entrepreneur, Kelly campaigned on repeated calls for bipartisanship. Why, then, does he toe the radical party line?
Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan both represent the perennial swing state of New Hampshire, where Hassan faces reelection next year after having won her seat in 2016 by just 1,017 votes. A recent poll shows New Hampshirites disapproving of Biden, 55% to 44%. Why are their senators kowtowing to him?
Mark Warner of Virginia is one of the loudest advocates of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill and made his mark a decade ago by trying to set up a bipartisan commission to reduce deficits and debt, including via spending cuts. Now, he joins Biden and Sanders in pushing the biggest spending binge in U.S. history without any Republican input? The hypocrisy is striking.
Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen both represent Nevada, with the former, once a criminal prosecutor, up for reelection next year after winning last time with a mere plurality of 47%. Rosen also won her seat narrowly, and Biden won Nevada in 2020 with just 50.1%. Shouldn’t political self-preservation alone dictate that they join Sinema and Manchin as moderating influences on his administration?
Meanwhile, even liberals Michael Bennett of Colorado and Raphael Warnock of Georgia should worry about potentially tough reelection battles next year. Jon Tester of Montana usually at least feigns centrism. All told, the Manchin-Sinema wing of the Senate Democratic caucus should number at least an even dozen members, not just two.
That Manchin and Sinema are alone is a sign of just how strongly the crazy Left rules the Democratic Party. Voters, though, may well decide to reject the crazy.
Crazy Let - appropriate - but marxist radical DPSTs is more accurate.
fiden is a senile puppet for marxist revolutionaries of Congress and his oval Office.
the DPSTs foment civil war with their insanity
Buck fiden
From my cold dead hands!