Krysten Sinema Is the Chamber's Made Girl

It is difficult to believe that Senator Sinema was once a "green" activist. Her first race for Congress in 2012 pitted her, a progressive bi-sexual outsider, against a corporate financed conservative in a heavily Democratic district.  She barely won after a nasty campaign. It took AP six days to call the race for her. She learned from the experience that money and power was on the other side of the fence. She quickly joined the so-called "Problem Solvers" caucus in the House that is funded in part by a Wall Street front group, "No Labels", which promotes allegedly non-ideological policy initiatives that in reality serve the interests of corporate America. Sinema began voting with Republicans and corporate Democrats to deregulate big banks, restrict Social Security and Medicare, and to make it harder for government to protect consumers and investors. She voted with the notoriously conservative Chamber of Commerce 77% of the time in her first term in Congress. When she ran for re-election in 2014, the Chamber returned her favors by endorsing her against a Tea-Party candidate. She was one of only five Democrats the Chamber found acceptable.

Given her sell-out to the plutocracy as a House member, it is not inexplicable for her to be blocking Biden's social policy initiative in the Senate by repeating the plutocracy's party line that the plan is too expensive and generous to ordinary Americans--despite the fact that seventy per-cent of her constituents support Biden's agenda. Just like in the Mafia, once a made man, always a made man. Sinema has become the poster child for the Money Power that has corrupted Congress in the postCitizen United era, which equates purchased political influence with protected free speech. The Founders never intended that corporations be given the same political rights as human beings. Corporations as we know them did not exist in the late 18th century. Justice Stevens wrote in his dissent in that case, "Politicians who fear that a certain corporation can make or break their reelection chances may be cowed into silence about that corporation.” He must have been thinking of the "Sinema Girl" when he wrote that.