Yesterday I wrote this about Senator Sinema:

I’m not going to go as far as some who have said that Sinema has “toxic white lady energy” or hinted that she’s a Green Party double agent bent on wreaking Jill Stein-style havoc on the Democratic party. Instead, she’s an opportunist who blows with the wind and only cares about being reelected.

I stand by the last sentence, but I’m less sure about the toxic white lady stuff after this:

For Democrats hoping @SenatorSinema will change her mind on filibuster, I just asked and got this:

GH: Senator, what do you say to Democrats who are disappointed by your op-ed about the filibuster, and feeling like maybe they could still change your mind?
SINEMA: [chuckles]

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) June 22, 2021

Who the hell is she? The Wicked Witch of the West?

Gridlock isn’t funny, Senator.

Remember the thumbs down after she voted against the minimum wage hike?

I didn’t think much of it at the time, but it was a tacky punk ass move.

Ready for more movie jokes about the snickering Sinematic senator?

The post title is inspired by the tag line on the posters for Ninotchka: Garbo Laughs.

Kyrsten Sinema is certainly no Greta Garbo and yesterday’s vote wasn’t as funny as Ninotchka. Now that I think of it, the Garbo movie that fits Sinema is Two-Faced Woman. Like the Senator’s filibuster act, it was a flop. Thumbs down.

All I’ve got for a last word are these posters:

It’s last word movie trivia time: Garbo’s leading man in the above movies, Melvyn Douglas, was an ardent liberal who was married to Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. She was best known for losing a senate race to one future president-Nixon-and having an affair with another, Lyndon Johnson. That’s all she wrote.