9/20/2023 0 Comments Maureen dowd like the mummy movies![]() ![]() Sinema rarely gives interviews and shuns the scrum of reporters at the Capitol. “The Greta Garbo of Congress,” as one top Democrat called her. The Arizona senator’s name is pronounced “cinema,” and it is apt because she sweeps - and sometimes, when the triathlete has a sports injury, limps - through the Senate like a silent film star. Sometimes, she’s just more interested in training for an Ironman. When she leaves in the middle of something and says, ‘I got stuff to do,’ it’s because she has plans. She doesn’t think in a linear process, like ‘OK, will this impact my reelection?’ She just beats her own drum. “People who want to think they can understand her or get to her, let me tell you, you can’t,” one politico in her circle told me. ![]() The Times’ Jonathan Weisman got hold of an invitation to another fundraiser for Sinema this past week with five business lobbying groups, many of which are fighting against the social policy bill. Her spokesperson said that she had a doctor’s appointment for a foot injury, but The Times reported that she was also slated to play footsie with donors at her political action committee’s dinner at a fancy resort. Even as Biden traipsed up to Capitol Hill to try to rescue his FDR dreams, Sinema flew back to Phoenix in the middle of nail-biting negotiations on the scope of Biden’s social policy bill. Democrats were irritated at Sinema - again - on Friday. ![]()
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