'Delusions of grandeur': Kyrsten Sinema busted for saying she 'saved the Senate'

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) was mocked for purportedly saying she single-handedly saved the U.S. Senate.

Sinema has consistently remained in the news since parting from the Democratic party. Last month, the ex-Democrat was reported to have privately insisted to donors she has a path to victory that involves winning over Republican voters.

Writing for The New Republic, deputy editor Jason Linkins called Sinema out for comments reported in a new book about Mitt Romney by journalist McKay Coppins.

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"[I]f remarks attributed to her in a new book by McKay Coppins are any guide, she seems sanguine about her future and determined to go out with her trademark delusions of grandeur. As Insider reported this week, Sinema makes a cameo in Coppins’s Romney: A Reckoning, in which she’s totally not mad about her dim reelection prospects," Linkins reported Saturday.

He goes on to quote Sinema from the book's pages.

“I don’t care. I can go on any board I want to. I can be a college president. I can do anything,” she reportedly told Mitt Romney. “I saved the Senate filibuster by myself. I saved the Senate by myself. That’s good enough for me.”

Linkins went on to say that Sinema is "sadly, correct about her chances of cashing out."

"But the idea that she 'saved the Senate' raises a rather obvious question: 'From what, though—and for who?'" he wrote.

"Beyond the fact that Sinema’s claim to have been the sole savior of the filibuster is significant Joe Manchin erasure, depriving the West Virginia senator of the recognition he’s earned for hurting West Virginians, children, and the planet, she’s incorrect on the merits: You can’t simultaneously be a Senate institutionalist and support the filibuster, which is a parliamentary aberration that flies in the face of the Framers’ designs," he added.

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