October 6, 2021--The Most Powerful Woman In America

She is not Speaker Nancy Pelosi, nor former First Lady Michelle Obama, not Oprah Winfrey, nor Vice President Kamila Harris. 

In fact she is not only the most powerful woman in America, arguably, she may also be the most powerful American. Female or male. Period.

Also one of the craziest.

She is Arizona's senior senator, Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, who, with her Senate partner Joe Manchin, is holding her party's caucus hostage--if members refuse to back her domestic priorities she is threatening to vote against Joe Biden's legislative program, which will doom it since to pass it requires all 50 Democratic senators' votes. 

If even one votes against it it may very well be that no meaningful legislation will be passed and this will mean the effective end of Joe Biden's presidency. 

And thus the reelection in 2024 of Donald Trump. 

Now, that's powerful.

Here's a little of what Maureen Dowd on Sunday had to say about Senator Sinema--

"As one top Democrat called her, she is 'the Greta Garbo of Congress.'

"Sinema rarely gives interviews and shuns the scrum of reporters at the Capitol. But she is not shy about drawing the spotlight, whether she is swathed in fur stoles or bedecked in pink, purple and mint-colored wigs or bedazzling in glittering stilettos. It is hard to believe that the Senate had a nutty sexist ban on sleeveless outfits on the floor. But the mandarins quit worrying about it for members once their colleague blithely turned the hallowed marble halls into an iconoclastic catwalk."

It's come to this.