Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [D-Ariz.] had a message for her Democratic colleagues before she flew home to Arizona for the weekend: She's preserving her options.
Sinema has leverage and she knows it. Any potential modification to the Democrat's climate and deficit reduction package—like knocking out the $14 billion provision on carried interest—could cause the fragile deal to collapse.
Kyrsten knows she has constituents and she wants to serve them because that's why she was elected. I wish more Democrats and Republicans, especially my two Senators from North Carolina, would do the same.