Biden's pick to lead White House budget office emerges as lightning rod for GOP

[BainsBane]

Basically they don't like her because she's a Democrat.

Tanden, 50, has regularly clashed with the GOP in a manner that Republicans say will complicate her Senate confirmation process. Several GOP senators said Monday that she could run into trouble during confirmation hearings, warning that her “partisan” background could make it hard for her to win Republican support.

The two Senate Republicans poised to lead committees that would hold Tanden’s confirmation hearings both declined to commit to doing so. One of them — Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who is in line to chair the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — also said he hopes that Biden will decide not to formally nominate Tanden.

“The concern I have is both judgment, based on the tweets that I’ve been shown, just in the last 24 hours … and it’s the partisan nature,” said Portman, a former Office of Management and Budget director himself. “Of all the jobs, that’s one where I think you would need to be careful not to have someone who’s overtly partisan.”

The other potential committee chairman who would oversee Tanden’s hearings, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), chuckled when asked about Tanden on Monday, noting that she in the past has had a lot to say about him. He also declined to commit to hearings for her, saying only that he’ll “cross that bridge when we get there.”

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters, “I’m not disqualifying anybody, but I do think it gets a lot harder obviously if they send someone from their progressive left that [is] kind of out of the mainstream.” Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s first budget director, told Fox News that Tanden had very little chance of being confirmed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/11/30/biden-omb-neera-tanden/

[madaboutharry]

1. Hopefully the race in Georgia will make their opinions moot.

They are nothing but hypocrites. They confirmed one unqualified and incompetent person after another for four years.

[niyad]

2. It is hysterically funny listening to pukes whining about people being "partisan".

[Nimble_Idea]

8. or qualified

gtfoh pukes

[niyad]

10. Yes, of course. Forgot that one.

[tinymontgomery]

3. Don't nominate her put her in as acting.

Put her in as acting. I’ve been reading up a little about putting someone
as acting, they can’t have been nominated by my understanding. I could be wrong.

[BainsBane]

4. If McConnell makes good on his promise

not to hold confirmation hearings on any Democrats, they will all have to be acting.

[Talitha]

12. Question regarding 'acting', versus someone who's been nominated and approved.

Does being 'active' put any limitations to the person? IIRC, Bunker Boy had some and it didn't seem to cause a disturbance.

But if Joe nominates people Moscow Mitch will most likely ignores them just to be stubborn. If Joe decides to have 'active' people instead, I'm wondering if the Repugs might be able to dislodge them or gum up the works with challenges of some sort.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Fuck'em. Put her in as Acting. If they fuss, ignore them. Trump has shown us The Way.

We had to eat their picks for the last four years, now they can put up with ours.

And as long as Moscow Mitch runs the Senate, we have no obligation to cooperate with them at all.

[JDC]

6. Rob Portman has concerns about partisan tweets? That is f'in rich.

These guys are complete clowns.

[stillcool]

7. They need to be whited-out...

I'm sure the cable shows will have them all on, expressing their serious concerns, and whoever is hosting won't say a word. They all need to take a flying eff off the national stage.

[Nimble_Idea]

9. corporate media will pretend that we should give a fuck

we don't

and they can go f' themselves

[Baked Potato]

11. Getting close to worrying about "debt and deficits."