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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans vow to block Biden budget pick over her 'disparaging' comments about senators
One of Joe Bidens reported appointees is already facing opposition from Republicans for her outspoken and often harsh comments about the right on social media.
Neera Tanden, who has been active in centrist Democratic Party politics for decades, is expected to be nominated by Mr Biden to run the Office of Management and Budget. A longtime loyalist of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ms Tanden is well-known for her engagement with adversaries on Twitter, where she is extremely prolific.
Ms Tanden has yet to tweet about the reports Mr Biden has chosen her but some Republican operatives are already declaring that she should consider her nomination a non-starter.
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Ms Tanden has lately hit out at Republican senators over their move to confirm Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett in an election year, despite their refusal to do the same in 2016. In a statement at the time, she wrote that the nomination had changed the Supreme Court into an arm of the Republican agenda, and that Mitch McConnell has broken the Senate, he has broken the Supreme Court, and in conjunction with president Donald Trump, he has broken our democracy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-vow-block-biden-budget-162749551.html
Guess the truth hurts.
Ohiogal
(31,979 posts)that was so bad?
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)She doesn't need confirmation. She can just be "Acting" director.
Acting everything, there no real need for any confirmation if your just acting.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The GOP broke that element of the government and we should not give a single micrometer on it either...the president is no longer required to consult congress, obtain their approval or even acknowledge their subpoenas.
Captain Zero
(6,801 posts)is all that should be said...
Stinky The Clown
(67,789 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)...an accomplished Woman with a resume of creds to own, speaking the absolute Truth about their bullshit.
Neera Tanden will be the woman who defeats their old white male guard.
There are barriers that need busting & Ms Tanden is up for the task because she is correct. And they are not.
Total support for Neera Tanden to break that old guard of "shut up & sit down" white male club of patriarchy.
Bravo Ms Tanden! BRAVO 💙👍
rso
(2,271 posts)Wow, Republican Senators suddenly concerned about disparaging comments, while their President must have made thousands of such comments in the last few years. Irony is dead in the GOP.
Stuart G
(38,416 posts)elleng
(130,865 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)is to keep the nomination in place and pick someone they like even less as the Acting.
Captain Zero
(6,801 posts)see what they think then...
tulipsandroses
(5,123 posts)of a sudden they object to something that is supposedly disparaging??? After trump disrespecting career civil servants, the FBI, the CIA, the military? Ya gotta be kidding me. And nothing disparaging about what she said. She's right. Mitch McConnell broke the Senate and helped trump break our democracy.
betsuni
(25,463 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)DBoon
(22,356 posts)Said the senators who never outgrew kindergarten
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Cry me a river ya snowflakes.
sandensea
(21,624 posts)God Himself could have come down to endorse her - and they'd still be against her.
The Devil's endorsement? That might have done it.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)they then whine...................