Bernie world seethes over Tanden as OMB nominee
To former Sanders staffers and allies, Tanden is one of the Democratic elites who helped sink his 2016 campaign behind the scenes.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
11/30/2020 09:25 PM EST
Progressives have been able to live with most of Joe Biden’s Cabinet picks.
But to many of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ staunchest supporters, Biden’s decision to tap Hillary Clinton loyalist Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget is just too much — the equivalent of rubbing salt in the wound.
To former Sanders staffers and allies, Tanden is one of the Democratic elites who helped sink his 2016 campaign behind the scenes, not to mention a union-buster, a threat to Social Security, a hippie-puncher who constantly picks fights with the left, and much more.
“I don’t know anyone personally in Bernie world who is happy about this choice,” said Briahna Joy Gray, Sanders’ former national press secretary. “We’re talking about a woman who’s notorious for assaulting Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager.”
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2016 isn't the past?
I can't stand that woman. She's not a reporter, she's an activist... but even as an activist, she's a rather POOR excuse for one. If she truly wanted to promote a progressive agenda and make SOME progress (even if it isn't being done by her political idol) then she'd be typing her fingers to the bone trying to unify other disappointed leftists into helping and supporting Biden.
Instead she's constantly trying to kneecap Biden (even before he's sworn-in) and HINDER any progress that would be made for the progressive causes she (and they) care most about. Once again we see her truly bizarre but holier-than-thou purity-brigade philosophy that takes such pride in the "all or nothing" attitude. It's clear to me that people like her would rather have NOTHING and complain loudly about it, rather than to swallow their pride and work to make SOME progress.
After all, the "incremental progress" that they hate is still PROGRESS! Right? These juicebox revolutionaries always want it now! Instantly. How fortunate they are to have the luxury of time on their side (among other luxuries). Meanwhile, true leaders like Biden must fight BOTH the Republicans AND the attacks, smears and distractions from the far left.
Honestly, what good purpose does it serve? As an activist, she should stop whining and use her platform for good, rather than for harm. It's time to rally the far left. It's an all-hands-on-deck moment... and we have people like this wretched woman refusing to help and standing in everyone else's way.
you'd have enjoyed having to threaten to toss your representatives out of office every time Legislating President Sanders called on you to force congress to pass his grand plans.
How long until it seemed easier to just got rid of a congress whose functions were already mostly usurped? Or, in the real world, wouldn't the hoards of millions of activist citizens needed to frighten congress into compliance have failed to materialize even once? I'd think finding oneself a force of 1 or 5 here and there would have been demoralizing fast.
This bizarrely magical and shockingly anti-democracy thinking, btw, is all right from the horse's mouth: Sanders himself, 2019-20 primary. He was explaining to the NYT editorial board how you'd force congress to do what he wanted as president, like trash the ACA congress created and start from scratch on "MfA." And all his other promises.
Goddamn commie!
criticizes and pushes the Democratic Party for more action. They're not socialist revolutionaries, though, believing in using democracy and capitalism to advance society. Sounds like an inappropriate target for death threats from people who proudly labeled themselves "Progressives," doesn't it?
Bernie Sanders took a real dislike to her in 2016, though -- and thus his noisy followers hated her then and still do -- because her progressive group, CAP, didn't support him. They also had the nerve, as it turns out unforgivably, to criticize some Sanders hypocrisy in their journal.
Kind of a severe reaction for what doesn't sound like much (and really, really wasn't), but remember how well he took Planned Parenthood's refusal to endorse him.
Tanden is only one of many names Sanders' aggressive populists react to the exact same way Trump's collection reacts to those their leader turns them against.
Oh, and she once called them "crazy leftists." Had to look that one up, knew there was something.
That strikes me as very mild given Sanders' own actions, contempt for today's progressivism in government and willingness to destroy it, and the many unleashed behaviors of his "revolutionaries" so outrageous they were reported in the media,
But especially considering the constant barrage of vitriol and death threats the scum of the Sanders "movement" aimed at her and her organization. And still do.