Kennedy: I'm sorry for calling Tanden a 'whack job'
GOP Sen. John Kennedy apologized on Thursday for calling President Joe Biden's embattled budget chief pick, Neera Tanden, a “whack job.”
Kennedy said he regretted the remark about Tanden. The Louisianan explained that he was searching for another word before calling her “a neo-socialist, left-of-Lenin whack job.”
"I apologize. I was searching for a word for extremist, which I think is more neutral," Kennedy said. "And I should have said extremist. I never should have said whack job."
He offered the apology after an interview on an another subject but said he had “felt bad about that all day” on Wednesday after tagging Tanden with the barb.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kennedy-im-sorry-calling-tanden-124256040.html
Senator I'm sorry you're still a dumbass.
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