Kennedy: I'm sorry for calling Tanden a 'whack job'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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.

[gratuitous]

1. Uh huh

I guess under the heading of "small favors," this admission by Senator Kennedy is singular. Republicans almost never apologize or take something back like that. I'm guessing Kennedy's political instincts poked his conscience and said he might have gone a smidgen too far.

[Rustyeye77]

2. Hey John... look in the mirror.

What a pos

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. "This fucking whack-job over here needs to watch her fucking mouth in public!!!" Oh irony,

we hardly knew ye.

[UpInArms]

4. Jeez ... what a nasty non-apology

I have a lot of choice names for Kennedy, but mostly he is just a stupid Republiqan

[dweller]

5. Has the La gqp

begun the censure yet ?

✌🏻

[DFW]

6. I'm sorry I ever called Kennedy a "Senator."

I will try to use more fitting expressions and forms of address in the future.

I have many in mind, and there is no shortage of epithets to choose from.

[zaj]

7. Redemption.... that means he can vote for her (after she apologizes for own words).

Right, cause he expects a reset button. Right?
Or is he resigning because he's unfit to serve too?

[Midnight Writer]

8. This is a double down. He gets the media to repeat his slur for another day's news coverage.

[lagomorph777]

9. A Qpublican calling somebody and "extremist" is rich!