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25. Exactly! Neera stood up for

Reply to George II (Reply #23)

Wed Feb 10, 2021, 06:50 PM

Feb 2021

Reality!

I like her and more importantly so does President Biden!

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Sanders confronts Tanden over past 'vicious attacks' [View all] Donkees Feb 2021 OP

Thanks for posting. I'm glad he confronted her. n/t Peregrine Took Feb 2021 #1

Wny? Me. Feb 2021 #31

I watched the entire hearing. Blue_true Feb 2021 #42

Post removed Post removed Feb 2021 #2

Ha.. as if! Cha Feb 2021 #5

That's a good point, and using a dominant position to browbeat OnDoutside Feb 2021 #6

+1, exactly. LizBeth Feb 2021 #7

And an apology for hiring vicious Nina Turner. SharonClark Feb 2021 #8

Yup. "Enough is enough." betsuni Feb 2021 #10

Hah! AND the Democratic Party. I'll confirm right now that I have never Hortensis Feb 2021 #13

Absolutely and the Democratic Party and all the base that have supported the DP. Also using language LizBeth Feb 2021 #16

:) No more excuse for those who believe him now and before Hortensis Feb 2021 #18

:) Yeah. No excuse for those who choose to believe proven liars, Hortensis Feb 2021 #19

Mentioning himself with Biden and leaving out Kamala Harris JI7 Feb 2021 #39

Thank you. Don't hold your breath. NurseJackie Feb 2021 #15

Didn't she assault someone? demmiblue Feb 2021 #3

Seems she punched Faiz Shakir Donkees Feb 2021 #9

She doesn't deserve an appointment in the Biden administration. demmiblue Feb 2021 #12

Yes she does. If President Biden wants her to head up OMB, she deserves that appointment... George II Feb 2021 #34

No she didn't. Please get your facts straight. Thanks. George II Feb 2021 #32

No she didn't. George II Feb 2021 #36

President Biden knows what he's doing Cha Feb 2021 #4

In my opinion.. BlueLucy Feb 2021 #11

But she didn't say that. She said she was sorry, no reason given for why she did it Beringia Feb 2021 #14

She took the high road. BlueLucy Feb 2021 #20

If you apologize, half of the apology is saying why you are sorry, not just that you are sorry Beringia Feb 2021 #21

I agree, she could have done a better job of explaining why she was Blue_true Feb 2021 #43

Yes she did! I love her! Cha Feb 2021 #27

She was at a committee hearing overseeing her ultimate confirmation. George II Feb 2021 #33

Neera was.. and she was good Cha Feb 2021 #26

OOOhhhh Weeee, Yay Sanders in Charge Beringia Feb 2021 #17

Sanders: "I am concerned about the level of corporate donations that the Center betsuni Feb 2021 #22

Right. Instead of being "concerned" (where have we heard that before?) about Americans.... George II Feb 2021 #24

If you sell your business to Unilever or write a best-selling book and sell it on Amazon, betsuni Feb 2021 #35

Tanden's "vicious attacks on progressives" were in response to similarly vicious attacks BY.... George II Feb 2021 #23

Exactly! Neera stood up for Cha Feb 2021 #25

+++ still_one Feb 2021 #41

I was at the 2016 national convention Gothmog Feb 2021 #28

No kidding! Cha Feb 2021 #29

He Is Finally In A Position Of Power And Could Do Some REal Good Me. Feb 2021 #30

I honestly don't understand why a personal beef with a person is allowed to enter.... George II Feb 2021 #38

Nor I Me. Feb 2021 #45

But Bernie said specifically that it wasn't about being hurt. Malmsy Feb 2021 #50

I was shocked when I heard him say that yesterday: "I don't see too many girls here." ... George II Feb 2021 #54

You are not alone in that observation. Many agree with you. NurseJackie Feb 2021 #62

Neera Tanden is a Democrat, and has been nominated to head OMB by a DEMOCRATIC President.... George II Feb 2021 #37

Precisely! Polices Not Cha Feb 2021 #40

Your last sentence says it all. Thank you... it needed to be said. NurseJackie Feb 2021 #52

I honestly don't know who to back on this one. SlogginThroughIt Feb 2021 #44

Pretty simple in my mind. Support the choice of President Joe Biden. GulfCoast66 Feb 2021 #46

TY.. Exactly!. Neera did nothing Cha Feb 2021 #47

It should be that way. SlogginThroughIt Feb 2021 #49

Neera Tanden: Democrat. Nominated by President Joe Biden: Democrat. Yes, very simple indeed. George II Feb 2021 #51

Inasmuch as Neera Tanden's "vicious attacks" were in response to similar "vicious attacks".... George II Feb 2021 #48

She once called him Crazy. He noted it. He asked her about policies. She answered Tom Rinaldo Feb 2021 #53

Yes, de-escalated AFTER he brought it up yesterday. Look up some tweets from his speechwriter... George II Feb 2021 #55

seems like a legit issue, well framed by Bernie and well handled by Neera Tanden fishwax Feb 2021 #56

What's "legit" about it? What does something that happened four years ago, in response... George II Feb 2021 #57

she has a history of heightened rhetoric towards people she'll have to work with in the position fishwax Feb 2021 #58

Some of people she'll have to work with in the position ALSO have a history.... George II Feb 2021 #59

Sure. But the point of the meeting was to review her for her appointment fishwax Feb 2021 #60

He will vote to confirm her because she's Joe's pick. I'm happy he called her out. Autumn Feb 2021 #61

And yet Turner, Sirota, Gray, West, and Sarandon went unmentioned. George II Feb 2021 #63

So? Were any of them at a hearing to be confirmed? I'll answer that. Nope, they weren't. nt Autumn Feb 2021 #64

They were the ones who attacked Neera Tanden (who was a private citizen at the time).... George II Feb 2021 #65

Yeah? Like you said, she and Sarandon are both private citizens who were attacked. Autumn Feb 2021 #66

So you're ignoring what Turner, Sirota, and Gray did? "Get back to me".... George II Feb 2021 #67

Yeah I am ignoring what they did. They are not the OP subject I didn't condemn them George, Autumn Feb 2021 #68

The subject of the OP is what Tanden did, and many are ignoring the underlying REASON.... George II Feb 2021 #70

I don't care about that George. I am not going down a vortex of outrage about Autumn Feb 2021 #72

I'm well aware that you "don't care about that George [II]", Autu.... George II Feb 2021 #73

Not my circus, not my monkeys. As I said, Turner, Sirota, Gray, West, and Sarandon Autumn Feb 2021 #74

For one final time, Neera Tanden was responding IN KIND to the vicious attacks by.... George II Feb 2021 #75

Post removed Post removed Feb 2021 #77

Wow. NurseJackie Feb 2021 #78

I wouldn't support Tanden and it has nothing to do with Sanders - but because Nanjeanne Feb 2021 #69

From the guy who hired Nina Turner and David Sirota. BannonsLiver Feb 2021 #71

If anyfuckingbody needs to do some fucking reflecting.... MrsCoffee Feb 2021 #76