Neera Tanden’s nomination has been pulled after key Senators say they won’t support her. Both Joe Manchin and Susan Collins have come out in opposition to her nomination.

Tanden’s record of hard criticism of both Republicans and Democrats is thought to have hurt her.

After Biden’s win, she deleted over 1,000 of her past tweets.

”In a statement, President Joe Biden said Tanden requested to withdraw her name from consideration.

"I have accepted Neera Tanden's request to withdraw her name from nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget," Biden said in a statement. "I have the utmost respect for her record of accomplishment, her experience and her counsel, and I look forward to having her serve in a role in my Administration. She will bring valuable perspective and insight to our work.”



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She mouthed off on twitter and got stung.

On the other hand, trump got the same results with his Twitter abuses.

Not the end of the world. Plenty of talented people out there.

This does suck but I'm mostly neutral on this artifact of only having the slimmest of vote margins to begin with.

She often spoke the truth, which her critics never cared about before she faced the prospect of a plum job.

She deleted her tweets because of "controversy." I never understand why people do this, as if the text can't be found, and past opinions can't be defended in context.

But it's the context that requires work so few have the time to bother with.

If she was Nero instead of Neera … well, there's always room to wonder just exactly how much gender has to do with any of these decisions.

Bernie rushing to block another qualified woman.

Called it.

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this CRACKED ME UP!

It’s vision63’s fault for making me snort coffee all over my keyboard in the first place.

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Bernie rushing to block another qualified woman.

Either that, or his Depends® just overflowed…

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Bernie rushing to block another qualified woman.

Either that, or his Depends® just overflowed…

Racing to beat a primary filing deadline.

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Bernie rushing to block another qualified woman.

Either that, or his Depends® just overflowed…

Racing to beat a primary filing deadline.

Where he runs as a Democrat to frighten off challengers and vacuum up their "dirty" money, knowing that the DSCC and other funders won't fund a challenger to an existing seat. Once he wins, he changes back to Independent.

Points for consistency, once you get a hate on, you got to the mat with it!

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Points for consistency, once you get a hate on, you got to the mat with it!

I think it's very clever. I just wish he wouldn't act like he doesn't take the money.

You want to exclude Bernie but seem perfectly content to have Joe Manchin share your tent.

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You want to exclude Bernie but seem perfectly content to have Joe Manchin share your tent.

If Manchin wasn't there, the seat would be Republican. Guaranteed. Manchin will cooperate over 50%. A Republican, zero percent. West Virginia is a red state. Bernie is fixated on his agenda. The same one he's had his entire life. He's pragmatic for the most part, but he doesn't know how to get wins. He's unwilling to develop partnerships or build coalitions. He doesn't want his dreams tainted by compromise.

Down deep, he believes that there is a vast working class that is allied by their economic exclusion. It's true. But it's the United States. There are too many other divisions that has to be addressed before everyone can hold hands together and take over this country. Right now, we're too easy to divide and conquer. There are too many opportunists that are willing to unwittingly comply with the enemy divisiveness for some sort of short term gain.



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Bad analogy.
The guy in Montana, Jon Tester, is sitting in a "Republican" seat and yet seems to not have to do a Manchin and hold the country hostage - why do you suppose that is?

You seem to think that politicians who don't compromise principals aren't people you can or should deal with - that would seem to suggest that you value the lack of value. Pragmatism has it's limits and pitfalls of it's own my fiend.

You do realize that the latest "realpolitik" cave by Schumer - means testing - imposes a bureaucratic delay in getting $ into the hands of people who are most in need but they'll do that rather than fight for the promises they made.



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Bad analogy.
The guy in Montana, Jon Tester, is sitting in a "Republican" seat and yet seems to not have to do a Manchin and hold the country hostage - why do you suppose that is?

You seem to think that politicians who don't compromise principals aren't people you can or should deal with - that would seem to suggest that you value the lack of value. Pragmatism has it's limits and pitfalls of it's own my fiend.

You do realize that the latest "realpolitik" cave by Schumer - means testing - imposes a bureaucratic delay in getting $ into the hands of people who are most in need but they'll do that rather than fight for the promises they made.

You refuse to see Bernie as the ultra loser that he is. He has no accomplishments. He's just a big mouth talking a bunch of yang. Literally. You can't even defend what I just typed. You don't even have the capability to say "Oh no, you're wrong, this is what he's accomplished." You don't even try. Because there's nothing there. Dump that chump.

Jon Tester and Joe Manchin votes similarly. Manching has been a pain just a handful of times. So you're overstating that.

This getting silly.

The first COVID relief bill was set to become law before Sanders used his Senatorial privilege to stop it and insist on $600/wk unemployment payment which eventually became the fact. Your defense of political patronage establishment politics and fear of Sanders threat to that sort of politics blind you Russ.

You're a fan of the status quo political landscape, people on both side of the aisle have strongly refuted that stance. It wasn't due to Trump excess but his mismanagement of COVID that we aren't saddled with another Trump administration. The past election saw GQP gains in the House while adopting Biden as an antidote to Trump - hardly the electoral response circumstances would have seemed to warrant.



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It's a very curious thing to see someone here imply V would have been "OK" with another Trump presidency, simply due to status quo. And I'm being charitable here.

And please, we all know local elections are gerrymandered and never "tied" to whatever the national response it.

Congress isn't a place where we elect representatives to "just" shoot off their mouths. We elect them to make laws. That's why we call them lawmakers. They legislate to make laws.

Republicans have decided to simply obstruct and destroy the making of laws. They're not about creating laws anymore.

The far left, upset that they wield little power are just as obstructive. Their king is Bernie Sanders. Even his own state is getting tired of him. He only garnered 50% in Vermont during the primaries.

7 passed bills in 30 years. Most of them the re-naming of Post Offices. But all you ever hear him say is "I led the fight to _______"

This fool and others like him can't look at what's good in something (a bill), only what they don't like about it. It's because they're not interested in solutions. Just fooling people into believing that they're relevant without actually having to do any work.

This needs to be understood. It's because of his shenanigans and others like him that Trump was able to sneak into the White House. They're geared up to be just as irresponsible moving forward.



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