The Biden Presidency

Cornyn spokesperson: Neera Tanden has 'no chance' of being confirmed as Biden's OMB pick

A spokesperson for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden's reported pick to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has "no chance" of being confirmed by the Senate should Republicans remain in control next year.

In a tweet, Cornyn spokesman Drew Brandewie said that Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden's past history of "disparaging comments about the Republican Senators' whose votes she’ll need" made her confirmation highly unlikely. Tanden would need 51 votes in the Senate to become head of the OMB; Democrats currently control 48 seats in the Senate, though they are hoping to pick up two more in Georgia as the state's Senate elections head to runoffs in January.

Neera Tanden, who has an endless stream of disparaging comments about the Republican Senators’ whose votes she’ll need, stands zero chance of being confirmed. https://t.co/f6Ewi6OMQR

— Drew Brandewie (@DBrandewie) November 30, 2020
The statement from Brandewie is a departure from his boss's remarks earlier this month. Cornyn said that Biden's win over President Trump in the 2020 election would not be assured until all states have certified their votes. Trump has refused to concede the election and has launched a host of legal challenges seeking to overturn results in various states that have yet to see any measure of success.

“He is not president-elect until the votes are certified. So the answer to that is no,” Cornyn said, according to The Dallas Morning News. “And I don’t know what basis you or anybody else would claim that he’s president-elect before the votes are certified and these contests are resolved.”

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Tanden would be Biden's pick to lead the OMB. She has led the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, since 2010. During the 2016 election, Tanden was a top ally of the Democratic Party's then-nominee, Hillary Clinton, and was seen at the time as a likely candidate for a White House role.

Representatives for Biden's transition team did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...-chance-of-being-confirmed-as-bidens-omb-pick
 
Tbh the spokesperson for the senator makes a good point. Now the fascist dictator has been voted out of office, its time for America to go through a healing process and a coming together as one country. Radical liberals like Tanden are only interested in fighting and attacking fellow americans. Now is not the time.

Hopefully Biden will take a more grown up approach to politics and chose someone more respectful.
 
Sweet Square said:
Tbh the spokesperson for the senator makes a good point. Now the fascist dictator has been voted out of office, its time for America to go through a healing process and a coming together as one country. Radical liberals like Tanden are only interested in fighting and attacking fellow americans. Now is not the time.

Hopefully Biden will take a more grown up approach to politics and chose someone more respectful.
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Not sure if sarcasm
 
langster said:
Let's hope she doesn't get confirmed. She's slightly further right than Bush. What a despicable price of shit she is. She's not a Democrat in the slightest.
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She's very much a Democrat in the corporate, establishment sense. That's the problem.
 
Raoul said:
Sh0e's very much a Democrat in the corporate, establishment sense. That's the problem.
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That's very true, but she could easily run as a Republican. Her record on very important Liberal/Progressive ideals is abysmal. She's gone against universal health care or expanding medicare, banning fracking, the minimum wage and important environmental laws.

A corporate dream come true.
 
berbatrick said:
She's there because of the great work her organisation has done, they were the first to make a plausible-sounding alternative to Medicare For All (in 2017-18, preparing early for the primary, it was adopted by Kamala and Beto and Warren in different parts), privately briefed reporters very hard against it while outwardly staying neutral and getting called progressive by the media, and finally because she is a genuinely loyal and ideologically clear person.
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I'll never forget her mocking the Italian public health system for their covid deaths early on. The fecking Biden administration just filling up with garbage human beings. I'm happy Trump's gone. feck the rest of these sadistic clowns and administration.
 
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e- just for reference, "legacy civil rights groups" are very much not socialist, and are a very core constituency of the party.

e again: her bio starts with " Chief Diversity Officer-SMU. "
 
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She refused multiple deals with the White House because their proposed stimulus wasn't 2tn (they had offered 1.8tn) and now she has accepted 0.9tn.

e - what a prick
 
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She refused multiple deals with the White House because their proposed stimulus wasn't 2tn (they had offered 1.8tn) and now she has accepted 0.9tn.
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You can't possibly be suggesting the Nancy doesn't care about people and was only interested in winning are you? :rolleyes:
 
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She refused multiple deals with the White House because their proposed stimulus wasn't 2tn (they had offered 1.8tn) and now she has accepted 0.9tn.
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That is bi partnership 101 under Pelosi. Come out big and bold and end up doing what the Republicans want. CNN and MSNBC will be falling over themselves calling Pelosi a master negotiator and a great day for pragmatism.
 
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Pure psychopath
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If anything the new President is an extra reason for a bigger package as it’s far more likely Biden will initiate stricter lockdowns. American politics needs McConnell and Pelosi to die.
 
The endgame was always Pelosi, rictus grin and waving, atop a pile of starving children, with the crowds chanting "Still better than Trump". Let 'em eat shit was the slogan. Don't blame Biden for doing his policies, only Trump.
 
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