“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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I don’t have a strong opinion on Neera other than she’s clearly competent. Biden earned his right to choose a Cabinet and execute his agenda on behalf of the 80-plus million Americans who voted for him.
Susan Collins’ statement on Tanden is pretty absurd. Collins didn’t signal she was ‘troubled’ with the most hateful, egregious, and violent remarks by Trump and his supporters over the last four years. The idea that she would position herself as a moral arbiter regarding tweets is notable.
It is indicitave of the addle-pated Collins that she fully believes (maybe just doesn't care) that no one would notice that, Michael.
Tanden is a victim of the toxic culture in politics created by Gingrich, Luntz, Limbaugh, et al, and hoisted ever higher by Fox, The T***p consortium, and the small, female moron with the AR-15s on her bookshelf.
I'm telling you, Michael, as time passes, I am more and more aware of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
My fear is that I am a victim…😁
In my father’s houseon Mount Stupid there are manyroomstrails!So CPAC did a thing: they canceled someone speaking at their event "America Uncancelled".
Honestly this person could have been almost anyone on their line-up but they went with a Young Pharaoh:
Well, as tweets go, Tom Cotton is a fraud, Cruz does have less heart than a vampire and Moscow Mitch is Moscow Mitch. But really, other than being the ” first female Asian-American”, what qualifies Tanden to head OMB?
Give me some old buzzard with a green eye shade and a sharp pencil. Does Janet Yellen have a sister?
Tokenism in lieu of competence is shaping up as the Achilles Heel of this young administration.
She may be the token lamb, someone Biden could sacrifice and build bona fides with the Sanders wing given she pretty much stands against everything Bernie supports. That makes me think she’s the perfect nominee for you, V! 😂😂
Yup…political chess going on we hear nothing about until it is done.
Her background is mostly in politics..you have a point. What experience does she lack?
What sort of "qualification" would count as the head of OMB? The White House website says
Given that a Presidential budget is dead on arrival in Congress, preparing it doesn't seem to be a central competency.
Management of the federal government is, at least, a team sport, and whoever heads the OMB should pick competent people to do it.
Coordination & review of government policies — seems mainly a matter of understanding and choosing among options — so someone who has worked government policy, like a Senate legislative director or think tank denizen.
Clearance and coordination … again, someone who can do the political tasks of balancing, integrating and prioritizing within an Administration agenda.
I know it is a low bar, but she is every bit as qualified as Mick Mulvaney.
Well, isn't that the issue?😉
Mick Mulvaney is your standard of competence?
That takes Whaboutism to a new low!
In some good reporting by Noah Bierman, we know that VP Harris is the most targeted American politician on the internet.
This is what being a smart, black woman in America is like 56 years after the demise of Jim Crow laws.
Black, female and high-profile, Kamala Harris is a top target in online fever swamps
And, there's your QOPer bumper sticker . . .
Speaking of ignorance…
Good to see Lauren finally criticizing The Former Guy- the president who proclaimed “15 days to slow the spread.”
The poor, ignorant tool. She's mixing up her "15"'s
Trump: I Was Right, Coronavirus Cases ‘Will Go Down to Zero, Ultimately’
It’s probably just a coincidence that 15 was about when she ended her formal “government” education? . . .
Today is National Margarita Day.
Why mid-winter rather than mid-summer?
It’s 78 degrees in Key West today
"Boat drinks! The boys in the band ordered boat drinks, The visitors scored on the home rink. Everything seems to be wrong."–Jimmy Buffett
A necessary daily reminder that Louis DeJoy is still our Postmaster General. He’s *ucked up the system so bad there are calls to end the shipping of live chicks via USPS. (likely not a big deal in urban areas, but a spring ritual where I’m from!)
Sorry, Pew Pew, no half-mast for Rush but this is happening:
Heh. Joy Reid’s staff reads Pols. She jokingly referred, on-air, to Boebert at CPAC as “Pew-Pew”!
Anyone remember who coined it?
Dio or Michael Bowman?
It could also have originated in a parody account, @laurenboebertsglock, which lists preferred pronouns as Pew/pew/pew….
https://twitter.com/Investor4201?s=20
<raises head out of foxhole>
So it was you, huh?
Nicely done…I started plagarizing you almost immediately.
It was just too easy 😂
“The other guy . . .”
We heard that this evening. Karen turned to me and said, “someone there’s been reading Pols.”
Isn’t Joy Reid a local girl? I think I remember seeing somewhere on here that she was an East High Angel
No, she’s a Bellos Warrior. Montbello is another school I have fond memories of. Really great teachers, striver students, juicy faculty scandals. I taught yearbook and journalism there for four years. (After Reid’s time).
Grifting email in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... he's going to be more upset that we discover he's not really a billionaire than the likelihood he's engaged in criminal activity.
Wow.
Shows what's on the ex-*resident's mind … I can hardly wait to hear the CPAC speech if this is what is concerning him.
". . . Storm the courtrooms . . ." anyone??
Who wrote it for him?
From Parler. He proved to be so incompetent he couldn't even stack a court.
Has this woman never ordered a pizza?
Supreme is where it ends, sweetie.
Public education has failed her.