Manchin to oppose neera tanden nomination

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

I don't really care about what happens to Tanden's nomination, but as others have mentioned, it's pretty absurd that Manchin would vote to confirm Sessions but not her.

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

PSA to progressives: you probably shouldn't be lauding Manchin for this before we find out who Biden would replace Tanden with, because you might like them even less. Even if her Twitter antics were childish, she wasn't Biden's most moderate option (*cough cough* Bruce Reed), and I hope we all care about the actual policy ramifications of the OMB more than we care about personalities.

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

Apparently Gene Sparling is the frontrunner for OMB, sound like Tanden is gonna get yanked.

*Sperling

He doesn't seem like a particularly offensive pick for progressives, no? Just based on what I have quickly read up about him

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

PSA to progressives: you probably shouldn't be lauding Manchin for this before we find out who Biden would replace Tanden with, because you might like them even less. Even if her Twitter antics were childish, she wasn't Biden's most moderate option (*cough cough* Bruce Reed), and I hope we all care about the actual policy ramifications of the OMB more than we care about personalities.

Keeping as many psychopathic Hillary attack dogs out of office as possible is a good thing.

Once again, I hope you would care more about the effect that Tanden would have on the OMB than about her allegiance to Hillary Clinton, and that if she would be more progressive than another pick, you would prefer her. Too much to ask, obviously.

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

PSA to progressives: you probably shouldn't be lauding Manchin for this before we find out who Biden would replace Tanden with, because you might like them even less. Even if her Twitter antics were childish, she wasn't Biden's most moderate option (*cough cough* Bruce Reed), and I hope we all care about the actual policy ramifications of the OMB more than we care about personalities.

Keeping as many psychopathic Hillary attack dogs out of office as possible is a good thing.

Once again, I hope you would care more about the effect that Tanden would have on the OMB than about her allegiance to Hillary Clinton, and that if she would be more progressive than another pick, you would prefer her. Too much to ask, obviously.

Neera Tanden is a UAE operative, so her policies suck too.

I very clearly said "if she would be more progressive than another pick." I'm not saying you are supposed to like her; I don't particularly like her. I'm simply saying she is not the absolute worst person to run the OMB, so before everyone gets all excited about her nomination being in jeopardy, we should probably see if her replacement will not be worse. I don't really know what's so complicated about that. I presume you're not infatuated with Joe Biden, so the notion that he could pick someone less progressive than Tanden is probably something you would find very plausible (and it is plausible).

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

By the way according to the Biden admin the most important way to help Small Buisnesses is by appointing a woman to be the head of it.

Please cite

https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1362054205666717700

She listed other reasons later but she clearly stated "First and foremost" at 1:17

A woman who formerly worked there was the point