She is a fraud just like her Republican Party members and is hoping to sound normal to change the narrative. Suddenly she is concerned about what? Please, she is part of the problem - and so are others who suddenly see religion. As expected.
So it begs the question - why now and what changed? Why didn’t you worry about any of this before going back to the start of your career in the Republican Party? I’d love to hear the press ask her that question and then press her for a real answer.
Well … unfit is a strong word. I don’t know one can say “unfit” (maybe) but unwise yeah.
It was certainly very unwise - and an example of why dishing on people on Twitter as a semi-public figure unless you really want to fully buy into Trumpy culture is a bad idea.
1 ) make sure that Manchin is the only Democratic defection.
2 ) Murkowski, Romney, Toomey and Burr (Schumer only needs 1).
3 ) get Schumer’s advice
All the more reason for prospective employers to scrutinize your TPM comments.
It’s a lot nicer and more tame than anything Trump came up with about Collins and everyone else, and yet she did nothing until he sicced a pack of wild white supremacists on her. Honestly, where was all this concern about tweets when it involved any of the Trump nominees? Hell, they didn’t even care about rape allegations.
Bile? Calling MoscowMitch “Voldemort” is so shocking and beyond the pale?
Or is it that she got into it with BernieBros online?
Pass the smelling salts if you’re going to get offended by someone’s posts that wouldn’t be at all out of line here on TPM.
Guess the bi-polar letter of deep concern from the Maine GQP really struck a nerve. Maine voters, what were you thinking, reelecting this windsock gasbag?
True, but Kavanaugh was never accused of raping a Senator.
On the other hand, Suzie did vote for Mick Mulvaney for OMB.
Not surprising from Collins. She has a thin skin and Tanden once called her the ‘worst’ on Twitter. Yeah, really tough stuff. All those Trump tweets escaped her, but one sort of mean tweet from a brown woman and that’s it!
Collins is petty, unserious, and is also way more racist than she may let on. Over 20 years ago she was on a committee that held a hearing on campaign fundraising and the actions of Indian American fundraiser, Yogesh Gandhi, who had raised money for Democrats, including Bill Clinton, and was convicted of violating campaign finance laws came up.
Collins used it to harangue the name ‘Yogesh Gandhi’ in that jowly NE accent of hers over and over again and tie him to Bill Clinton. The clear message was that Clinton hangs out with scary brown foreigners to get foreign donations.
Now she calls Tanden, ‘unqualified’, a slap in the face to Tanden’s qualifications which any woman of color would take as the racist ‘uppity’ type insult that it is.
She won re-election against Sara Gideon, who is part Indian American, and acted so perturbed that she was being challenged by her. The ‘how dare she?!!’ Vibe was strong.
Collins’ first reaction to the Capitol insurrection was that she thought the Iranians did it. She voted to convict Trump b/c it’s what her state’s voters expected, but there’s no constituency in ME for the OMB position.
Of course, she voted to confirm Kavanaugh, so that says a lot.
Does she owe JK Rowlings royalties for that?
Wait - doesn’t everyone on SCOTUS have drinking and gambling habits?
Personally, I believe that Manchin’s defection is a tit-for-tat response to all the arm-twisting he’s getting over the COVID stimulus package. His constituents back home want it and Schumer and Biden can’t afford to lose his vote. He’s going to show that he’s not their lackey by taking it out on Tanden.
I’m sorry for Tanden, but if I’m correct in my assessment it’s an acceptable trade-off.
Ok, Mittens, you’re up.
I haven’t been able to work for over 15 years.
Maybe because of gender, people get lazy and make assumptions of similarity, but I have always suspected that Murk is not Collins’ equivalent, w/r/t getting an R to cross over.
All the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching by those critics who were silent during the era of Trump (and all his awful acting Cabinet members, most of whom polluted social media in ways that make Tanden’s posts pale in comparison) are hypocritical at best, and deeply dishonest in many cases.
That being said, the responsible use of social media is the defining characteristic of maturity and quality of our public servants these days. For every moron whose career as an elected or appointed official crashed and burned because of the stupid stuff they posted, it’s created a roadmap for how to conduct yourself in a public forum. The standards should be very high. If a professional person does not realize that their social media use is 1) seen by all; 2) lasts forever; 3) is not the same as a conversation with like-minded peers in a private setting; and 4) damning if viewed by anyone fixated on putting a different spin or perspective on the sentiments…they really haven’t inspired the confidence that is necessary for them to exercise effective leadership.
Well, is there any truth to what Collins is saying? Deleting tweets, name calling others, doesn’t really have a good look. Is Tanden the only person that could be the director of OMB?
Why stuck on this one that doesn’t appear to be a unifier.
How? Easy, when she has the swing vote and thus the power of Up - Down…
People ginning themselves up in a lather about consistency etc are really engaging in some self-deception here. People are simply not very consistent (even if you think you are, you’re not), and politicians are just people. Or here a person playing to a home partisan audience with a low-cost scalp for the partisans.
If the shoe were on the other foot, many a Dem senator would play the same. There’s really no point in getting lathered up or upset over a bit of political theater.
Tanden had baggage she self-generated, unwise use of Twitter… (probably any use of Twitter than bland PR is unwise…) and voila, she’s playing the role of the sacrificial lamb.
Bingo! Some folks here are failing to see the racial implications of a then sitting president being allowed to tweet all manner of hate, even inciting an insurrection, without much pushback from the GOP while they want to takedown a brown woman for being merely unkind. Please. Biden should continue to fight for her like brown women fought for him.