Biden’s selection of Neera Tanden to head OMB is an early test for progressives in their dealings with the incoming administration. Tanden is vocally anti M4a and UBI and tied to Wall St and theocratic regimes, she backed SS cuts when it counted, and she hates the left.
There’s two options:
1) Join Republican senators in blocking her appointment and risk being labeled obstructionist.
2) Confirm her and try to work with a Biden administration that has already, by virtue of her nomination, shown its complete disregard for you.
1) Join Republican senators in blocking her appointment and risk being labeled obstructionist.
2) Confirm her and try to work with a Biden administration that has already, by virtue of her nomination, shown its complete disregard for you.
Option 1 is scary and there will be a lot of handwringing in the press, but as the Obama administration showed with its deficit reduction focus 2 years after the economic meltdown, Democrats cave to that kind of pressure.
An early show of force where progressives demonstrate a willingness to work across the aisle to defeat a hostile nominee is the best way to deal with Biden, who has named zero progressives to his administration.
This won’t happen without progressives calling folks like Sanders and demanding he stand in Tanden’s way
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