Thread by @JewhadiTM

The issue with @neeratanden was never her tweets. It's her character washex.am/3p92mMq

Any Democrat who calls Susan Collins, the most centrist Republican in the Senate, "the worst," is not a person capable of following Biden's call to unity and civility.

And Tanden's problems go deeper than just the fact that she spent the last several years starting Twitter flame-wars in a manner that could be deemed unprofessional.

For starters, there's that time when she retaliated against an employee who had the audacity to report sexual harassment by outing her at a company-wide meeting.

Then there's the fact that she's a deranged conspiracy theorist who has blamed everything from Hillary Clinton's loss to Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement on Russia.

Throw in the fact that she's a corporate sellout pretending to care about cracking down on corporations and that she once assaulted a journalist for asking Clinton about the Iraq War (Tanden maintains she merely "pushed" him).

It’s pretty clear Tanden lacks the temperament, manners, and self-control to manage the federal budget.

But moreover, and most importantly, Tanden isn't qualified for the job.

All of Obama's confirmed OMB directors either had prior experience at the OMB or the Council of Economic Advisers or in the banking industry.

This attempt to put such a partisan hack in charge of our nation's budget cries out for strenuous opposition. It would be a travesty to allow her to be confirmed. The GOP would be wise to make @neeratanden’s nomination a hill to die on.