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WaPo: Biden hires all-female senior communications team, names Neera Tanden director of OMB
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Neera Tanden has pushed for
1) A multi-payer system like Japan or most European countries that aren't the UK. Too many get hung up on Single Payer when very few countries with UHC have it. Like, there's two major countries that have it (UK and CA) with all others having split government and private responsibility for health care.
2) expanding families eligible for TANF.
3) expanding and increasing the child care tax credit.
beyond that, OMB is not a policy position. They provide estimations for budget to allocate for bills and federal initiatives.
1) A multi-payer system like Japan or most European countries that aren't the UK. Too many get hung up on Single Payer when very few countries with UHC have it. Like, there's two major countries that have it (UK and CA) with all others having split government and private responsibility for health care.
2) expanding families eligible for TANF.
3) expanding and increasing the child care tax credit.
beyond that, OMB is not a policy position. They provide estimations for budget to allocate for bills and federal initiatives.
People have brought up a bunch of issues with her in this thread already, including Tanden outing an anonymous sexual harassment victim in front of all the staff. That's pretty fucking horrible, we're supposed to believe she's gonna handle sexual harassment complaints well in her office after that?
With people like Neera Tanden around the Biden administration is going to be an absolute shit show. It's such a stunningly out of touch and irresponsible pick.
Here's Tanden's June article in Democracy where she sketches out a more ambitious health care agenda than Biden's, plus some Warren stuff on corporate governance and a green industrial policy take.
A New Social Contract for the 21st Century
It is high time to rethink the relationship—the basic bargain—between the individual, companies, and our government.democracyjournal.org
Are you just going ot talk past other people's problems with her? Because I'm really getting sick of this site continuingly doing shit like this.
From 2012.
Liberal Group Proposes Reduced Medicare Spending
The Center for American Progress, a think-tank closely associated with President Obama, offered up a deal on Wednesday on how to cut the deficit by reducing spending for Medicare without, it says, hurting seniors.www.npr.org
If these clowns dare to try austerity in the middle of COVID-19, they can kiss 2022 goodbye. And a cameo from our friend Rahm. It is incredible how that family produced not one, but three highly successful capitalism stooges.
by gawd that's rahm's theme music *sounds of thousands of chicago citizens booing*
yup, she's horrible.
The Center For American Progress Staff Was Shocked After Neera Tanden Named The Anonymous Harassment Victim In An All-Staff Meeting
The meeting comes after BuzzFeed News reported on allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation against those who reported at the progressive organization. “People audibly gasped when she did that.”www.buzzfeednews.com
What kind of asshole does this?
I would like to think the Biden team has more important agendas on their plate than poking at the left but it's really hard not to see some of these picks this way...
The humorous thing here is that if Neera Tanden wasn't so extremely obnoxious online, most people would probably like this pick. She's not a moderate deficit hawk like Bruce Reed (who AOC and Ilhan Omar signed a petition asking Joe Biden not to appoint to this position), she's a reasonably progressive liberal if you read her actually articulate her views (https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/a-new-social-contract-for-the-21st-century/).
I mean, I actually think talking about somebody who is going to likely fail her nomination vote by 49-51 and be replaced by somebody to her right is kind of pointless, but I just find the monkey paw of Twitter fighting not to get Bruce Reed appointed, only for Neera to be named instead to be hilarious, with the advantage that she's actually a good choice for OMB director, especially since she's to the left of 70-80% of the populace.
If anything Tanden is too radical for Mitch and we'll have to settle for the deficit hawk guy. Unless we win in January.
Here's Tanden's June article in Democracy where she sketches out a more ambitious health care agenda than Biden's, plus some Warren stuff on corporate governance and a green industrial policy take.
A New Social Contract for the 21st Century
It is high time to rethink the relationship—the basic bargain—between the individual, companies, and our government.
No one cares about this wonk shit. Plenty of very capable people out there. Not everyone has the moral coherency Neera definitely lacks.
Because while Neera Tanden can comfortably be described as "a fucking ghoul who would have no place in a just society", that's also an accurate description of Joe Biden. Birds of a feather and all that.
It just seems like you're missing one of the major things people are calling her out for, namely outing a victim of harassment multiple times.
Basically this, if we got 1 for 2 in the runoff election, which I think in the median result, Mitt Romney or Susan Collins have veto power, not Bernie or Warrne.
Biden is shit and so is Neera. So, it makes sense. Anyone who expected Biden to go left after winning by punching left and appealing to the right was either selling a lie or was painfully naive.
Politics is about power. Biden has had the power/money behind him the entire time. Politics aren't for the people.
He won and these appointments are the signal that any leftist who supported him was a sucker.
Politics is about power. Biden has had the power/money behind him the entire time. Politics aren't for the people.
He won and these appointments are the signal that any leftist who supported him was a sucker.
The people in her agency care about this wonk shit. This is what functional government looks like. People getting way in the weeds on verrrry complicated matters.
OK so if it's not a policy position then is her record of outing sexual harassment victims relevant to her ability to effectively manage the OMB? Seems like it that should be a pretty big strike against someone being appointed to head an important office in the admin.
It does look like what the American government does, hire people that don't give a flying crap about harassment victims.
yeah, this is what we're gonna have to put up with for the next four years. shirking of responsibility and blaming the senate, blaming the left, blaming everyone except for the administration. and then the republicans get back in and get huge chunks of their agenda through by pushing boundaries on executive orders. eventually it'll circle around to another D administration that insist nothing could be done through executive action. but it's bullshit: there's a lot Biden could do with the power of the pen. he just doesn't want to.
Whether it makes sense politically does not really make much of a difference given that we are talking about the choice being a morally repugnant one.
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The most progressive president ever baby
Let's kill poor foreigners for oil!!! Woot woot for US imperialism, next stop Iran!
Let's kill poor foreigners for oil!!! Woot woot for US imperialism, next stop Iran!
Though maybe Iran won't be their target, the fact that Biden has talked about FLEXING US Military powers to big baddies like China and North Korea and the fact that his cabinet has people that say this shit makes me prepped for some US intervention pretty fucking soon.
No, the better choice was a complete collapse of the US empire but okay.
That's a bit of a loaded question.
record? There's one documented case (and no rumored cases of unmasking), and buzzfeed as well as the employees noted it was clearly an accident when she was trying to empathize. Beyond that, it'd be a bigger issue if she was to be the head of the EEOC which does handle sexual harassment and other forms of harassment within federal agencies. In that case, she'd be a terrible pick.
These kind of establishment folks that tend to stick around administration to administration despite being pretty shit is why people are so unenthusiastic when it comes to dem establishment candidates.
I want to see younger, newer, more progressive voices in government.
I want to see younger, newer, more progressive voices in government.
While Biden is a lot better than Trump, Biden is still shit so we are also complaining about him, especially if he does something shitty like hiring someone like Neera Tandem.
Yes record, because sexual harassment was a significant problem at CAP for a long time prior to when the meeting where she outed a harassment victims was held, hence why the meeting was held in the first place.
When I was sexually harassed at a fucking grocery store my managers knew better than to out me or the other victims to anyone else, there is no excuse for her behavior.
She's the head of one of the largest center-left think tanks in the country.
Fuck them both. Biden is the President-Elect and he is bad.
Neera is not a good choice. Other choices seem okay to me.
But it seems like this thread is 95% about Neera.....
But it seems like this thread is 95% about Neera.....
Yea like Aaron Coleman. Cause the progressive and younger is always better.
She just has bad political takes all around. I'd prefer Biden distance himself from the Clinton camp as much as possible.
Well when people are defending the bad pick...it tends to dominate the thread yeah
neera tanden is Obama Alum. She was always going to get some position.
Psaki seems overqualified for press secretary.
Karine Jean Pierre will be another LGBTQ pick. Here's a piece on her:
www.out.com
Karine Jean Pierre will be another LGBTQ pick. Here's a piece on her:
Meet Karine Jean-Pierre, the History-Making Lesbian on Biden's Staff
After being the first Black person and first out lesbian to hold a chief of staff role for a vice-presidential nominee, she now has her official appointment for the administration.
www.out.com
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