ROOM’S CARPET?
I’M JUST SAYING.
DOT DOT DOT.
THE GUY WHO TWEETED THAT IS
NAMED RICK GRENELL.
BACK IN 2012 WHEN HE TWEETED
THAT, HE WAS A REPUBLICAN
OPERATIVE WHO HAD A VERY PUBLIC
HABIT OF TWEETING MEAN AND
FREQUENTLY SEXIST THINGS ABOUT
THE OBAMAS AND ABOUT THEIR KIDS,
ALSO ABOUT THEN VICE PRESIDENT
JOE BIDEN, ABOUT PROMINENT
DEMOCRATS.
HE WOULD ALSO SOMETIMES USE HIS
TWITTER ACCOUNT TO GO AFTER
MEMBERS OF HIS OWN PARTY AS
WELL.
HE REPEATEDLY ATTACKED FORMER
REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
NEWT GINGRICH.
HE LIKED TO GO AFTER NEWT
GINGRICH’S WIFE, HE WOULD MAKE
FUN OF HER HAIR, THAT WAS KIND
OF HIS LEVEL OF INSULTS,
INSULTING PEOPLE’S LOOKS AND
THEIR WEIGHT, ATTACKING THEIR
FAMILIES, PARTICULAR VENOM FOR
WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
HE’S A REAL NICE GUY.
THIS BECAME A LITTLE STICKY,
KIND OF, FOR RICK GRENELL WHEN
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SURVEYED
THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE AND
DECIDED THAT ABOVE ALL OTHER
AMERICANS, THE BEST PICK FOR
AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY WOULD BE
THAT GUY, RICK GRENELL.
AND THERE WAS TALK WHEN THE
NOMINATION WAS ANNOUNCED THAT
GRENELL’S PAST BEHAVIOR ONLINE
MIGHT DISQUALIFY HIM FROM
GETTING CONFIRMED IN THE SENATE
BECAUSE IT WAS SO MEAN AND
SEXIST AND PETTY AND AD HOMINEM
AND GROSS.
TURNED OUT TO BE NO PROBLEM,
THOUGH, REALLY, ENDED UP BEING
SMOOTH SAILING.
MR. GRENELL AND HIS ARCHIVE OF
MEAN TWEETS WERE CONFIRMED IN
THE SENATE WITH BIPARTISAN
SUPPORT, WITH VOTES TO SPARE,
NOT A BIG DEAL, APPARENTLY.
RIGHT NOW, THE CURRENT
PRESIDENT, PEBRESIDENT BIDEN, IS
DEALING WITH A CONFIRMATION
SPEED BUMP FOR ONE OF HIS
NOMINEES, THOUGH.
HER NAME IS NEERA TANDEN.
SHE IS BIDEN’S NOMINEE TO RUN
THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET.
AND HER NOMINATION DREW
IMMEDIATE COMPLAINTS FROM
REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE WHO
CAMPAIGNED THAT HER PAST TWEETS
ABOUT THEM WERE MEAN.
THEY SAID HER TWEETS ABOUT
REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS WERE TOO
COMBATIVE.
THEY SAID HER OLD TWEETS LONG
BEFORE SHE WAS AN OMAN NOMINEE W
MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER TO
MEAT
MEET WITH CONGRESS.
IT SEEMED SHE WOULD RECEIVE FEW
IF EVER REPUBLICANS VOTES FOR
HER.
ON FRIDAY, DEMOCRATIC SENATOR
JOE MANCHIN ANNOUNCED THAT HE
WON’T VOTE TO CONFIRM NEERA
TANDEN.
HE SAID IT WAS BECAUSE OF HER
PARTISAN STATEMENTS ON TWITTER
AND HE SAID THOSE STATEMENTS
WOULD HAVE A TOXIC AND
DETRIMENTAL IMPACT ON HER WORK.
TODAY, MAINE REPUBLICAN SENATOR
SUSAN COLLINS ALSO ANNOUNCED
THAT NEERA TANDEN’S TWEETS ARE A
PROBLEM FOR HER AS WELL.
SHE SAYS THEY DEMONSTRATE MS.
TAN
TANDEN DOES NOT HAVE THE
TEMPERAMENT TO LEAD THE OMB,
WHICH IS A PECULIAR DECISION ON
THE PART OF THOSE SENATORS GIVEN
THAT BOTH THOSE SENATORS HAD
ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM SUPPORTING
SOMEONE WITH A HYPERPARTISAN
TWITTER WARRING HISTORY IN THE
PAST.
SUSAN COLLINS AND JOE MANCHIN
BOTH VOTED TO CONFIRM RICK
GRENELL IN 2017, THE GUY WHO
USED HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT TO
ATTACK THE SITTING PRESIDENT’S
CHILDREN, TO MOCK A WOMAN’S
HAIR, TO ATTACK ALL SORTS OF
WOMEN FOR THEIR APPEARANCE, TO
ATTACK MICHELLE OBAMA FOR
SWEATING ON THE EAST ROOM
CARPET.
BUT FOR THEM, NEERA TANDEN’S
CRITICISM OF REPUBLICAN
SENATORS, THAT’S CAUSTIC AND
INAPPROPRIATE AND SO SHE MUST BE
BARD
BARRED FROM A SENATE CONFIRMED
POSITION.
RICK GRENELL IS FINE.
NEERA TANDEN -- OHIO REPUBLICAN
SENATOR ROB PORTMAN WHO ALSO
VOTED TO CONFIRM RICK GRENELL,
HE ANNOUNCED HIS OPPOSITION TO
NEERA TANDEN TODAY, SO DID UTAH
SENATOR MITT ROMNEY.
THERE’S STILL TIME TO FIND ONE
REPUBLICAN, ANY REPUBLICAN VOTE
FOR MS. TANDEN.
REPUBLICAN SENATOR LISA
MURKOWSKI OF ALASKA WAS NOTABLY
QUIET ON THE PROSPECT.
BUT UNTIL THEN, UNTIL A
REPUBLICAN SENATOR DECIDES THAT
HE OR SHE WILL VOTE FOR MS.
TANDEN, TANDEN’S NOMINATION TO
LEAD OMB IS HANGING BY A THREAD
TONIGHT BECAUSE OF THE
OUTRAGEOUS DOUBLE STANDARD BY EV
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR WHO WAS HAPPY
TO EXCUSE MUCH WORSE BEHAVIOR
THAN HERS FOR A MALE NOMINEE IN
A PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION BUT
HAS APPARENTLY DISCOVERED A
DOUBLE STANDARD.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS