Since Neera Tanden withdrew her
nomination to serve as the head of
the Office of Management and
Budget, and by the way
the White House accepted that.
Somehow Bernie Sanders is taking
the heat.
Now remember it was Senator
Joe Manchin who raised his hand and
said, no my fee feebs were hurt.
Neera Tanden tweeted mean things
and so I do not support her.
It's also worth noting that
Neera Tanden was critical of
Joe Manchin's daughter engaging in
price gouging for EpiPens.
I'm sure that didn't sit well
with him either.
But nonetheless,
Manchin was really the one who took
a lot of credit for ending
the nomination of Neera Tanden.
And honestly,
I congratulate him for that.
I think Neera Tanden was an awful
nominee to head the Office of
Management and Budget.
But now we're hearing from all
sorts of blue checkmarks on social
media who thinks that
Bernie Sanders is to blame.
He's the bad guy.
Let's start with our start with
Tom Watson one of my faves.
He's a, >> Classic.
>> Failed democratic consultant,
slash strategist.
And he says Neera Tanden was
treated disgracefully by
Joe Manchin, Bernie Sanders and
Big Political Media- so
now they've won their point.
But we can all see them.
What does that even mean?
>> Tom Watson is like one of
the most pathetic human beings in
our [CROSSTALK].
He's just like.
Because the thing is, like he wants
to be what Neera Tanden,
he wishes he was near Tanden.
But he tweets all day,
doing the dutiful attacks against
the left on behalf of like the
worst people in the world and they
give him nothing in return like he
doesn't get nominated for anything.
He doesn't become the president of
the Center for American Progress.
At least Neera Tanden was
the president of the most powerful
liberal think tank in Washington
for a while.
She didn't get the OMB job,
but she's going to get some
job in the administration.
Tom Watson gets nothing.
He just does it for free.
Desperately trying to
get their attention.
He's like that nerd who's like
desperately trying to get your
attention by like ingratiating
himself constantly.
And you're just like stop, like,
I don't, no, like it's so,
I love to see Tom Watson just kind
of eat shit for once.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, I mean,
it's awesome.
And look, I mean,
we've talked about Neera Tanden and
why she was an awful nominee for
this position so many times.
And I feel bad repeating it if
you've watched those videos.
But just to be safe for anyone who
doesn't know, for me Neera Tanden
was awful due to the fact that she
was the president for
the Center for American Progress.
And had all sorts of conflicts
of interest.
And as the head of the OMB,
those conflicts of interests are in
highly problematic.
Because the OMB comes out with
the analysis that the Senate makes
its decisions on, right?
Like the $15 an hour minimum wage,
for instance.
They put out studies about how that
would impact the federal budget.
And that really does have an impact
on whether or not the legislation
can pass under the Byrd rule,
which is a stupid arbitrary rule
that can be overruled.
Anyway, annoying stuff that we
don't need to rehash now.
But the point is,
she had corruption issues.
She had business clients that would
influence some of her
actions in this important position.
So that's why I had a problem with
it not so much her tweets.
But the thing about Bernie Sanders
is, his politeness sometimes drives
me crazy because it doesn't matter
if he does the right thing doesn't
matter if he does the wrong thing.
Doesn't matter what Bernie Sanders
does, he will be attacked by
the Tom Watson's of the world,
no matter what.
In fact just this week before
Neera Tanden pulled her nomination,
Wolf Blitzer was trying to get
Bernie to say that he would not
vote to confirm Neera Tanden.
Let's hear how that conversation
went down.
>> Very quickly,
have you made up your mind
on whether to confirm Neera Tanden?
>> Well right now Neera Tanden does
not have the votes.
So we will see what happens in
the future.
>> Where do you stand?
>> Well, I will make that decision
when the vote takes place.
>> I mean,
it was a non committal answer, but
Manchin was the one who's like,
I will be the cop that stops this,
right?
So it's just it's amazing like,
I want Bernie at this point in his
political career to just be Bernie,
like you're the chair of
the Senate Budget Committee.
You're good, be you,
like don't be polite anymore.
You don't have, I mean it, but
he's just a fundamentally nice guy.
Like that's the problem,
I think, [LAUGH]
>> Well [CROSSTALK] I'm a nice guy.
I don't know if it's, I don't know
if it's, I don't know if it comes
from niceness or just a sense that,
it doesn't matter.
That he recognizes that it doesn't
matter and that no matter what he
does, whether he's mean or nice,
it's, it's not going to change
anything in terms of like
how they react to him.
It's more about what he represents
and the kind of politics that he
tries to push, is a huge threat.
So he understands that and
he doesn't.
I don't think he takes it
personally he sees it as like,
look at these, these people they
know not what they do.
I'm just going to continue fighting
for regular people my whole life
and I'm going to dedicate my fight
to that I'm not going to jump in
the fray because there's nothing to
be gained from it.
And there's and it's, it's just
inevitable like nothing that I say
will change their minds in any way.
Like it's when people are like,
what if you just explained to
them that this thing makes sense or
it's good.
That's not what it is.
You can't- >> Yeah.
>> Again you can't get someone to
understand something that they're
paid to not understand.
So I think Bernie understands that
very deeply even he's got he's been
this he's been in this
game longer than anyone else.
So yeah.
>> Yeah, okay.
I'm just saying like he doesn't
have to be polite to Neera Tanden.
That's I'm being like that's
the specific thing I'm thinking
about because Neera Tanden has been
and will continue to be vicious
toward Bernie Sanders.
And I get it.
he wants to stay above the fray.
And that is like,
I wouldn't be able to.
>> I don't know if it's, >> Go
ahead. >> I mean,
I think it is a little bit.
It's a political calculation on his
part in that,, he always kind of
has to straddle that line of,
of the inside out game, right?
I mean, he does it quite well.
I think he does it better
than almost anyone can but
like maintaining kind of
the street cred.
Because he,
that's the source of his power.
But also being able to,
horse trade here and there for
a couple of things.
And I think he understands that
within the Senate, that club,
which has helped him, in some ways.
Like you saw Senator Kennedy come
out in defense of Bernie Sanders
against Neera Tanden, right?
Senator Kennedy who was an enemy,
saying, you call Senator Bernie,
a Senator of this
chamber that ignorant slut and
I don't think that's okay.
Now I really don't think that's
right.
You know if he were a dirty
disgusting congressman that would
be something else, but
he's a senator.
So you can't do that.
>> Yeah, I mean, there is this
obsession with decorum, right.
So like they can snipe each other
policy wise or legislatively but
as long as they're doing it
politely with decorum, it's okay.
It's okay.
It is kind of amazing.
The Senate does have that culture.
I personally hate it, but
I get that there's a political
strategy behind it.
And you're right, I mean,
it is pretty miraculous that given
what Bernie Sanders represents and
how it goes against all of
the business interests in this
country and all of the donors in
this country and all of that.
Like the fact that he's found
himself in this powerful position
within the United States Senate is
an accomplishment.
But like, I guess at this point
like you're in that position of
power like You're going to be good,
like just do your thing,
like be you.
And maybe this is him, maybe I'm
wrong about what's in his mind but
Neera Tanden is garbage.
And I guess I want the personal
satisfaction of Bernie being able
to just- >> Of seeing him
unload on Neera?
>> Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
because what does he got to lose?
What does he got to lose?
But anyway?
And then there are other clowns who
try to make similar arguments.
Like this guy who says it looks
like Neera Tanden will be denied
the Office of Management and
Budget job for the same reason
Hillary lost in 2016.
What is what's up with
the quotation marks?
Hillary lost in 2016.
>> That's an ironic tweet by
the way, that's Tim Faust.
>> Is it?
>> Yeah that's a joke.
Yeah.
>> That's funny okay, nevermind.
>> Tim Faust is a Bernie supporter.
>> Yeah.
Got it.
>> He's like he's parodying
like live tweet.
>> Got it. Okay, and then we have
red state that's pretending it's
all about socialistic grandfather,
Bernie Sanders.
No like,
Republicans were like crying about
Neera Tanden's tweets as well.
>> Wait, I love that Neera Tanden
got the Clemenza treatment
at [LAUGH],
thta's from The Godfather movie.
But, I guess because Clemenza was
stabbed in the back by Tesio.
So yeah that makes sense.
Good tweet red state, well done.
>> Good tweet.
>> Good tweet, very well done.
You did a good job.
>> Excellent tweet there.
Very, very good godfather.
I like the second one better
than the first one.
I know people like the first one.
Marlon Brando, excellent actor,
very good actor,
very good, loved him, loved him as
Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata!
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