That's, till she turned fairly apologetic after Mr. Biden nominated her to be his funds director.“I do assume the final a number of years have been
That’s, till she turned fairly apologetic after Mr. Biden nominated her to be his funds director.
“I do assume the final a number of years have been very polarizing, and I apologize for my language that has contributed to that,” Ms. Tanden advised members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs this month. “I do know it’s on me to display to this committee and to Republican members and Democratic members I can work with anybody.” She famous that she had deleted lots of her outdated tweets.
Not an issue, as a result of Republicans have been more than pleased to refresh her, and everybody else’s, reminiscence of them.
“You wrote that Susan Collins is, quote, ‘the worst,’ that Tom Cotton is a fraud,” stated Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, scolding Ms. Tanden. “How do you propose to fix fences and construct relationships with members of Congress you’ve attacked by way of your public statements?”
Mr. Portman went on to learn just a few extra examples, together with Ms. Tanden’s assertion that “vampires have extra coronary heart than Ted Cruz.” (Mr. Cruz, who was quickly sure for Cancún, was one of many few individuals who gave the impression to be having much less enjoyable than Ms. Tanden.)
As know-how evolves, so do the Washington guidelines of the street. Previously, potential job candidates may very well be derailed by varied “indiscretions,” “previous statements” or sure issues that they could have stated “within the warmth of the second.” All of which is mainly Twitter in a nutshell.
“Individuals who need huge jobs in Washington are all the time advised to ‘keep away from a paper path,’” stated Tevi Troy, a presidential historian and a White Home official below President George W. Bush. This usually referred solely to probably inflammatory books, articles or speeches. Then Twitter got here alongside and supplied a brand new and treacherous sort of paper path. Now anybody can destroy themselves in 280 characters or much less in only a few seconds.
Progress!
“It’s virtually worse than a paper path,” Mr. Troy stated of Twitter. “It’s extra like a diary of what you’re considering at any given second.”