 So this story has me really feeling confused And I don't know how to process it, but overall I'm glad so Joe Manchin for once in his life Has done something that I don't entirely disagree with He has chosen to come out against the confirmation of near-attending as director of the OMB now It is for the wrong reasons He thinks that she's too mean to Republicans a little bit too divisive and sure her tweets are absolutely without question divisive She goes after everyone the left. She's blocked me on Twitter and she also goes against or goes after Republicans I don't care that she goes after Republicans really near-attending is The embodiment of every single thing that is wrong with Washington DC She's too close with special interests as president of cap She took millions and millions of dollars from big tech companies large multinational corporations She literally advocated to steal Libya's oil, which is a war crime by the way She wanted cuts to social security. She physically assaulted someone a journalist And on top of that she outed a sexual harassment victim who was working at cap There's a plethora of reasons why she shouldn't be confirmed her being too mean to Republicans That's the least of my concerns. I'll be it the fact that Joe Manchin is on the right side here Great. I wish that it were progressives in the Senate who are actually standing up to near-attending You know, maybe Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, even Elizabeth Warren, but nonetheless We got Joe Manchin. So a broken clock is right twice a day so we learned last week that Joe Manchin would not be supporting near-attending's confirmation and at that time the question was Now since this basically throws her confirmation into jeopardy since Joe Biden would need at least one Republican Which is really unlikely is he going to withdraw the nomination and at the time he said no as of the 19th anyways Okay, so at the time I understand that makes sense because this is only a minor setback You just need one Republican to cross the aisle and perhaps Mitt Romney or Susan Collins would do just that Except now the Republicans who in theory were the most likely to cross the aisle and support near-attending's confirmation Have come out and said no, we are not going to support near-attending's confirmation So as Brett Samuels and Morgan Shaw fun of the Hill report Senate confirmation of near-attending to lead the office of management and budget appeared increasingly improbable on Monday After three key Republicans said they would oppose her GOP Senator Susan Collins, Mitt Romney and Rob Portman joined Senator Joe Manchin in opposing Tandon seemingly leaving her at least one vote short for a confirmation if Tandon falls it would be the first time a Biden cabinet nominee was blocked from Confirmation given the mansion defection President Biden would need one Republican in the narrowly Democratic-controlled Senate to vote in favor of Tandon's confirmation But on Monday three of the most likely possible choices said they would not back her citing inflammatory tweets while the White House has publicly backed Tandon Officials are already considering backup plans. So as of the 19th He was saying I have no plans to withdraw my nomination but now we're getting reports that they see that the writing is on the wall and Her confirmation is now in jeopardy to that I say Good job Joe Manchin and Mitt Romney it feels almost sinful to have those words leave my lips Nonetheless, if you do something that ultimately is better for America that the left wants. I don't care who you are I care about results not who gets me those results So Joe Manchin is gonna end up by accident on the right side of this issue Along with Mitt Romney Susan Collins. That's fantastic. Now. I still have to say even though I'm happy and I want to celebrate the fact that it looks like near a Tandon is going to go down Although we don't necessarily know for sure yet. I'm not gonna lie my soul is a little bit crushed because this should have been something that every semi-leftist in the country Was in agreement on that near a Tandon obviously is not someone who should be qualified who is qualified for any position She should not be confirmed for any government position for all of the reasons that I listed and that's not even like All of them. There's many reasons as to why near a Tandon is not qualified is terrible And will I be satisfied with the individual who Biden names to replace her almost certainly? No But what we do know about near a Tandon is more than enough to deduce that she is not someone who's going to be looking out for the People but yet leftists can't get it through their heads that this is not your friend Bernie Sanders should have immediately Stated his opposition to near a Tandon, but yet as CNN's Manu Raju reports He won't actually say whether or not he'll confirm her but he is supposedly speaking with her by now I'm sure that that meeting already took place But this shouldn't be like a question like we shouldn't be wondering will Bernie Sanders be against near a Tandon It should just go without saying I mean He's the individual who I think brilliantly and eloquently laid out all of the conflicts of Interest that are there. Why would you confirm someone who is so entrenched in corporate America? I mean, this is the corruption that the left is supposed to be against So why is this so difficult why there's so many people on the left who are afraid to go against Joe Biden and near a Tandon? Like these are corporate Democrats corporate Democrats are bad And when we find the worst of the worst who are auditioning for a position just because they want to advance their own careers And don't actually care about the people in this country Then we fight them now even the executive director at Justice Democrats on CNN advocated for the Confirmation of near a Tandon and attacked Joe Manchin when he's right for the first time perhaps in his entire life Yeah, and I mean, you know, there's there's public record of those tweets But the reality is I think that Joe Manchin is the one being divisive right now We are in the middle of a public pandemic Joe Biden was just elected by a huge mandate By the American people we have to deliver as Democrats and we need people in positions of power Who are ready and prepared to go big in this moment and not leave anyone behind the mentality has got to be of The Democratic Party, especially but any elected official that we have to move quickly to save as many lives as possible And I would also point out that he had no problem voting to confirm other appointments of clearly partisan members when it was the previous Republican administration there should be no I think opposition to some you know Folks that are being proposed by the Biden administration who have you know Clearly are ready to do the work and are ready to get the job done and they feel are the best prepared to do it What was that? I'm sorry, but near a Tandon is not someone who is quote ready and prepared to go big in this moment and Not leave anybody behind You do know who near a Tandon is like I'm almost hoping that the executive director of Justice Democrats One of the most prominent left-wing organizations is just woefully Misinformed because that if that's actually like your beliefs about near a Tandon one of the most corrupt elites in DC Then we have to like reevaluate our positions. We have to reevaluate what we're doing. I Mean really and I hate it is driving me nuts how people Justified their bad political beliefs by saying oh well We have to do X because this is a pandemic and the situation is really serious right now No, you're just using that as an excuse To give someone who is very unqualified for that position a pass and on Twitter. Jank you were tweeted out I'm not a fan of near a Tandon. In fact, she did some of her mean tweets about me, but unlike Republicans I don't think we should cancel her because she once hurt someone's feelings the hypocrisy of GOP Crying over cancel culture and then trying to cancel her over her tweets is amazing Except this isn't about mean tweets This is about the substance like the mean tweets and the divisiveness that is one of Many reasons why she shouldn't be confirmed mean tweets like sure you could say see if she's divisive She attacks the left and she's too much of an instigator But still it's it's the corruption that we care about Jank has been one of the loudest advocates to get money out of politics So why would you be in favor of someone like near attended now? He does make the case later on that Well, if it's not near attended then it's gonna be someone way worse because Joe Biden is terrible But that's not an excuse like we shouldn't just say oh well You know what this person is terrible, but odds are there's gonna be someone even worse for that position I mean we have to fight. That's all part of the process like none of this is different None of this is easy It's always going to be difficult that doesn't mean that we roll over and die and I I hate this because people on the left are becoming just Accepting of whatever Joe Biden wants to do because sure he is better than Donald Trump. He's done a number of good things He's handling the pandemic Competently, but when it comes to actually making a difference in people's lives, you're not going to make a difference We're not going to see an impact if he keeps nominating corrupt ghouls Who just get into positions of power and further enrich themselves Do we honestly believe that near attended who has accepted millions of dollars from big tech companies and large multinational? Corporations is actually going to do anything to improve the lives of the American people Sure, you know if she fails which that seems likely Biden's new nominee could very well be someone equally as if not more conservative than near attended But the thing is that near attended like anything that she says that is ostensibly progressive That's all facade. She ran the center for American progress so her entire like Political theater revolves around her convincing people that she's a progressive but in actuality She's not you have to look at the evidence When there was momentum for Medicare for all, what was she advocating for a means tested private insurance-based? Alternative the thwart momentum for Medicare for all Someone who's okay with Americans dying because they don't have health insurance. That's no progressive That's no progressive someone who literally Advocated stealing the oil from a sovereign nation committing a war crime That's no progressive and so what I just want to see is is fight like I want to see the left actually fight I want to see Bernie Sanders unequivocally condemn near attended and without question say no I'm gonna be working with the OMB director. I want someone who I can trust we cannot trust near attended Her record over the years has been nothing but destructive and divisive so no try again Joe Biden do better I mean if we never use our leverage if we never actually push back against the Democratic Party establishment in a meaningful way when we actually have leverage when near attended needs every single vote then We're never gonna be effective people are going to lose faith in Progressives and we can't have that happen. There's a number of progressives Or leftists online who are already just like Disregarding Nina Turner who hasn't even been elected yet Like they're already saying well, she's just gonna be as ineffectual as members of the squad So I'm not even gonna try to get her elected just let the corporate Democrat win that may not be their words But that's effectively their argument. So people like that don't give them ammunition Actually fight and prove that people in Congress are there for a reason to fight. So Bernie get it together fight Elizabeth Warren, where are you at Ed Marquis Jeff Merkley? Like what are we doing? People in organizations who are influential Alexandra Rojas Jen Uber fight. Don't roll over fight That's what I want to see continue to fight and to agitate and push back against the Democratic Party establishment who is not Our friends. They're not our allies They are our enemies and if we don't treat them as such then we're going to be steamrolled again And if we get steamrolled that means that Republicans will be empowered because Democrats They don't have the answers the left does so we have to behave that way and Fight them when they do wrong and fight folks like near attendant But thankfully it seems as if she is going to go down. So that's really good news But let's learn from this and actually stop letting bad people take advantage of us and You know further advance their own careers for narcissistic reasons like let's actually push back for once