This Will Not End Well

Between sucking up to the Petty Persian Gulf Potentiates, outing a sexual harassment victim in her own organization, assaulting an employee, running a generally abusive workplace, having no experience with budgeting, and writing mean tweets about Republicans, Neera Tanden was deemed unacceptable by the Senate to head the White House Office of Management and Budget.  (Rather depressingly, it was the tweets that were the primary concern of the Senate)

But you know how it is with Washington, D.C. insiders: No matter how badly you f%$# up, and no matter how profoundly unsuited you are to a position of influence, you get another bite at the apple, so Neera Tanden gets a gig as Senior Advisor at the White House, a position that does not require Senate confirmation:

A contentious nomination process kept Neera Tanden out of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet, but she still landed in the White House.

The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden had appointed Tanden to be a senior adviser. She will start on Monday. 

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Tanden will hold various duties in the White House but her focus will be handling any potential fallout from Republican lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court. Tanden will also be tasked with reviewing the United States Digital Service, a program that aims to make government accessible online.

This from someone who has never worked as a lawyer (she does have a J.D. from Yale), was a model of opacity at CAP, and has no background in IT.

Lovely choice.

Except for her tweets excoriating Republicans, which I wholeheartedly approve, her entire career has been as a crass political hack and an awful human being.

More importantly, the people around her hate her enough that anywhere she works leaks like a sieve, which is rather a contrast to her mentor, Hillary Clinton.  (Say what you will about Hillary, but anyone reasonably close to her could have written a tell-all book for a 7 figure advance, and no one has.)

Much like Rahm Emanuel, we will now have another member of the Biden administration inside the tent pissing in.