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**FEBRUARY 24, 2021**

Kuttner on TAP

Death by a Thousand Tweets

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Neera Tanden's nomination to head OMB seems to be going down the drain
largely because she tweeted more than a thousand sophomoric insults at
Republican senators and House members, and even a few Democrats like
Bernie Sanders.

A groveling apology and scrubbing of the site can't undo the damage.

I can even sympathize with some of the names. Moscow Mitch!

But invective and name-calling should be reserved for very special
occasions or you lose as much dignity as the object of your indignation.
Cheap insults by tweet will forever be associated with Donald Trump. The
air is so much cleaner now that he, and they, are gone.

There may have been better reasons to oppose Tanden's nomination, but
this death by a thousand tweets will be remembered as the one that did
her in.

Trump's judgment was appalling in matters great and small. Tanden's
judgment was lousy when she got her hands on her Twitter account.

She probably would have done fine at OMB. But the damage is done, and
she did it to herself. Biden and his team have more important uses of
their political capital than to rescue Tanden's nomination at all
costs.

~ ROBERT KUTTNER

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