PJM:
Late last week, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced he would oppose the nomination of Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Tanden has a long history of aggressive and hyperbolic attacks on senators with whom she would have to work if confirmed at OMB. She also supports extreme leftist policies like increasing the minimum wage, lowering the Medicare eligibility age, and “free” college. Yet Democrats have claimed that moderates and Republicans only oppose Tanden due to… racism and sexism.
“There’s a double standard going on,” Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), head of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, told Politico. “Her nomination is very significant for us Asian American and Pacific Islanders. I do believe that this double standard has to do with the fact that she would be a pioneer in that position.”
“We can disagree with her tweets, but in the past, Trump nominees that they’ve confirmed and supported had much more serious issues and conflicts than just something that was written on Twitter,” Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) told Politico. “This is not just about any one nominee like Neera, or whoever else — it’s just about this pattern that is happening and increasingly hard to ignore.”
Glenn Greenwald, an independent journalist who co-founded The Intercept, mocked and dismissed this ridiculous accusation. more
“Yet Democrats have claimed that moderates and Republicans only oppose Tanden due to… racism and sexism.” — Because when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In other words, baseless allegations of racism/sexism/homophobia/etc. are all they have…
Race and sex, the same boxes she checked to get the nomination.
FWIW, speaking of minimum wage, if the maximum wage is not also established (I’m talking about hourly wage type of people) then any raise in the minimum will simply end up pushing the higher paid workers wages up resulting in inflation that cancels out any benefit the minimum wage workers make by an increase.
I propose that no more than 25% above minimum wage should be allowed to prevent this, that is more than enough to compensate the highly skilled and keep inflationary pressures under check while establishing a more equitable and socially just wage distribution among the Americans.
They’ll just denounce this as whataboutism. They always have an answer.
No, we just don’t want psycho crazy-ism.
These motherfuckers cried ‘wolf’ a long time ago.
Look at the picture of her profile…I dare ya…
Yuck and Yuck again.