We’re supposed to forget everything we know about President Biden’s Comptroller of the Currency nominee Saule Omarova, because the only news from her confirmation hearing Thursday was an aside by Sen. John Kennedy about whether he should call her “professor” or “comrade.” That obviously struck a nerve, with the Lincoln Project calling it racist (of course) and the Washington Post accusing Kennedy of reviving the red scare.
Obama administration leftover Ben Rhodes says we’re never going to get good people in these positions if the Republicans insist on confirmation hearings being “dehumanizing and demoralizing” experiences.
We are not going to get good people serving in key positions if Republicans make confirmations this dehumanizing and demoralizing (which is part of their point) https://t.co/NoHEQKVCzY
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 18, 2021
*obligatory clip of Joe Biden and Clarence Thomas you pathetic little sniveling infant* https://t.co/g5lEqgeXPr
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) November 18, 2021
Clarence Thomas would like a word. https://t.co/yiW4xAedd2
— OberstBagel (@PileOBagels) November 18, 2021
Now do Kavanaugh.
— Oscar 🥀🗽 (@RandomFLDude) November 18, 2021
Tell me more Ben pic.twitter.com/yjerdAb8SF
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) November 18, 2021
Make confirmations this dehumanizing and demoralizing, you say? https://t.co/jJBE9QBp0V pic.twitter.com/ms7TS17E5P
— 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 (@rdoucetteus) November 18, 2021
— 100 Proof 🥃 (@ChampionCapua) November 18, 2021
Brett Kavanaugh had to go through his high school yearbook and explain what "boofing" is…among other things.
Amy Coney Barrett dealt with people accusing her of being too much of an "extreme Catholic" and adopting her black children for nefarious reasons.
But sure. https://t.co/ACQQyi4Wvd
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) November 18, 2021
Here’s what “anti-racist” Ibram X. Kendi had to say about Amy Coney Barrett’s children of color:
Lol this is STILL up. https://t.co/HIghBVPuA4
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) November 18, 2021
Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh are on line 1 for you…
— Billy Gribbin (@BillyGribbin) November 19, 2021
Robert Bork says fuck you and go back to screwing up another foreign policy initiative https://t.co/zf2TfXOC9E
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) November 18, 2021
Don't nominate communists. https://t.co/lEVnvblrGk
— Horst De Wermer, DVM, MD, PhD, GED, DDS, MOUSE (@Crapplefratz) November 18, 2021
She is a communist, therefore they were right to call her such. It’s not dehumanizing to call people what they actually are. https://t.co/X7azERREZm
— Joe (@JoeC1776) November 18, 2021
She’s a commie and not good people. https://t.co/St64u8Qn22
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) November 18, 2021
Here's the thing, though.
She's a fucking communist. https://t.co/diVd5KZqUM
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 18, 2021
She's a fucking commie https://t.co/rsqAkEktix
— Social Distance Champion (@realchrishynes) November 18, 2021
She’s not a good person. She’s a communist.
That a Democrat would put her up for this position is a middle finger to the country. https://t.co/omdSo4H7vk
— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) November 18, 2021
Good people? She's literally a communist, Ben. We do not want her in a key position. That's the point. https://t.co/rObKTbOyIA
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 18, 2021
Wow, I can’t believe Sen. Kennedy would accuse one of Biden’s nominees of being a communist.
Next you’re tell me he’s accusing her of gang rape or going through fart jokes in her high school yearbook https://t.co/S4T74fZmtY
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 18, 2021
Has this guy ever seen how any Republican nominee for anything has been treated?
At least with Omarova questioning were focused on things she actually wrote and said publicly. https://t.co/ISawxzsz33
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) November 18, 2021
Questioning someone's allegiance to communist ideology based on the person's own *very recent* *public* statements, articles, affiliations, etc. is not dehumanizing and demoralizing that person.
Dehumanizing and demoralizing are real words that mean things. See, e.g., Kavanaugh. https://t.co/DmWlDK46XQ
— anna johnson (@annaksjohnson) November 19, 2021
The guy who advocated for Iran getting pallets of cash worrying about "good people" getting to serve in key positions IS why confirmations should be brutally honest and leave no stone unturned, otherwise someone like Ben Rhodes might be in a position of power to help terrorists https://t.co/l18S2EcHvj
— SeattleRefugee (@RefugeeSeattle) November 18, 2021
Honey… https://t.co/qDdGErb5xf
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) November 19, 2021
As they said above, stop nominating commies and it won’t come up.
Related:
GOP senator and southern gentleman John Kennedy wants to make sure he addresses communist Treasury nominee Saule Omarova properly https://t.co/dmidkaBBt5
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 18, 2021
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